Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-24
House.

Immediately after rea ling the journal the
House went into the committee of the whole
On the sundry civil appropriation bill. The
amer ndment appro prIating $1,000 for the
establishment and maintenance of a refuge
station at or near Point Barrow, Alaska, was
adopted
Landes of Illinois raised the point of order
against the clause of the bill providing that
for the use OF steam presses in the bureau of
printing and engraving, royalty shall be
be paid not exceeding cent per thousand
impressions.
The point was overruled and Landes
moved TO strike out the clause. McAdoo of
of New Jersey said the currency printed on
the steam pr, sses hen compared with that
of other nations looked simply disgraceful.
1t was so easily counterfelted that its use
was simply tempting the criminal ingenuity
of the world.
Long of Massachusetts said that Chief
Graves, one Of the best officers in the public
service, stated on his honor that the nse of
steam presses saved the government
sl02 600 year.
Butterworth of Ohio said if it was true
that the work of steam pressts was SO infer
ior and could easily be counterfeited, they
should be got rid of The organization of
hand plate printers had declared war upon
thuse machines and declared they should go.
The fact that the gentlemen desired them
to go sas not the slightest reason for putting
them out
lie, had been told that men who worked
steam presses were hissed and annoyed while
going to and from work by hand printers. If
true the secretary OF the treasury and super
intende 1t of the bureau ought to be mpeach-
ed for not vndicating the right man to earn
bis bread. Applause. This was still
America and his boy had the right to work
without asking any organization. If he
could not he Butterworth} was in favor
OF revolution. Applause He had been
informed that as steam pressmen went 10
work the dead march was whistled- If true
it was an uUspeakable outrage con mltted
within the shadow of the capitol He be
lieved in standing by the blacksmith and
carpenters not because he was a blacksmith
or carpenter but because he was man. A
committee had been appointed by the House
to look in o the character of the work of
steam pre- sses. He was solicitous TO know
whether witnesses haG testified as they would
had it not been for the reign of t, rror estab-
hshed in the bureau if such a reign had
been established.
Foran.-By Graves or by men who have
the right to discharge.
Butterworth--We have pretty nearly
reached a condition when nobody has right
to discharge. Laughter
Forsn-And am glad of it.
Bntterworth--I recommend to the knights
of Labor to establish a whipping post in
frnnt of the Capitol and lick about % mem
bers of the House on the last Saturday in
each month. Laughter. hope in Gods
nrovidance the time will come when our
manhood will assert itself and we will not
sneak like potroons as have seen the
House do over and over again at the dictates
of some gentlemen in the galleries Ap-
plsuse. have compromised my manhood
once or twice. hope the next time do it
| shall he psralyzed where | and. Ap-
plause We have witnessed enough of the
vassalage of the Senate and House and mem
bers of the government in various places.
McAdoo of New Jersey said he would re-
mind the gentleman from ohio without at
tempting to defend the eIcesses of combi-
nations and organizations of labor that
those powerful organizations were unknoun
until capital of the country had organized
Fsrquhsr offered an amendment that none
of the money Appropriated shall he used in
the repair Of steam presses, and White of
New York an amendment fixing the royalty
at 81 per thousand impressions
Pending a vote the committee rose and
the House adjourned.