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T H E C L A R IO N - quesUoo, the nermoiuiicg ol oo&KUng th- ierest9 u d the DudnteoaDce o( the peoples rights hr the naeot the belloc. T8KM8 OP SUBSCRIPTION: oouDtr pui&ij. I d sendliigplease pl seed Dr r . u. orao', or regis- Addrees all commaaicaUooaastol- ioin;THeCuBiON,Tror,N. Y. Teinthoae. BntaredatthePMMffioe.Trori N.T.,as Seo- 0Dd>cus8 mui matter. TROT, SATURDAT, SEPTEMBER 18, ISSt, W hat C ongress has D one and L eft U ndone . At the Olevelaod cODventtoa of the KuiKhts of Libor it was decided to ap point a legisUlire committee to remain m Washington during the iitting of Con> grees and nrge the eDaOmentof legiala- tioc favored by tlie Knightg. MesBiS. Beaumont. HcCirtoey and Campbell were appointed on this committee. Mr. Campbell found liimeelf anabfe to serve, and the duties fell upon tue other ttvo geDtlemcc, Finding that there was a general fmpieeslon among Oongretsmeu that the (eeds uf cieintegiation hud been sown ill the tu UK s of the Knighte uf Labor, they decided that the beet method of eecuriug the Jegiejutioii they desired was by means of petitions. Ouniequentiy they sent ont 5,000 duplicate memoriub to different local aseemhlies east of the Rocky mountains, and in ten days the Senate and House had been presented with petitions containing upwa 300,000 signatures The following meas ures were selected upoi legislation was asked: 1. House bill No. 7887, repealing timber culture, pre-emption and desert land acts. 2. House bill No. 7081, for the adjust mentent of railroadsilroads andnd othertnec landan< grants. S Billailla forfeitingorfeiting all railroadilrt land m of ra a o l S B f all ra grants, the conditions of which . been strictly complied with. 4. House bill organizing the territory of Oklahama. 5. Senate bill opening a portion of the great Sioui reservations to settlement. 6. The bill prohibiting aliens from bolding laud in the United States. 7. The bill making presideodai aud •congresaiODsi electiun days holidays and punishing bribery. 8. The bill directing the disbursement o f at least 1100,000,000 treasury surolns, -and aubsiitutuig treasury notes for bank motes retired. Communications addressed to.Speaker Carlisle and SamuelJ. Randall, Chairman of the Committee on 3'ays aod Alean#, each received courteous and satisfactory The bills specified la N ol 1 and 2 passed the House, but when they came before the Senate committee, that body struck out all the enacting clauses, anil substituted entirely new bills, which confirmed the injustice of past legislation. Several minor bills forfeiting railroad laud grants passed both bouses and be came laws, others of more importance passed the House but not the Senate. The forfeiture bills which hare become taws rescue to the people 30,871,360 acres of land; those which have passed the House but not the Senate, 38,431,941 acres; those on the House calandsr, fa vorably reported, 13,067,214 acres. The House passed the bill restricting the ownerebip of land to American citi- Hr. Morrison of Illinois had early in the session introduced a lueolution cov ering the 8th specification. This resotn* tions, bitterly opposed by the leaders on the Republican aide, was carried in the House b y a vote of 207 to 67. After the reaolntlon passed the House, it was placed m Che hands of the Senate committee of Finance. One day it was annonneed in the local papers that Mr. Jordan, of the treasury, would appear at ihe next mvet- mg of the Senate committee which had charge of the bill, to show why it should not pass. Chairman Beaumont there upon addressed a letterto Senator Sher man, acting chairman during the sick- uees o f Senator Morrill, requesting to be heard in support of the bill, as the repre sentative of the Knights. The senator vonchsafed no reply. On the morning when the committee met, Beaumont sta tioned himself at the door of the room and when Sherman made his appearance repeated his request verbally. The fol lowing brief dialogue took place : Shennsn—We cannot hear you, sir. Beaumont—I wrote you a letter, sir. Did you recave it? Sherman—Yes, sir. Beaumont—Yon did not answer it. Sherman—No sir; we cannot bear you. Beaumont—B n t Mr. Jordsn is to be heard by your committee. Am I not to heard on behalf of several hundred thou sand petitioners that I represent? Sherman—No, sir. H r. Jordan