Show IN THE CONGRESS senator palmer on record in the pittsburg trouble he thinks the workmen did but defend their rights the silver bill has gone to the coinage committee july 7 the discussion on oil the labor troubles was continued today to day by IV senators palmer voorhees cs hale granger r stewart ana and ganders palmer mentioned ned the fact that the workingmen at homestead had bad spent t their heir lives in their line of work and arid had lad the right to insist on permanency of employment and arid reasonable compensation at the time of assault on them they were where they had the tile right to bo be he ile urged that some principle to solve the problem should be sought if capital was the ma matter tier and the people were the tile slave i then their the country must be involved in anarchy lie ile said that the presence of a pinkerton armed force at Iloni homestead estead was gasn wasn lit contempt of the authority of the state of pennsylvania it was difficult for american citizens whether in ili the tile right or tile wrong to submit to being driven riven by a an n armed arnim force he lie malti maintained tainiA however that tho the citizens of homestead were in the right t as according to principles of law which would hereafter be applied to the 6 eo 0 lution of such trouble a and nd they had a right to be there those large manufacturing establishments would have to be regarded gardea re as holding the property subject co relative to the rights ol 01 I 1 t those I 1 lose without whose services their property orly world be utterly valueless there being onla bonfy conceded to them the right to a reamona reasonable ble profit prof it on the capital invested in the enterprises enterprise a he ile maintained furthermore ther more that the tile workingmen having spent their lives in a particular line of service lad a right to insist on per janancy of employment and also on oil reasonable compensation for their sc vices es he ile dainta maintained ned chat that at the time of the assaults ti the 1 e people eo I 1 e were at homestead ead where re they kivat aad a right to be and on the ground which they had a right to defend their hel r conduct was on oil the line of their rights manufacturing establish establishments men t 9 were public institutions just as railroads were because they worked for the public and were employed in public service ervice and because the men in the e service became unfit for other service while conceding the right of to control his prop erty and tp secure reasonable reward for his investment he claimed claim cil the laborer had a right to hermanet per manet anet employment dun during good behavior of course a laborer is g compelled to submit to the exigencies of business where profits were small the parties would have to divide the loss and where they were large they would have to be divided that he lie maintained was the law today to day because tho the law was the perfection of reason voorhees ea made a fiery speech in which he attributed the labor troubles to the republican policy of high protection he ile pai said d tile party said that the tile great manufacturing barons had to be protected against foreign competition in ili order to pay higher wages had rad they done lone so carnegie got a protection of to 60 percent on iron and arid more than 70 per cent on steel and arid instead 0 of f paying ing workmen higher wages he lie n notified esay them of a reduction of from fromi 12 to 40 per cent the benefi beneficiary clary tariff system responded respond ed bythe by alie employment of ah an armed mob pinker toil toils 9 were the meanest mercenaries and those of them who were killed were kill killed I 1 by workingmen in ili self defense his ills only regret W gret was that tha t carnegie Cae negie himself had not riot been at the tile head of the squad instead of skulking in his scottish castle finally resol resolutions u tion 9 for the investigation of or the homestead ines ead troubles were referred to the tile committee on oil contingent the conference reports were agreed to or on the indian and tice appropriation bills and on the bill as to th alio 0 funding 11 ing act of arizona adjourned HOUSE washington july 7 after referring ring the lie silver bill to the coinage committee the house louse this morning again voted down downa a green conference report on oil the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill by a decisive vote the appos opposition being based on the appropriation of for the payment of the tile united states share ot of expenses crises in the tile frei preliminary in I 1 itier survey af pf of an intercontinental inter continental rat railway lv v a the to remainder of t the 1 ae day was consume consumed j in n consideration oft of the resolution directing the committee on judiciary already authorized authorised to investigate the 1 ink ertons system to investigate the recent occurrences at Iloni estead the committee commit teo on labor wanted the resolution referred to them and arid it was so done lone but the victory was short lived as the judiciary men regained ali air ground and finally 11 1 n a ily secured the resolution during the discussion watson of georgia ariti criticized cited the judiciary committee for having been derelict in their duty for not proceeding with tho tile investigation lone conf ago oates denied that the com committee mitlee iee had ad failed in ili their duty cluty th the q conference report anthe on the indian appropriation bill was submitted and agre to adjourned |