The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-02-25
WASHINGTON.
CON GRESS AND THE PRINTERS
UNION.
Inquiry Into the Nature Of It's Grlp-Pay
TO Heirs Of Deceased Members
Refused--The National Ed
ucatlonai Bill.
TRYING TO FISH Up THE TARIFF BILL.
CoNGREss -rIIE aENAIE.

AIRY Of the pubic printer 10 $1,000, di--
cus,ipn arose as to the influence OF the
printers union upon tue management u
the government Office.
Beck .ui1 he UNDERSTOOD the public
printer was at the mercy OF aome outside
association, hutl as 10 wages puil ami
persons cmpl yel, and asked the chair
man NJ the committee On prin ing what
he knew IN thu subject.
Anthony replied there was too much
truth in he s'atemeYt rhc ~ geographical
union assumed to fix the rate Of vac
of printers without consulting employ
ers at oil, aud If persons not BELONGING
to the association were employed, mem
bers Of the association would leave the
Office. This was tyranny which the craft
would not submit to il 1t was ordaincl
by law, yet they imposed it upon them
selves for their own benefit.
Beck WAS wllinE to.vote for any law
and any amount OF mon enamel ate
the government from this or any other
association.
Anthony -aid he had once pass d a res.
olutiun lnstrictng the public printer to
employ his men Tor the best lntcrcs Of
the government and pay market
rates of wages but the resO-
luton had not met the approval
u the other house, and there was an cx.
istlng law requiring the public p inter
to pay about twenty per cent. more than
WIS paid in private Offices in Washing
ton for similar work. His sympathics
were all with the interests Of labor, but
he did not recognize the right Of cm.
ploycs to fla the rates that should be
paid for their labor without consulting
employers, or to fix the rates for the Z y
eminent more tn Tor other employers.
Rollins asked VIII, ther the associa ion
iii mob oil ,.N. -. Il.
ployed by the public printer.
Anthony said If any rson not be-
longing to the union was employed, all
members Of the union would leave the
office.
Hull thought senators must be startled
at hearing that n great governmental
establishment, upon which millions were
spent annually, was practically in the
hands OF private, and for aught he
knew, secret association,
which con rolled its management and
monupollzed it's employment. II
tyranny existed which compelled the
taking Of all employees of the govern
ment printing office from one organau-
ton to the exclusion Of al other like
working people in the Uited States,
there ought not to be another dollar
appropriated til that tyranny had
been ovcIthroNn, and the government
printing Offices opened to every person
skilled enough to do the work, whether
he belonged to this association or not.
He wished to know whether the public
printer submitted willingly to this die.
tHtlon, or whether he protested
a. aiust it.
Anthonv-What il the use of his pro-
testing, when we have imposed upon
him by law rates of WAGES which are
higher than those fixed by the ussocia.
ton?
Hale-But do we impose upon him the
ueces ity Of being controlled by this as-
sociation as to the men he employs?
Anthony We do not, but il he does
not obey the behests OF tins association.
.hen the Office stops.
THE HOUSE.
WAsHINGroN, February 2l.-Immediate-
ly utter r,nding the journal the sprokcr
proceeded to cali committees under the
the rule.
Rand III, under Instructions OF the COM
mittcH on ways und means, called up the
bill to prevent tine impot tat,ln ut Hdult,r-
at'd on spurious tea, AVID there being but
one Ohie, ton ii was considered amended
and passed several other bills were 4
called up and objected to.
Belmont reported back the resolution 4
clling tor information respecting so ,
much OF tie llaw ijan Treaty as re.at,s to g
Sandwich sugar; adopt Il, i
Burroughs for the sre al committee n
on Improvement ut the Mississippi river,
submitted the majority report; ordered
printed, and eterrcd To the committee on O.
commerce. 5
Thomas, OF Illinois, and Butterworth
were granted leave to tile the minority I
report. :
On motion Of Kelly.the bill was passed d
Tor the admission free Of duty Of articles
for the industrial exhibitions to
be held III Louisville and Denver n
The house then proceeded to the CON :
'ideratlOu of the civil service bill, the
lending question being an amendmrl
ported from committee Of the whole,
granting $1,000 to the legal rrprcseutu-
ives Of Andrew S. Heron, of Louisiana,
ate member OF the forty-eighth con- .
,ress. There was good deal of oppo- :,
luon manifested to the proposition to :,
appropriate money for the benefit Of the =
lcirs OF Il man who mad never served as
representative, and the amendment was
ost; yeas 53, nays 100 =,
As there was in the bill a similar al :,
owauce TO the family Of the late j. f. =
'pdegratf as member elect to the iSth
congress-, it was struck ont 10y uuaul-
nous consent TIE bio was then
lHsscd.
Page gave notice he would on Monday
leNt move the house to 90 into commit
e of the whole on the river and harbor
ill.
In this connection, Robinson, Of Mass, II,
cad telegram which he had received, -
thtiug there WAS now being transmitted u,
o the house a communica ION from the a.
ecretary OF war with the infermUt on IT,
hat $40 feet Of dyke had been carried ~.
way ut Plum Point. gT
Sherwin called up and the house pre-. I
eeded to consider the bill Rppropriating =
'lOOOO,OOO annually for five years to aid ~,
n SUPP urt OF common schools. :.
Sherwin made an exhaustive argu- ~
nent IN support Il the measure. ''
Willis, Clements aud Wheeler and IA
ored the bill.
Pending further discussion, Reed.
rom the committee or rules, reported
he following resulu ion That during
he rem inder OF this session it shall be
n order at any time to
i've motion to suspend the rules,
which motion shall be decided
~ a majority oil votes 10 take from the
peakcr'S table the house bi with senate
amendment thereto entitled the till to r,-
iucr internal taxation etc. II such motion
hrll tail, tue bin shall remain ON the
peak rs table unaffected by the decision
i the house. Laid over for action until
Monday.
Flower introduced bill repeating all
II ernal taxation except on distilled
pirlts, referred TO committee on ways
md means.
Sherwin the II demanded the previous
question on this education bill, pending
which the house adjourned.
Washington Miscellany.