The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-12-19
FOWLER Will DRAFT
new IL CURRENCY BILL
Financial Grab Bag Now Bear
ing His Name Has No
Chance ct Passing.
E~lGHT-aOUR LEGISLATION.
cpponents of the Bill Will Try to Pres
vent a Vote on st-consular Re.
form -Ex-speaker Grow
Makes Last Speech.

members OF the house committee on bank
ing and currency have held a meeting to
consider the question OF currency legis-
lation at this session of congress-. Chair
man Fowler was told some unpleasant
truths by his republican coll 5agues. They
Informed him that the curious financial
grab bag known as the Fowler bill could
not possibly pass ~the:house at this session
pr any other session., because it contains
half a dozen different banking and eur
rency schemes, any one of which would
be sufficient to arouse serious, opposition.
The proposition for branch banks, the
asset banking scheme, and one or two 9TH
or ideas We're opposed at the bankers
convention at New Orleans, and the mem
bers of the committee at their meeting an-
%nounced that it would be necessary to
withdraw from the committee bill all OF
those features which were calculated to
arouse antagonism.
Chairman Fowler was notified that he
would beteXpected to draft an entirely new
measure containing only such necessary
amendments to the existing law as could
readily be passed by the house at the pres
snt session. @ U 5GI
Eisht-Hour Law Causes Worry.
A matter that is giving grave concern
W liAS iSpuDilSSilA lSduSIS III tCOiiEI SSS,1 par
ticularly in the senate. is the bill making
an eight-hour-a-day labor law. 1t has
passed the house and is now being con-
sidered by the senate committee on labor.
which evidently proposes to report 1t ia
vorably to the senate.
The same Influences that favor the en-
actment of anti-trust legislation and that
are in sympathy with the cause Of the
striking anthracite coal miners are at
work in behalf Of the eight-hour bill.
The opponents of the measure are be-
ginning to think that the only way to
Kill 1t will be, as In the case of the state
hood bill. to prevent 1t fromSbeing brought
to q. vote. Some of the more conservative
among the leaders of the senate regard the
bill as more dangerous than any which
has come before the senate and are pre-
pared to put parliamentary obstacles in
the way of its consideration SO that 1t
cannot be brought to a vote at this session.
Reform in:Consular Service.
1t has been agreed by the senate foreign
relations committe to make q favorable
report upon the bill providing for the re-
organization of the consular service of the
United States. This measure was offered
BY Senator Lodge as an amendment,to the
diplomatic and consular appropriations
bill.
AS a rider to the appropriation bill the
consular reform measure has excellent
- Na w q llllo CCcS&
sion. If 1t should take its chances as a
separate measure it probably would not
be considered this winter. But inasmuch
as 1t Is absolutely necessary to pass the
appropriation bill the consular reform
proposition will, in all probability, be
placed upon the statute books.
The measure abolishes the fee system
and provides for the payment Of salaries
to all consular officers. 1t divides these
officials into several classes and provides
for their promotion. If the measure is
adopted those who enter the consular
service in the future will be required to
pass what might be termed a civil service
examination,
1t Is believed there will be a great5im-
proyement in the consular service when
the reform proposition becomes effective,
as under It's operations those who enter
the service will remain there indefinitely,
and the government will, Of course, reap
the benefit of, their experience.
Crows VaIedictory IN House.
At the end Of the present session Ga
!usha A.. Grow of Pennsylvania will re-
tire at the ageEof 70. after a career In
public life extending over half a century.
His first speech in the house was on
Mans Right to the soil.'' He was the
author Of the free homestead law.
What is regarded as his valedictory was
upon the subject OF Labor and Capital,''
HtAN $3.50 A''N SiooS AG
by his colleagues. His conclusion was
that some sort of cooperation between
labor and capital was the only solution of
the impending problem. Mr.. Grow In
conclusion said: .
"A labor strike is an unequal contest at
best. It is a contest of endurance be-
tween hunger and thirst of the human
stomach and the income Of capital. Capt.
tai in such contests loses none of its ac-
cumulation of wealth, unless an industry
Itself should be destroyed; and In such
case labor would be the greatest sufferer.
The income of capital would be Temporal
lily lesscned. That. would be all.
The existence of labor itself is dependent
upon constant employment, and its con-
ition cannot be improved by idleness or
by .lawless violence, or a d~isregard5of3 the
rights Of any law abiding citizens. DIV
The obligations Of both capitalists and
laborers, 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 EN-
ployes that would secure a harmonious
cooperation of both SO as to prevent
strikes and improve the
Is of vital Importance to the general well
fare, for the pillars of the republic rest
apor1 the comfort of the home and the hap
piness Of the fireside of labor.
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