Show CONGRESS Senate Resolution Regarding Employer and Employee Senator Whim Makes a Lengthy Argument Acainst th ArtiOjcirm BU Homo lroc etlnis SENATE WASHINGTON July 2iAfter somo unimportant un-important business Pfeffer addressed the Senate on his resolution t inquire into the relation of employers and employees He said there were three ways to meet the labor troubles one by the government to keep its hands off another for the government gov-ernment to establish and regulate waxes third for the government to tako possession posses-sion of private establishments r ad conduct them At the close of his remarks the resolution was referred to the committee on education and labor Call addressed the Senate in support of Voorhees resolution for the establishment oT a tribunal of arbitration in labor con test Then White resumed his speech agaiiist tho aiUIoption bill White called attention to the anomaly that if the bill had not specially excepted the government of the United Slates the government would have been ainensbio to the penalties of the bil Wore not all bills for supplies tendered to the government made by parties who did not at tho time the contracts were made own the supplIes he asked Referring to tho fact that retail dealers were excapted While said there were so many exceptions in the bill that it might be called an exceptional bill so en tirerjrso ro thought It ought to be beaten Ho went on to declare the bill portilclbua and Yicicus I would strike blow at tile commerce of the country and tho concensus of npnion on the part of tho commercial bodies of the country was against lire measure and in this line bo read protests ftorn various commercial associations Speaking of futures White said that before that system came into existence the cotton business was confined to men of largo capital whereas now under the future delivery system all men were on a footing of equality and men with small capital were equals with those of large capita He had telegrams read from many of the cotton factories in Now Or lease as to the effect of thu future system on wheat While quoted Pillsburys testimony testi-mony before the House Committee on Agriculture to the effect that for the last ten years millions moro were paid for wheat than they got for tho flourrncdo from it White would like to know what became of the argument that under the future system farmers didnt receive for their wheat as much as they otherwise would have done Speaking on cotton again he said ho had seen lately a letter from a German merchant in Hamburg Ham-burg staling that he noticed there was an intention to strike down exchange busi nebs here and he hoped I would come over there White spoke nearly three hours and tho bill went over without action The House bill to enforce reciprocal commercial com-mercial arrangements between the United States and Canada passed without division Adjourned |