The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-02


 beneath our system of legislative gov- ernment in this country"
 Representative Edward w. Gray, Republican, of New Jersey, contended that the lawmaking prerogative of Congress were being made subservient | to Presidential dictation and the de- | mands of a small group of workmen. ''If we accede to this demand" he | asked what will become of the con- stituted lawmaking power of this gov ernment? How soon will anther group of men, representing other in- | terests, but possessing similar power, | confront us with other demands? l am not opposed to the principle of an eight-hour day, but I am thoroughly convinced the questions involved here should be submitted to orderly and 1 deliberate investigation and arbitra- ton, in which the interests of all par ties concerned shall receive full con- | sideration."
 | Not Demanded by Labor. Representative Frank Buchanan. an | Illinois Democrat and pro-labor mem- Der, said:
 | "The brotherhoods have not asked or demanded this legislation. They are agreeing to accept it as a com promise"
 | Replying to a criticism made by | Representative Irving L. Lenroot of | Wisconsin, (Republican) of the Presi- dents handling of the strike situa- tion, Chairman Adamson of the In terstate Commerce Committee. said:
 T am sorry the gentleman saw fit l to locate the blame for this situation. | Whether the President should be blamed or credited. his record is good enough for him to stand on anyhow. | "A condition and not theory pre- | sents itself. There may be 10000 diff l ferent opinions as to what ought to | be done to adjust relations between 1 our two classes of servants when we have time and opportunity to give de- | liberate consideration to these ques- | tions.
 | 'It is nasty legislation, I admit" he continued, land intended to meet an emergency. There is but one sub stantial thing in it, and that is the | eight-hour law. We now provide to | preserve the status quo until a com mission can investigate the dispute
 between the two classes of our serv- ants Afterward we will make com ! care of the. interests of both classes
 of our servants and doing justice to the people, to whom all service be- | longs."
 Not an Fight -Hour-Day Law.
 "Therc r. ---~. ,-~ that this bill establishes an eight-hour day." said Represcnlu. -..iI, the minority leader. The only purpose is to have | Congress write into law and into the
 contract already made that for the purpose of compensation eight hours
 shall be a days labor. There is no
 intention on the part of either the
 railroad managers or the railroad
 employees to shorten the hours of la bor from those now in vogue. ''The public is somewhat interested
 in this contest The railroad man. agers would just as lief give days pay for four hours work if they could reconp themselves from the
 public. It is idle to say you can in-
 crease the rate of pay without in
 some WY increasing the rate for
 freight and passengers in the United
 States"
 MT. Mann said he doubted that
 Congress, with doubtful constitutional power to change or alter contracts
 or to determine the rate of pay on
 transportation lines, without knowl- edge and without investigation, should
 impose a burden upon the whole
 people of the land"
 Those who voted against the bill
 we're:
 II Democrats-Black. Texas and } Steele, Penn.
 
 sey; Barchfeld, Penn; Bonnet, New
 York; Britten, Illinois; Browning,
 New Jersey; Butler, Penn; Carter Mass; Coleman, Penn; Cramton, , Mich; Dale, Vermont; Ballinger, Mass; Dempsey and Danforth, New
 York; Darrow, Penn; Dillon, S. D.
 Edmonds. Penn; Foss, Ohio; Ford
 ney, Mich; Gardner and Gillet, Mass!;
 Glynn, Conn.,; Gould. New York; Gra-
 ram, Penn; Gray, New Jersey; Greene, Vermont; Griest, Penn; Hill, Conn.,: Johnson, s. D.. Kennedy, R. Lehlbach, New Jersey; McArthur.
 Moore, Penn; Oakley, Conn.,; Parker, New Jersey; Parker, New York; l P1att, New York; Roberts and Rogers. Mass; Rowe. New York; Sanford. 1 New York; Sells, Tenn; Sterling, H. -linois; Stiness, R. T.; Temple, Penn. i; Treadway, Mass; Ware, Penn; Wat son, Penn; Wilson. Illinois; Winslow. Mass, and Woods, Iowa.
 | Voting present-Foster, Illinois: Moores and Morrison, Indiana; Pat ten, New York, and Sloan, Nebraska. The Senate debated MT. Under woods proposal to give to the Inter- state Commerce Commission author ity over wages and hours from 2:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon until Il 1O:45 last night. when the body took recess and opened under a cloture rule to begin at 4 o'clock today The debate was given over almost entirety to fervid talk on Section G."
 In a long speech yesterday after noon, Senator Underwood advanced Section G. as a permanent cure for threatened railroad strikes. Senator Cummins, Republican, of Iowa, led the opposition last night, after Sena- tor Underwood had offered it as an amendment to the House bill, which had been substituted after it's passa ge by the House for the Newlands bill Senator Cummins said it led straight to government operation of railroads under very unfavorable circumstances Senator Cummins chara cterized the whole Newlands bill as "the brassiest gold brick that was ever offered the