The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-31


wishes.
One week ago tonight / had the oppor.
tunity in this city to reply to some of these
| reflections. Since that time William Wal
| ter Phelps, o member of that House OF
Representatives, with no excuse for ignor-
aace, except the laziness to advise himself
| properly, as the President of the Republi.
can convention, reiterated that charge in
words more broad and more offensive.
| Applause Abiding to me, he says in
| effect that was man whose long record
when searched reveals not a single word,
not one action, not one vote in which the
laboring men can find the slightest thing
to encourage them.
Last week held, and have il with me
now, the report Of the Legislative Gem
mittee of the Knights of Labor to visit
Washington in order to urge upon Congress
| the passage of such laws as they deemed
necessary to carry out their platform OF
principles. That committee came te
Washington; they spent their time there
until the adjournment of Congress; they
urged the smembers of Congress to pass
certain bills, and, on coming back, they
have made this their report with reference
to their action and with reference to the
action of Congress upon the measures
which they desired passed.
Now, one week ago to night, took that
report up and went over those bills, one by
one, and / showed that there was not a
single vote of mine antagonistic to single,
solitary bill that that committee asked
Congress to pass. Applause.
/ showed further that it was not only q
negative support, but that ] favored and
voted for every one of those bills when
was present in the House of Representa-
tiyes. CApplause
Now, generally these acts. and do not
propose to read them all over again, en-
braoed the Convict Labor bill, the Impor-
tation of Labor under Contract, the Land
Grant Forfeiture bills and the. surplus
resolution with reference to the surplus in
the treasury. As to the Convict Labor
and the Importation of Contrat Labor bills,
there was no roll call, but voted for those
bills, or was heartily in their favor. AS to
the land grant propositions, say, once for
all, that in season and out of season, on
every occasion when consideration was
asked, or they were up for consideration,
voted constantly with the chairman of the
committee, Judge Cobb, to carry out the
Democratic platform and forfeit all un-
earned grants Of public lands. [Applause. ]
Under the lead of Judge Cobb, the
Democratic House of Representatives at
the last session reclaimed slxty-nine mil
lions of acres of the public lands to the
public domain. [Applause.1
On the bill to restrict the ownership of
lands by aliens, I favored that bill and
there were but six votes against it in the
House. So far as the surplus resolution
of Mr.. Morrison was concerned, voted
for it,
There was another bill which is not men
toned in the report of the committee on
Labor, because that bill had been passed
before they came to Washington. I refer
now to the bill known as the Arbitration
bill and Iyoted for that. [Applause.]
In a general way have gone over all of
those measures which they asked us to
pass. Favored them all, I voted for them
all, and stand here now to hurl back in
the teeth Of those gentleman who in pub
lib meetings in the city of Newark, or else
where, who in the public press, or who
upon the stand at Republican meet
ings, dare to assail my Congressional rec
ord, by showing them by the record that
on every and each one of these measures /
voted in the interests of labor. Applause.
As this interest has been sought to be
antagonized against nae on the ground that
my Congressional record showed that I
was not in sympathy with the workingman,
Propose to turn the leaf back q little and
look at the proceedings of the Forty-eighth
Congress. propose to show you gan-
tlemen and the people of New Jersey
where my opponent, Mr.. Howey, stood
upon these measures, and do not pro-
pose to make it in any general charge.
He is coming here to Newark on Wednes-
day night to speak to you, and want him
to answer these charges; and in order to
facilitate him in looking up his record, I
will give him day and date and the page in
the Congressional Record to refer to.
[Csntinued applause.]
scALpNa NIB. PHELPS.
Here is the friend of labor, the candidate
of Mr.. Phelps; and the first bill I call
your attention to is the bill to restrict Chi
nese emigration. We have some little
idea with reference to the objects of that
bill. It was to prevent for certain time
the further emigration of the Chinese. It
is known as House bill /, 798 1t was be-
fore the House Of Representatives May 2,
1884; it passed by vote of yeas 1874, nays
IS, not voting 28. Mr.. John Kean, the
representative frem the Third New Jersey
district, voted "no." Phelps did not vote,
Howey was paired with Judge Reagan of
the bill; and that was tantamount to voting
against it. But it don't only stand there.
because have the word of a Representa-
tive of New Jersey, the Representative in
the First district, that Mr.. Howey was in
his seat at the time the roll was called, and
went over to him and asked him to vote in
favor of the bill, and he said 'sno," that
he was opposed to it and paired with Judge
Reagan. Now this charge has been made,
it has been made in public print, and how
has it been met by Mr.. Howey, or how has
his defender in the Republican organ in
the city of Trsnton-I refer to the State
Gazette met it. On Saturday the State
Gazette issues this answer to the statement
with reference to Mr.. Howey's position
upon the Chinese Emigration bill. 'The
True american is having big time all to
itself over the vote of Mr.. Howey against
the Chinese Exclusion bill while in Goa
gress." Now, what does it say, that Mr..
Howey was not opposed to the bills Oh,
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