The Forrest City times., 1888-02-11
Wednesday.

SKNArE.-Mr. Coke presented q me- morial. signed by mercantile men of El Paso, Tex, representing the exten- sive amount of smuggling done be- tween the border towns of Mexico and those of the United States under the Mexican Free Zone Law, and asking that . reciprocity treaty be entered into with Mexico In order to prevent such smuggling. Mir. Morgan re- marked that if Congress would pass law to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty with Mexico, which was rati fled two or three years ago, the purpose of the memorial would be substantially accomplished. Nr. Coke concurred in this opinion and added that nothing could help the commerce of this coun- try with Mexico more than the execu- tion and enforcement of that treaty. The memorial was referred to the Com mittee on Foreign Relations. Ir. Frye, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported back adversely the bill to facilitate the settlement and de- velop the resources of Alaska, and to open an overland route between the United States, Asiatic Russia and Japan. Indefinitely postponed. Among other bills reported from committees and placed on the calendar were the following: For the inspection of meats for exportation; prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink: authorizing proclama- tions by the President in certain cases and increaslng penslons of soldiers and sailors who have lost both hands Among the bills introduced and referred were the following: By Mir. Cameron. to place on the pension roll all officers and enlisted men who have served in the army or navy between 4th of March, 1861, and lst of February, 1866, at the rate of cent per day for each days service-this to be "servics pension bill," and an addition to invalid pen sions for disability"
 HousE.-Mr. Burnes of Missouri from the Committee on Appropriations re- ported the urgent deficiency bill, and It was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mir. Dockery of Missouri in- troduced a bill for the reorganization of thd inspection force of the Post-office Department. Referred. At the ex- piration of the morning hour the House proceeded to the consideration of the report of the Committee on Commerce relative to the proposed investigation of the Reading strike. MT. Clardy Of Missouri, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, said that after . careful examination of the mat ter the majority of the committee had been satisfied that the original resolu- tion offered by Mir. Anderson of Kan sas for . congressional inquiry. ought not to be adopted. He briefly sketched the origin of the railroad strike, and the subsequent strike by the Philadel- phia & Reading Coal and Iron Con- pany. whose stock, hc said. was held mainly by the stockholders of the Reading Company. There had been no testimony before the committee show ing that interstate traffic had been in- terfered with on the Reading road a week or an hour. MT. Raynor of Mary land did not believe in halfway meas ures on this subject. When monopolies combined to drive the ranks of labor to the starvation point, the labor had an equal right, by every natural law of justice, to combine and strike for living wages. He said this not in the spirit of fdemagoguism, for he had neither the arts nor aspirations of a demagogue. but because he believed 1t to be the living truth. Applause. After further debate the House passed res lution for the appointment of a special committee to investigate the cause, extent and feet of the Reading strike, and also to inquire into the difficulties existing in the Lehigh and Schuylkill coal region between the mining corpo- rations and the miners.