The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-07
TEIEG RAP PHO D pATgHEs
FROM All. PARTS OF Tr1E WORLD.

MEETING OF CREDITORS or a CINCINNATI
81 GROCERY HoUsE-APPLICATION FOR
8coMMuTATIoNo OF DEATH-sENTENCE
OF "a CATHOLIC PRIEST CONTINUED
THREE WOMEN KILLED By LIGHT.
MING IN. MLrNOIs-FREE FIGHT At A
KENTUCKY BARBECUE-MARR AT
NIGHT AND DEAD NEXT MORNING
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTATION
ny REPUBLICANS IN FIFTH MAINE DIS.
IRICT- AT MEMPHIS
MURDER NEAR HAMPToN-THE WHITE
SULPHUR SPRlNGS-D STATE
DEMOCRATIC! CONVENTIONAL xICAN
Rs-poLlTICALN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OF EMPEROR FRANCIS JOsEPH-THE Gu
\ BAN LOAN TO BE ISSUED DURING TIE
& PRESENT M0NTH-THE BOGARDUs
PIGEON-aiATCH-ENGLl NEWS, &C.. &C.
Tho Congressional Labor InvcsGfga-
As as tfOlis s.t..,.a s.t.
NEW York, August 6.s-This being the
last day OF the Congressional Labor-Inyes-
tigation Committee, the attendance was un-
usually large. The majority OF "yolun-
teers'' carried copious documents, ready to
he heard, individually or collectively, and
were somewhat clamorous.
George E. Mcneil, president OF the In
ternational Workingmen's Union, OF West
Someryile, Mass, was the first witness.
The whole difficulty, in his opinion, is the
wage system OF labor, or, in other words,
that the wage system and steam-engines are
ceptemporaneous, and that the productive
power has exceeded the power OF consump-
ton. @
Mr.. Peck, Of Dazzling, Conn.,, thought
that instead of lending hundreds OF millions
Of dollars to banks, the Government should
lend some few hundred millions, free OF in
terest, to the workingmen.
Another gentleman was for abolsbing the
United States Senate, restricting the power
of Congress and the President, issue fifty
eight dollars per capita, curtailing the hours
OF labor 10 six, and allow no one outside OF
the labor bureau to employ laborers.
Mr.. Hewitt read the following questions,
which the committee submit to the public
The Congressional Committee earnestly
request the cooperation Of the public in all
sections OF the country in obtaining infor-
nation to aid in practical solution OF the
important questions submitted to 1t. 1t
especially invites suggestions from repre-
sentative men in all departments Of bust
ness. It proposes the following questions
to employers Of labor throughout the coun-
try:
First. What were the selling prices Of
your products in 1860 and in each subse.
quent wear down to rs inclusive?
Second. What were the wages paid by
you in each Of these years for labor en-
ployed?
Third. Where the persons furnishing in
formation are willing to do so the commit.
tee invites them to state the percentages oil
profit made by them in each of these years
upon the capital employed in their business.
Fourth. What were the wholesale and re-
tail prices OF leading articles of family con-
sumption during each Of these years in your
vicinity? ..
Fifth. What is the difference, if any, be-
tween the rents Of tcnements occupied by
operatives in the years 1866 and 1878 in your
vicinity?
Sixth. What was the comparative amount
OF products OF your business in quantity
and value in the years 1860 and 1878?
Seventh. State the comparative steadiness
Of employment OF operatives between the
years 1860 and 1878, inclusive.
The committee invites suggestions from
employers and employed as to the extent
and causes of the present depression OF
business, and as to any special Federal
legislation which, i'll their opinion, would
tend to relieve the same.
The committee hold their next meeting
in the New York post-office August Goth.