Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-29
LAWS FOR LAB0RERS
Considered by the Senate in the
Form of a Bill for Furloughs
FOR PRINTING OFFICE EMPLOYEES.
A Dull Day in the House, the Calm After the
Free Silver Storm.
ANOTHER CONGRESSIONAL WEEK BEGUN

WAsHINGToN, March 2a-In the Senate
to-day bill to include Lot No. 50, Block
SO, Hot Springs, Ark, In the public reserva-
tion there, was passed. Among the bills re-
ported from committees and placed on the
calendar were the following: Appropnating
800, 200 for public building at Pierre, S.
D.; to secure the introduction of domestic
reindeer into Alaska Mr.. Morgan offered
a resolution, which was agreed to, calling
on the President for the correspondence
with the Argentine Republic on the subject
ofreciprocity, and for information as to arti-
cles exported thereto from the United States
on which the United States requires re-
duction of the customs duties imposed BY
the Argentine Republic so as to make re,
ciprocity fair and equal
The Senate bill to allow 30 days leave to
employees in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing was then taken up and discussed.
Mr.. Sherman said there was some reason
why annual turloughs should be given to
men in regular, permanent employment
under the Government, but none why it
should be given to men employed on piece
work.
why Mr.. Vest Opposed the Bill.
Mr.. Vest was opposed to the whole sys-
tenn. If it were applied to private life it
would virtually stop employment through
put the country. He wanted the professed
friends OF the workingmen-those who un-
derstand how to manipulate the labor vote
to understand that they wound find the pas
sage of the bill difficult campaign expert
ment.
Mr. Hale remarked that the workingmen
OF the country had no interest in the mattet.
They were not at all concerned in the move
ment 1t was all the other way. In passing
the bill, the Senate would not be iegislsting
in the public interest, but legislating for
class interests and against the workingmen,
After further discussion Mr.. Hale moved
to Law the bill on the table. The motion
was defeated-Yeas, 16; nays, 80 The vote
in detail was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allison, Berry, Cockrell,
Coke Gibson, of Louisiana: Hale, Hoar,
bridge, Vance, Vest, Washburn, White and
Wilson-l6.
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Bate, Butler, Call,
SaTs Dawes 1iHon pnbis Ibsnn M
Maryland; German, Hansbrough, Kyle, Nc
MILAN, Mcpherson, Morgan, Palmer, PETER,
Squire. Stanford, Stewart, Turpie, Villas and
Foorhees-3S
An Amendment Quickly Agreed to.
Mr.. Hale in order that the Senate might
see what was before 1t in the matter, and
what would be irristibly demanded, offered |
as an amendment the insertion of an addit- |
ional section making the provisions of the |
law apply to all regular employees of the |
United States whether they be EMPLOYED by |
the year, the month, the week, or the day. |
The amendment was agreed to- without |
division, and then the bill was recommitted |
TO the Committee on Education aud Labor. |
House bill to amend the act of August 6, |
1888, authorizing the construction of |
bridge across the Mississippi river at Bur- |
lington, Iowa, was passed. Senate bill to |
establish a railway bridge across the Illi-
nois river at or near Havana, Ill, was
passed.
Mr.. Vest, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported bill to fix the terms for holding |
court in the Eastern district of Texas, and
it was passed. After an executive session,
the Senate adjourned.
A Dull Day in the House.
Although the news had gone forth that
the Committee on Rules would not to-day
report resolution for the consideration of
the silver bill, the House galleries were
filled with spectators, and there was an air
of anxiety pervading the members IN the
|
House communication from Representa-
tive Joseph McKenna. of the Sixth District
of California, informing the House that he
had sent his resignation as Representative
TO the Governor of California. The COM
munIcation was spread upon the journal
The Speaker also laid before the House
communication from D. D. Donovan, of the
Sixth Ohio District stating that on page
2630 Of the Congressional Record he was
recorded as voting in the negative on Mr.
Burrows motion to lay the bill (silver) Jon the
table. He was not in the hall when his
name was called on this or any other roll
pertaining to the silver bill AS his phvsi-
clan, Dr. Hazen, had given positive orders
that be should not leave his room, he was
obliged to write instead of making an expla-
nation in person before the House. The
Speaker stated that the correction would be
made and the communication spread upon
the journal
On motion of Mr. Dockery, of Missouri,
resolution was adopted calling on the Secre-
tary of the Treasury for information as to
whether the present capacity of the mints
was sufficient to execute the authorized
coin.
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, from the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, reported the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill.
Committee of the whole. The floor was
then claimed by and awarded to the Com.
mittee Of the District of Columbia. After
the passage of several District bills the
House adjourned