Show GOY ALTGELB i IS ALL RIGHT I o Says Fithian Who Makes a Bitter Attack on Cleveland i THOSE TROOPS AT CHICAGO TruEr 1VERE SENT THERE IJf YIO LoTION OF LAW jit1flItrL Predicts That the Tfnine ot ItgcIi Will Ii > e in JJi tvJTr One Who in n Grctvi CrlsU Siood For Iiwr nntl Constitutional Gov ernmentIt Wn Lsvfcor Bay i tlie House I Washington Feb 26 The House met at 11 oclock today I Mr Henderson Democrat of North I Carolina chairman of the Committee on PostofHces and Port Roads 1m jncdlately called up the conference report re-port on tha postofflce appropriation ill much to th disappointment of the members who were clamoring for unanimous conent to consider bills Tho Senate amendment providing Ithat hereafter naiL clerks should live Bomewhcre along the route to which ihey are assigned t but clerks heretofore here-tofore appointed should not bet required be-t change their residence was the only Question In dispute between the two houses The amendment was designed c io destroy the effect of general order lumber S73 Issued by the postmaster I general requiring clerks to live on the gener ne their routes When tlia order m issued some 1300 clerks lived off I their lines Since then 800 hav changed their residence Mr Henderson had read a letter from the postmaster general protesting against the enate amendment National Arbitration Dilly Dill-y As It was evident the amendment 1 Should occasion some debate Mr Hen Gerson withdrew the conference report re-port in order to give Mr Catchings atv opportunity to present the special order giving today until 3 oclock to gy1ns the committee on labor and tomorrow io the Committee on Public Buildings And Grounds Tha special order w adopted without division and Mr Mcg Mc-g < ann of the labor commission called Tip the national arbitration bill entitled A bill concerning carriers engaged in Interstate commerce and their employees em-ployees The purpose of the bill Is to provide Q boar erf conciliation consisting of the commissioner of labor and the chairman of the interstate commerce commission whose dutjr it should be Trhen a controversy concerning wages taours of labor or conditions of employment em-ployment arose between a carrier under this act and the employees of such carrier seriously interrupting or threatening to interrupt the business nf said carrier to put themselves in I Icommunication with the iparties to such controversy and shall use their fceet efforts by mediation and conciliation con-ciliation to amicably settle the same and i such efforts should be unsuccessful unsuccess-ful should at once endeavor to bring about an arbitration of said controversy con-troversy by submitting the sama to a Joar4 consisting of three persons one ioar to be chosen by the employees One bye the by-e third employer and those two selecting thirdit It FJnas Favor 3ilr TjJrdman Democrat ot Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania planed the provisions of the bill whIch he saId was originally t drawn by the attorneygeneral and b considered and perfected y being carefully cnsIdere perect I ed by the Committee on Labor today I o had the support of all the chiefs of labor S la-bor organizations inrolvefl and of the f commissioner of labor f Does the bH provide a compulsory ferbitration asked Mr Simpson By no means replied air Ercnan r The railroads favor it The laboring men have considered It in all its i L phases and their representatives are here today anxiously urging It The till has behind it the unanimous cup port of our committee Wen a difference is submitted to arbitration under the provisions of this 1 bill interrupted Mr Dingley Repub bUI7 lican of Maine and the arbitrators c vendor a decision how it is to be enforced en-forced 7 The decrees are to be enforced byte by-te courts replied Mr Brdznan The courts can enforce a decree or award R against 3 railroad company TvhJch owns property suggested Mr iDIngley but how can It enforce it a against employees lgmit employees ore to be treated as far as possible as Incorporated boaiea responded Mr Erdman Mr McLeary Republican of HUn nesoto called attention to the section of the bill which provided all labor organizations claiming benefits under 4 i should havs in their articles of Incor uoratlon a clause providing that mem 5 > ers should forfeit their membership if S I they award failed to comply with an arbitration war t ritMiwx Grove Blitcu Mr Fithion Democrat of Illinois took Qooaskm to make a bitter speech denouncing the action of the presfden in pending troops to Chicago lat yea t suppress the strike He declared 3 > In Clevelands action was unconst tutional aswl that when the full fact were known Governor AltgeMs pos ion i-on would be commended everywhere HI predict said he the name of Altgeld l live in history as one in the sreat crisis In the events of ou common country who stood for lawful aa constitutional sovernment asains govennnettt by Injunction govern fverm and government in violation tnsnt by force bVment io of the lation of Saw which is aaarchy fTort And mot violent sort Speeches iavoiung the bill were mad yoIg mae foy Mr Ikir XDemocrat oC Ohio Hen dereou Republican of Iow and Dunn 1 Democrat of New Jersey On mot n O Mr Tawney Republt ban of Minnesota an amendment was adopted in the shape of n proviso h > thft cffieat that no employee should t punished for fi1ur t comply with en arbitration award a bY contempt t > f out Several other unimportant amendments toffeth with those of 1 exed by the commlttea wore agreed to and without division the bill was passed Mr MJeGann then called up the Joint resolution to raise the rate of wage oIt oi printers and bookbinders in the government printing office from 40 t foe g per hour After some debate He bill was wIt Hwuwn A bill wa passed for tht PQ1 ton of the bulletins of the department of lbor The xejnafader of tha d y was deVoted de-Voted t eulogies on the life and pub I lIe services f the late Sydney Poe I pf Illinois I Those who paid tribute to the memo bf their late colleague were Messrs flend ron Lane Bynurn Grosvenor Brodcrlclc Ialllver Martin Boutelle and Lucas Then at 5US p m as a fUrther our t of rcpect the House adjourned |