Telegram-herald., 1886-04-29
.FhYE'S BREAD PILLS.
Are Not What the Nation
Needs 10 Cure It's Ills.
THE CAUSE or LABOR TROUBLES.
Mr.. Frye fhieks Tariff Protection IS
What - Needed American Ships
tor American Maiis-A Con-
gressionai Fisherman
Loses his Hook.


today Mr. Morgan moved 10 take up the bin
10 indemnify the Chinese for losses sustained
BY the Rock River riot, bal yielded 10 Mr..
Mitchell, Of oregon, who spoke ON me
mortal submitted by the conference of the
New York Methodist Episcopal church.
praying for protection for the Chinese in
the United States Mr. Mitchell recited the
statement Of the memorial referred 10 and
denied the truth Of some parts Of II. He
said the press OF the east and even
eastern statesmen had misrepre-
sentei the Pacific coast ON this question
lie asserted that no insult had been offered
the new Chinese minister at San Francisco.
He ridiculed the proposition made in the
newspapers that the chairman Of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations should
meet the new Minister from China at the
depot on his arrival here, as II was not done
With other foreign representatives. Mr..
Mitchell read from the proceedings at the
convention al Sacramento, California, and
asked 10 have the memorial from that
Convention printed in the Congressional
Record Several Senators objected, Mr.
Ingalls, stated that consent had been given
some days ago 10 print in the Record 2
memorial from the women of Utah. IL
turned out 10 be vulgar, prOfane, obscene
again consent 10 have anything
printed in the Record unless its contents
We're yOuched for by some Senator. Mr..
Mitchell promptly yOuched for the nemor-
ial he offered, and after criticising the delay
of the Committee on Foreign Relations i'm
reporting his Chinese immigration prohibi-
tory bill, he warned the Senate that they
would have 10 come squarely 10 the mark
on the subject. The Senate ordered the
"A fsAH ~ n AZ Ell .ltv
not TO 90 in the Record.
Mr.. Mitchell having concluded, the Post
Ofnce Appropriation bill was taken up.
Some debate arose on an amendment pro-
posed by the Senate cOmmittte approprat-
ing $4,000 for carrying South and Central
American, Chinese and Australian mails,
and authorizing the Postmaster Gen
eral to make, after due adver-
tisemement, contracts for five years will
American steamships, at a rate not to ex-
ceed for each outward trip, one dollar per
nautical mile OF distance, by the direct and
feasible course, between the termina points.
Mr.. Beck thought the amendment subject
10 the usual point of order as new legisla-
tiOn and also as limiting the postmaster
general to a class of vessels and for
term of years not heretofore contemplated
by the law. On suggestion of Mr.. Plumb,
however, Mr.. Beck Withdrew the point of
order fa- aJ.o p,rvsSIae. x JIssaslSI
10 ,-iirpOso OF the amendment. 1t was
similar in character, he said, TO the provis-
ion of last years bill TO which the Postmas-
ter General had not given effect. There
hal been statements 10 the effect that the
intention existed 10 subsidize steamship lines
engaged in foreign trade. This Mr.. Plumb
said was not so. The proposed amendment
was intended as step towards doing for
American commerce with foreign countries
what we had been doing for internal COM
merce.
Mr.. Beck said his objection to the amend
ment was that IL looked to crippling our
postal facilities rather than advancing them
In our inland mail transportation
We did not care whether the wagon in which
il was carried was built in New Jersey or in
Paris This amendment sought tO pay Ameri-
can ships which might take twice as long To
deliver mails as other ships might take
| Mr.. Plumb cared a good deal where the
wagons were built He would have them
! all built in America.
Mr. Frye said we now saw the working
| men of the republic in great confusion.
Each House of Congress and the President
had a remedy which remedy was arbitra-
| ton. That did no harm, but il was giving
brown bread pills to a fevered patient II
| did not strike al the rest of the disease in
| the least particular What was the disease?
According 10 Col. Wright, of the labor
bu,eau. we had a million idle labOrers con-
sequently when the Knights of Labor stop
ped wOrk-which they had right
| To do-they found to their amaze
ment just as many men ready
for the vacant places as there were places
vacant
| Then among the more thOughtless of
| the idle came the temptation to violence:
then riot came and an appeal, perhaps, To
the courts, or arbitration, or possibly to
| arms. The great question was. how did il
happen that there were enough men TO take
| the places of the strikers? IL came from
the fact that the product Of our factories
farms and mines was more than we could
use. Last year We produced fifteen billion
| dollars worth OF goods and exported only
| two per cent. Of the whole. We imported
| from Great Britain last year thirty seven
| million dollars worth of cotton goods
the cotton for which had been raised
| in the Tnites1 states. Every dollars
| worth Of these goods might az well have
been made in the United States. II it had
| been. We might have given employment to
! 2 hundred thousand more men than had
| found employment. The last tariff CON-
mission made a reduction Of from Is 70 81
Per cent in the duty on cotton goods.
That increased the importation bat stopped
work The present Morrison tariff bin pro-
poses another reduction Of from rs - B per
cent Of duty and, if il passed. the importa-
ton 0f cotton goods instead Of 81 900 COO
will be s75000.tao a year. sad there will ne
then Ao.ooo less men at work. aid -
many more - engage IN strikes
The President with one hand held ont a
message recommending arbitration 20 re-
lieve strikes and with the other hand held
ont a demand - the House ~ Representa-
tives that 10 should turn two. three. OF Eve
1 hundred thousand more American work
men ont 0f employment Mr. Beck hers
/ interrupted and said be th0ughf ne would
help NJ. FRYE A little En- his argument
/ Mr. Frye replied That be dif not want sny
help. Mr Fry continued Al some length
NJ BeCk said he would ton0rrow auswe'
Mr. Frves argument and Mr FRYE re-
marked he mizht have a word 81 reply &.
make when NJ Beok should conclude.
I The -enste then A. ~ 3 N went int,
execflHvs session and A. 5se the doors wer'
reopenei and tte Senate adjourned
TIE Sensse spent almost an hour IN exc
cutive session ard confirmed a number q
1nohiectionaele nominations ~ postmaster
The Hou<e
WtsHIVeTo~ Apr - At tho oonelr
SION Of he morning hour ere House Il
committee cf the Whole rssnmeI enr
sisierasion Of The RIVER ard Hsrhor biIl Th
paragraph making an appr8pristiau sor n
: Improvement 81 the Yellowstone river. hsy
ing been reaches. NJ Reach. ~ New Yorl
ssid that three gesrs sgs he ha5 tried