The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-31
CHILD LABOR BILL
WILL BRING FIGHT
Passage Is Certain, But OPP
position Is Stubborn
DEMOCRATS TO REVOLT
Senator Hardwick Is Leading-Presi-
dent Thought Will Use Veto if the
Measure Comes to Him With
immigration as Rider

| Washington, July 3o.-President Wilson
adjournment of Congress on the child la
Dor bill, the Senate will take up the
measures this weke with an interesting
struggle in prospect.
Passage of the bill is foregone con-
clusion but it will be opposed stubbornly
/ by a group of southern democratic SEN
| ators and an tempt will be made by Sen
ator Borah, aided by southern democrats,
to couple with it the immigration bill
which the democratic caucus determined
to put over until next session. Should
the attempt succeed to load the child
labor bill with the immigration rider
many of it's champions fear its passage
will be followed by a presidential veto
because of the restrictive literacy test on
aliens.
Democratic opponents of the child la
Dor bill have frankly told the Senate
that they will do everything honorable
to defeat the BILL" Senator Hardwick
who will lead the democratic revolt, has
announced he does not consider the ac-
ton of the party caucus postponing i'm
migration legislation binding.
He believes the President will WELD the
veto If the child labor bill comes to him
bearing the immigration measure as
rider.
Senator Robinson, who reported the
child labor bill from the commerce com
mittee, hopes to get it before the Senate
TnnSdaU ie
pending appropriation bill will have been
disposed Of AS it passed the House the
measure provides:
That no producer manufacturer or
dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment
in interstate or foreign comemrce the
product of any mine or quarry in the
United states in which 80 days prior to
the removal of such product therefrom.
children under Is years of age have been
employed; or the product of any MILL
cannery, workshop. factory or manufac-
turing establishment in which 80 DAYS
prior to removal of such product there
from, children under IA have been en-
ployed, or in which children between IA
and 16 have been employed more than
eight hours a day more than six days a
week, or before a. m. or after 7 n m
VI
Attempts to halt progress of the bill
have been made chiefly by the southern
cotton manufacturers and the National
Association of Manufacturers, whose rep
resentatives have insisted that it is in
violation of the constitution. This OBJ
lection will form the basis of the ar
gument of the opposition in the Senate
Proponents of the measure contend
that while Congress cannot prohibit the
manufacture of articles within a state
1t may in regulating interstate commerce
prohibit the transportation of manufac-
tured articles between the states in pro-
motion Of the public welfare and in har-
mony with uniform public moral senti-
ment throughout the nation.
Pending settlement of the child la bar
legislative controversy the House will
continue marking time and conferees on
the national defense programme will re-
main at work. The army appropria ton
bill conference will begin tomorrow. The
naval bill conferees, having disposed of
minor sections of that measure, expect
to reach the big naval construction pro-
gramme during the week