Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1913-03-18

to the bill at this time and would alb
solutely destroy the bill. He insisted
,hat the names OF the merchants be
given
Mr.. Garrett said that he represent
ed Lippincott and Company, ID. Ross
and Son and Crosby and Hill directly.
and many other merchants. indirectly
Mr.. Garrett started to give reasons
why the amendment was desired,
when Mr. Gormley objected that he
had been granted the floor simply to
name the merchants who advocated
the amendment.
Senator Reinhardt said that he had
/ asked that Mr. Garrett be allowed to
explain the position of the merchants
Z and he considered it fair that their
SIDE Of the case be stated He then
asked that Mr. Garrett be allowed 70
speak three minutes. Mr.. Garrett.
/ resumine. said that the amendment
I was necessary for the merchants
( since during the week before Christ
/ mas the merchants did as much bust
/ ncss as they did any other two or three
weeks He contcndcd that the work
ing people could do their Christmas
! shopping only at nights.
Senator Furniss asked who would
profit il tho stores in Wilmington
should he closed as those in Philadel-
phia would be. too, under the ten
hour law there.
Reference was made 10 the tele-
( grams which had been received urg-
ing his amendment. and NJ. Furniss
said that a bushel OF kilograms could
be produced opposing any further
amendment
Mr. Gormley contended that the
stores which Mr. Garrett represented
! had sales forces sufficiently large TO
/ permit their girls being worked in
shifts so that they need not work
longer than ten hours a day, even dur
ing the Christmas holidays.
Senator Walker said that he favored
tho amendment but resented the
imputation that it was intended to
kill the bill.
The vote was 10 nays to six yeas.
Anderson, Fooks. Pierce Roinhardt,
Walker and Walls voted yes, and Car
ter, David. Ellison. Ewing. lTurniss.
Gormlcy. Harris. Hazel, Williams and
Marshall voted no
Mir. Reinhardt then offered an
amendment TO permit female employees
Of laundries 10 work total Of 90
hours a week for six weeks in the
year, by working four elcycn-hour
days or two twelvc-hour days a week.
He said he considered the laundry
men entitled to something in the way
OF an exemption.
Anybody who knows laundry worl,
knows that 50 hours Is too long for
any woman TO work in week of 1--WE
days Of twelve hours each ON three
days and eleven hours on one day,
which this amendment would permit.
said Mr.. Gormley.
AS a vote was about 10 be taken,
DR.. Marshall read a telegram from
several Wilmington laundry firms
urging this particular amendment
The vote as IL nays to = yeas Sena-
tors Anderson, Foolls, Pierce and
Reinhardt voted in the affirmative. ano
Carter David, Ellison. Ewing Fur
Miss, Gormley, Harris. Hazel, Walker
Williams and Marshall voted in the
negative Senator Walls did no
vote.
81 do not know any bill that hal
ever given me the trouble that thi
p one has. and I have decided to vot
Z for it, announced Senator Relnhardl
When the vote was announced. Il
. s'oo W % nay - in1 &c NIONu UuTtl
into applause which President Maj.
shall did not seek TO restrain Then
many persons turned around and con.
graduated Miss Margaret II. Shear.
man, the quiet, tactful and seldom
runled member Of the Consumers
League who has been working per-
sistently for years to have such bill
enacted She sat in the public lobby
, during the debate, checked up on roll
calls, and smiled when il was all
{ over and as she acknowledged The
congratulations. Representative Moon.
! ey, and Senator Gormley came in for
i a big share of congratulations. too. fol
the great fight they put up, but they
| took their honors modestly. Repre-
! sentative Moneys smile. however
, was just a little broader, and that's
- smiling some.