The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-08
DOINGS OF CONGRESS
A Spirited Debate in the Senate
Over the Labor Troubles.
PROTECTION SYSTEM ROASTED
Senator Palmers Speech-Toorhees Gives I
Few Plain Facts Regarding the Evils Of
Protec,iol-House Proceedings.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, July 7.-Palmer's speech
in the Senate today on the resolutions for
inquiry into the battle at Homestead was
remarkable for the advanced position taken
by the Illinois senator in maintaining the
right of factory and railroad employees to
continuous employment at reasonably fair
rates OF compensation.
Palmer said the presence of a Pi1kerton
armed force at Homestead was in contempt
of the authorities OF the state OF Penrsyl-
vania. 1t was difficult for en- American
citizen, wh5ther in the right or wrong. to
submit to being driven by an armed force.
he maintained, however, that the citizens
OF Homestead are in The right as, according
TO the principles of the law which would
hereafter be applied to the solution OF such
trouble, they had right to be there.
Those large manufacturing establish
ments would have TO be regarded as hold
ing property subject to co-relative rights,
without whose services their properly
would be utterly valueless; and that 1t
was only conceded to them the right TO
reasonable profit on the capital invested in
the enterprise. He maintained, further
more, that having spent their lives In that
particular service they had the right to in
sist on permanency OF employment and also
on reasonable compensation for their SER
vices.
While conceding the right OF the capital
ist to control his property and to reason.
able reward for his investment, he claimed
that the laborer had right to permanent
employment during good behavior. OF
course the laborer was compelled to SUBJ
NIT to business principles, and where the
| profits were small the parties would have
TO divide the LOGS. and where they were
large they would have to be divided. That,
he maintained was the law today, because
law was the perfection of reason.
VOORHEES, SPEECH
was made up principally of an attack on
the Republican party and the policy of
protection.
TO WHICH HE AscRIBED THE LABOR RIOTS
all over the country.
Voorhees, said the Repu blican party bad
/ said the great manufacturing barons had
to be protected against foreign competition
in order to pay higher wages. Had they
! done 500 Carnegie got the protection Of 80
per cent. on iron and moro than 20 per
cent. on steel, and instead of paying work
men higher wages he had notified them Of
q reduction from II TO 20 per cent. The
beneficiary tariff system was responded 10
by the employment of an armed mob of
Pinkerton's nearest mercenaries and some
of them killed were. killed by workmen in
self defence, and his only regret was that
Carnegie himself had not been at the head
of the squad instead Of
sKuLKlEG IN HIS SCOTTISH CASTLE.
Hale in replying criticised the House for
converting such grave matter into par
tisan politics, defended the Republicans
from responsibility for the conflict, and
assumed for the party and policy of protec-
tion the credit Of building up such great
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Homestead aud Bethlehem. Penn.
Finally resolutions for the Investigation
of the Homestead troubles were referred
to the committee on contingent.
| The conference reports were agreed to
on the Indian and postCffice appropriation
bills and on the bill as to the funding act of
Arizona.