Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-24

laborers, workmen and mechanics arisin
under the labor law.
Rodgers, OF Arkansas, in opposing tn
| bill, said it would involve the expenditur
of nearly $1O,OOO,OOO. The propositio,
was ill-considered aad vicious in it's ten
dency.
| Tillman of South Carolina regarded tb,
measure as an attack upon the Treasury
The most humiliating thing to him in con
| nectiCn with Congressional matters. wa,
| the way members huttersd whenever any
proposition came up relating to labor. The
| pending proposition was one to give a mar
| ten hours pay for eight hours labor in or
der to create an aristocracy of labor and
give to claims 25 or so per cent. of the
amount they might recover.
Bland said that in order to reduce hours
OF labor throughout the country Congress
must wiring the water from railroad stock
and telegraph monopoly, and syndicates,
and trusts, and stop taking 100000 900
year from the people to be piled UP in the
Treasury.
Lane of Illinois denounced the bill as
beiEg in the interest of office-seekers
After further discussion Tarsney moved
the bill go over until April 16 in order that
members might have an opportunity to in
form themselves as to the merits OF the
case.
The committee then rose and the bill
went over. Bills were passed to prevent
the product Of convict labor from being
furnished to or for use of any dcpa rtment
Of the Government and from being used in
public buildings or other public works and
to prevent the employment of alien labor
on public buildings and other public works
and in various department. of the Gov
ernment.
The House then went into committee OF
the whole, Hatch CT Missouri in the chair,
on the bill to establish a department Of
labor. An amendment was adopted strik-
ing out the provision for an assistant com
missioner of labor.
Buchanan of New Jersey moved to strike
out the clause, charging the commission TO
ascertain, whenever any industrial changes
shall make it essential, the cost OF produc-
ing articles at the time dutiable in thu
United States in he leading countries where
sU"h articles are produced by fully SprcI-
-" units uf production and under clnSsif-
Cd ton showing the different elements OF
cost or the apprn Aim&te cost OF such arti-
Gle OF nrOdu2tOn.
Randall offered an amendment to extend
the inquiry to the amount Of wages paid il
various Industries. / he Amendment wa
adopted,
Mills offered an amendment to add the
words per diem, weekly and otherwise" "
after the word ''wageS' in Randalls
amendment. He said h.: wanted to know
the difference between the productive eff
cheney of wages in Europe and this country.
Whether, if ii man in this country did 1--we
times as much pay for it, he was not t. e
cheaper worker of the two. The amend
ment was adopted.
On motion OF Mckinley, of Ohio an
amendment was adopted adding to Ram
halls amendment the words "and hours
employed per day"
The following amendments extending the
scope of the inquiry were adopted:
BY Buchanan: Whether any convict
made goods are imported into this country
md whence.
By Bland: The profits of manufact ure
Ind produce Of dutiabe articles.
By Washington, of Tennessee: The COM |
1arative cost of living in this country and |
europe.
By Millken: And the kind of living;
Brown, of Indiana, offered an amendment |
the inquiry as to the effect OF the |
protective tariff in the United States on |
he agricultural industry and especially as |
o its effect IN the Observation-Disclosures |
If farmers.
Mills offered an amendment, extending
he inquiry to an ascertalnment whether
DTUlCIeS are HOW tOubEOIlcO W u uSI0 Cblld
What effect these trusts had had in limiting
md keeping up prices.
Randall offered an amendment extending |
he inquiry All to the effect of the state Of
urrency upon the agricultural interests.
Ie was inclined to think that the currency |
ad more to do than tariff in the condition |
# affairs touching agriculture. That and |
he natural law Of demand and supply had |
educed values of corn and wheat and dairy |
PRODUCTS to an alarming extent and Coz
ress ought therefore in this Investigation |
O seek to learn whether this condition |
anne from the present tariff laws or
Ihether it came from the state OF cur
enCy.
Miliken offered au amendment requiring !
he commissioners of labor to investigate |
he Mills tariff bill and to report what |
fleet it would have on the labor and ln- |
r-ttv OF the United States on foreign III
uetrDrs and on the profits Of foreign man- |
faCturers and the markets OF American |
trInerS.
PEI ding a1t ;uu on the motion, the conn !
,ittc>: rl,." ard the IfoHs' adjourned.