Other progressive legislation Palmer proposed included a bill outlawing the employment of workers below a certain age in quarries and requiring quarries to be inspected.Coben 51 He noted that recent Welsh victims of quarry accidents were "a high class of workman –not cheap foreign labor."Coben, 198 Late in his congressional career, he sponsored a bill to promote women's suffrage. On behalf of the National Child Labor Committee he offered another to end child labor in most American mines and factories.Coben, 84-7 Wilson found it constitutionally unsound and after the House voted 232 to 44 in favor on February 15, 1915,New York Times: "Child Labor Bill Passed," February 16, 1916, accessed January 20, 2010 he allowed it to die in the Senate. Nevertheless, Arthur Link has called it "a turning point in American constitutional history" because it attempted to establish for the first time "the use of the commerce power to justify almost any form of federal control over working conditions and wages."Arthur Link, Wilson: The New Freedom (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956), pp. 255–257