is an official of the government; we must hear ium. Wo respeert you as an individual, but you have no time to listen to you. He then passed into tbe committee room and shut the door in Beaumont’s Tke Senate amended the resolution, as shall be explained hereafter, and it passed by a vote of 42 to 20, It was oon- curred in b r the honse by a vote of 120 to 63, 139 not voting. We quote tbe following from tbe report The resolution as it first passed tbe House, would have made it obUgatory on tbe part ot the Secretary of the Treasury to pay out at least $10,000,000 per month of the surplus now in the treasnry over and above the $100,000,000 kept as a re serve for ibe K)46,000,000 of legal ten der notes. The amendments of the S- n- ate increased the reserve to $110,000,000, and the Secretary may increase the amount to $130,000,000; and, beyond that, it gave tbe Secretary discretionary power to suspend tbe payment of tbe public debt altogether, even to the sink ing fund. Had this measure passed and become a law it Would have been the greatest vic tory Wall street bad gained since the credit-atrentheni^ act of 1869. But your coma ittee is happy to say that it tailed to become a law on account of the refusal of the rresident to sign the reso lution. Your committee is credibly in- termed that the Pre&dent told Mr. Mor rison that he considered the first vote on the original resolution of 207 yeas tc 67 nays, the sentiment of the pwple on the subject; that he should not sign tbe reso- maintained, and that is by respectfully considering the demands of labor. Shortening the hoars of the workingman wUi tend to increase the nnmberof wotfc- Eight hours a day instead of ten, will give work to five men instead of four. Fair wages will find a ready circu lation ih the commnnity, and thus all branches of bu-iness will be kept alive. When workingmen’s wages are cut down, the purchasing power of commuiutv is decreased in like proportion, and all kind of bosiness alike suffer. out the purport $10,000,000 per month. Thus i t would seem that after ail the Fresideii’t pocket veto of the Morrison resolution was for a good purpose ; and this view seems substantiated by the re port that the treasury department pro poses to call in all tbe oatstanding three per cent, bonds within a year, which is mote than was contemplated by the Mor rison resolution. The following bills in the hand of tbe Labor committee have passedtbe House: House bill No. 6541, to prevent tbe em ployment of convict labor and alien labor upon public buiidiugs and other public works, and convict labor in tbe prepara tion or mannfocture of materials for pub lic buildings or other public works, and to regulate the manner of letting con tracts iherofor. ,Honse bill No. 9232, in regard to tbe importation and immigration of foreign ers and aliens under contract. House Dill No.53l0, to protect mechan ics, laborers aud servauU in their in the District of Colnmbia House joint resolution, No. 142, thorizing the Commissioner of Labor to make an investigation as to convict labor. ), providing I n laborers in i payment of pei liiem laborers in govern- meat employ on Decoration day, having passed both houses, has become a law. Senate bill No. 2076, to extend to Ii ter-oariicrs that which is enjoyed by other government employes, viz.: eight hours per day, was obstructed in ils j sage ihtough the House by the commit on Business, Messrs. Carlisle, Randall and Morrison, tbe postmaster-general having estimited that tbe additiui pease to the department, if this bill be came a law, would be $2,300,000. The biU to incorporate trade unions bas beoome a Iaw,but for any trade onion toavail itself of the provisions of this act, It must establish the headquarters of the organization in tbe District of Columbia, as Cougresi has no jurisdiction over the Siatee in this matter. OoB P resent P rosperity and its The New York Tribune, the Troy and other organs of capitalists aopolists have wasted a good deal aud strength howliug over the the country in general and to the ; people in particular incident to r uprisings which have character ized the-year. B u . men are working to day fewer hours and for higher wages than for a number of years—in fact sicce the ‘'h u d timce’ really set iu, and yet the merchants and manutacturers gener ally report exceptional presperity. Busi ness has ^ p