Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-24


sundry civil hill allowing the rrincely sum of
! cent per thousand impressions royalty
for the Of these presses, aud the matter of
amending this clause was what started the
oratory
Landes of Illinois said he was aware that
war was being made upon the steam presses
but could the government afford to drive out
the presses for which 10000 had been paid
and To incur an expense of Sl0O,GO0 in order
to add 100 employees TO the force of the bureau
Foran of Ohio said that steam presses were
not used by any country which desired and
intended to put i'll circulation a first-class cir
culating medium Steam machinery could
| not print tirst-class steel engraving
Butterworth of Ohio said that if it was
| true that the work of the steam presses was
of an inferior character, and could be easily
counterfeited, the presses should be promptly
got rid of But the superintendent of the
bureau denied this. He had been told-he did
not know what truth there was in it-that the
| men who worked on the steam presses were
Kissed and annoyed while going to and from
work by the hand printers. Ii this were true
the secretary of the treasury and the super
| intendent OF the bureau ought 10 be int
| peached for not indicating the right of Il
man in this country TO earn his bread. Zap
| plause.l Butterworth wanted to put himself
| In this position-that not by his vote should
| there be n change in the presses at the hehest
or dictation of any combination, society, or
| collection of individuals. He believed in
standing by the blacksmith, not because he
was blacksmith, but bscngse he was man
We had pretty nearly reached a condition of
things in this country when nobody has the
right to discharge an employee daughter. ]
Foran-And am glad of it.
Butterworth--I recommend to the knights
of Labor to establish a whpping-post in front
of the capitol and lick about twenty-five mem
bers of the house ON the last Saturday in each
month. [LaughterL l hope that in Gods
providence the time will come when our man
hood will assert itself and we will not sneak
like pOltroons las | have seen the house dc
over and over again at the dictates of some
gentlemen in the galleries [Applausel
have compromised my manhood once or
twice. / hope that the next time do il
shall be psralyzed where | stand [Appausel
Farquhar of New York said that there was
an employee in the bureau who had improved
the steam presses and had never received a
cent for his improvements. He [Farquharl
declared that the man dare not go into court
20 get his rights for fear he would lose his
place That was the class of tyranny that
was used by the heads of departments here
He defied any man in the house TO SAY other
wise than that the organized mechanics of the
land had been the men who had built up and
kept up the industries of the country.
Butterworth said that he approved of the
combination of labor; but he did not approve
Of force being used to exclude any American
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would say to his friend from New York
lParquharl that it was not in him, nor could
God Almighty put it in him, to be more de
voted TO the sons of labor, whoever and
wherever they were, than he [Butterworthl
was But he denied the right of any associa-
ton to say TO his boy that heshould not learn
the trade of his father. Ii this house had
done its duty the children of the men who
had made and kept the republic would not be
crowded out of employment by ship-loads of
lazzaroni from Europe who landed daily on
our shores. lApplause.l Here was the real
trouble. The trouble was not with irnmigra-
ton An immigrant brought in energy,
thought, some money, moral makeup, man
hood; but we were having thrown upon our
shores every hour men who represent nothing
upon Gods earth except an appetite a stom-
ach and an aliInentary canal. Laughter and
applause Our system of immigration
tended to dilute our moral makeup, our so
cial makeup, our political makeup, until we
were now the mere bidders for the vicious
who held the balance of power Applause !
There was only one way to bring general
prosperity-tbat was the largest liberty to a
man to fight the battle of life as best he
could, untrammelled by a system which pre-
vented him from enjoying that right ZAP
plause.l
Grain of Texas said that the Republican
party had posed the advocate and the
champion of the rights of the laboring men
Of the country. To-day, after the election
In which the laboring men by casting their
ballots for the Republican candidates Ind
elected them, one of the most distinguished
representatives of that party ON the floor of
the house, was found attacking the laboring
men, because forsooth, they had done what
capital had done-organized themselves for
their own protection
Blount of Georgia said that ne was I'm
willing that the use of the steam presses
should be- continued, not because of any die
tum from the Knights Of Labor, but because
he believed that the interests of the people
were involved In the soundness of the cur
rency that was to circulate among them.
Land Irrigation Scheme for New Mexico.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. A-The house
committee on agriculture yesterday agreed to
report favorably Delegate Joseph's bill to pro-
mote the interests of agriculture by irrigation
and to encourage the settlement of the arid
lands in the territory of New Mexico. The
bill Incorporates the tornado and FL Paso res
ervoir and Canal company, to build, operate,
and maintain series of storage reservoirs
and canals for the irrigation Of arid or desert
lands on the Tornado Del Muerto" and in the
Messilla aud Rio Grande valleys of southern
New Mexico and Texas, and provides that foi
every ten miles of canal the government shall
patent to the company $4,000 acres of land al
ten cents per acre in cash.
crotCHEN nOvvN ON DlITY