Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-29
ioers themselves and will read just a
few of them:

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~ PRESENT posed. ton.
Chemicals. ..32Sl to Is IL equal ~
Rsrthen and slasswre. SO 5Sto PIE equal 7Ss
Steel rails to 1l00 ..
So I might 60 on. Oaly look stis. The
reduction is only Is FER cent. The lsrgest
reduction is on the wooden schedule, SO 81
to 1859. [Cte srs snd applause
This is the off ,ial statement. A voice
What is the re iuction on lead?
The reduction on lead is about three
fourths of cent. will tell you. 1t is
from two cents to one and one fourth
cents. Now I have said that no man can
roint ont reduction that is going to in-
ieifers with the legitimate basiness Of en-
ployer or wages Ct enp'oJe. Why we
framed the bill in the interests of labor.
GoFF's PECULIAR IDEAS.
don't know where General Golf gets
his ideas from, but he has made some
statements that are certainly very pecu.
liar. I krow he is mistaken or he would
rot say them. He ssid, among other
things, that there was q bill passed by
Congress Grating board Of arbitration
between lsbo. and laboI's employees, and
that President Cleveland vetoed the
bill. Why the fact is tie President
sent q spscial me5page to Congress
asking them to piss the bill, and further
than that the bill passed the House Of Rep
resentstives, whsrs there was Dsmo.
cratic majority, and the last time it was
heard Of, 70 my knowledge, it was sleeping
the sleep that knows no waking in the
Senate, where there was Republican ma
iority. [Ch ere. So with tie bill abaut
contract labor. If it passed the Senate at
all it has passed since 1 left down there.
DEMOCRACY THE FRIEND OF LABOR.
+ have not been paying the closest atte1-
tion TO Washington these last few weeks,
but I can soy that President Clsve-
land never vetosd, directly or
indirectly bill for tie benefit Of labor.
GCheers and prclange1 applause. Atout
half of the labor bills we TaSsed on the
Democratic side of CorgNss-of course
our Republican friends couldn't vote
against them very we'll and be consistent
with the laws of labor's rights, but what l
want 10 know is why didn't they bring
them in. Why didn't they introduce them
if they are what they alone profess to be
the friends of labor. Cheers. If they
don't vote down these labor bills they
over in thu Senate lay them to
rest forever in c-adls kept
there for comforting labor legislation.
and once the bill is laid in that cradle 1t
is never heard of again. Cheers. I taid
nothing about that bill passed during the
war to which G sneral Golf refers in regard
to contract labor. 1t was pest in q time
when there possibly msy have been some
excuse for it, existence, but had the i'm
preston that it remained unrspsaled until
the Forty-sjghth Congress. General Goff
says it was repealed in 1868. If he fas
found that to be the case Will net contra
dict him, but / want 10 say this, and
want to say som etbirg that do know ard
which will vouch fer sfore this audience,
and that is this: The first House Of Rep
rasenta!iyes that ever had q Committee on
Labor, was tie House Of Representatives Of
which John G. Carlisle was Spes ksr.
Cheers
4 CLINCHER.
General Golf has read from the Wheeling
REGISTER of oldeu times, when somebody
elss was editingit.- [Cheers.and laughter. ]
When it Yves under other auspices, crit.
Ching me for voting Cor in. G Carlisle,
ins tead Of Samuel J. Randall. Ny action
there was justified bslieve, when it was
found that John G. Carlisle was to be and
was thu first Speaker Of the House of Rep
resentatives TO appoint Committee oa
Labor. Applause. Now suppose that
law was repealed in 1868. For the sake of
argument / am willing to co1eade that
such was thu case. Cheers from the Re-
publican side. But, my fellow citizens,
il still remained lawful to import them
mt | 1893, when DemocratieI House Of
Reprsse .tatives, uader John g. Carlisle,
framed bill and passed it, after which
they sent it to the Sensts->a law that is
to-day in vogue making it unlawful to
import contract labor into this country,
"a voice-'Wha5 did the Senate do
with is?"1
Well tbs S nate waitel until after Gro
YER Cleveland YVES elected and then they
pissed it. It is tue as General Golf says,
Utes'er A. Arthur signe1 it, bat notwith-
star ding all that it was psssed after G o.
YER Cleveland had been elected President
of the United SAFES in tie short session
of Conaress tia. followed that event. The
Republicans ssw great iiehtin November,
1884. They heard something drop and
they took up this bill that We had passed
moaths before and concluded to vote for
ITS adoption also, and it has been law
ever since. They heard something drop
nna thsu ara nninn To haar aorne thi nn elas