New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-08
SOCIAL SCIENCE
The GENERAL SESSION.
HORACE WHITE on TuE TARWF-DIscUssIoN OF
OTHER TOPICS.

HORACE WHITE Oh Tux lAiAtf -p'oSOo'A"'' W
OTHER TOPICS.
c.n,~oc, \ Y. Sept. THE Social Sci
- Association met this morning with Judge Peabody
- Nv, Work presidlng. A paNer was read on " The
sr.,,-,t,on laws OF Great Britain and OF the United
e.ot.s ~ br Hamilton A TIill. OF Boston. which gives
,.y NJ tie tirs; enactment OF the navigation laws IN
1r.,,na Horace White read paper on The Iarh
Question" lie said;
rs ,riC and bad currency aggravse the trouble OF
20 AM fbev 40 no. bring it on oar commerce Is con
Sns t1 TOO small limits aud cannot increase aefuS,vn
~ I'M iron cotton aud woolleu areto large f0rour
oon markets and others must be found outside lneI.
is pre=sin need or better means OF acVeN 20 az ~,
nsrct oi thc world. The IDLE ept9 ~ ne rTn trade
IN this couatry. now amounts 70 SlV'Vo 4''' nh So
dif.ous OF fuN trade are Tree, t',.'' ~ -
t,,cers are not disposed % quarrel, bGt they want
az - ~ s "a, Is--r for protection Foreign trade
II h Ir5pofpd bv rcpcarng the tarih, which Is Ike
s-" f ,C5vt oir crccubacas, railroad bonds, bat
vii e adv take produce II We purchase
al 6pv OF u Tie country IS too largely pre-
Serfed We have too much capital IN factories ah
sr Iraud Our food production Is so large aud cheap
tber vii bar 1900 miles Of inland transHortatlol
and then con pete with ali others 40 Tor pauper aDoi
We can carurtte even in this with ENGLAND
I s Moore. OF Ncw-York, followed with paper on
The same subject
Henry T. HYDE OF Boston. then read paper on " Gus
tom Laws and Their Administration lie SAID 'here i
lsek OF uuormtyu different Custom Houses soodS are
y =
,b right 10 increase the duties after the goods have gone
into consumption TIE paper calls on the Treasury DO
uarent to Join tho importers and Congress IN fe''us
and making tic laws plain that no such confusion ana
ouDort.iuiii es for fraud NAV occur hereafter
A MINER by = Bowle-. Of Springfield, Mass on
state and Municipality Observations ON the kei-
atoms OF state ana Municipal Governments and
H. Reforms Of tlc Later aud paper on TIC chinese
Question br T. r. Meade OF New-York, were re al MI
Meade said
Tina, we are bound 70 receive this alien iafgX -
uiecc 81 standardization Which VII NOS De- accepied Ols
s5sl rqfrrc rciels the idea. The remedy for Chinese
immigration Is 90 oc either proll'Ion g i' =
ton III tle, rol3 90 tae BurAnFAine treaty we must
on with Ei.lut whose colonies are ALREADY SUFFERING
from the cause' aud make joint cause WIN her 70
stOp immigration
Nuuicp,l arairs we're discussed. GamaIiel Bradford
ana vi liam Niuot frs Of Boston, and hessrs Nelson OF
Ncyrlsev Sand o. Cincinnati. Bittengcr OF Pittsourg
r. E Da-iai, Of Nev-York and Lord Of Michigan.
On motion Prof Gabaa. OF tle Coiese OF Pisa lIaly'
was mslc corresponding member
NJ slnbarn re,d q communication from Dr. +. C..
VINE, on TEc international Prison Congress. and" on
notion resolutions iavJrns the cause OF prison reform
were adopted
At 4 o'clock Charles Nordhof took the chair. and
opened the discussion the labor question lie said
the STRIKE tis summer is event we should pay the
u re attention matter is not ended Politicians
and deuSgogucs are taking hold OF H. He thought that
rai.-aad managers desiring Congress 10 interfere had
sol.e Improbable railroads % sell Emtoyers 10 get
o7tant portion the duys is to make lsborera inter
secretr, -uhorn said they had expected Peter Cooper
10 speak, hul lc had LEFT Tie therefore read eXiracs
from speech Nr Cooper prepared 10 deliver to free
Trade Conference.
William j. Nicholson. workagman Of Troy,
sao.f H. SAID tie late strike did not fr-
present the Iaboriug class OF the country. spec
Ia. trade bodies dead or dying run
the surplus caused hy labor saving machinery There IS
no ls--ur caste u thi. country but lahOiiuc class
Tie lai.rlu- generally Intelligent Political al
tens. to labor i- ou.y tuh To- whale The agitation
Is NOT from tHc-c working Tor employ ers
RE was followed hy Aessrs Bl,tengrr. OF Pttsburg,
Ropes of Boston. r. Roosevelt Je4lle ius. o. bolln .
Bower. Boston, and l.. Y. Wright, OF Washington.