The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-22

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enheism IN poth honeee OF .onsreSs asaInse
the attitude OF the Administrauon 10 KONG
soiar as we nave gone, ana !, you thinh 10
my IaI enough Why you IN nuro NV ea,C"',
DIFFICULTY IN Rlihs tbe o'n' re'eos, !
thlnR the proposed IA" d uoe.
ono. md very sincerely "'sh " "ou'u oe
put through; 81
As for the right OF injunction. ~ 10 aDso.
lutely necessary to have THIS power looBed
In the courts. though, OF couree. any aouse
OF the power 10 strongly 70 90 repropateo'
During the four and ahalt years tftet nave
been President do not remember an instance
where the Government has invoKen the right
OF injunction against q comoination OF Ia
-borers, We have invoked II certainly q SCORE
OF ttmee against nominations OF cspitai'
] stink possibly oftener. Ihus. though we
have secured the issuance'oi in)unctlons Ia a
number or cases against capltaiietic oom'
binations 1t has happened tnat we nave
never tried TO secure an injunction against d
combination OF labor. But. understand me-
gentlemen, II i ever thought ~ necessary
II thought a combination OF laooreIs were
doing wrong. I would apply for an injuno-
ton against them just as quick as against
% many capitnlists.
Now L come TO the general supJect OF your
position. l wish inthe hrst place 10 state my
regret that YOU did not divorce so 'much OF
the petition as refers TO the action OF me
OAeCutlNS rum on ihu' No
81 the legislative branch, because oanhOt
consider any petition that you, make that
reflects upon the coordinate branch OF the
Government or that makes any charges
whatever against II. wouid not even re-
.ceiVe u, save Tor the fact that IN part IL anects
the executive. therefore IN what l nave
to say ! shall limit myself solely to what you
assert in reference 10 the acts Of the executive
You speak of the Eight Hour law -FOUR
criticism so far as 1t relates to the Executive
bears upon the signature OF the appropriation
dill containing the money LOT expenditure
con the Panama Canal, with the proViso that
the Eight Hour law shall not there apply III
gyouf statement Is INTENDED 10 mean tnat no
opportunity was given 1or a nearing peiore
me, then the statement Is not IN accordance
with the facts, There was ample opportunity,
but not a single request for such q nearing
came TO me. | received, however, some
Ehundreds or kilograms ana leuers reaues'-
etng the veto OF the entire Appropriation De-
cause IL contained that proVlso. FRANKLY
u found II difficult to believe That you were
writing ana tefegraphing WIN any KIM I"
knowledge OF the conditions IN the case
believe emphnticaiiS IN the eignt nour law
5 for our Own people In our own country but
the conditions OF labor, stch as We nave 10
work With m the tropics. are so apsolutely uh-
sferentthatfher lsno possible analogy De.Meeh
sthem ana an eight nour ia" LOT tue Fanaiha
Canal Is an aosuroty. EVER one Vi you
know that we cannon eet mnite lAoor' canhov
get labor from the lnted states 70 go oo"hto
Panama and work we are driven 10 OK,
tremities In the ehort 10 eet any k'nu OF
labor AT all Justet tine moment we are "orA-
ing chieny win negro iaoor rom tne Yves.
Indies Inc ueuai reSuIt ~ "a empIos e
\ OF these men ID 'nH' nionuas u H %u"
I tney WORK iairiy wen. weunesuaS " ! uts
ia! lhere a me,Neu an - NV T
friday ana SATURDAY not more ,uan a 10"
sometimes less than d lour'h' Vi Tue iaoo'e'S
Will be at "ork.
The conoltiohs that make the eteI' hour IN"
proper here nave no poesioie reference 10 'he
conditions that make tne "iHh' no"r Id" en-
irely improper there: me conditions are SO
utterly diuerent on the ls,hhlUH az c"hpareu
TO here that II is Impossible 10 Try TO draw
conclusions anecting the one from Wha' ~ Irue
about the othef. You hamper me IN the euort
to get for you what l think you ouRn'to nave
IN connection WIN 'he eiRht hour' "neh
: You make REQUEST that 10 inoeiensloie, ahoto
grant which wouid mean ihoeinn'te oeiay ana
injury to the work on the lstnnus.
- AS TO the VIOLATIONS oil 'he eiene nour Jaw
MIR. Morrison. you give me no specince'lohs'
At your earliest convenience please lay before
me In detail any complaints you nave OF Vio-
lations OF the eight hour law. where nave
power | will see that the law Is obeyed. All
ask Is that you give me tine cases. VIII take
up. and II they prove TO be sustained by
the facts ! shall see hat the law Is enforced.
Now, about the Chinese exclusion. The
number OF Chinese now In THIS country 49, n
remember Alright. some 90. 200 or 10000. 30 far
from there being q great inhrS ei The Chinese.
the fact Is that the number hns efeadily de-
: creased. There are fewer CfsAese than
there were ten years ago. FEWER nan therc
we're twenty years ago. fewer than there
we're thirty years ago.
b. Unouestionably. some scores OF cases occur
each year where Chinese laborers get in
either by being Struggled over the Mexican
and Canadian oorders or by coming IN unoer
false certificates: but the steps that we have
taken, the changes in the Consuls that have
been made within the last few years in the
Orient and the effort to conduct examina
tlons in China before the immigrants are
allowed to come here are materially reduc-
ing even the small number OF cases that do
occur. But even as II Is the number OF these
cases 10 insignificant.
There is no appreciable infux OF Chinese
laborers, aud there Is not the slightest or
most remote danger OF any: the whole scare
that has been worked up on the subject In a
pure chimera. II Ia my deep conviction that
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