The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-04-07

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Washington, April 5.-The bill as
passed by the house would have pro-
hibited the employment OF children
by manufacturers of goods shipped
in interstate commerce. AS amend
ed to-day it would prohibit the ship
ment in interstate commerce of
goods in the manufacture of which
children had been employed. The
committee held that this change
would make an attack on the con
st'tutionality of the measure less
probable.
Another amendment to the bill
makes a producer. manufacturer or
dealer liable to prosecution If he
ships in interstate commerce a prod
uct from a plant where children have
been employed 80 days prior to such
shipment. The house bill had made
this prior 60 days, but had estab-
lisshed a rule of evidence in connec-
fion Herewith which was eliminated
by the committee to-day.
Changes in Measures.
The bill will be reported to the
senate by Senator Robinson of Ar
kansas. In statement analyzing
the changes made in the house bill
by the senate to-day Senator Robin
son said:
"The house bill seeks to stigma
tize and prevent the shipment Of
products into which prescribed child
labor has entered and it seeks to
couple the Objectionable child Labor
with the particular commodity
sought to be shipped.
"The senate provision penalties "A
producer, manufacturer or dealer
within the state of manufactures of
production, who ships, or attempts to
ship, in interstate or foreign com
merce, any manufactured product OF
mine, quarry or manufacturing es-
tablishment If within so days before
the removal Of such product from the
mine, quarry or manufacturing .eS-
tablishment, children have been en-
ployed in the mine, quarry or manu-
featuring establishment within the
limit defined and prescribed.
ELIMINATES EN1uenCe item.
Section Of the house bill which
seeks to establish rule of evidence
is eliminated by the senate com
mittee in order to obviate the diff
Guilty of proving that forbidden child
labor entered into the production OF
the particular commodity sought to
be shipped. Section of the senate
bill provides that proof of employ
ment within 60 days prior in the
shipment OF the product of prescrib-
ed child labor from mine, quarry or
other manufacturing establishment
shall be prima facie evidence that
such product has been produced by
such prescribed shild labor. The
senate provision makes unnecessary
this rule Of evidence and thus great
ly simplifies the measure, especially
with reference to its enforcement.
"Under the house bill dealers are
penalized in states other than that of
production or manufacture unless
protected by the manufacturers
guaranty while in the senate bill he
4ery great burden which would thus
De imposed upon commerce is totally
removed. The senate committee.
however, finds II necessary to retain
provision relating to guaranty in
production or manufacture are con-
cerned, in order to prevent evasions
OF the law.
Relief From Burden.
1T relieves from the verK great
burden apparently imposed in the
house bill on the manufacturer or
producer who 1t is thought would be
compelled, IL the house bill remained
unchanged, to obtain guarantees
from other manufacturers whose
products entered into the finished
article, that forbidden child labor
had not entered into the assembled
parts which are thus manufactured
by others.
'Under the senate bill manufac-
turers, producers and dealers who
seek in good faith to observe the law
may protect themselves from prose
cutlon for the unintentional employ
ment OF forbidden child labor, by
procuring certificates in such form