a rentlf not been killed by the small measare of justice which so far has been accorded to labor, but has actually revived in consequence. This is what last Sunday’s Budget predicts fur the fnture: There will be fewer great fortunes created aud greabir benefits will result to the toiling masses, Batter wages, bet ter homes, larger accumnlstlon of sav ings, an improved condition generally of tbe«age earners, and at tue same time fair returns upon tbe investments of our capitalists. The following statements by tbe same paper are, we believe, true in every par ticular; The belief in returning prosperity is wide spread. The volume of buaine-s for the close of tbe present year promises to be very large. Tbeie U less idle labor and fewer commercial failures in the country, considering population, now than ever before. More houses, shops, mills and factories are being built, mure machinery is being sold, more cars aud locomotives are being turned out and more capital is seeking opportunities for inveatmeuC. Of business in general it may be sail that there IS rapid expansion. There is nothing like what would be called a boom but bealUiy progress. Bank and clear ing house and railroad returns show this. All tbe textile manufacturing establish- the New Buglaud and middle preened with orders and labor ’ except m one or renty.flve locmno- tive works are running full All the eigbty-MX ear works have big orders. Tbe 423 iron and steel works in opera tion have as mncl: attend to and tbe B.. country have orders tor 500,000 tons ahead. IruH making capacity is being extended more rapidly than any other branch of industry. The nail factories e very busy, buyers of all kinds of luterial are stocking up and higher prices re predicted for iioc, steel, lumber, ardwar^ dry goods of all kinds. There is one way and only way in which the present prosperity can be T he State Trades Assembly held its annual session this week at Syracose. Resolutions were adopted favoring the bolding of a state constitutional conven tion; pledging candidates for the assembly not to vote for any candidate for United States serator inimical to tbe interests of organized labor, demanding that i but citizens, or those who bave declared thdr intention of becoming so, shall be employed on pnblic works, and that laws against tbe importation of pauper labor should be passed; su^esting the enactment of a law making the bribers of voters the only responsible party in the transaction; reconamending that no other hats be purchased than tboee having the ica,’’ thanking Oov. Hill for his prompt approval of every labor measure snbmit- ted to him; condemning District-Attor ney Martine and Judge Barrett for im prisonment of the Tbeiss boycotters and petitioning tbe governor for their pardon; making a leading issue in the fall cam paign 'or legislative honors the repeal of sections of ihc penal code discriminating against boycotting; indorsing tbe candi dacy of Henry Qeorge for Mayor of New York; calling upon members of all labor organizations to purchase no shoes but those bearing Che label of organized labor; requiring candidates for Congi to pledge themselves to vote for tbe pro tection of American lauustry in tariff matters; indorsing the work of the labor arbitration commission; recommending tbe amendment of the mechanic’s lien law so 88 to give workingmen tbe prefer ence for wages over and whoever supplits material. The legislature of 1886 is declared to have commended itself by its sets to the confidence of organized labor. Tbe next logislature is asked to increase the force of assistant factory in spectors to 10, 80 that all the leading citiis of the state may be looked after; t continue the state board of labor arbltri tion with iucreased powers, and tbe i rieon labor commission, aud to amend the car drivers and conductors' till f to make their hours of labor 11 per day and extend its proviuous to the whole ludgeti kiudlv gives the Kuights laboringaboring menen generallyenerally permis-ermis Tac Bud and tbe l m g p sion to go into politics. Thank you, Mr. Budget. Cut this reminds ns of a little sturv going the rounds of tbe newspapers, A little girl asked her mother. \Mamma may I go next door and play a little while t” “Yes;\ was tbe reply. “Thank yon, mamma, ” said the young miss, demurely, “ I ’ve been.