Show HALLS OF CONGRESS The Pacific Railway Funding Bill Taken Up II I I THR BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE The Bureau of XngravlPg and Printing Print-ing Organised LaborThe Immigrants Immi-grants Hand ya Steam Praises SENATE WASHIH TOK January 23The census cen-sus committee reported back wih amendments the House bill to provide for the taking of the eleventh and subsequent sub-sequent censuses Mr Sherman from the committee on foreign relations reported two amendments amend-ments to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill to protect the interests inter-ests of the United States in Samoa Calendar A concurrent resolution for the counting count-ing of the electoral vote in joint session on February 13th was passed Blodgett of New Jersey explained that he was paired with Biddleberger on the tariff bill when it came to a voto believing Riddleberger was in favor of the bill instead of opposed to it as appeared ap-peared to be the fact The Senate bill granting the Big Horn Southern Railroad a right of way through part of the Grow reservation in Montana was passed CHEXHAXS ANTITKUBT BILL regarding the restraint of trade and production was taken np and amended by striking out of the first section the word that competes with any similar article upon which a duty is levied by the United States and inserting the words in due course of trade If Sherman then proposed the bill go over till tomorrow to allow Hoar to offer ammendmenta to it Hoar said he wanted to make it more stringent The bill went over till tomorrow Frye asked unanimous consent that the Pacific Railroad funding bil should be given precedence over other special orders Agreed to Frye said no vote would be taken on the bill ibis week The bill ws then taken up and laid aside as unfinished business The District of Columbia appropriation appropria-tion bill was then taken up but not disposed of and after executive business busi-ness tho Senate adjourned HOUSE WASHiXGTOK January 23 The House went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil bill Lawler of Illinois offered an amendment amend-ment appropriating 50000 for repairs on and preserving the Custom House building at Chicago Illinois Agreed to Landes of Illinois moved to strikeout strike-out the clause in the bill providing the use of steam presses in the bureau of engraving and printing and taat a royalty shall be paid nut exceeding 1 cent per 1000 impressions A long discussion earned as to the relative merits of hand presses and steam presses for the work during which Bntterworth said the organization organiza-tion of hand plate printers had declared war upon steam machines and hud determined they should go If they ought to go it should be on their merits mer-its but if they ought nut to go on their merits the fact that these gentlemei had decided they had to go was no the slightest reason for putting them ont He had been told that the men who work on steam presses were HISSED AND ANNOYED in going to and from their work by hand plate printers If this is true the Secretary of the Interior and the board of the bureau ought to be impeached im-peached for not maintaining the right of a man in this country to earn his bread A committee had been appointed ap-pointed to loos into the character of the work of steam presses and he was solicitious to know whether they had testified as to whether such a reign of terror had been established in the bureau Quite a colloquy ensued between Batter worth Foran and Faguht r in which the latter spoke for the organized i mechanics of the land who had been I the men he said who kept up i TEX INDUSTEIBS OF THB COUHTBT I Butterworth said he approved of a combination of labor but he did not believe force should be need to exclude any American from any walk in lift or calling It was needless for the members mem-bers to shut their eyes to the fact that some of those organizations starved the widows and orphans into compliance with their behests He had not suggested sug-gested that the Knights of Labor opposed op-posed the introduction of labor saving machinery but he knew that sometimes misguided men under the belief that it was against their interests protested and fought even to violence against their introduction The members should stand by their deliberate judgment judg-ment and not yield to a suggestion which would shorten their political life Ha denied the right of any person to pay to this boy that he should not learn fLLEAms THE TRADE 07 XIS TATHXS Against that trade he inveighed So long as huckstering politics yielded to the tradewinds let in motion hire or there just so long would the free institutions insti-tutions be in danger not because men did not know better but because they i had not the courage to do better 111 tbey thought better If this House had done its duty the children of the men who made and kept this Republic would not now be arowded out by the Europeans who landed daily on our shores an immigration which had not brought in the energy the thought the money or the moral makeup of manhood but we are having thrown upon our shore every hoar men who represented nothing on Gods earth except an appetite a stomach and an alimentary canal Neither House of Congress had dared to stand in the political necessity by the homes of the country He hoped this Congress would do so before the session ws over but he protested that no association in the world had a right to punish him and starve him to death because he hired this man or that Craine of Texas said he was surprised sur-prised to bear the distinguished representative repre-sentative of the Republican Party which had posed is tho friend and CHAMFIOK OF THE LABORING MAIL because they had done what capital had done organized themselves for protection It was by organization that they compelled their employers to pay the rate of wages they demanded and were able to maintain the present rates Farqnhar offered as an amendment that none of the money appropriated shah be used in the use or repair of steam presses Pending the vote on any of the amendments the committee rose and the House adjourned |