Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
ALL IS NOT
HARMONY
SOME THINGS THAT LEAKED OUT
FROM THE MEETING OF
LABOR MEN.
MORNING SESSION
GIVEN UP TO A WRANGLE,
"A Legislative Committee Will Be Ap.
pointed-State Printing Office
Favored. "a

People of a superstitious turn Of
mind, who believe that there is a sig
MITIGATION of mysterious portent attached
to the number seven, will point to the
present session of the State Trails and
Labor council as another instance tend
ing to bolster up their belief. Not all is
harmony at the seventh annual i've
ton of that body, and the whole of this
mornings session was given up to a
wrangle over certain questions of policy.
Just what the questions are that have
caused so much d~issonance in the delib-
erations of the convention non of the
members are at present willing to state.
and the press committeeman are mum
as oysters when questioned.
One thing went through with a hurrah.
and that was the proposition to appoint
a legislative committee, whose functions
shall be the supervision of all laws per-
tanning to the uplifting advancement
of the laboring classes.
The text of the resolution is as follows:
Resolved, That the president be EN-
powered to appoint a legislative commit
tee, composed of three members of trades
unions, whose duty it shall be TO pre-
pare and present to the legislature all
bills pertaining to the welfare of organic
ed labor.
President Walsh. in view of the gravity
of the matters which will come to the at
tention of the committee stated that he
would consider we'll who should be- ap-
pointed on it and perhaps name the men,
bers this afternoon. 1t is thought pretty
certain that Dan Mcdonald will be the
chairman.
The council. afterA lengthy discussion,
decided unanimously hat a printing Of
flee would be a desirable addition to the
institutions of the state. and accordingly
the following resolution was prepared
and adopted without a dissenting voice:
Resolved, That this convention instruct
it's legislative committee to prepare and
present to the next legislative assembly
of Montana a bill the purport of which
shall be the establishment of a state
printing office.
An adjournment was then taken to 2
o'clock this afternoon.
1t developed at the afternoon session
that the principal element of discord was
the result of an endeavor to seat the re-
naming SO members of the Miners
union. While the constitution plainly
gave them the right to their seats, there
were many who tried to freeze them out
or account OF a belief that the union is
IN of certain propositions which
will have a tendency to disrupt some
cherished plans.
After an extended debate it was voted
that the 33 delegates take their seats,
thus giving the Miners union a repre-
sentation Of Al delegates to the council.
A committee of three was appointed
by the chair yesterday and sent to re-
quest D.. J.. Hennessy to appear at to-
days session of the council and present
his side of the 6 o'clock closing question.
Mr.. Hennessy went before the council
and gave his views at the morning ses-
sion. At a late hour this afternoon the
6 o'clock closing problem was still the
subject of a heated debate.
In order to finish it's labors the coun-
Gil will not be able to adjourn before s
or 8 o'clock this evening.