\ We, too, have been, and are going again, bnt tbank yon for your permission all thesamn Tbe following from the same paper regard to the question is really as good as though we had said it ourselves, and so we take pleasure in giving it a place in the C labior ; So far as the question of the Knights entering politic.^ is concerned no harm can cesuli. Recourse to the ballot box for the adjustment of grievances is not only justifiable but fiur preferable to such \ igard of law as cbataclerize tbe prin- IB of anarchy and socialism, tbe en- ciples of anal forceuient of iiuent of which have been attempted 1 this country iu tbe nameof working- len but which to their credit, our Ameri can w age earners have so promptly and vigorously deuounced. Elesidee, ff the workingmen take a serious interest in politics whether they nominate candi dates tor themselves or not, beneficial re sults are sure to follow, for in bidding for their support the prominent parties will be forced to nominate mt ideas ra.her tl 11 be better and i governed. e men who rej and we miically T bs building of tbe new aqueduct for the city of New York is made tbe occa sion for the oppression of workmm which is almost without parallel at the present day. The contractors for this aqueduct advertised for workmen at $2.60 p er day. This seemed like liberal wages, and they had no trouble in getting all t'ue help they wanted. But the workmen ' requiren to board a t the company’s board ing bouses, paying unreasonable prices for board and lodging, and to take the larger proporlioa of their wages in orders on the company's stores, where they were charged an advance of a hundred per ceuL on outside prices, on all arti cles. Tbe workmen were treated like slaves, and not even ordinary precautions were taken to iasnre them against acci dent and aickuesi. Fifty-nine men bave been killed in this aqueduct since tbe be ginning of 1885, and 272 men bave been treated in hospitals for serious injuries. Hundreds bsve died of fevers and other diseases contracted in their work during the same period of time. In brief, political tricksters are making unlawfnl gams off the labor and the very life of their fellow men. T eebb are eighty policemen in the employ ot the city, at a salary of $850 each, making a total of $68,000 anmmlly for keepingping thehe peaceeace of tbebe city.ity. Thehe followingg examinationxamination off Commissionerommissioner t p of t c T D e o C Mogill by Messrs.CndgeondHartshorn, before the investigating committee on Saturday evening last, contains several lessons so palpable we think we hardly need to point them out: Cridge—How many licenses are grant ed by the interohl revenue deportment? Mugill—Seven hundred. Cridge—How many U(»csea has the city of Troy granted this year? Mogill—About 250. Ondge—Why are these city licenses not collected as quickly as the internal revenue? Magill—We ate not the U. 8. govern- Cridge—You have a large force of men at your command? Magi\ time to pay. 'Iridg. • ,ill—Yes, sir, but we give them Cridge—All you've got to say is “pay or shut up'' and the money would now in. All that is wanted is back bom Magill—It lakes a goud deal of license and not tbe city license? Magill—There are many places . South Troy, where widows, who keeps saloons, if they were forced to close would go to the poor house and become a public charge. They bave to pay the United States license lor tUey have spot ters around. If we enforced, ic these poor folks would become a city ^ a rge. Aartshorn—Is it not uaJerstood that they will not be mide to pay tbe city license? Magill—The commissioners do not give them to understand so. Hartshorn—Isartshorn—Is notot yourour boardoard ham- H n y b •ered by tbe lawieiisaess outside? MagiiJ—Yes, sir. AiJermea co us and ask us i against the solooi Cridge-^Aldermen ask you not to en- us not to enforce it force the law ! Magill—They ask for humanity’s sake. Cridge—Do lerate the oJi ................. . esDDot pay their licenses? Magill—I think it an evil, bnt satj evil. Hartshorn—With no nse of liquor how much of the police force would be :agUI—I don't think we would need H bkry G boboe in ihe second of bis series o f articles on Pennsylvania labor iu tbe September number of the North American, says of child labor in the coal legions: As f tt tbe laws against the employ ment of children, they are a dead letter in Pennsylvania, except os they