CONVICT LABOR.
Mr. SCHLOSS offered the following resolution:
Whereas, The plan of the State id letting convict labor at low rates has effect to decrease the wages of honest labor, and consequently diminishes the ability to educate their children and provide for those depending upon them; and,
Whereas. The present system of employing convict labor comes in conflict with the rights and interest of honest citizens who have devoted years of toil to become skilled workmen, and thus enable them to add to the revenue and welfare of thin State therefore
Resolved, That we regard the letting of convict labor at too low rates not only a great personal injustice to honest labor but a damage to the best interest of the State, and consequently should be discontinued; and,
Resolved. That a Special Committee of Five be appointed to whom the subj ct shall be referred with instructions to suggest some remedy for the present system of employing convict labor.
The resolution was adopted, and the Speaker subsequently made the Committee to consist of Messrs, Schloss, Gibson, Wilson of Marion, Smith of Tippecanoe, Mering.
