Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-11

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 sell on Sunday, January 25.
 Washington, Dec 11..-When the senate met to-day MT Quay presented resolutions adopted by the four civil ized tribes of the Indian territory, pro- testing against a joint statehood in Oklahoma.
 A bill was passed allowing eonul generals and consuls and commercial agents, who are not allowed to trade, actual expenses of office rent, not ex- |ceeding $1 800 year.
 Mir Allison called up the bill to pro- vide for the payment of expenses in the work of the anthracite coal com mission.
 The president sent the nomination of J. Rice Winchell of New Haven to the senate to-day, for collector of GUS toms in New Haven district.
 Washington, Dec 11.-At the open ing of the session in the house to-day, Sunday, January 25, was-s set aside for paying tribute to the memory of the late Representative Charles A. Russell of Connecticut.
  < WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-The flea ture of the house proceedings yester day was a thoughtful speech by the venerable Galusha A. Grow of Penn sylvania on the relation between labor and capital. At the end of the present session he retires at the age of seventy nine after career. in public life ex tending over half century. His first speech in the house was on Mans Right to the Soil.'' He was the author of the free homestead act. His speech yesterday was regarded as his valedic- tory to public life and was listened to with close attention by his colleagues His conclusion was that some sort of cooperation between labor and capital was the only solution of the impending problem.
 Mir. Grow said: "A labor strike is an unequal contest at best. It is a contest of endurance between hunger and thirst of the human stomach and the income of capital. Capital in such contests loses none of it's accumulation of wealth, unless an industry itself should be destroyed, and in such cases labor
  come of capital would be temporarily lessened. That would be all. The ex- istence of labor itself is dependent upon constant employment, and it's condition cannot be improved by idleness or by lawless violence or a disregard of the rights of any law abiding citizens. The, obligations of both capitalists and la ~borers, like that of all citizens. is to pro mote the general welfare, or at least to do nothing to its injury. Some method of profit sharing between employers and employees that would secure a har- monious cooperation of both so as to prevent strikes and improve the condi- tion of labor is of vital importance to the general welfare, for the pillars of the republic rest upon the comfort of the home and the happiness of the fire side of labor"
 A bill was passed in general terms designed to relieve the tea importers from the effect of the recent decision of the circuit court in New York i'm posing the 10 cent war duty on tea inn ported in bond prior to the time when tea is restored to the free list, Jan. l, 19O3 Another bill to refund tie duties collected on merchandise from Porto Rico and the Philippines during the period between the ratification of the treaty of Paris and the congressional revenue acts for those islands also passed
 Almost the entire session of the sen- ate was devoted to consideration of the omnibus statehood bill.