Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-09
CHILD LABOR BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Measure Adopted by Vote Of 50 to r.
Southern Senators opposed-Now
Goes to President For Signature and
Will Become LaW--F eatures OF Bill.


Goes to President For Signature and
Will Become Law-Featur Of Bill.
Washington, Aug. 9.-The senate late
yesterday passed the bill to prevent
Interstate commerce in products OF
child labor. The vote was 81 tc IL. The
measure, already passed by the house
was brought to vote in the senate
upon the insistence of President Wllscn
after the democratic senate caucus mao
once decided to defer its consideration
until next December.
Senators who voted against the Dill
were: Bankhead, Alabama; Bryan anu
Fletcher, Florida; Hardwick and smith
Georgia.: Overman and Simmons, Nortn
Carolina; Smith and Tillman, South
Carolina; Williams Mississippi (dem-
ocrats); and oliver and Penrose, Penn
sylvania (republicans)
Opposition Chiefly From South.
Opposition to the measure had come
chiefly from southern cotton mill own
ers, and the group of southern demo-
Gratis who voted against it had fought
in caucus and maintained their opposi-
ZION lAS SSIid ~ uCo'SS va -
ground that the regulation proposed
is unconstitutional and would interfere
with the rights Of states.
Senator Borah did not offer the
amendment he had drawn attaching
the immigra ton bill as a rider in or
der to force action on it at this ses-
sion.
What Bill Prohibits.
The bill as passed would prohibit
interstate commerce in the products
of any mine or quarry in which chill
dren under 16 years have been en-
ployed or in the product Of any mil,
cannery, workshop, factory or manu-
featuring establishment in which chill
drcn under IA have been employed, or
in which children between IA and 10
have been employed more than eisnt
hours a day more than six days 4
week before s o'clock in the mornin5
or later than in the evening. 1t would
take effect one year after enactment.
During the closing Eours of debate
today Senator Tillman denounced
southern cotton mill owners opposing
the bill and said that while he believe!
it unconstitutional, he was tempted TO
support it because. If the selfisnness
of interests fighting it.
Raps Rich Southerners.
Il have been shocked said the
South Carolina senator, ito see men
in South Carolina-rich, intelligent.
we'll educated men who were will
ing to swell their purses "a the eX-
pense of little children. The veil CT
sophistry in their letters could not
hide their. heartlessness. Their plea,
stripped of verbiage. is let the chill
dren toll that we may live in luxury,
and yet we wonder at the spread OF
socialism and the increasing, hostility
of labor toward capital" ~rf 60 a.
Servility of present day vote-seek-
ers to organized labor. he added. pre-
scented as great a problem today as
did the attitude of politicians twenty
wears ago to concentrated wealth.
1.-The congress of the United States
trembles every time the labor unions
frown," he continued. Capital, with
it's brutal, cynical disregard for 'hu-
mainly, started the conflict and Ia
Dor. in self defense, organized for the
struggle.
I'VE have cased to legislate in the
way we know to be right and have
become panderers to public opinion,
or rather we are making a cowardly
surrender to those who vote and de-
mand these things. I predict that in
time law will be passed making 1t
unlawful for anything to enter into
interstate commerce that is not de-
sired by voters of labor unions