The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-22

stated that he was willing to amend
the resolution by striking out the clause
limiting the time OF debate on each
measure called up. He would do this,
he said, in order to re-
move the pretext under which
gentlemen were resorting to fill
Rogers said that the gentleman had
no right to impugn the motive Of any
gentleman by charging that he was
acting under a preteXt. The charge
made by the gentleman from Missouri
was not true. So far from acting
under pretext, he was acting in good
faith and eadeavoring to do the
country benefit. The reason
he was Offering distractions to this
resolution was that the committee on
labor with four bills on the calendar
was asking to have four days assigned
to it, when the appropriation bills re-
manned undisposed of, and when the
committee on ways and means was
maturing bill affecting the interests
of honest labor hundred times more
than any conceivable proposition over
which the committee on labor had
jurisdiction.
O'Neill, of Missouri, mentioned seven
Dlllo IuO Cd1Cn0dI
der report from the committee on la
Dor. will tell these gentlemen, he
said, that you indicating Rogers)
have talked out this morning, how
that you have accomplished your
purpose, and you have simply been
the cat that has been used for that
purpose.
Rogers demanded that the words be
taken down, which was done, and they
were read at the clerks desk.
Cox, of New York, moved that the
gentleman from Missouri be allowed to
proceed in order, and the motion being
agreed, O'Neill resumed the floor amid
applause.
He said that the duties of the mem
bers of the committee on labor were
arduous, and that the gentlemen on
that committee were placed in a very
peculiar position, being liable to be de-
nounced as demagOgues and as cater
ing to the working men whenever they
brought in a bill in the interest
of labor. AS chairman of that COM
mittee, he had been obliged to stand
here for two days in an effort to secure
the consideration of a number of i'm
portant labor bills and see the time
frittered away by men who, as leaders
of the houses, should be the first to re-
spond to the demands of the working
men for right to be heard. (ApplauSe.)
If he had depressed in his remarks
as to why certain lnen did certain
things, it was because Saturday he had
heard this man and that man suggest
ing to certain members of the house to
make such and such d motion, not be-
ing willing to stand up and shoulder
the responsibility themselves.
Rogers said that he would not emu
late the gentleman from Missouri. He
had too much respect for the house,
and for himself to do so.
When the gentleman charged
that he tRogersl was a tool
absolutely untrue. Early in the de-
bate he had asked that the time
Limitation clause be stricken from the
bill, but consent had been refused.
Tarney, of Michigan, said that a
proposition to that effect had been Of
fered to the gentleman within the past
twenty minutes.
Rogers replied that that was not
true. 1t had been about to be
from Missouri had impugned his mo-
tives, but it never had been offered.
Buchanan, of New Jersey, in behalf
of the committee on labor, proposed an
elimination of that clause, and this
having been agreed to, Rogers with
drew his opposition and the resolution
was adopted.
1t sets aside the Goth and 21st of
March, the 18th of April and the 10Th
of May for the purpose.
O'Neill withdrew any remarks of a
personal and offensive character;
being, he said, willing to forgive every
body and anybody.
In pursuance of the terms of the
resolution just adopted the floor was
accorded to the committee on labor,
and bills were passed for the protec-
ton in their wages of mechanics, la
bOrers and servants in the District of
Columbia and the territories, and eX-
tending the provisions of the Shaw law
to letter carriers.
The bill referring to the
court of claims for adjustment the
accounts of laborers, workmen and
mechanics arising under the eight
hour law was then taken up.
Cannon. of Illinois, while he was in
favor of any measure directing the en-
fOrcement of the eight-hOur Flaw
criticised the pending bill. 1t proposed
to go back twenty years and pay the
government employees who had re-
ceived their wages and receipted for
them, for the hours in excess of eight
which they had worked. They received
larger wages than had been paid at
private establishments and they had eX-
pected no more. He did not think that
congress should bl ing in claims twenty
years old, and in the name of labor,
cast an additional burden of taxation
upon labor. The bill would involve an
expenditure of so, 000, 900 or Sl5, 000, 900.
Pending further debate the commit
tee rose and the house adjourned.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-Senate
committee on finance this morning
amended the Aldrich bill so that as it
now stands it authorizes the secretary
to receive any four per cent bonds and
issue in exchange two and one-half per
cents payable at maturity of four per
cents and exempt from state and mu-
nicipal taxation. Committee also au-
thoriZed Senator Sherman to report
favorably the bill to wipe out all
charges against states for loans of
1896, which amount to between $780,
600 900 and $50, 100000.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The re-
port of the sixth auditor of the receipts
and expenditures of the postOffice de-
partment for the quarter ending Sep
TENDER 80, 1887, shows the total re-
ceipts to have been S12, O79, O71 and the
fatal expenditures $l3 sos ,513. OF this
amount S16l ,674 is chargeable to pre-
ViOuS wears The deficiency for the