Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-12-11
CONVICT GOODS
MAY Be BARRED
House Passes Bill Which Allows
States to
EXCLUDE AT OWN PLEASURE

House Adjourned Friday Until Mon.
day, After Making Legislative, ES.
eeutive and judicial Appropriation
Bill . Special Order.
Washington, Dec. 1O-At 3 O'clock
Friday the house adjourned until
Monday, having during the legislative
session passed several bills and re-
ceived from the committee on appro-
priations, the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill.
That bill was made a special order
for Monday. no day having been fix
ed for the vote on Il. During the
three hours the house was in session
is passed bill, which has the enthu-
siastic endorsement OF labor, as well
as manufacturers generally, repeal
Ing that portion of the Wilson inter-
state commerce bill relative to con-
vlct-made goods and permitting the
several states to legislate for them
selves as to their competition with
free labor" made goods. A bill
was also passed creating a game pre-
serve in the Olympia mountains In
Washington.
BY a practically unanimous vote
the house passed the bill limiting the
regulation of interstate commerce be-
tween the several states IN articles
manufactured by convict labor or in
any prison or reformatory. The bill
was introduced by Mr.. Hunt. of Mis-
souri,, a practical stonemason.
Under the Wilson bill, which be-
came a law in 1890. convict labor
made goods may enter into active
competition with goods manufactured
by free labor" and under this fed
eral law state could not pass a law
that would prevent the shipping into
the state prison made goods OF other
states The law passed Friday alb
rogates the interstate commerce law,
as at present applied to convict made
goods, thereby aftording to the diff
ferent states and territories the right
to inhiblt the shipping OF convict
made goods within the confines OF
any states or territory.
Mr.. Hunt asked for its passage not
only Tor the interest OF the free labor
but In the interest o. the manufaetur-
ers. lie said Il was an attempt to
curb the criminal competition OF the
ponitentlary with the free labor OF the
country.
IL Is cruel" he said. ito ask the
free labor Of thls country 10 maintain
its dignity and its self-rospect, n Il
has TO walt until the product % the
state prison r. sold before the employ
or 0h get reasonable price Tor his
honestly manufactured products.
other SPEECHES were made by sher-
ley OF Kentucky. Gaines OF Tcnnes-
see, Honry OF Texas and Grosvcnog
OF OHIO.
THO Democrats On the house opposed
the consideration o. the btu confer-
nRg United States eltlrsaship on ne
inhabitants % Porto Rico. Chairman
Cooper. % Wisconsin. under the call
OF tbe committees. called the at,oation
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