The National tribune., 1886-04-08

ton to authorize Gen. Oliver 0. Howard to ac
cept certain decoration from the Republic o
France.
Mr. Funston (Kan) presented concurren
resolution of the Legislature of the State o.
Kansas, relating to enlargement of the Soldiers
| Home. 2Is
Mr.. Cutcheon (Mch.) introduced bill fo
| the better protection of the inmates of the Ma
tional Soldiers Home in the District of Colum
bia. This bill prohibits the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors within a distance of one mile from
the Home.
| THE LABOR TROUBLES.
The House devoted considerable part of the
week to a consideration of the labor troubles
| that are so disturbing the business and indus
trial interests of the country Several Members
introduced resolutions providing for commit
tee of Congress to inquire into the causes OF
such conflicts between capital and labor, and
what remedies can be devised. The Com
mittee ON Labor has given the subject much
careful attention. and reported, through its
| the settlement of such differences by arbitra-
tion. The bill provoked much debate, speeches
| for and against it being made by large num-
! ber of Members. Some of the pronounced
friends of labor in the House opposed the bill
on the ground that it does not provide an ade-
quate remedy The bill was passed on Satur-
day with only % negative votes
THE ARMY BILL.
The Senate continued at great length the
debate on Senator Logan's bill to increase the
United States Army and promote its efficiency.
Gen. Logan made two or three strong speeches
! in its favor, as did also Gen. Manderson (Neb.) J.
The bill was stoutly opposed by Senators Tel
ler (Colo.), and Plumb (Kan.). No vote was
reached on the bill.
CHINESE INDEMNITY.
| Mr. Belmont On. " introduced a resolution
to appropriate $147746.74 "to pay the Chinese
Government in consideration of the losses un-
happily sustained by certain Chinese subjects
| by mob violence at Rock Springs, Wyo. Ter,
on Sept. g 1885; said sum being intended for
distribution among the sufferers and their legal
| representatives, in the discretion of the Chi
nese Government" The resolution was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
ATTACKING THE CIVIL SERVICE.
In the Senate Mr.. Vance IN. c. in long
speech, very vigorously assaled the Civil-Ser-
vice Reform system, denouncing it IN TOTO and
advocating a repeal of the law. He declared
that whichever party was in power was enti-
tied to the Offices and ought to have them.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Senator Dolph (Ore.), in a speech on the bill
for the admission Of Washington Territory into
the Union. said
Mr. President, there is another matter which
consider pertinent to this discussion, ana oil too
much Importance to be left entirely unnoticed. 1t
is something new III our political history. 1t is full
of hope for the women Of this country and of the
world and full of promise for the future OF Repub-
liCau institutions. refer to the fact that in Wash
ington Territory the right of suffrage has been
tended to women OF proper age. do not believe
the proposition often asserted that suffrage is
political privilege only and not natural right. 1t
is regulated by the Constitution and laws OF State
| grant, but it needs argument it appears to me-
to show that a Constitution and laws adopted and
enacted by fragment OF the whole body of the
people, but binding alike on ali, is usurpation of
the powers of Government.
Government is but organized society Whatever
its form IL has its origin in the necessities OF
kind, and is indispensable for the maintenance of
civilized society. Ii Is essential to every Govern
ment that 1t should represent the supreme power
of the State and be capable of suhjecting the will
of its individual citizen5 to its order. Such Gov
ernmcnt can only derive its just powers from the
consent OF the governed, and can be established
only under fundamental law which is self-im-
posed. Every citizen OF suitable age and discretion
who is to be subject to Government. has in my
Judgment natural right to participate IN its for
nation.
sion that ours is a Government OF the people, by
the people, and for the people and yet ii is far
from thai. There can be no Government by the
people where One-half of them are allowed no
voice in its organization and control. regard the
struggle going on in this country and elsewhere for
the eniranchiSemcnt of women but continue
ton of the great struggle for human liberty which
has, from the earliest dawn of authentic history,
conyul5ed nations, rent Kingdoms, and drenched
battlenelds with human blood.
j look upon the @ftories which have been
achieved in the cause OF woman enfTanchisement
III Washington territory ana elsewhere as the
crowning victories of all which have been won in
the long-continued, still continuing contest be-
tween liberty and oppression, and AS destined to
exert greater influence upon the human race than
any achievements upon the battefields in ancient
or modern times. Should the bill pass we shall
witness the spectacle of State Government founded
in accordance with the principles of equality, and
have State at last with truly Republican form
OF Government.
IMITATION BUTTER.
The House Committee on Agriculture occu-
pied several days in hearing the statements and
arguments Of persons interested in the dairy
business. against the manufacture and sale of
the various limitations of dairy products. For
rest Morland, of Ogdensburg, n. Y, Secretary
aud Counsel Of the American Agricultural Dairy
Association, gave facts and figures relative to
the depression in the dairy industry caused by
the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine and
other limitations of butter. There were in round
numbers, he said, 5000, 900 head of dairy cows
in the country, worth $500 900. Had it not
been for oeomargarine there would now be
25,0Oc,O00 head, worth 81 l,O00000,000. II the
Scott bill to tax such limitations OF butter did
not become q law, he predicted that there would
not be l0,000,000 dairy cows in the United States
three years hence. and these COWS, he said,
would be valuable for their beef, and not their
qualities as butter producers. Fifty millions
OF consumers were Interested in procuring pure
butter, 100000 producers were interested in
the continuance of the industry, and, besides
these, there wero 10000 employees interested
in darying. All these classes were directly in
terested in the pending legislation.
THE CARRoLLToN MASSACRE.
In the House Mr. OHara, the colored Repub-
lcan Member from North Carolina, offered
resolution calling for an investigation OF the
recent atrocious killing of 10 or II negroes in
the Courthouse at CarrolltOn, Miss, and pro-
viding that committee of five be appointed
by the Speaker to investigate the facts con-
nccted with said alleged murders, and to report
by bill or otherwise such measure as will check
or prevent in future the want0n and barbarous
destruction of human life" The resolution
was objected to by Mr. Reagan (Tex.) who
claimed that Congress has constitutional
power over such matters. AS unanimous con-
sent was at that time necessary, under the rules,
for the introduction of the resolution. it was
laid aside. The following day Mr. Randall
Dem. Pa.) tried to introduce a similar resolu-
ton, at the request, he said, of the Members of
the House from Mississippi. Mr.. Reagan again
interposed his objection, and, though appealed
to by members of his party, both North and
South, to withdraw it, he refused to do SO, and
the effort to bring the matter before Congress
again failed. ms
PRIVATE BILLS
The following private pension bills, previ-
eusly passed by the Senate, were also passed by
the House: Florence, widow Of Rear Admiral
Alexander Murray, increase from $50 to $50:
Henry o. Hill. Co r 1st N III Cav and Go n