Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-08-09
Bill Passes Senate With
Only Opposition by
Democrats.
WAS PUSHED HAIR
BY PRES. WILSON
viii Prevent Interstate
Commerce of Products
of Child Labor.
WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-The SEN
w ate late TODAY passed the bill

w ate late today passed the bill
to prevent interstate commerce in
products of child labor The vote was
so to II. The measure. already passed
by the house, was brought to a vote
in the senate upon the insistence OF
President Wilson after the Democratic
senate caucus once had decided to de-
fer its consideration until next Decem-
Der.
Senators who voted against the bill
Wee Bankhcad, Alabama; Bryan anC
Fletcher, Florida; Hardwicke and
Smith, Georgia; Overman and SIM
mons North Carolina: Sith and Till
man, South Carolina Williams, Miss
issippi (Democrats), Oliver and Pen
rose, Pennsylvania Republicans).
Opposition to the measure had come
chiefly from southern cotton mill
owners. and the group OF southern
Democrats who voted against it had
fought it in caucus and maintained
their opposition during the senate de-
bate on the ground that the regula-
tion proposed is unconstitutional and
would interfere with the rights of the
states. Eleven Democrats from the
south, Senators Swanson and Martin,
virginia; Underwood, Alabama; Var
dam an. Mississippi: James and Beck
ham. Kentucky; Ransdell, Louisiana.
Robinson, Arkansas. and Shields.
Tennessee, voted fer it.
Confcrccs Appointed.
In order to expedite consideration,
fer int.
mediotely after the final vote was ta-
ken. The only amendment adopted
would extend the bill's provisions to
barr all products of establishments
employing children from interstate
commerce
The house measure was directed
only against those on which child la
Dor actually had been employed.
Senator Rorah did not offer the
amendment he had drawn attaching
the immigration bill as rider in or
der to force action on it at this ses-
sion. Amendments to make the pro-
hibition apply only to children under
IA who could not read nor write to
make 1t apply to children on farms
and to postpone its effective date fof
two years, were voted down.
The bill as passed would prohibit
interstate commerce in the product of
under 16 years of age have been en-
ployed, or in the product of any mill,
canncry, workshop, factory or manu-
featuring establishment in which
children between IA and IL have been
employed more than hours a day.
more than six days a week, before Il
O'Clock in the morning or later than
Z o'clock in the evening. 1t would
take effect one year after enactment
DcnOunccs Owners.
During the closing hours of debate
today, Senator Tillman denounced
southern cotton mill owners oppos-
ing the bill and said that while he
believed it unconstitutional he was
tempted to support it because of the
sellishness Of the interests fighting it.
lie also declared congress was too
much influenced by the attitude Of
labor interests.
81 have been shocked, said the
South Carolina senator, "to see men
in South Carolina, rich, intelligent,
well educated men, who were willing
to swell their dividends at the ex-
pense Of little children. The veil of
sophistry in their letters could not
hide their heartlesslessness Their
plea, stripped of verbiage. is let the
children toll that we may live in lux
ury' and yet we wonder at the spread
Of Socialism and the increasing hos
tilitv of labor towards capital"
Servility of present day vote seek
crs to organized labor he added, pre-
sented as great problem today as
did the attitude of politicians tWcn-
ty years ago to concentrated wealth.
The congress of the United States
II rembles every time the labor unions
frown." he continued. Capital. with
its bi utal. cynical regard for human
ity started the conflict and labor in
sclf-defense organized for the strug-
gle.
I'VE have ceased to legsate in the
way we know to be right and have
become panderers to public opinion
or rather we are making "A cowardly
surrer der To those who vote and de-
manG these things. predict that in
time n law will be passed making it
rnlav full for anything to enter into
Interstate commerce that is not de-
sire dsby voters of labor unions
'"Fhe recent day uplifters of ~
manity are the countcrparts of the
old abolitionists. Those fanatics.
honest and wcll-meaning as they
were, declared the constitution was a
league with death and covenant with
hell and their twentieth century sue
ccssors endorsed the statement in acts
If not in words" 4"
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