The Helena independent., 1889-01-24
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Passage by the Senate of the Bill
Granting Right Of Way to the
Big Horn Railway,
STEAM AND HAND POWER
Interesting Debate in the House on the
Combinations OF Laborers and
Labor-SavIng Machinery
Undesirable Emigrants.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S.-The senate cen
sus committee reported back with amend.
ments the house bill 10 provide for taking
the eleventh and subsequent censuses
Mr.. Sherman, from the comnlttee on for
eign relations, reported two amendments
70 the diplomatic and consular approprla
tiOn bill 10 protect American interests In
Samoa. The concurrent resolution for
counting the electoral vote In joint session
Feb. IS was passed. Blodgett, n. j., ex-
planned he was paired with kiddleberger
on the tariff bill when II came toa vote,
believing Riddleberger was In favor OF the
bill, instead OF opposed 20 II, as appeared
to be the fact The senate bill grant
ing the Big Horn q southern
railroad right OF way through
Montana passed. Sherman's antitrust
bill was taken up and amended by striking
out of the first section the words "that
completes with any similar article upon
which duty Is levied by the United States
and inserting the words ''in due course OF
trade" Sherman then proposed the bill
40 over till tomorrow 10 allow Hoar 10 Of
fer amendments TO H. llOar said he
wanted 10 make IL more stringent. The
bill went over till tomorrow. The senate
took up the house bill for the relief of state
national banks In the matter OF cotton
claims. Ii occasioned considerable discus
sion, the question being Ms TO the loyalty Of
the banks at the time the cotton was taken
After some debate the bill passed.
Frye asked unanimous consent that the
special order (the Pacific railroad funding
bill shOnld be given precedence over other
special orders, agreed 10. Frye said a vote
would be taken on the bill this week. The
bill was then taken up and laid aside ms
unfinished business. Chandler gave not Ice
he would, not later than Friday, ask the
senate 10 take action ON his resolution pro-
posing an investigation of the election In
Louisiana last April. The district of Co
lumbia appropriation bill was taken up,
but not disposed of, and after an executive
session the senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
The, house went into committee OF the
whole ON the sundry civil bill. Lawler.
Illinois. offered an amendment appropriat
ing $4,000 for repairs and preserving the
custom house building at Chicago; agreed
TO. Landes, Illinois, moved 10 strike out
the clause OF the bill providing for the use
OF steam presses In the bureau Of engrav-
ing and printing and that q royalty shall
be paid not exceeding one cent per thous-
and Impressions. A long discussion ensued
as to the relative merits Of hand presses
and steam presses, during which Butter
worth said the organization Of hand plate
printers had declared war upon the steam
machines and determined they should go
II they ought 10 go on their merits let them
go, but II they ought not 20 go on their
merits, the fact that these gentlemen de-
sired them 10 20 was not the slightest rea.
son for putting them out He had been
told that the men VINO worked ON steam
presses were Kissed and annoyed while go
Ing TO and fr0m work by hand printers. IL
this were true, the secretary OF the treas
ury and superintendent OF the bureau
ought 10 be impeachtd for not vindicatlng
the rights OF man In this country
TO earn his bread. A commit
tee had been appointed by the
house TO look into the character OF the work
OF steam presses, and he was solicitl0us 10
know whether witnesses testified as they
would have testified had II not been for u
reign OF terror established In the bureau,
If such a reign had been established. Quite
n colloquy ensued between Butter worth,
Foran (Ohio) and Farquhar In which
the latter spoke for the organized ne
chanics OF the land who had, he said, be IN
the men who built and kept up the Ia
dnstries OF the country. ButterwOrth salt
he approved OF combinations of labor, bu
he did not approve OF force being used u
exclude any American from any walk In
life or calling. II was needless for
members % shut their ewes 10 the fact that
some of those organizations starved Wild
ows and orphans into compliance with
their behesis. He had not suggested the
Knights Of Labor were opposed TO the In
PRODUCTION of labor saving machinery; but
he knew some tunes misguided men, un-
der the belief that 1t was against their in
terest, had protested and fought even 10
the use Of violence against their lntr0duc
tion. All that he insisted upon
by their deliberate judgment and not
yield 10 the suggestion that II would
shorten their political life not to do So He
denied the right Of any association 10 say
to boy that he should not learn the trade
OF his father Against that right he In
Weighed. So long as huckstering politi-
clans yielded a. the trade winds set In mo-
tion here or there, just so long
would tree institutions be In dan.
ger: not because men did not know
better, but because they did not have the
courage to do better II this house had
done It's duty the children OF the men who
had made and kept this republic would not
he crowded out OF employment by the ship
loads of lazzar0nl from Europe who landed
daily on our shores. Some Immigrants
brought IN energy, thought, some money,
moral makeup and manhood, but we were
having thrown upon our shores every hour
men who represented nothing upon Gods
earth except an appetite, stomach, and an
alimentary canal. Congress had not dared
In the presence of political necessity "a
stand by the homes Of the country. liz
hoped this congress would do 80 before the
session was over, but he protested that nc
association In the world had the right u
punish him and starye him TO death be
cause he hired this man or that.
Grain, OF Texas, said he was surprised Il
see the distinguished representative OF th,
republican party, which had posed E IN,
| friend and champion Of the lAboring men
because they had done what capital has
/ done-Organized themselves for protection
| IL was by organization that they had don,
what capital had done, organized
themselves for their own pro
lection. It was by organization
that they compelled their employer
10 pay the rate OF wages they demand. an,
were able 20 obtain the present rate. farqu
har offered an amendment that none Of th'
money appropriated should be used In th
repair Of steam presses and White, New
York, an amendment fixing the royalty a
81 per thousand impressions. Pending
vote on any amendment the c0mmitte
rose and the house adjourned.
To Reclaim Arid LANDS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The house CON
mlttee on agriculture to-day authorized
! r.K.xf ~. th.. hltl o.. xrn,unfa Ia