COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY. KNUTE NELSON, Minnesota, Chairman. WILLIAM P. DILLINGHAM, Vermont. CHARLES A. CULBERSON, Texas. SIMON MICHELET, Clerk. SUBCOMMITTEE ON SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS 200, 224, 232, 256, AND 262. SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE, California, Chairman. CHILD-LABOR AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1923. UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, in the Immigration Committee room, the Capitol, at 10 o'clock a. m., Senator Shortridge presiding. Present: Senators Shortridge (chairman), Colt, and Walsh of Montana, members of the subcommittee; also Senators McCormick, Johnson, and Lodge. Senator SHORTRIDGE. The committee will please come to order. The subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the subcommittee being made up of Senator Colt, Senator Walsh of Montana, and myself, is now met to consider Senate Joint Resolution 200, introduced by Senator Johnson on April 20, 1922, which will be carried into the record. Also Senate Joint Resolution 224. introduced on April 20, 1922, by Senator Townsend, which will be carried into the record. Also Senate Joint Resolution 232, introduced by Senator McCormick on April 20, 1922, which will also be carried into the record. Also Senate Joint Resolution 256, introduced by Senator Lodge on December 13, 1922, which will also be carried into the record. Also Senate Joint Resolution 262, introduced by Senator Walsh of Montana, on December 27, 1922, which will also be carried into the record. (Senate Joint Resolution 200, Senate Joint Resolution 224, Senate Joint Resolution 232, Senate Joint Resolution 256, and Senate Joint Resolution 262 are as follows:) [S. J. Res. 200, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session.] JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein). That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby proposed, under and by virtue of which Article X shall read as hereinafter set forth, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, to wit: 66 "ARTICLE X. 66 STATE RIGHTS. SECTION 1. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people: Provided, however, That the Congress shall have power to regulate or prohibit throughout the United States the employment of children under eighteen years of age." [S. J. Res. 224, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session.] JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States: 1. "ARTICLE "The Congress shall have power to regulate the employment and the hours of labor and conditions of employment of persons under eighteen years of age." [S. J. Res. 232, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session.] JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to child labor. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Con stitution of the United States, which, when ratified by the legislatures of threefourths of the several States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution: "ARTICLE "The Congress shall have power to limit or prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age, and power is also reserved to the several States to limit or prohibit such labor in any way which does not lessen any limitation of such labor or the extent of any prohibition thereof by Congress. The power vested in the Congress by this article shall be additional to and not a limitation on the powers elsewhere vested in the Congress by the Constitution with respect to such labor." [S. J. Res, 256, Sixty-seventh Congress, fourth session.] JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States: "ARTICLE "The Congress shall have power to prohibit or to regulate the hours of labor in mines, quarries, mills, canneries, workshops, factories, or manufacturing establishments of persons under eighteen years of age and of women.” [S. J. Res. 262, Sixty-seventh Congress, fourth session.] JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution: "ARTICLE "The power of the Congress to regulate commerce among the several States shall be held to embrace the power to prohibit the transportation in interstate commerce of commodities being the products of any employer of child labor." Senator SHORTRIDGE. The committee thinks it will be helpful to all parties interested if we here carry into the record, as we shall, the first so-called child labor act of Congress. We will then have carried into the record, immediately following, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in respect of that act. |