New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Welfare Bills
Pass in Spite
OF DAILY Lobby
State Senate Approves Eight
Hour Day Measure 30 to
II and the Minim II m
Wage Plan 81 to l6
Belts Repeal Is Beaten
Effort to Cancel 54-Hour
Law Voted Down 78 to Il;
FIGHT Shifts to Assembly

A1RANY. April 21.-The Senate to-
,.v nassed the Lowman-Simpson bill
.or an eight hour day for women, and
.,e Cotillo- minimum wage
tor women measure. The Assembly de-
ssated the Belts bill repeating the law
limiting the hours of labor of women
70 ffty-four week.
The action of the Assembly was a
decided setback to the lobby, headed
by Mark A. DAILY, and which takes
orders from Speaker Sweet.
The defeat of the Belts bill, which
would have permitted the working of
women twenty-four hours day, seven
days week, was by a vote Of 78 to 81.
Senator Seymour Lowman, Republi-
can, of Chemung. led the fight for
tho passage of the two welfare bills
in the upper house. and with ten
other Republicans put the bills over.
The Lowman- Simpson bill was car
RED by vote of SO to II, and the
Cctiilo- Roosevelt bill by 81 to 16. Two
New York City Republicans voted
against the measures, Senator A. W.
Brrlingame and John L. Karle, both
Of Brooklyn.
The Republicans whose votes made
possible the passage of the bills were
Senator'S Abeles. Bronx; Baumes
Orange, Burling. Westchester; Daven-
port. Oneida; Ferris, Essex; Fowler
Chautauqua; Lockwood, Brooklyn
Lowman, Chemung; Pitcher, Jeffer-
son; Swift, Erie; Thompson, Niagara
Minority Backs Measure
The Democratic minority OF twenty
one voted solidly for the measures
The minimum wage and eight-hour
day bills now 60 TO the Assembly. ant
there a fight will be made to discharg'
the Rules Committee from considera
ton Of them in an effort to bring then
10 a vote on the floor The Daily lobb,
is working hard to prevent this.
The fight in the Senate was marked
By one of the most dramatic scenes o
the session. Senator ]. Henry Walters
who lives with Speaker Sweet AM
shares his aversion to all welfar
legislation. tried to prevent a vot
from being taken on the bills by NOV
ing to adjourn. Minority Leade
James J. Walker protested. charging
the majority leader with trickery an
violation Of solemn pladges. Never
:heless. the motion was carr;ed.
Program Is Changed
After the Senate adjourned tn
minority leader assailed the majorit
leader and told him That if he did no
want to waste the rest of the day h
would consent to reconvening on con
dition that the minimum wage an
eight-llour bills were permitted to
debated as Walters had promised
This was eventually agreed to.
Senator Clayton Lusk. who in cam
paign speeches for Speaker Sweet las
fall charged that German propagand
was behind all the Welfare Legislation
turned his oack Oh this statement to
aay and merely said i WIS political IN
auence tnat was behind it.
Senator Frederick NJ. Davenpor
Republican, of Oneida, said: Amer
lea viii never be what it should
until there is more of the spirit sue
as the women who fought for thes
bills have shown"
lie attacked Majority Leader Wa
tiers as being possessed of the narro'
viewpoint Of certain small manufat
turers and millowners."
Walters, ignoring the fact tha
iaboring women have fought for tn
bills, said of the leaders of the tigh
for the welfare legislation:
'They live in Fifth Avenue or River
side Drive and work their servant
more than eight hours day"