Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-19
TIE CAPITAL.
SHERMAN SPEAKS ON THE RE.
TALIATION BILL.
The Democratic Caucus Takes No
Action on Adjournment
Other Matters,
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE nroogD-uSsoS.)
SOLID FOR PROTECTION.
Women Before the Senate Committee In
Defense of the Tariff.

"omeh before the senate Committee In
Defense of the Tariff.
WASHINGTON, September 1Sth.-The pro-
ceedi1gs of the Senate ub-Committee on
the Tariff this morning were in refreshing
contrast with the average of the last two
months. About fifteen well-dressed, fresh
looking ladies made their appearance at
the doors of the committee-room at IL
O'Clock, he led by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster.
President of the Women's Christian Tenn
petance Union. of Iowa, and were intro
duced by Senator Allison to his fellow
members as "a deles alton who wished to
be heard in respect to women's especial in
terest in the protective tariff
Mrs. Foster addressed the committee elo.
uuently and at considerable length on the
advantages women have in this country in
the way of earning living, compared with
the European countries, and attributed il
to protective tariff.
She then introduced the ladies with her.
who, she said, were operatives in the cloth
and other mills in New England and New
York. whom she had invited to come be-
fore the committee and relate their expert.
ence. They were women who had worked
in England and other European countries
and were unanimous in declaring vastly
superior the conditions of life which they
were able to secure in this country.
STRONG TESTIMONY GIVEN.
Her companions were then briefly ques-
toned by members of the committee. Mrs.
Bonner, German lady who worked in
factories in the Fatherland had been en-
ployed about twenty years in Rockville,
Conn.,, in weaving cloth for mems clothing.
Her weekly wages 80 to $1O) compared
with 2 marks in Germany. She laid up
money here, and had three times visited
her birthplace, paying her expenses from
her savings
Miss White, Miss Pitts and Mrs. Stems
field, all born in England, were also en-
ployed in the mill at Rockville. They and
others told similar stories to that of Mrs.
Bonner Of the superior wages and superi or
advantages of their present condition to
those which they enjoyed in the old coun.
try. They declared themselves. with en-.
thusiasm, to have become Americans in
the fullest sense of the word
Miss Gallagher and Miss Dempewolt
were from mems clothing house in New
York city. Miss Jennie Cheeyer. Mrs,
Studd and Miss Clark were from the mills
of Ware, Massachusetts. There was but
little variety in the stories briefly and mod.
esty told OF their respective localities
Ihey were earning comfortable livelihoods
by the work of their own hands.
The appearance of the ladies was, how
ever, the more convincing part of the evil
dence received by the committee, which
carried conviction, quite irrespective of the
tariff views of the committeeman.
Senator Harris, who represented tariff
reform doctrine on the committee, gallantly
contented himself in developing the fact
from each of the Rockville witnesses that
the foreign-born element largely predomi-
mated among their fellows and from Others
| that it was about equally divided with
those of native birth in the New York
shops and Ware mills.