Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-30
EIGHT HOUR CLAIMS.
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| Messrs. Caruth Of Kentucky, Dinglsy of Maine,
Covert of New York, Morrill, of Kansas, Flower
Of New York, Wade of Missouri. Reilly Of
Pennsylvania, Osborne Of Pennsylvania, and
Farquhar Of New York.
MAKE SHIFT
Mr.. Chapman (Mich. characterized the bill
as makeshift-a good enough Morgan until
after the election. It meant nothing, II would
DO nothing and in hi. opinion,
it was intended to do nothing; In! In.
Court Of Claims Congress should send them
| to the various departments for computation,
| and then Congress should make the necessary
| appropriations. He would vote for tho bill be-
cause the laboring men seem to desire 1t, but
| he thought that they should have asked for .
| stronger measure.
Mr. Brewer (Mich.) took substantially the
same view. He asserted that the men who had
worked in the navy yard had entered into con-
tract with the government to work ten hours
| and had been paid for ten hours work. To
| say that they took the work under protest and
| that they ought to be paid for the extra two
hours was too ridiculous an argument to be
| presented in any intelligent body.
THIS WAS SPECIES or CLASS LEarsLATIoN.
Too true was it that the great body of the
people today had seemingly come to the con-
| clusion that the government, in some way, had
duty to perform in supporting the people,
instead OF the people supporting the govern
ment They seemed to think that there was in this
capital citya fountain of wealth which poured
| forth greenbacks, gold and silver In untold
quantities, and that it was the duty OF Congress
| to SO legislate that this money should be di-
vided among the people, and this WAS the rea-
| son that they were asking for special legisla-
ton. There were few thousand persons In
terested in the passage of this bill, but it was
bad policy for the government to say that none
but those interested should be consulted.
While Congress dealt justly with the few let it
see to it that it did not deal uniustly with the
many. He would not encourage any person to
repudiate an honest contract which he had en-
tered into with the government
Mn. BREWER OFFERED AN AMENDMENT
providing that this act shall not be operative
whenever the Court Of Claims shall find that
the claimant performed service under any con-
tract expressed or implied and has been paid
the amount agreed upon.
THE BILL PASSED.
Mr.. Brewers amendment was adopted and
| the bill was then passed.
THE ALIEN CONTRACT LAW
The House then proceeded to the considera-
ton of the bill amending the alien contract
law.
In advocating the measure Mr.. Buchanan
chi. said that while immigration had helped
to build up the Country purchased immigra-
ton had become an evil Not only did
other countries ship their convicts and paupers
to this country, but people in this country
made contracts for the importation of
laborers, and under these contracts these
laborers came into competition with our own
home, honest labor. There were cases the
present contract labor law did not cover, and
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labor of this country to be pro-
tected against contract labor brought from
| abroad. This was the object Of the pending
legislation. There had been difficulty in en-
forcing the provisions OF the present law.
There was no requirement that the steamship
companies bringing over contract laborers
should be compelled to return them.
THIS BILL PROVIDED
for the return of the men so imported at the
expense of the steamship company. The
government had the right to de-
mand that importation into this country
should be honest and legitimate, and it was
therefore provided in the bill that where any
person or corporation encouraged any alien
labor to migrate by promises Of employment
through adver tisements such action should be
unlawful and that the alien should not be ad-
mitted to our ports.
Mr.. QUINN FOR THE BILL.
Mr.. Quinn (N.Y) earnestly advocated the
bill, believing that it would 60 far to right the
wrong which had for SO long been crush
ing down the toilers OF the land,
causing despair and misery everywhere. II
might be said that he himself was an alien.
But in one sense he was not Long and long
before his feet touched the sacred soil of this
free land his every breath was mingled with
prayer that he should some day come to the en-
joyment OF its freedom. And when he re-
nounced his allegiance to foreign princes and
potentates it was only to ratify on this
soil the oath of citizenship which no had
mentally taken long before he had seen this
land of freedom. He welcomed to this land
every honest laborer who ready to take
upon him the barb of citizenship, but he was
unalterably opposed to the internal system Of
alien contract labor.
CANADIAN LABonERs on THIS SIDE.
Mr.. Chapman (Ich.) spoke of the state of
affairs on the Michigan frontier, where 1t had
been daily sight to see the Canadian iaborers
crossing and returning with their dinner
pals, competing with American laborers and
mechanics who should be protected against
them: The bill did not prevent the acquisition
Of desirable citizens, but it did pro-
pose to keep out the alien who resided
among US, who partook Of the
benefits of our free institutions and in time of
war refused service to our government. The
existing law, strong as it was had been evaded
into law, would be evaded with similar ease
In the name of the labOring men he contended
for real relief. not for this evasion which prom
ised what it did not perform. The labor ques-
ton was n great and paramount question
Sooner or later (and tho signs Of the times
were ripe), if Congress was not wise in Its leg
islation on the labor subject, there would be
trouble.
THE DAY OF LABOR HAD COME,
the voice OF labor was raised, and if Congress
refused to listen to that voice il simply de-
clared that labor was not worthy Of the product
of it's hands.
Mr.. Neidringhaus (Mo.) was in favor of the
bill, although crit cising the clause which ex-
empts from the operation Of the existing law
regularly ordained ministers of the Gospel.
Transfers of Real Estate.
Deeds in fee have been filed as follows
A. Gaddis, jr., ct al. to A. Gaddis ct al. in
trust. pit. l. So 1913; s.. Hugh Riley to W. r.
Wilcox, lot 8, SO. 20; s.. Julian l.. Hammock
to Rebecca Garges lot 4, blk. IL, Brookland;
$500. Rose b. Crockett to Z. r. Williams, lot
+, SO. 573; 6. Same to H. Koss. lot "a. So.
9I2; 6. Thomas Moore to H. E. Rothery, pt
sub a. res. IL; s.. H. e. Rothery to Emma
E. Moore, same property; g.