Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-23
LEGISLATING FOR LABOR.
CONGRESS AT WORK ON LAWS FOR
WORKlNGMEN.

dustry Bill and the House Makes Pro-
gress ON "a Question of Convict Products
The Fisheries Debate-A Constitutional
ouestion-Tarin Talk to Go on.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 23.-The senate
received a veto yesterday of the bill 10 allow
l. j. Warden, recently postmaster at
Lawrence, Kan, 1925 for extra clerk hire
Bills were passed granting right of way to
the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western rail
way through the Lac de Flambeau reserva-
ton, Wisconsin, and granting $4,000 for
public building at jamestown, o. A secret
session was held in which Riddleberger's re-
solution to debate the fisheries treaty In open
session was defeated The house bill to estab-
lsh department of labor was taken up and
passed, and a conference committee appointed
upon it, there having been some
amendments made by the senate. Bills
We're passed authorizing a bridge over the
Missouri at Nebraska City; appropriating
$1,000 for the public building ut Peoria.
HIS increasing the appropriation for build
ing at Winona, MINI, to $l5O,0OO; increas-
ing the annual militia appropriation to
5000 900; appropriating $4,000 for more
ground for the building at Council Bluffs,
Ia, and sundry other public building bills,
after which the senate adjourned.
Inc mousse TOOK up the OH 10 pTonlDu tno
sale Of onvict-made goods outside the state
in which they were made The debate occu-
pied nearly the whole session, aud when the
house adjourned the previous question on
the engroSsment and third reading OF the
bill had been ordered
Reagan was the principal opponent OF the
house bill to establish a department of labor,
when that measure was up FOR action III the
senate. lie said the laborlng men had many
grounds of complaint, but he had never heard
that they demanded mere chahse III the
manner of collecting information about labor
as being sufficient to satisfy their complaints
Their complaint was that the government had
been for many years past over since the he
publican party had control OF ~ run IN the
interest of various corporations, bondholders
and capitalists, and extravagantly projected
manufacturers. When labor asked for bread
he would not consent to give it stone as the
pending bill proposed. Reagan moved az a
substitute bill creating department OF in
dustry but after a yea and nay vote-there
being but votes i'll its favor--the substitute
was withdrawn.
The debate in the house ON the convict Ia
Dor bill was quite animated. O'Neill, VINO
had charge of it, said the measure was the
result of a visit to Washington Of manufac-
turers iiVli, Ne" ~, -
Clly' fhliaueiph'a' anu o.nei 'io'es' "no ap
peareu peiore Inc coihil,iV.ee uecia. ny '.ioo
absolute rum wouiu result W 'nehi iioiii 1ue
competit'oh OF CONVICT lapori 'ua' III eaon
case where such laDor a''acheu an inuuaUiy
lower rates Oh wages 10 ei,ipioyes iono"en'
Labor organizations throughout 'he country
he said, had urged upon tle eoiltiiluUee lne
necessity OF the passage Oh the pi'i. ihe .aril
question sank INTO lhSlghilicahce "neh II was
realized That there was cancer at hoiue eau
ing tho heart out OF every trade anu IN
dustry
flumb opposed Tue OH On c"hse'.uIioiiai
grounds he SAID IL ihSerieieu WIN in'e'
state commerce, ana tha1 proper ihVes',ga-
tion OF the SUBJECT hau no' oeeh inauo. Aue
committee had pased us ac'ioh upon peol-
tions OF manufacturers VINO III many oaSes
SOLD In this country Che ProuucUs Vi Ensn9"
prisons he cohtehuea tna1 pilson iapoi was
necessary TO the reformation Oh cohEic x
butterworth salu this was hoU 'ue rsU 'iiie
when, IN the name Oh laoor, idpor hau peen
outraged upon TINS moor. Inc hiEheSC inteI
est OF the house was 10 proino'e tne won 10.
ing or all ana the man VINO inViLia'eu 'naU
any one on TINS MOOR was uhlilenuiy 10 'aoo'
was Ounce, knaVe OF an unaprlugeo ass
The main packers OF the ON were noI one