New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-06-26

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA s. AD-
EQUIPMENT ~ : WILLIAM CULLEN
PRYANTs DEATH.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., June Is. 1878.
It is an undisputed fact which
holds good in all countries and III all
times, that where there is most i'm:
provement Of labor-saving machine
ry, there the workmen are best off
and enjoy more Of the comforts Of
the civilization. We have only.
without looking in to the history Of
tile past, to compare the condition
of working people to-day in inven-
tive and noninventive countries. Yet
a speaker at a yorkin meeting
held here last night was applauded
because he would abolish railroads
and labor-saving machinery, and he
even went SO far as to say they man
age these things better in China.
Why, in that non-inventiye country
the workingmen in good times sub
sist on vernlin, and in hard times as
they now have there, millions are
starving. Why is this? Because they
have not railroads to move their
food supply, which is acknowledged
to be sufficient. Again, the speaker
ascribed the existen ice Of italian laz-
zaroni to English inventions. Ifso
why is the English workinggmeA bet
ter off than the italian. Look at
the toiling hand laborers al through
Asia, who barely subsist at best,
and are swept off by millions when
there is a famine il the land. No
one can believe that majority of
the intelligent workingmen Of this
country approve the views Of last
nights speaker, and hundreds " like
HIM.
At last an economical Congress
has seen fit to appropriate the money
which Secretary Schurz has SO often
and 50 earnestly asked for the pur.
pose Of putting new roof upon the
noble Patent Office building, des-
troyed by fire in the latter part Of
last September. With 8 persistence
which does him honor the Secretary.
had not ceased to urge this impor-
tant matter upon the attention of
Congress since the extra session, but
without success, and it began to look
as though the stately facades on
Ninth and 6 streets were to remain
beneath their present temporary
roofs during the coming winter.
This will give work to a large mum.
Der Of unemployed and dissatisfied
workingmen in the District.
Our female friends, who are desi-
rous Of having certain legal disabili-
ties removed and are after the right
of suffrage will doubtless have to re-
new the fight again during the next
session Of Congress, as to-day in the
Senate whenever a bill upon the ca.
lender relating to such matters was
reached, it was skipped over; or in
definite postponenent was ordered.
The House judiciary committee,
by a vote of s against | has decided
to report a resolution, asserting in
substance that the Forty fourth Con.
gress was the properly constituted
body to count the votes and declare
the result Of the Presidential election,
and that no subsequent Congress has
the power to revise the actions thus
taken; nor can Congress confer power
upon the Supreme Court, OF upon
any other tribunal, to reopen CUES
tions which have thus been settled.
The committee in the early part Of
the week decided to postpone until
to-day, the presentation Of the re;
port, in order to give J. Proctor
Knott, who dissents from the report
Of the majority, an opportunity to
prepare an argument, probably his
last and final effort within the Halls
Of Congress, explaining his position.
The majority report will be accom-
panied with an elaborate opinion, in
which will fully be explained the
reasons why the committee take the
ground thatthe Forty fifth Congress
has no power to revise the action Of
the Forty fourth Congress, with re-
speet to the .l Presidential title.
Its an II wind that blows no.
BODY any good, says the trite old