Show eight hour day cuts cat a licursi fl Fi cursi la ia all aug 8 the bids of two of the principato principal paio contractors for work on the illinois and mississippi canal the hennepin hennegin Henn epin have been rejected by the government because the estimates were not based on the eight hour day as required by the new law the effect of this will be to prevent doing much work on the canal this season there ii on hand a fund of something like of the half million made by the fifty first congress it lias has been expected here that considers consider libl hlo n work would be done on the western terminus of the canal before fall |