The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-02
4 al. ARE DIVIDED AS no DE-
DUCTIONs. a
TESTIMONY IS FINISHED,
AND THE qoMmrrTEE DECIDED
NOT TO hear THE ATT0R-
+. NEYsy ARGUE. j.
HELD AN EXECUTIVE SESSION,
But Could Not Get Together as to
What They Desired to
Report.

Inc taxing OF testimony In the labor
| bureau investigation closed last night,
and, after short executive session, it
| was apparent that, while the commit
| tee was practically agreed as to the
facts developed, 1t was not as unani-
nous in its deductions from those facts,
and the decision Of the committee was
7 to meet again at the call Of the chair
| man to prepare report.
There seems little doubt that the re-
port will sustain the chair that the
| bureau has gone out of It's propec
/ sphere not only. as designed by the
legislature which created it, but as
the custom of the former commission
ers OF the department. guided It.
AS to the charge that the "Purchas-
ing Power of Cold was a political
document, and designed so to be, there
Will no doubt be a difference Of opin-
Ion, which may even result in the pre-
sentation of minority and majority
reports, although the committee has
hopes OF being able to present unan-
lmous report, believing that this plan
would secure more favorable considera-
! ton at the hands Of the senate
Every member of the committee was
/ present when Attorney Erwin arrived,
| commissioner Powers Was resumed
where it was left eff Tuesday night.
Inc afgumept over the admissibility
| OF the books of other state departments
was again taken up, and Mr.. Evans
saio II was purely to show the good
Ialln OF the commissioner Mr. Erwin
also read his previous objection. SEN
ator MeHale- wanted to know If the re-
! ports offered were on the Purchasing
! rover OF Gold. =. Mr.. Evans said some
OF them We're on The Purchasing Pow
er of Money" The committee voted
| against the admission of the books.
| The question of strikes was not
| treated In the. report because just be-
/ fore the compilation was ready it was
announced that the federal bureau or
| statistics had almost ready an iderI-
| teal publication. The title of the firsr
part was adopted in view OF the fact
| that the Massachusetts and other de-
| partments had It, except that the term
gold" was used instead of money
on account Of the greater length Of
time covered by the reports.
On cross examination Mr. Powers ex-
| planned that his, settlement of the
| BeVans bill did not appear as such on
the auditors record. 1t was Jumped
into an account of. his own for express
charges, postage, ETC., paid by him
|, from time to time. -a -..
Does not the law Of this state re-
| qunS YOU 10 puDlls5n STATISTICS. or
strikes in this state without regard
| to other states?" asked Mr. Erwin
Yes, but 1 do not understand that
| we must publish a report on strikes
! every two years, or until it is properly
i co1tated.s - 1t would be an impossibility,
even if We had $3.50, 900 a year, to make
! literal enforcement of the law"
| Under what head do you find the
| authority for the book p "a
| 1t Is a price investigation; IS says it
| Is In Its. first ten pages; it shows the
reward of agricultural toll; it is a
wage as we'll as a price statistic"
| A discussion as to what labor in
! c1uded enSued, Mr.. Powers declaring
! his inclusion of brain as we'll as hand
labor, capital and employer as we'll
! as the employed" It had to determine
| whether capital or labor, If either.
was getting an undue share Of the
! product.
Mr.. Erwin intimated that the work
! of the department had been in science
! and philosophy and not Sin figures Of
| basic facts for statesmen to study
Senator McHale at this point inter
| rupted the examination to ask If the
! book was not intended to show that
the purchasing power Of gold had re-
! NAMED substantially the same while
other money Went UP or down. The
! question was answered affirmatiVely.
! but with notifications
Was not that its chief purpose"
Not the prime purpose"
Then it's my mistake, but it's recur-
| renee as an incident was so FREQUENT I
! thought it was7the burden of the book"
Factory Inspector Mayo was brought
back and testified that out of eight
months workih he spent 134 days in fac
| tory inspection He accounted for his
| other time opdvarious lines of work.
- In 1894 he Spents195 days in factory
/ inspection and inspected 119 factories.
| He did other work the balance of the
! time, including the enforcement of the
/ child labor law. He said the factory
| law was enfoEceds in his district to the
! best of his abiBtyyl -
I Mr.. MayOzwent over the only printed
report Of factory inspection available
! and said out Of s261 places inspected
| there were 1873 they knew in which the
| law had not been complied with.
Mr.. Mayo thought it was quite as i'm
! portant to do work for society and hui
mainly as to inspect factories. 81
Walter A. Hammond was recalled and
corrOborated Mr. Powers testimony.
Miss Alice Bevans was recalled and
| said she thought her former testi-
mony about receiving SIS from Mr..
Powers for Farmer Hayseed was cor
rect. The receipt for $40 which was
in evidence was for other private work
| and not for Farmer Hayseed. She re-
| eeived $50 from the state for Farmer
| Hayseed; that was pay in full for her
work on that document. Miss Bevans
gave fiat contradiction to Mr.. Powers
statement as to reimbursing the state
| for his private work.
Mr.. Powers never had told me not
to take pay from the state for private
work" she said, and she reiterated her
former testimony in regard to the pri-
vate work and what was paid for it.
Frank J. CasserIy was recalled in
regard to the prQofreading on Farmer
Hayseed.''
He said some of the proofs, the ones
which he read. had vanished. and he
seemed to Think it rather strange. He
was the last witness called and the
committee then went into executive ses-
sion to consider thereport, which ended
| as above stated.