The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-22

counts of la6orerS. workmen and
mechanics arising under the eight-hour
law.
Rogers, Arkansas, in opposing the
bill, said it would involve an expend-
iture of nearly $4,000 600 The PROPOSE
ton was ill considered and vicious III
It's tendency.
Tillmsn of South Carolina, regarded
the measure es an attack upon thu
Treasury. The most Illuminating thin.
to him, in connection with Congress
Slonal matters, was the way members
tiuttered whenever any proposition
came up relating tolaoOr. The psLdlDl
proposition was one to give man t. II
hours pay for eight hours labor, IL
order to create an aristocrdcy OF labo'
and give to the claims % or so per cent
of the amount they might recover.
Bland said that, in order to reduce the
hours of l. Dor throughout the couHtry
Congress must wiring the water from,
the railro2d stocks aud telegraph mo-
nopolv and syNdicates and trusts anD
stop taking $500 900 600 a year from tbs
people to be piled up III the Treasury
Lane. of Illinois. denounced the b'l
as being IN the interest OF office-seek rs.
After further discussion, TarsneN
moved that the bill 60 over until Apri
10Th, in order that mer1 bers might hHv,
an opportunity to inform themselves as
to the merits of the C. Sc.
The committee then rose, and the bill
went over.
The following bills were passed:
To prevent the product of convict
labor from being furnished to or for the
use of any department of government
and from being used in public oullding>
or other public works and in various
departments of the government,
The House then went into com
mittee of the whole, Hatch, of Missouri.
in the CHAIR, on the bill to establish u
departmsntot labor.
An amendment was adopted, striking
out the provision TOR an Assistant Com,
missioner of Labor.
Buchanan of New Jersey. moved to
strike out the clause charging the com
mission to ascertain whenever industrial
changes shall make it an essential cos'
OF producing articles at the time DUH
able in the United States in the lead
ing countries where such articles are
produced, by fully specified uni OF
production and under a classification,
showing the different elements of cost
production.
Mills opposed the motion.
Randall offered an amendment, to
extend the inquiry to the amount OF
wages paid in various industries.
The amendment vas adopted.
Mills offered an amendment to the
words per diem, weekly and other
wise after the word wages" in
Randall's anne dment. He sad he
wanted to know the difference between
the productive efficiency Of wages in
Europe and this county end whether.
if man in this country did five times as
much Work and got Iwica as much paw
for II, he was not the cheaper worker
Of the two
The amendment was adopted.
On notion of Mckinley, of Ohio. an
amendment was adopted adding 10
kundaIl's amendment the words anu
hours employed per day"
The following amendm ants. extend
ing the scope of the inquiry were
adopted:
BY Observation-Disclosures any convict
made goods are imported into t0is
c5nntry and whence.
BY Blanc, the profits of manufacture
anu produces OF dItIaoie articles.
By Washington. of Tennessee. the
comparative cost of living in this cOan-
try and Europe.
By MlIiken, and the kind OF living.
B.owne, of Indiana, offered an
amendment extending the Inquiry as
to the effect OF the protective tariff in
the United States on agricultural in
dustry, and especially as to its effect
on the mortgage Indebtedness OF farm
ers.
Mills offered an amendment. extend
ing the inquiry to an ascertainment
whether the articles are now conIro, led
by trusts, and what effect these trusts
had had in limiting and keeping up
prices.
Randall offered an amendment,
extending the inquiry as to the effect
of The state of the currency upon
the AGRICULTURAL interests. He was
inclined to think that the cur
rency had more to do than
the condition of affairs touching
agriculture. That and the natural law
of demand and supply had reduced the
value Of corn anu wheat and dairy
products to an alarming extent, and
G 'ngress ought, therefore, in its invssti
CATION. seek to learn whether the con-
dition came from the present tariff
laws. or whether il came from the state
of the currency.
Miliiken offered an amendment. re-
quiring the Commissioner of Labor to
Investigate the Mills tariff bill, and to
report what effect IL would have on the
laOor aud industry o the United States,
on foreign industries and on tOe poo
fits of foreign manufacturers md tne
markets OF the American farmers.
2 nding action on the motion, the
committee rose and the Ho SO ad-
journed.
A Great Battle