The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-24

attention of Congress. II was easy to
question mems motives. He had also
supposed Il at the right to question the
motives CT human beings rested
with higher power. He asked
that the message should have
due consideration and deliberation and
remedy for troubles conceived il pos
sibie and enacted INTO a law. He de-
clared proudly that there was not a
word in 1t that appealed in any parricu-
lar 10 any party or any set. or any class
of men in the United States. On the
contrary, il appealed to Congress as a
body of American citizens. wishing for
the public welfare. (Applause.)
Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, was in favor OF
the motion 70 commit with instructions
that the message might be calmly con-
sidered. The gentleman from Ohio Mr..
Butterworth) said il could only receive
deliberate and calm discussions IN
committee of the whole, hut
what example of calmness had
the gentleman himself set. He
had not suggested any remedy for the
troubles. 1t was easy 10 find fault. 10
carp and criticize, but it required states
manship and calm elaboration to meet
the underlying causes of the present
labor troubles.
Mr.. Gibson, of West Virginia, re-
GREETED that the gentlemen from Ohio
undertook TO bring politics into the dis
cussiOn of this question. The gentleman
had charged the majority of the House
with not bringing forward proposition
which would have any practical results
on the labor troubles. The troubles the
country was suffering from were the
result of the powers given BY cor, upt
Congresses to great corporations under
twenty wears OF Republican administra-
ton.
1t was watered stock, unjust charters
granted by Congresses, against which
labor was rebelling. The gentleman on
the other side ought not TO assaIl
this House, because II could not bring
about remedy in a day, but ought
rather TO confess the crimes and sins
of their twenty years of legislation
Mr.. O'Neill, of Missouri, said that
the arbitration bill had been discussed
by. the House for four days. Not one
word of partisan bias had been injected
/ into the debate. 1t had passed by a
! four-fifths vote, il had been reported
unanimously by the Senate Committee,
it had been endorsed by the journals OF
the country. and by the intelligence of
the country, and it rests with
pretext of the injection of partisan bias
into the question. The gentleman was
like the man with one story-the gun
story-f the conversation did not give
him an opportunity of telling his story.
he would stamp his foot on the floor
and say, THAT sounds like gun. and
talking of guns" etc. The gentleman
was so full of partisan fire that he could
resist no opportunity of showing it.
Mr.: Reed. Of Maine, expressed his
satisfaction with the vote he had cast
for the arbitration bill. The gentleman
from Pennsylvania (Mr. RandalD. in
undertaking to excuse the Presi-
dent for his message, was the
/ only man who lad accused him.
/ Nobody on the Republican side
had found any fault with the President
or had even complained of the lateness'
of his arousing to the subject. The
question which was stirring among the
! people should be deliberately considered
| by Congress. 1t might be that Congress
/ could devise a remedy, ii might be that
| il could not, but it was bound to con-
/ slider the question, and bound 70 con-
slider with regard to something else be-
sides November elections.
Mr.. McCleary, of Kentucky, was
gratified with the Presidents message,
regarding it as q wise and forcible
document. The relations between labor
and capital were not as harmonious as
they should be, and the message
looked towards bringing them in
harmony. He did not believe that the
proper way to settle the difficulties be-
tween labor and capital was to use
violence. He believed that arbitration
was the better plan. Congress should
recognize that labor had rights, but
also that capital had rights. and it was
the duty of Congress to cultivate har-
mony and pleasant relations between
the two
Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, supported
his motion. coutending that the COM
mittee on labor was the proper commit
tee to consider the message. He moved
for instructions, because he desired to
respond promptly to the recommends
tons of the President. The wise and
thoughtful message of the President
should be considered in the proper
spirit He opposed the motion to re-
fer il to the committee of the whole.
Mr.. Springer's motion was then
agreed to.
VOORHEES,, of Washington Territory,
rising to question OF privilege, offered
the following resolution:
Resolved, That the committee on rules
be instructed TO inquire whether
Leonard r. SWEET, or any other ex-
member of the House, who availed him
self of the privilege of admission TO the
floor, is interested as agent or attorney
OF any railroad or other corporation, or
interested in any claim or bill pending
before Congress, and report TO
the House the result of such
inquiry, with such recommendations
as NAV be necessary.
1t had BEEN an open secret, he
said, that ever since the begin
ming of this Congress, powerful
lobby, organized in the interest OF the
various railroad corporations, had in
vested capital, and that the rules OF the
House had been openly, repeatedly and
VIGOROUSLY set at defiance by some
members of that lobby. He protested
against the continuance of that rank
and crying abuse. He did not intend TO
reflect upon Mr.. SWEET, but had inserted
his name, because he personally knew
that Mr. SWEET was attorney for the
Northern Pacific Company. Accepting
the suggestions made BY Mr.. Blount
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