Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-01

ne Senate calendar, the House biz
I'D passed that body, and was report
ed to the Senate. This was in the
early part of the next to the last week
)r the consideration of bills other
han appropriation bills, and bills OF
agency nature. Senator Keim was
reed to be absent from Saturday o.
this week to Tuesday of the next.
Before leaving he made an agreement
with Senator Rosenbloom that neither
bill should be advanced during his alb
sence. Knowing that the administra-
ton was committed to the passage of
child labor law, and in utter ignor-
ance of the agreement between Sena-
tor Keim and Senator Rosenbloom, the
calendar committee placed House bill
10 on the special calendar on first read
ing. for Monday of the last week.
Senator Rosenbloom seeing this at
once got unanimous consent to have
his bill advanced to the Special Calen-
dar on second reading. He believed
that had violated the agreement and
was responsible for advancing the
House Bill 10, and continued to believe
so, even after Senator McGrew, of the
calendar committee, had taken this &C
ton on his own accord. One needed
no further proof that Senator Rosen-
bloom intended to insist on his bill
rather than to follow the customary
course of substituting the House Bill
for his, with the ultimate intention of
defeating the measure unless it con-
form to his ideas.
Senator Rosenbloom finally agreed
to the substitution of the House bill
for his, on condition that Senator
Blessing, chairman of the Labor Com
mittee, which had reported favorably
on Senate Bill rs, would offer amend
ments to reduce the House bill to the
terms Of the Senate bill. Although
Senator Blessing favored the House
bill he felt IN obligation to Senator
Rosenbloom to agree to this. Accord
ingly on next to the last day for the
consideration of these measures when
1.-THE bill was called up on second read
| ing Senator Blessing moved the sub
stitution, and after this carried, NOV
ed to defer action until the following
day, in order that Senator Rosenbloom
might prepare amendments. Several
days had elapsed since the House
Bill came over to the Senate and
these amendments should have been
ready. l believe therefor that this
was dliberate attempt to kill the bill
for the chances of it's getting attens
,tion in the jam of other measures on
the last day were very slight If such
was the purpose it succeeded for spe-
cial orders and partisan measures
consumed every moment Of time till
late into the night.
I-T HERE seemed slight hope now OF
/ securing the passage Of the bill
for the closing five days of the session
were restricted to appropriation and
revenue measures and bills Of an
emergency nature Senator Keim,
however, stood by me and succeeded
in having House Bill 10 placed on the
calendar for this closing week. Day
after day now went by without action
until the case looked hopeless. Then
on the closing day at the end of the
morning session Senator Keim sue
ceeded in getting the bill UP, and had
it not been for the opposition of Sena-
tor Rosenbloom the bill would have
passed at this time. Senator Keim
had three amendments of minor i'm
portance to offer, but decided not to
! do SO, but rather TO oppose all amend
ments 30 that the bill would not have
to go back to the House for concur
renee in the amendments. He was not
successful in this plan, however, The
amendments he had planned to offer
were offered by others and prevailed.
Senator Blessing also offered amend
ments to have the bill conform to Sem
ate Bill %. One of these carried. but
the attempt to eliminate the night
work provision received short shrift.
Two further amendments were Of
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