The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-20
A SORRY SPEC ! ACLE.


Sorry pibc spectacle presented by the majority
In the house of yesterday when effort made
by minority take from the committee on special legislation the
providing of the tenour law Tor the en-
poyes railway companies Those who supported the motion
discharge the committee special legislation from further e
sderatou of spoke plainly and they fully
justified in doing they might further in
ing ccany and dnpci of the majority without departing
q hairs readth from the truth
intention of the Perry-conroled majority to
bills possible citizen of ordinary intelligence
doubts pcou degrading and dsgacefu influence OF that
sefseekng his greedy merged corporations still
house The corporation collar encrces the
the majority the general
assembly, binds them firmly it did the majority in the
assembly 1902 which, the bidding the Pyt:s and with sick
nng srvy destroyed December the nour statute passed
in April.
There is no the attitude of the Perry
corporations further than
razeny puden monstrousy defiant and absolutely criminal 1t
was obey pecpated strike of motor
proved costly the state and the bus
the community True this fragrant violation was
by indictments still pending but which
likely begun the under which the
bills returned has been mascuad and robbed of all its
punitive provisions.
Yesterday the committee special egis
asked he could to when the ten
hour bill reported replied could he did
members Then resong the
fixed policy by the majority
the minority had been protesting against hsy legs
believed should have ample time
slider such important
Fatuous Mr. Wlbour! intelligence of
citizens Rhode Island by pretending believe they will accept
worthless his mentality of such
pemy proportions that he conceves possible befoo the people
and gnob evasion? Are they not well
that the first bill for the of the tenhour law has
the of his committee since the T3 day OF January
last and the second since the day of the month? Do they
that these bills the word for word and letter for
with the exception of short amendment the statute
by Republican legislature April and destroyed by
Republican legislature in December of the year?
Wibou his committee entertain the delusve hope
the forgotten that the Republicans in
and in their campaign literature distributed with such
progy during last campaign asserted that their party had
ALWAYS recognized the dignity Importance labor and pledged
itself future the the enactment Of all laws
that the bills pointed to with
having for the benefit of those who toll
limiting hours the days work of motomen and
ducors?
"We ample time, Chairman Wibour. No doubt
time throttle the bills because the Peyzed corporations
they be throled The claim that the committee has
sufficient opportunity consider these all shan
prence There member Of the committee speca
legislation who thoroughly familiar with provision
with phrase they contain after holding them than
refusing repeated for public hearing has h
amazing eronery attempt its cunnngy planned
tvty by the hollow plea of lack Of time.
Deception will prove little avail in this
however and conductors alone the major
tv in the legislature compelled for their serp
but to the sovereign people Rhode Island bega
well of whipping from Office the weak
tres who betrayed the reposed and who will compet
n that work in November
Yesterday 4 vas the killing and rnanglng half