Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-27
Labor After a Long Wait Has Its
 Inning.
ARBITRATION BILL PASSED
By the House-Senate Decides to Pay Part of the Sugar
 Bounty.

" 0AohlN01ONt EcOs ZOs-ltooi uto AtS
 innings in tue house today with the result
 that an arbitration bill, recommended by tue leaders of all the railway labor or
 ganizations in the country, by Carroll D.
 Wright, the commissioner of labor, andin
 part by Attorney General Olney, was sent 10 the senate for it's action. The bill was
 reported from the committee on labor by
 Mir. Erdman, democrat, of Pennsylvania, who explained it's provisions in brief
 statement to the house, and answered ques- tions that were put to him by various
 members with regard to it's principal opera tions.
 The bill provides for the appointment of
 a board of arbitration of three persons to decide all controversies between common
 carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees which cannot be ad-
 justed by mutual arrangement, and makes
 lhe award of the board enforcible in the
 United States courts acting as courts of equity.
 1t was stated by Mir. Erdman that in or
 der to make the award effective the various labor organizations introduced had agreed
 to become incorporated concerns, and as
 such subject to liability for damages for
 failure 10 carry out the terms of the award.
 The bill was advocated by MT. Hepburn,
 republican, Iowa, and various members of
 the committee on labor ,and was opposed by MT. Bartlett, democrat, of New York, and
 MT. VanVoorhis, republican of New York. The opposition, however, was ineffective, and after being slightly amended in com mittee of the whole the bill was reported to the house with favorable recommendation and passed without a division.
 bill was also passed authorizing the bureau of labor to issue bi- monthly bulle-
 tins, in editions of 10, 900 each, upon sub
 jects investigated by the bureau.
 g-t- admitting free of duty articles imported
 for exhibition at the exposition to be held
 in Baltimore in 1897 in celebration of the centennial of the incorporation of the city.
 Mir. Catchings reported from the com
 mittee on rules an order setting apart to-
 day's session until 8 O. clock for the consid-
 eration of measures called up by the committee on labor; that the session Wednesday, which shall begin at Il o'clock, until 5 o'clock be given up to the committee on public buildngs-appropria ton bills, all matters of privilege and mo- tions to suspend the rules and pass bills being secured against the operation of the ardar. The resolution was agreed to. At8s90o, ciecK ,'in pusspasee4af the. loxes ar previously agreed upon, tle public bus3aess was suspended, and for the re- 5naf661efsof the days session the house lh- teued toSniogies upon the life and services Of the late Representative Philip Sidney Post of Illinois. =sszs
  son and Lane of Illinois, Grout of Yer mont, Bynum of Indiana,, .Grosvenor of Ohio, Clark and Wheeler of Alabama, Broderick of Kansas, Deliver of Iowa, Stockdale of Mississippi, Boutelle of Mnine, Eoldzer of Illinois and Lucas of South Dakota.
 ! And then at 530 clock, in accordance with 8 resolution as further mark of respect, the house adjourned until tonor- TOW at Il o'clock.
 ls IN THE SENATE.
 S The progress made by the senate today in Connection with the civil service appropri- Ation bill was not very appreciabe, as only Two of the amendments reported from tue Committee on appropriations were dis bosed of. These were, to be sure, of the Kind that were sure to be disputed. The First of them was on the subject of the pro- fection of public lands from timber depre- Aations. The house had appropriated ESQ., boo for that purpose. The appropriations committee had recommended reduction 10 s60 ,000, and MT. Berry, democrat, oi Arkansss had proposed an amendment of f120, 900. The discussion Of that question Sccupied nearly two hours, and the quos- lion was finally decided in favor oi the Sommittee-30t to 25.
 { The next amendment occupied practi- eaily the rest of the days session and was decided only at the moment of taking g, fecess. This was the proposition to pay to She sugar producers of tue United States 3he full bounty up to August, 1894, when {te new tariff bill went into effect-those who had not yet received it, S23S, 239, and s.1O cent per pound bounty on all sugars Above 80 per cent polariscope test pro- duced up to June 30, 1885.
 Various side issues were raised. One wac Sn appropriation by MT. McLaurin of Mis- tissippi, who was opposed to the bounty, 10 pay it, if paid at all, in silver coin; one by MT. Wolcott, republican, of Colorado, 10 purchase 4,O00 ,000 ounces of silver for eight months and to coin 1t from time to lime; one by MT. Mitchell, republican, of Oregon, to pay bounty of 5 cents per And one by MT. Hoar, republican, of Mas Bach usetts, to make an exception against the sugar cane producers of Louisiana on Ahe ground that their senators, by voting for the tariff act of 1894, rejected and re- pudiated the sugar bounty.
 All these side issues were either ruled out as not in order or were voted down, aud then the question was taken squareIy on the committee amendments. The first clause of it-for the bounty up to August, IS94-was agreed to-yeas 46, nays 20; and the second clause, for bounty for tte year up to June 30, 1895, was agreed to-yeas 36, nays 25. .-
 ! An amendment was also agreed to, on
 motion of Mir. Frye, republican, of Maine, providing a retired list for officers of the revenue cutter service. This was declared 10 be out of order-46 to IS, and was then Adopted without division.
 The joint resolution in reference to the
 Mexican free zone, suspending the opera liou of the law permitting the transporta- iion Of merchandise in bonds through the United States to the free zone between