Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-05-25
The Riddleberger Resolution Defeat
ed For Considering the Fisheries
Treaty With Open Doors.
The Bill to Establish a Department
of Labor Passed After Some
Discussion.
The Convict Labor Bill Discussed at
Length in the House
Other Bills Passed.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-The senate this
morning passed the senate bill granting
the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Railway company right OF way through
the. Lac De Flambeau Indian reservation
in Wisconsin.
The senate then proceeded to the consid-
Grafton of executive business: The secret
session lasted thirty minutes and Riddle
berger's resolution for considering the
fisheries treaty in open session was de-
feated by vote Of 2S to q. The division
was upon strict party lines except in the
case of Senator Hale, who voted with the
democrats adversely to the Riddleberger
resolution. Upon the announcement of
the result the body went at once into legis-
lative session.
The senate proceeded to the considera.
ton of unfished business, being the house
bill to establish a department of labor and
Mr.. Reagan addressed the senate in oppo-
sition. His speech was brief and at its
conclusion he moved to substitute bill
creating department of industry. On a
vote on the substitute there were yeas
and % nays (less than quorum) and then
Mr. Reagan withdrew his substitute. Vari-
GUS amedments to the bill, principally cor
rections in phraseology, were offered by
Mr.. Edwards and agreed to. The bill was
then passed. The bill provides for de-
partment of labor, the general design and
duties of which shall be to acquire and
diffuse among the peopleo useful informa-
ton on subjects connected with labor in
the most general and comprehensive sense
Of that word and especially upon its rela-
tion to capital, hours of labor, earnings of
laboring men and women and means of
promoting their material, social, intellect
ual and moral prosperity. The personnel
is to consist of a commissioner, to be ap-
pointed by the president and with the ad-
vice and consent of the senate, who is to
hold the Office for four years and receive
salary of $5, ,OOO;a chief clerk, stenographer,
various minor clerks, copyists and mes
sengers.
message from the president, returning
without his approval the senate bill for the
relief of L.J. Warden, was laid before the
senate. The bill directs an allowance of
1926 to Mr.. Warden, recently postmaster at
Lawrence, Kan, for extra clerk hire from
July l, 1852, to June 80, 1884. The grounds
OF the veto are that allowances to post
masters for clerk hire are fixed by the
post0fdce department.; that in this case
$1,000 was allowed; that applications for
additional allowance were twice declined;
that the expenses were therefore incurred
at the pOstmaster's own risk, and that the
passage of special acts in such cases would
have a dangerous tendency to encourage
postmasters to substitute their own judg-
ment for that of the department.. Referred
to committee on privileges and elections.
Among bills passed were the following:
The senate bill to incorporate a national
academy of dental science.
The senate bill increasing the appropria-
tlGn Minn tor y public building at Winona,
The senate bill to amend the law making
annual appropriations to provide arms and
equipments for militia, increaAing the
amount to 100000. Adjourned,
The House.
In the house the floor was accorded to
the commissioner of LABOR, and O'Neill of
Missouri, chairman of the committee, called
up the bill to confine the sale OF products
of convict labor to the state in which they
are produced. Mr.Rodgers of fArkansas ad-
dressed himself to the constitutional prin-
cipies involved in the measure and argued
that congress had not the power to lay an
embargo and pass a law which provided
for non-intercourse between states of the
union. Mr.. Butterworth of Ohio said the
main hackers Of the law were not laboring
men. This was the first time he had ever
known monopoly to join hands with labor
in order to make criminals of country
gentlemen of elegant leisure. Some gentle
men seemed to feel sympathy for the
criminals. He felt little anxiety about
men who bore the burden of caring. for and
supporting these criminals. Mr.. O'Neill
asked what labor the gentleman sought to
support in his tariff speech. Mr.. Butter
worth replied that he was trying to pro-
tec American labor against foreign labor.
Hewas not attempting to tax laborers at
home in order to support laborers on the
other side in idleness. Mr.. O'Neil inquired
whichthe gentleman preferred to remain