Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
A LIMITED LOCKOUT
The Toilers Invade the Capt.
tOl, Where a Really Good
Time Is Had in
LAUGHING ATLAWMAKERS.
Government Printing Employees Com
pare Themselves to
STEEL WORKERS Ar HOMESTEAD.
Three Thousand Ealf Days Of Work Lost
to Men and Women.
AN ALLIANCE LEADER In HOT WATER
LAUGHING ATLAWMAKERS.
STEEL WORKERS AT HOMESTEAD.
Three Thousand Ealf Days of Work Lost
to Men and Women.
AN ALLIANCE LEADER In HOT WATER
rrRox A STAFF coRRKsroNDENT.l

rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, Aug L-If there was
not quorum of the House present at pray
ers, this morning, there certainly waa of
the locked-out employees of the Government
Printing Office They swsrmed into the
galleries like colony of bees, foremen, com
positors, pretty girls who feed presses and
work in the bindery, representing all
classes and conditions of the printing and
bookbinding industry, and all anxious to
know when the vast machinery of their
Office. blocked as o result of the work Of q
flibustering minority, would begin to move
again.
No explanation of their identity was
necessary. Everyone knew they were the
employees of the great printing house in
Swampoodle, and that they had come by
hundreds to impress upon the House their
condition Of enforced idleness. For the
first time in the history of that institution
it was closed for want of money to run it.
A Novelty for a Little While.
1t was truly a novelty, but 1t was one
which the men and women most interested
were content to enjoy but for a little while.
In jocular way they compared themselves
to the 1ocked-out Homesteaders, and at the
office in Swampoodle few hundred of those
who did not come to the Capitol INDUCED
in burlesoues of battles between the militia
and locked-out printers, the tying-up of
fractions militiamen by the thumbs, and
other similar shams, ending by forcing the
painter of the building, whom they called
tine public painter" to march at their
head while they paraded to the tune of
sTramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are
Marching"
At the Capitol they watched the proceed
ings with an intense interest, which broke
Into applause when General Harry Bing-
ham had concluded his denunciation of an
obstructing minority whose conduct had re-
suited in stoppage of Government busi-
hess Hr Holman had sent to the clerk a
3esolution extending the appropriations of
last year to and including August a.
Reed Quoted to Silence Hopkins.
4 Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, had interposed
Hhls objection that nothing was in order ex-
cept vote on the question on which the
previous question had been ordered, which
was the Worlds Fair amendment TO the
sundrv civil bill. Speaker Crisp had quoted
q decision of ex-Speaker Reed, which effect
ually sflenced Mr.. Hopkins objection, and
General Bingham had made an impassioned
speech of five minutes on the Holman joint
resolution. As he sat down he was ap-
plauded loudly by Democrats and Republic
cans who favor the Worlds Fair appropria-
tioh. and the printers who crowded the gal
leries Joined in until the hand-clapping
suallsd m n thunderous roar
Speaker Crisp pounded angrily with his
gavel and shouted for order, and when he
could make himself heard declared he
would clear the galleries if the of1ense were
repeated. "Buck" Kilgore shouted, Put
them OUT" and Judge Montgomery, of
Kentucky, stood up in his place, shook his
fist e1citedly at the galleries, and echoed
Kilgore with 'tPut them out, put them out:
They are all Government employees and
have no business here" as though Congress
owned the place, and as though the printers
could not go where they please when locked
out by an act of Congress.
The Wheels Soon Turn Once More.
After a brief and sharp discussion of Is
minutes on each side the joint resolution
was adopted and the printers promptly left
the galleries empty, knowing the wheels
would soon begin to turn again. The reso-
luton went to the Senate and was there at
once adopted 1t went forthwith to the
President and was Immediately signed, and
at o'clock the :, 900 employees who had lost
upward of half day were again busily at
work.
Aside from this loss the only inconveni-
ence resulting from this extraordinary cpl
sode was the failure of members to receive
the Sunday morning issue of the Congress
siossdI Record, which still lay at the printing
Office this afternoon for want OF drivers and
messengers to deliver it
General Bingham charged that Mr.. Hol-
man and his fellow flibusters advised and
connived at the absence of members for the
purpose of breaking a quorum. This is
literally true. There are in town upward
OF 80 members over and above quorum,
and upon an understanding with their lead
ers they absent themselves deliberately.
Upon a call of the House quorum is no
sooner secured than it immediately melts
away. A more contemptuous defiance of the
Democratic principle of the rule of the ma
jority was never seen. In another day and
in another country, such rebellion against
the numerical majority would have called
for the headsman's ak 1t was impossible
at any time to-day to secure o quorum ex-
cepting upon q call of the House, and an
adjournment was therefore taken at 2 o clock
till tomorrow.
watson's Foot l. in II.
1t is pretty evident from the temper
shown BY the Watson Investigating Com
mittee, and the rather one-sided rulings of
of Chairman Boatner, that the Alliance
leader in the House will not get off un-
scathed for his assertion in his campaign
textbook that members reeled about the
aisles in drunken state, and addressed the
Chair while in condition of maudlin in
toxication. The committee held almost
continuous session from 10 o'clock till to-
dav. and practically closed the case, unless
it be decided to compel Mr. Watson, if
possible, to divulge the names of others
than Judge Cobb, of Alabama, to whom he
referred in his campaign fight If that be
done, probably the inquiry may be greatly
prolonged, to permit those others to clear
themselves The fact, however, that the
others have not come forward like Judge
Cobb and admitted that the structures of
Mr.. Watson were directed at them, indi-
Gates that they are not sure of exculpation,
and that they prefer to remain incognito.
The committee is composed of three
Democrats, one Republican, Grout, of New
Hampshire, who has agreed with the Demo-
Gratis il everything, and Jerry Simpson,
Alliance, who has acted as counsel for Wat
SON II is certain that with the exception
of simpson the committee will unite upon q
report unfavorable to Watson, but just how
far IL will 90 the committeeman themselves
have not vet decided. They will probably
report that the sweeping charges of Watson
are practically without foundation, and
leave it to the House to decide upon the
nenaIty for the misstatements Altogether,
.-;nr. Investigation Without its