Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. LIFE IN THE MILLS. The Miseries of Foil in New
 England. Prison Oruelties at Concord. The Warden Removed by Cover
 nor Butler. DEATH OF WILLIAM E. DODGE. The Close of a PhiIamthrO-
 pist's Life.
DEATH OF WILLIAM E. DODGE,
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

] New EngIand Mill lHands-Their dissrie. 1 Under the Tenement System-A Wild, I Field for PhifanthrOpic EndeavOr-
 The Record of the Day at the Capital. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Frederick A. Eos l ter, of Boston, secretary of the Massachu setts federation of trade and labor unions
 continued his testimony before the Senate 1 Committee on Education and Labor this l morning. He depicted the unjust system practiced by the mill owners of Fall River and other Massachusetts manufacturing
 towns of compelling their operatives to rent | tenement houses of them which are i'll venti-
 lated, lilly located and with poor convenien- l ces, at enormous rents, or to board at houses operated by mill owners and which do not
 have accommodations other houses afford The large French Canadian element is to New England what the Chinese population is to California. Their morals are lower, their necessities less and their ambitions easier satiated than those of the Chinese. They are adverse to education and will remove from locality oftentimes to prevent their children being educated and they rarely avail themselves of the privilege of the franchise. Out of Canadian population in thirty-two New England cities of SS 1858, only 5, 1866 are naturalized citizens and only 2,859 property owners. There is 8 law in Massachusetts against the employment of children under ten years of age. This does not, however, apply to little cash boys in stores. During the busy season the children have to work from a. m to 10 p. n. The moral condi- ton of the young boys and girls in New England factory boarding houses is often very low, they not having any restraining in fuences at home. Mir. Foster concluded his evidence as follows: tT say advisedly that the city of Lowell presents wide field for philanthropic work. There are objects there more worthy the attention of the philan- thropists than the building of palaces for de- caysd gentlewomen or donations of large sums to Harvard college" He will probably conclude his testimony to morrow.
 Representatives of the woolen business are here working earnestly against any changes in the law of 1867 in relation to the duties on wool and woolen goods.
 MT. Cain, the recently elected delegate of Utah. claimed that the Sergeant at-Arms of the House of Representatives should pay him the full salary for the full term of Congress on the ground that he was the only legally elected delegate from his district to the pres ent body. The question was submitted to. Judge Lawrence, first comptroller of the treasury, who decided thst Mir. Cain is enti- tied to compensation only from the date of his election.
 Gen. Hagen, chief signal officer, has pre- pared long statement in answer to the printed speech of Congressman Beltzhoover of Pennsylvania. The statement charges Beltzhoover with being party to the theft of certain letters and that he is 8 tool in the hands of discharged employees, also that his recent speech is tissue of falsehood and scurrilous anonymous newspaper articles.
 The Postmaster General has revoked the recent order declaring the Sheffield Cutlery company and William Haynes & Co.,, alias Haynes Co.,, of Boston, fraudulent cons cerns.
 MT. Jones, of Nevada, from the Commerce committee, to day reported to the Senate the bill abolishing the compulsory pilotage system. The bill was so amended by the committee as to make it apply to all vessels sailing in American waters.