are to some extent enforced in the city of Pbila- delpbia by the efforts of a Children’s Protective Society; and I recently found in Pennsylvania papers, without any comment on tbe illegal age, an item re counting tbe cutting to pieces of a child of eleven in a Beading mill, by the start ing ol a macbme i t had been set to clean. In tbe coal mieing region no one seems to pay any attention to the law prohibit ing the employment of cbildren under twelve, and boys of seven and eight may be found picking slate in anthracite coal breakers or trimming coke in the bit:—' nous region. I t is reported that there is about to be an exodus of iron and steel workers from England to this coantry, driven thence by tbe depression of the iron trade in North Staffordshire, and attracted thither by the exaggerated reports of a great boom in iron in and around Pittsburgh. A committee has beeu sent to this coun try to examine into affairs, and if its port be favorable a large number will enbaik at once for America, their desti nation beiug Pittsburgh, unless there is prompt action taken by organized labor to prevent them. Trnly under our pres ent laws tbe tariff affords protection for tbe manufacturer while there is “free- trade\ in labor. S aid a Senatur in conversation with the K. of L. committee; “The House will yield to popular cLmor, but the Sen ate will not.\ Which seems to na but another way of saying what Wm. H. Van derbilt did a few years ago: \The peo ple be d ~ ,-d . \ Tbe people can depend upon their Representatives a t Washing ton carrying out their wishes in most matters; bnt the Senate, composed largely of millionaires will stand nearly solid every time in favor of corporations, BioBopolies, and the moaey powers gener ally. The country would be be better off if the American house of lords was dis pensed with. T ee eastern national banks hold $114,- 000,000 of bonds on whicu they receive stmaaliy from the people of tbe oonntry an interest o f3 per cent., while the same banks are lent $102,000,000 by the gov ernment on which they pay one per cent., tbe bare cost of issue, there being no surplus to go into the treasury. These 3 per cent, bonds are for no definite period, and may be paid any time, thus saving the country a heavy annual pense. Meantime there are nearly $600,- 000,000 of coin lying idle in the United States treasury. This is financiering for WoKEiNciHBK, sgiCatc fOF & slote law to compel employers of labor to pay weekly THE BANKRUPT STOCK Elllford’s IB BEING SOLD AT THE At Half the Original Cost Corsets Lisle Gloves Kid Gloves 12 l-2c 9c 25c Are a few of the Bargains to be Obtained FESSENDEir, LAMBERT A TOWER. 306 & 306 River-St. 323 Fulton-St. 1 ANEYEOPEIB! 1 FOR THE Fall Trade at S. B. THING & Oo.’s I A big drive for September, 10 caaea of Ladies' $2.50 combination fine kid button boota that we shall close at $1.50 a pair. Ladies, without a question, thU boot is the beat value ever offered in Troy. Think of it, an elegant $2.50 kid button boot at $1.50 a pair. A word to the wbe is sufficient, * if Of all 1 at prices' SCHOOL SHOES. Colossal Bargains in Children’s and Misses', Boys' and Youtha’ School Shoea at F THING & Co.’s Can affot GREAT FAMILY SHOE EMPORIUM, TnzBE bas another clergyman come to the front in the defense of capital against Che encroacIimenCs of labor. The Rev. T. R. Bacou of New Haven read a paper before tbe social soieoce asssociatiun at Saratoga on “Boycotters and the Law.\ He said merchants abonid disregard boy cott on particular manufactnrers, and that mannfacturers themselves must com- biae onder some intelligent system if they wonld withstand this formidable weapon of organized labor. Organiza tion is Ml right, of course, on the part of capital; bnt utterly wrong on the p art of labor. As tbe law and order leoane ex presses it—In spirit if not in words: “The boycott must be p ut down, if it takes tbe boycott to do it.” G eneral W eaver having contem plated tbe issne of a work upon economic and flooncial questions, colled upon tbe publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sous of New York’ City, to negotiate for its publication. They told him they would be frank with him, they could not publish his book, as they belonged to an associa tion ot publishing houses which had agreed to publish nothing which wai posed to an exclusive gold basis