St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-01
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amelioration OF the condition OF the working
men.
Mr.. Hammond OF Georgia opposed the
bill. and Mr.. Weaver of Iowa said:
The remedy for labor troubles must come
from q proper law TO regulate Interstate
commerce, and from a law that would create
a condition in our eeonomic system so that
the employer could affbrd TO pay the lahoring
man what his labor was worth. There was no
disposition on the part of the workingmen to
violate law. They de sired to earn their liv-
ing In the sweat of the lr faces. The trouble
was that they could NIT get the opportunity
to work. The remedy Was 10 give the country
an increased volume of currency. This la
Dor question was purely and simply aoues-
ton of money.
Mr.. Reed of Maine said:
What the laboring men needed and desired
was that there should be that careful exami-
nation of the whole matter which would lead
10 an agreement. 1t may turn out, he said,
that this legislation will amount 20 little. It
may turn out that It. amounts tomuch. Sup
pose We try it, and when we learn more do
more.
FURTHER STUMBLING BLOCKS.
Mr.. Brumm of Pennsylvania and Mr..
Daniel of Virginia criticised the bill. Mr..
Glover of Missouri gave notice that he would
at the proper time offer as a substitute for
the pending bill the bill introduced by him
on Monday, which is based on the English
law and which provides for compulsory ar
bitration.
The situation on the Southwestern system
of railroads, he said, was one which demanded
the. greatest attention from legislators. In
the midst of peace the country was on the
verge of civil war, and this was because con-
gress had not dealt with question with which
congress alone could deal, He did not speak
for either the employer or employe. There
was third party-the producers, the con-
sumers, the merchants, the body of men en-
gagged in commercial enterprises, whose en-
terprises were assailed by the existing strike,
and from that third party Cry was coming.
The bill repor ed by the committee on labor
gave no reliet that did not exist before. 1t
would not allayl the condition of things IN the
Southwest any more than Il cup OF water
would put out a confagration. He was salts
fed that the people of the country wanted
the question: dealf with in Straightforward
and manly mann +, and not by bill which
was
MERE SHAM,
mere premise, which would have the effect
simply 10 deceive, TO make the people believe
that a remedy was offered when nothing was
offered. MIR. Reagan of Texas opposed the
bill On the ground that il would take from the
Local tribunal where ii belonged the adjust
ment and settlement of a local question:
question between the hirer and laborer. The
remedy for trouble like the present was 10
be found through the ballotsbox, by the cleo
ton of State legislatures and congresses and
presidents who would respect the rights of
the people, and who would stop the system of
robbery of the many for the few, which had
been going on for the last twenty years.
Until these large corporations were controlled
by law, until the robbery of the protective
tariff and the monopoly of the national banks
are stopped, no remedy would be found for
these ills.
Mr.. Cutcheon of Michigan favored the
bill because it was an effort in the direction
of an equal distribution of the joint product
of the operations of labor and capital.
Messrs. Buchanan, McAdoo and Dingle
also favored the bill. Pending discussion
the committee rose. Mr.. Willis of Ken
lucky reported the river and harbor bill.
The report of the majority on the Hurd-
ROmeis election case was submitted and
Mr.. Martin of Alabama obtained leave to
file minority report. The house then adj
iOuined