Show LABOR AND CAPITAL I Conflict During the Morning Hour of I the Senate t Washington Feb 21A conflict between be-tween labor and capital took place in the morning hour of the senate today I came up in the shape of a resolution resolu-tion to withdraw from the president an act authorizing the Metropolitan Railroad Rail-road company of Washington to extend its road into one of the suburbs That resolution had been inspired by the Knights of Labor in order to punish the railroad company for dismissing and refusing to take back several of its employees who were members of that organization The senators most conspicuous in the cause of labor were Mr Allen Pop Neb and Mills Dem Tex while the cause of the railroad company was sustained by Senators McMillan Rep Mich Gallinger Rep N H and Faulkner Dem W Va all of them members of the committee com-mittee for the District of Columbia Finally the resolution was laid on the table by a vote of 30 to 24 The remainder of the days session was occupied in the consideration of the postofiice appropriation bill which appropriates 95S353SS The points which led to discussion were the item of the payment of rail way mail transportation and the proposition prop-osition to create a committee on that ositon general subject I Mr Butler Pop N C desired to have the railroads paid at the rates jl which are charged by express companies com-panies for like service but his amendment 1 amend-ment was ruled out on a point of order i i i or-der The senate amendment for a joint I the two houses to inves committee of I I tigate the whole subject was modified I by the committee itself so as to provide vide for a joint committee nominal change only and then a substitute was i offered by Mr Chandler Rep N H I proposing that the committee shall consist of the two chairmen of the postoffice committee In the senate and house the postmaster general and two citizens to be appointed by the president presi-dent and that the scope of its inquiry shall embrace the correction of alleged I abuses in the postal service including secondclass mail matter the extension exten-sion of free delivery In the rural region re-gion the reduction of the cost of railroad rail-road transDortation the adontlon of onecent letter postage and other like questions In the course of the long debate on this subject Mr Dubois Sll Ida notified no-tified the Republicans that they could J S f 1 I not organize the senate hi the next session and that the silver Republican senators would not cooperate with them The action of the Republican i acton Republcn convention at St Louis he said had caused the loss of the Pacific coast to the party BO that of the seven senators sena-tors since elected to take the place of Republicans only one Republican was sent back Mr Hill Dam N Y advocated Mr Chandlers substitute and criticised the action of the committee on appropriations appropri-ations in relation to the subject which caused the chairman of that committee commit-tee Mr Allison to express facetious I his satisfaction at the advice given to I the senate by the senators from Idaho and New York as neither would have the opportunity of advising the senate i next session I At 6 oclock a recess was taken until 18 p mAt I m-At 2 oclock there were but few senators 1 sen-ators present to listen to the momentous I momen-tous reading of the clerk At that hour I he had covered about half the 134 1 pages contained In the bill Items to I i which objection was offered were passed over without action I At 230 a m the reading of the sundry sun-dry civil bill was finished and the senate sen-ate took a recess until 3 a m |