The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-02-05


l. ton, Clark (MOnt.), Clay, Cockrell, Culber
son, Daniel, Harris, HeitfeId, Jones ARK }
2 Jones (Nev), Kenny, McEnery, McLaurin
=, Martin, Money, Morgan, Pettus Rawlins
II Stewart, Sullivan, Talaferro, Teller, Till
Il man, Turley, Vest Senator Mallory wa!
absent on account of illness, but paired T.
h vote yea on the proposition.
: Cast No Such Vote.
You say that l voted against an amend
ment to grade national banks accordinJ
ito population, and cite COngressiona
L Record, Vol. 80, page 1890, as your authOri
ty. Page 1890 has no reference to tn
I. subject but deals entirely with proceeding
OF the House Of Representatives. d,
i find, however, in an entirely differen
place in the Record that Senator Nelson
offered the following amendment to tn
: financial, or gold standard bill:
;, Sec. 10, That section 513S OF the Revised
= Statutes is hereby amended to read as FOL
tows:
Section 5I3S. No association shall be- or
ganized with a less capital than $lO0, 900 ex
: Cept that banks with capital OF not les,
e than $4,000 may, with the approval OF tn,
Secretary of the Treasury, be organized
: in any place the population of which doe.
e not exceed 5000 inhabitants, and except
T that banks with a capital of not less than
5 5000 may, with the sanction of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, be organized in
! amy place the population of which does
. not exceed 1900 inhabitants. No associa.
, ton shall be organized in a city the pOpu.
IatiOn of WHICH exceeds $4,000 persons with
Il capital of less than $500, 600"
This is the only thing 1 can find bearing
ANY relation to the subject you mention
You must, therefore, refer to this, and
you are again entirely at fault and mis-
represent me.
: The object of the amendment was mere
~ to change the law so that national banks
with a capital of $4,000 could be organized
In places with a population of 1000 or less,
where, up to that time, no national bank
was allowed with a capital of less than
$4,000. The amendment was of interest
/ to the rural communities, and especially
the South, and was adopted without OBJ
lection or division. How, therefore, can
you say to the people of Florida that l
voted against it? After the adoption of
the amendment as a part of the gold
standard bill 1 voted against that bill
Would you have voted otherwise? The
vote on the passage of the bill in its en-
7 tirety was as follows Congressional Rec
, 'rd. volume SO. page 1880:
! YeaS-Aldrich, Allison. Beverage, Bur
| 'ows Gallery, Carter. Clark (WyO), CuI-
ON. Davis, DebOe, Depew, Elkins Fair
,anks, Foraker, Foster Frye. Gear, Hale
lama, HansbrOugh. Hawley, Hoar. Kean.
lindsay, Lodge, Mcbride. McCOmas, Nc
lumber, Mcmillan, Mason, Nelson, PEN
'Ose, Perkins. Platt Comm, Plat On. VI
'ritchard, Quarles. Ross, Scott. Shoup.
simon, SpOoner, ThurstOn, WetmOre, Wall
colt
Nays-Bate, Berry, Butler Chandler.
'hilton, Clark NIOnt) Clay, Cockren
culberson, Daniel, Harris. Heitfeld. JOnesl
Ark, Jones (Nev),' Kenny, McEnery, |
IcLaurin, Martin, Money, Morgan, Pet
us, Rawlins, Stewart, Sullivan. ITALIA
errO, Teller Tillman. Turley, Vest
n
You have proclaimed that my votes onl
ONE of these propositions were wholly
.rOng Would yours have been different?l
nd would you have been recorded in thel
gold standard column?
Referring to the Congressional Record
CVol. 81, page 105D you say:
THAT the platform seeking to uplift thet
condition of the American working man.
calls for the creation of a Department of
Labor in charge of a Secretary with a seat
in the Cabinet. while you, when the bill /
to create a Department OF Labor and Com
merce was under consideration, voted fOrI
an amendment to strike from the titlel
the words labor and, thus disregardingl
the platform, and especially the interests
of the labOring people of Florida"
MisquOtes The Record Twice.
You have here misquOted the Record
twice A bill to create Department OF /
Labor and Commerce was not then under /
consideration. The bill under consideration
was, "a bill to create the department of
commerce" The words labor and" did not
appear in it's title. and hence there could
properly be no motion to strike from thel
title words that were not in it. The motiOnl
was to strike from the body of the bill
the words the department of labor and. -
1t was made by Senator Pettus in accOrd-l
Rnce with the clearly expressed wishes of
officials of great and representative labOrl
and for this motion I cast
my vote aye.-COngressiOnal Record, Vol.
80, page 1851.
The words in the body of the bill in this
were:
THAT the Department OF Labor and the
office of Commissioner of Fish and Fish
cries. and all that pertains to the same
be and the same hereby are. placed under
the jurisdiction and made a part Of the
of Commerce"
The labor organizations were opposed to
having a then independent department
Of labor placed in and under the
Jurisdiction Of the Department of
commerce. and Senator Pettuss mo-
ton was to see that it would not be
so subordinated. The Department Of Labor,
,s it then existed, was a separate and dis
inct department of the Government and
treated. upon the requests of the great
abor organizations of the country, which
hoped eventually to see it equipped with
Is Secretary to have a place in the Presi-
lents Cabinet in order that the counsel of
abor might be heard upon "all great
questions Of law. equity and economies 81
n which labor has vital interests.
See What Mr.. GOmpers Says.
Honorable Samuel GOmpers, president Of
he American Federation of Labor writ
ng to Senator Frye, President. pro tenn.
f the Senate. under the date Of January ,
0. 1902, and referring to the then status
T the bill, filed this protest:
1.-The creation of the Department Of Com ,
1erce, with the provision for the subordi-
alton of the Department Of Labor will
minimize the Importance of labOr's inter 6
SITS and minimize the present Department.
f Labor. Against such a procedure, in the :
anne of American labor, enter my most -
olemn protest. It is therefore ur-
emily requested that in the event that
he honorable Senate should deem 1t wise
D enact Senate Bill $50, that the Depart
lent Of Labor. as so constituted, may
e eliminated from its provisions"