The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-24
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON. January 23.-The
House went into committee of the whole
on the sundry civil bill.
LAWYER, of Illinois, offered an amend
ment appropriating $50, 900 for repairs
on and preserving the Custom House
building at Chicago, Illinois. Agreed
to.
Landes, of Illinois. moved to strike
out the clause in the bill providing for
the use of steam presses in the bureau
of engraving and printing, and That a
royalty shall be paid not exceeding l
cent per 1000 Impressions.
A long discussion ensued az to the
relative merits of hand presses ami
steam presses for the work, during
which Butterworth said the organiza-
ton of hand plate printers had declared
war upon steam machines. and had
determined they should 60. If they
ought to 60 it should be on their mer-
its, but if they ought not to 90 on their
merits, the fact that these gentlemen
had decided they had to 90 was no the
slightest reason for putting them out.
He had been told that the men who
WOIk Oh steam presses were
KISSED AND ANNOYED
in going 10 and from their work, by
hand plate printers. If this is true,
the Secretary of the Interior and the
board OF the bureau ought to be i'm
peached for not maintaining the right
of a man in this country to earn his
bread. A committee had been ap
pointed to LOOK into the character of
the work OF steam presses and he was
solicitious to know whether they had
testified as to whether such a reign of
terror had been established in the
bureau.
Quite a colloquy ensued between
Butterworth, Foran and Fsguh,r in
which the latter spoke for the organized
mechanics of the land. who had been
the men, he said who kept up
THE INDUSTRIES OF THE COUNTRY.
Butterworth said he approved of q
combination of labor, but he did not
believe force should be used to exclude
any American from any walk in life or
calling. 1t was needless for the mem
bers to shut their eyes to the fact that
some of those organizations starved the
widows and orphans into compliance
| with their behests. He had not suR-
gested that the Knights of Labor op
posed the Introduction OF labor saving
machinery. but he knew that sometimes
misguided men, under the belief that it
was against their interests, protested
and fought, even to violence, against
their introduction. The members
should stand by their delibsrats judg-
ment and not yield to q suggestion
which would shorten their political
life. He denied the right of any person
to say to this boy that he should not
learn
liLEARs THE TRADE OF HIS TATHxR.
Against that :trade he inveighed. 80
long as huckstering politics yielded to
the trade-winds. set in motion here OF
there, Just 50 long would the free insti-
tutions be in danger, not because men
did not know better, but because they
had not the courage to do better, il
they thought better. II this House
had done its duty the children of the
men who made and kept this Republic
would not now be crowded ont
by the Europeans, who landed daily
on our shores-an immigration which
had not brought in the energy, the
thought, the money or the moral
makeup Of manhood; but We are
having thrown upon our shores every
hour men who represented nothing on
Gods earth except an appetite, q
stomach and an alimentary canal /.
Neither House of Congress had dared
| to stand in the political necessity by
the homes of the country. He hoped
this Congress would do so before the
! session was over, but he protested that