currency. Mr. Weaver replied; “Then I belong to an associatioa which will not buy your books.” A gain the Times is exercised in mind becauee Governor Hill promised to|attend speedily to the casss of the convicted boycotters, and so far he hasn’t done U. What trouble the poor Times does have to get things to its liking, to be sure! But then we don't wonder very much that tuat paper is anxious to see boycott ing suppressed at all hazards. It wula oat: “Tbe thing is likely to be carried into other departments of trade and in dustry to the annoyance of employers.” Yes; it is. A r tbe Knights of Labor picnic at Miuneapolis on labor cay, attended by over twenty thousand persons, there was only one draoken man present, and be was a policeman. The most effectual temperance societies in the northwest are the Knights of Labor assemblies, and drnnkenness la decreasing among the workingmen of that section. So at least says the Cedar Rapids New Era. A C haelbston landlord raised his rente twenty-five per cent, offer the earth quake: and another docked his clerks One dollar each for being late at the store the next morning after the same ocenrenoe. It is evident that sold earthquake fell somewhat short of its duty when it left these men os enmberets of the ground. I t is recommended that no European immigrants be admitted to this oonntry except such as bave a letter of endorse ment from tbe United States Consul at the ports where they embark. Tbe proposition might be a good one if some body would endorse the codsu I a T he Lewiston, Maine, Labor Advocite suggests that the terms of office of Gen eral Master Workman of the K, of L. be lengthened to four years, and the salary increased to $5,000 a year. W e mayss well be honest about it and own up. The Knights of Labor planned and carried out that earthquake. But we will never do it again if we ate lei off this time. H on . J ohn A. A nslei , a prominent Knight ot Labor of Prescott, Texas, and editor of the Dispatch of that city, has been elected a member of the legislature. BoiooTT the Owl, published in Albany, and sold upon the streets of Troy every Saturday. Workingmen subsanbe for the C lsbioh ft is your paper. It is devoted to your intersts, and yon should support it- 328and 330 River St. and 23 4th St., TROY. N. Y. BROTHER KNIGHTS ATTENTION! Buy the NATIONAL K. of L. Linen Collars and^Cuffs Made by Brother and Sister Knights at Waterford, N. Y. Ask for them. ^ As good and cheap as any in the countr Mrs.M.P. Acker FrfiflcI lliiery 18 K ing S t , TR O Y , N.Y. F u rniture ---- AND ---- Carpets For the next 36 days AT COST To make room for our F all S tock Best bargains ever offered in Parlor Suits, Chamlier Suits, Marble Top Stands, Extension Tables, Beds-Springs, Mattresses, etc., at I. Doyle’S S obs 176 178 &, 130 RIVER St. July s-ms TWO NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS. T h e 'Y a f New York Tribune has ad vanced wages to 50 cents per thousand, two cents over the scale paid in the Sun and World offices—that is a triek as every printer knows. The union scale is based on stendurd measurement and regulations, which the Tribune refnsee to adopt, and as s cosseqnence printers working in that office at 50 cents receive less for a week’s work than the union printers st 48 cents. Further, this 50 cents applies to all matter in the Tribune office, there being no price-and-a-half or double price as in union offices. A printer who worked for a time on the Tribune told ns this week that when Thompson bos a “spell on’’ he will, through pure malice, destroy the “dupe\ of some compositor he dieiikea and calls it a fine, and no one dares object.—N. Y. Boycott er. In his communication to his Diinteis announcing an advance of two cents over the anion scale, Mr. Pullitzer, of the New York World, said: “I give more than tbe Typographical union asks. I believe you are right in organizing a trades union. Ton have rights in dis posing of your labor wUch I recognize. Your regniations for the chapel do not interfere with my rights, and they estab lish justice among yon. Your scale of prices is none too ffigh fur night work. 1 am doing well in business, and to the workers 1 give a share. I intend that our relations shall continue to be pleas ant. In the labor question I am with the people.\ Tree a OoBW iW d li fm FLOl TAN, P Am m Sells d R foctares Troji market
