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Show GEXERAL. I Platform f tilt Labor Couvt ill ion. Cinc-mnsu. 19. In the national laboi congress yesterday the Committee on I-iatf rm reported "Kesolved that laborers la-borers in ail departments of useful industry in-dustry are suffering from the system of monetary laws which were enacted during du-ring the late war as measures which it was assumed were nece.-sary to the liie 01 the-Eauon- They are now sought to be erpemated in the interest" oi bondholders and bankers, ai a means to subvert the government of our fathers, and establish on its ruin an empire in which all political power shall be centralized ; to restrain and oppress the rights ot" labor and subor diuate its votaries to the demands of ajrsrregated capital Resolved : That the rate of interest on money is the governing power in the distribution of the products of industry in-dustry and enterprise between capital and labor, and that the present rates are in excess and show a disposition to increase the wealth of individuals and are oppressive to the producing classes Resolved : That the national banking bank-ing system, being inimical to the interests inter-ests of the laboring classes and subversive sub-versive of the principles of justice, without warrant in the Constitution of the United States and wronfullv increasing in-creasing the burdens of the wealth producing classes by millions of dollars annually, we demand its repeal. Piesolved : That to provide a true national cnrrency,;adopted to the genius of our institutions and the business of the country, the circulated notes of the national banks and the present greenbacks, green-backs, which are not a full legal tender, ten-der, should be withdrawn from circulation, circu-lation, and their place supplied with a paper currency based on the wealth of the nation, made a legal tender in payment pay-ment of all debts, public and private, and declared lawful money of the United States, and convertable at the pleasure of the holder into srold bonds bearing three per cent, interest per annum, subject to future legislation by Congress, the bond likewise to he convertible into lawful jioney at the option of the holders. Resolved : That the claim of the bondholders for payment in gold, of that class of indebtedness known as 5.20 bonds, and the principal of which is legally and equally payable in lawful money, ;is extortionate, and hence we enter our solemn protest against any departure from the original contract, funding the debt in long bonds or in any increase of gold-bearing and untaxed un-taxed obligations of government. Resolved: That justice demands that the burdens of the government should be so adjusted as to bear equally on all classes; that the exemption from taxation taxa-tion of government bonds bearing extortionate ex-tortionate rates of interest, is a violation of all just principles and of the revenue laws. Resolved : 'That Congress should modify the tariff so as to admit the necessities ne-cessities of life and such articles of common use as we can neither produce nor grow ; also to lay the duties of revenue rev-enue mainly upon articles of luxury, and upon such articles of manufacture as, having the raw material in abundance, abun-dance, will develop the resources of the country, increase the number ot factories, give employment to mor; laborers, maintain good compensation, cause the emigration of skilled labor, les.sen the price to consumers, create a permanent home-market for agricultural agricultu-ral products, destroy the necessity for odious and expensive internal taxation, and that will soon enable us to successfully success-fully compete with the manufacturers of Furope in the markets of the world. Resolved : That the wild land.i of the United Flat.;- belong to the people, peo-ple, and should be sold to individuals, not granted to corporations, but should be held as a sacred trust for the ben- til of the people, and be granted free of cost to settlers only, in most not exceed ex-ceed in :r one hundred r.ni'. si.ty acres. Resolved : 'That the constitutional power of the government has no authority au-thority in the CuiiMittitioii to disposed' dispos-ed' the public lands without (lie joint -auction el the Senate ami llou-c of R--Tc--u!a:ives. Hclano. of California, ofo-ie-l th--IbilowiuL', which he a .k-d to have a i-i-ed to th" import : Re-o;ed : That the presence, in our country of Chinese in Jarce :nin-b--rs js ;m evil entailing want and criin-' on all other class, s of A mi 1 ii-a n tee i-le, and should be prevenl"d il i-"' ary by -tririL'etit l-g'.s.a!iri. it- e-'U-elerali'iu was tern pora I i' s po-:, o.-l. A lone di-cus-ioii filluwi'd en a ro-ohtion of the platform, dcclarinc that workirgmcii repudiate every financial finan-cial theory that looks to the repu-lui-:!! of the national debt, and demanding demand-ing that every aete'-ux-nt with j ublio cieiiitors be exactly full ikd according tr the strict letter arid full intent th'-ie-( :. 'J le- re-ohition was1 fir.ufy tahli-d 4'. I" -e Alt'-r f ;rhcr d:-s;u--i'-u tb" c; '-iii.il r-'-olu;i in wa-adopted. ''). a!;--, noun .e--;-ni wa entirely con-uioci 01 a -l.y-;i--n of ire; fourth rc-ou!on. h'--!i w a- tn::r-ly oppo-"d by tie ea-o rn d--l- The w--t, h' -r, are a unit in it- favor, arid th'-re i- re-1 re-1 .j- t I u! tii" p.i.:i.,rin, a- a whe -c i... adopted. Mnlfk wl'.li A c jilr 1 . . N' -r Ve rh. A .v. i'l - l.:. I ev nil,.-. a- I ' : V j,...'. ri i t w a- a'- -n - r 1 I- r ---:n at Con;'r--- II .:;. .-a !.- : ! in an ap-.pl. .-,,. tj. I.- ..- ...-.:.. !..: -k'Tt'-l into the j ' - :i i. a""t.0..n- c a oi,- --';:'::. --';:'::. '1 - i-h-. - cams !'.-., -u i I ha' i N" e-r.e i- aii -,-. ;-, j - !..:... 1 :.- ; . an- are ,. ,i:.tai,t- iy i.: hi- b- i -i-;-:. t.v.-rv ",,- i... 1 ' - ,. - '. rj , I "' i ' ' ' 4 '" j i- 1 : ::. a,.j" arnn.-e- tie- I ,,.. j - ..- - ;:. a vj pr.-i-ario-i- c .r!;. i r 1 ir I n I . u -1 u . -peciii' eor-.-c-iior.aer.t tilegraphs i.-oiu Ktissta : The nws is almost mir.a-.i::g. mir.a-.i::g. There was a I'-.r.-or.-tr.-tien ye--er.ir.y of tie s:.;i-n:s at Lezitow tcainst Prussia, and the orpreive iiieasures of the Russian authorities igainst the tic: man and Lettish 'ir.hab-.tants 'ir.hab-.tants of EstliOtiia and Courlar.d are epor.ed to l e increasin? in severity. Negotiations, the purpose ot which is unknown, are going on between St. Petersburg and Vienna. A special agent to France from Constantinople, Con-stantinople, despatched ly the new-Turkish new-Turkish minister, is daily expected in London. The Prince and Princess of 'W ales are unusually harmonious in their almost al-most open sympathies with the French. The Prince's feeling, it is believed, rests on his gnat dL-like of his hrotVjer-in-law, the Crown Prince of lVussia. Political. Cincinnati. August 19. 1. Campbell Camp-bell was nominated by acclamation, at Hamilton yesterday, as the lVmocmif candidate for Congress, for the third district of Ohio. .1. W. lVnver was nominated Pvirjoerstic candidate for the sixth d: strict at llilh-'eorn, in the 40th ballot |
