The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-25

nant persecution to justify professional pride
false. Justice for the prisoner as well as for
the people should be their motto.
TO Adjeurn-The Chicago BnI-The Edu-
cational Btll-Another Investigating Com
mittee.
Senator Mort0n's concurrent resolution for
an adjournment Of Congress on the 10th Of
May was taken up yesterday in the Senate,
and discussed until the close Of the morning
hour. Mr.. Sumner wanted the adjournment
deferred until after the passage of his Negro
Palace Car bill, and Mr.. Schurs wanted 1t
deferred until after q revision of the tariff and
internal revenue laws and the reform of the
civil service. 1t was opposed also by the two
Ohio Senator'S, and supported by Morrill,, Of
Vermont; Chandler, of Michigan, and others.
The vote on taking up the resolution-34 to
17-indicates q two-thirds majority in the Sem
ate in favor of it, Its adoption, of course, will
be notice to the country that all the great
measures of legislation for the revival of COM
merce, relief from burdensome taxation, uni
versal amnesty, &C., will be allowed to sink
into the great Hades of Congressional abortive
schemes.
The bill for the relief of the Chicago house,
builders was then taken up. There was, of
course, no opposition to the bill itself, but it's
passage was impeded by propositions to ex-
tend the benefit of its provisions to the several
towns and villages of Michigan and Wisconsin
that were consumed in the forest conhagra-
tons out there last summer. All amend
ments, however, were finally rejected, and the
bill passed.
during the morning hour, and was advocated
by Mr.. Perce, of Mississippi, the chairman
of the committee which reported the bill, on
the ground, among others, that it was approved
and sanctioned by the leaders Of the labor
movement. He put forward on their behalf
the claim that, as the working classes of the
country constituted four-ffths of tho people,
they were in reality the governing power, and
had the right to dictate what disposition
should be made of the public lands, of which
they were the legitimate owners. This is vir-
tually the same position taken by MIR. Hoar,
of Massachusetts, a member of the same
committee, when he was pressing the
bill which passed the House before the
recess for the appointment of COM
missioners to inquire into the relations
between labor and capital. We question the
wisdom of giving too much prominence to that
idea. There is also some Inconsistency in the
leaders of the labor movement, to whom Mr..
Perce points as clamoring for this provision
for the education of their children, when they,
at the same time, by the rules of their trade
from learning trades, which is the best and
most useful form of education. The bill was
assailed on the democratic side of the House
on the ground of its unconstitutionality, and
on the expiration Of the morning hour it went
over till to-day.
The House Committee on Commerce, on a
resolution reported by its chairman, Mr..
Shellabarger. has been charged with the duty
of looking into the question of exorbitant
railroad rates, quarantine exactons and
hsrbor regulations, that impede or injure
domestic and foreign commerce, and also into
the question of reviving American tonnage.
The committee and subcommittee of it have
power to send for persons and papers, and to
hold their sessions at any place they may
deem convenient. We may expect, therefore,
soon to have another Congressional committee
in full blast in this city, dividing the honors
with that now ventilating our Custom House
affairs
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts, made demon
stration in the House by presenting, with an
extraordinary flourish, petition for declara-
tory law establishing woman suffrage. The
House then took up the General Civil Appro-
priation bill, and was engaged on it to the
hour of adjournment.
The Audit and Apportionment Board.
A vigorous lobby effort is being made at AL
bany to prevent the passage by the Senate of
the Audit and Apportionment bill, which
passed the Assembly yesterday. The game
Of the lobbyists is to embarrass the question
by striking from the proposed Board the name
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