The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-04-25
SECOND DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
MoRNING SESSION.

Pursuant to adjournment, the Congress
re-assembled a. 8 o'clock, the president in
the chair.
The minutes Of Tuesdays session we're
read and approved
The Committee on Credentials reported
in favor of the admission of Mr.. VIM.
Thomson, president Of the Miners State
Association Of Ohio. Adopted.
The Committee ON Constitution submit
ted the following report Of progress
That inasmuch as the call of the presi-
dent supposes the Reorganization of the
Congress upon some plan similar to the
Patrons Of Husbandry, any amendment
of the constitution at the present time
would be premature. Your Committee be-
lievinG the question of organization to be
the most important one before the present
Congress, wonld recommend that rule 4 of
the rules of order be 30 amended that the
Committees of Organization and Constitu-
tion be consolidated, and that SO much of
said rule as is contained in the paragraph
at the head of page IL be so rendered that
the consolidated committee may consist OF
more than members. Adopted.
On motion, the committee was increased
by the addition of a representative from
the Sovereigns Of Industry and Industrial
Brotherhood, when the chair appointed
w. H. Earle, Mass, and Warner st. John,
of No., to represent their respective or
ganizations.
The President then appointed the follow
ing as the standing committees
On the Apprentice System. M. S. Smith,
Vermont W. t. Blaetterman, Missouri l..
Refs, Tennessee o. E. Powers, Vermont /;
II. z. Osborne, Wisconsin.
Imported Cheap Labor. j. Stopfel, New
York q. Langdale, New York l.. Coll,
thews, Maryland
On Organization.-Ihe same as on COnsti-
tuition.
On Arbitration T. H. Brantner, West Vim
ginia Z. Adams Stevens, New York h. a.
Binkley, Ohio n. T. Nolan, Pennsylvania !;
L. Refs, Tennessee
On Amalgamated Unions Theodore Fitz-
gerald, New York; H. .. Sheldon, Ohio /; Z.
W. Thompson, Virginia; A. G. Akam, I'LL
nois Jacob Gehm, New York.
Ways and Means and Finance.-Ci. =. Cru
zen, Ohio j. T. Wright, Indiana &. Kane,
New York; F; NJ. Coll, Kentucky A. Warner
st. John, Missouri.
On Constitution. Z. Mcneil, Massa-
chusetts 4; John Fehrenbatch, Ohio q. Blair,
New York NJ. H. Smith, Vermont T.
Dwyer, Michigan W. H. Earle, Massachu-
setts A. Warner St John, Missouri
On Printing James O'Hara, New York
Christopher Kane, New York Thomas Bax-
endale, New York August Dow, New York;
Thomas Hogan, Pennsylvania
On Prson-Labor.-J. A. Wright, Indiana
George Chase, New York John Matthews,
Indiana; 4. J. Cox, New York j. n. Por-
ter, New York
Declaration Of Principles John Fehren-
batch. Ohio {. W. Curtis, Minnesota; Miles
MePadden, New York &. z. Cruzen, Ohio
A B. McLain, Indiana William Thompson,
Ohio ; George Blair, New York J. W. FEhz
Indiana; A. Warner St. John, Missouri; VIM
j. Cannon, Ohio 2. X. Walsh, Ohio.
On Hours of LabOr-GeOrge Blair, New
York ID. A Shepherd, New York; Henry
Dorm, Ohio; James W. Lawless, New York
II. McArdle, Ohio
On Legislation and Labor Bureau. r.
McNeill, Massachusetts Roger O'Sullivan,
Ohio Fl. H. Day, New York ]. B. Zoller,
New York A. q. Simmerly, New York.
On Foreign Trade Unions. Christopher
Kane, New York Jacob Gehm. New York
Thomas Hogan, Pennsylvania John Mat
thews, Maryland; P. Dwyer, Michigan.
On motion of Mr.. Fehrenbatch, A. c.
Cameron, of Chicago, was admitted to full
membership in the Congress, with the ex-
ception of q right to vote.
On motion, the remarks of the delegates
were limited to 10 minutes.
w. j. Jackson Smith, Of Ohio presented
the following
WHEREAS, 1t has been the practice of all
national boards of trade, chambers of COM
merce and the great assemblies of merchants
and forwarders, composed, as they uniformly
are, in part Of bankers, bondholders and mid
dle-men, to introduce into their resolutions
and speeches the idea that they represent the
Rrea3 industries and the working classes Of
the csnntry and speak for them and
WMER1xn, We know they represent only
themselves and thsir eva private interests,
with that Of middle-men generally and
WHERRAs, W. have for many years exam
insd the question of finance and maintained
the conclusions TO which 90 have ..Tc1 :,
our platforms, and which are now adopted
and approved by all labor organizations
throughout the country, and also the last BY
the most patriotic, disinterested and eminent
of our statesmen and citizens therefore,
Resolved, That we now speak TO-: ourselves
and the millions whom we represent, and de-
mand Of the government to hear US, aud ask
bOAL All laws WHICH CTodJc u uAOuOpbAJ Va OoAih-
ing, and all laws under which the fraudulent
national bank system is continued. be repeal
ed, and the currency issued only by the gov
ernment, and changeable at the will of the
holder. into 1855 convertible bonds.
Horace Day offered the following as an
amendment to the above:
Resolved, That we view with alarm the
growing strength Of the banking and monop-
N axrinnoA tho hill inat Qa1
in congress extending the national banks, and
failing to adopt the 3-65 convertible bond sys-
tenn, 50 long advocated by the laboring and
producing interests of the country, and we
call upon President Grant TO veto the bill now
before him. as that law cannot remove the
evils which oppress the nation.
A substitute for the whole was carried,
referring the entire question to commits
tee of FIVE.
Messrs. Blair, New York Fehrenbatch,
Ohio Day, New York Walsh, Ohio,
and Cameron Of H., were appointed such
Committee.
Mr.. O'Hara offered the following pre-
amble and resolution
WHEREAS, The late financial panic was
brought about by few uuprincipled bankers
and money gamblers, in Using the peoples
money entrusted to their care in wild specu.
lstions, thereby bringing bankruptcy and
ruin on the people and country, throwing
Thousands of working men and women ont
Of employment, with no means of subsistence
therefore be it
Resotred, That we, the representatives Of
the producing classes, in convention assem-
bled, do hereby petition the Congress of tho
United States to enact law making il
crime and misdemeanor for any banker
broker or trust company to invest the fund
of depositors in any uncertain speculations
viz. railroads or kindred stocks of huctuat
ing nature. without substituting for the fund
20 used ample security.
Referred to Committee just appointed
II On motion, the Congress resolved itsel