Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth Street, 01 New York Offjoy, 88 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star city by carriers, on © week, or 44c_ is served to subscribers In their own account, ou month. Coptes: = the —_ each. —anywhere in the Canada—postage prepaid—§0 | tion. Vor 84. No. 20,869. | Ghe Evening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. TO PROSECUTE THEM Northern Pacific Officials and the Train Stealers. AGAINST THE HOGAN INDUSTRIALS Report of Their Capture Last Night Contirmed. OTHER BANDS IN THE WEST oe NEW YORK, April 26.—Advices from Paul, Minn., confirm the report that the Hogan contingent from Butte, Mont. nave been cavtured at Forsythe. The troops from Fort Keogh accosted them at midnight last night. The prisoners num- ber about 500. As soon as this news was received by Lawyer James McNaught, counsel for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in this city, he mmmediately wired to Lawyer J. H. Mitchell, jr., at St. Paul, Minn., and Messrs. Cullen and Toole, Helena, Mont., to proceed against the prisoners before United States Judge Knowles for con- tempt of court, and also prefer charges of grand larceny against them for stealing the company’s train. Mr. McNaught also instructed the western lawyers to prefer charges of conspiracy, under the laws of Montana, against the “mob,” and a charge ef felonious assault based on the fact of their firing on deputy United States mar- shals. The Portland, Ore., contingent is said to have camped last night at Trout creek, Rear Portland, and they threatened to Seize sufficient rolling stock and engines to bring them east. The contingent from Spokane Falls is expected to arrive at Hauser junction, North Idaho, some time this forenoon. The marshals of Washing- ton, Idaho, claimed to have sufiictent force to prevent the mobs from getting very far with any train they may seize. Gov. Rickards of Montana requested the trans- portation for the state militia and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company com- plied with his request this morning. What Col. Swain Says. ST. PAUL, Minn., April 26—Col. Swain, commanding the military department of Dakota, under whose direction the arrest and detention of the Coxeyites was con- summated at Forsythe last night, said to- day he had received no detailed report of the capture from Col. Page, commanding at Fort Keogh, but that the report was ex- pected at any time. Col. Swain continued: “Last night I was in constant communica- tion over the wires with Col. Page, and talked with him directly. I was consider- ably surprised at the readiness with which ftommunication was kept up. He was oblig- 34 to proceed slowly and cautiously, as the ming of two trains on the same track opposite directions makes progress slow. te last night he proceeded from Horton Hathaway, then to Rosebud, and learn- that the band was delayed at Forsythe, continued through to that point and yand Hogan and his men, who surrendered to him. The captured men are now Col. Page's prisoners and I have already given lers that they shall be turned over to the Jnited States marshal of Montana so soon 4s that official is ready to receive them.” Had Hogan's band got past Fort Keogh Yefore Col. Page received his orders to ar- fest them, he would not have interfered. Col. Swain had prepared for a retrogade Movement on the part of the Coxeyites by ordering that four troops of the tenth cay- ry from Fort Custer, under Col. Perry, go Custer station on the railroad line, and the men retreated, they would have m captured there. It so happened that the band could not leave Forsythe, owing to their engine's condition, and Col. Page kept on and secured their surrender. Yeste: y's Fight Described. TACOMA, Wash., April 26.—A special to the Ledger from a prominent citizen of Ta- coma, who was at Billings in the morning om a west-bound train, says of yesterday's fight: About 1 o’clock the Coxey contingent from Butte, 600 strong, wearing their color- ed badges, rolled into Billings on fifteen freight cars, loaded on top and inside and with flags flying, followed closely by a train containing United States marshals. The west-bound passenger train was laid out thirteen hours,fearing to run up against them, and for safety went on a side track half a mile below town. Upon arriving at Billings the Coxey leader, Cunningham, from the top of a car was addressing the large crowd collected, when about fift: deputy marshals rushed past under arms. The crowd surged from all sides, while the Coxeyites from their train gave the mar- shals warning to commit no violence. The engineer was placed under cover of rifles and ordered to leave the cab, when sudden- ly ten or a dozen riffes were discharged. The Coxeyites charged and the marshals retreated under fire. “Kill them, hang them,” shouted the Coxeyites, who saw one of their crowd on top of the train with! blood streaming from a wound in his fore- head. Several deputies dropped their rifles and ran, followed by the crowd. One man was shot through the lung, but will recover. There were no fatalities. The Billings people furnished an abund- lance of provisions, and after speeches by the leaders, Cunningham and Hogan, de- =| the deputies as murderers, they — —— ofa _— engine and pull- oul © the east. he deput; Temained in Billings. Sapuslicunpeszas Apprehension at Tacoma. TACOMA, Wash., April 26.—Considerable apprehension is existing here in regard to the industrial army movement. It was feared that the army from Tacoma and Seattle, which will center at Meeker Junc- tion in a few days, would seize a train and cause trouble Prompt action on the part Of the federal authorities has done much to dispel this fear. About fifty deputy mar- | shals have been sworn in by orders from the circuit judge. Fourteen were sent to Meeker Junction, and the rest placed about the depot yards and at the car shops. The | federal autherities announce that they can ®ecure force enough to prevent the army getting out of the state with a stolen train. Trouble Feared in Oregon. PORTLAND, Ore., April 26.—Trouble is feared with the Portland contingent of the industrial army. The brigade marched from here 500 strong and fs now in camp at Troutdale, a village on the Northern Pacific, eighteen miles east of here. They tempted to capture a train here, but were foie by the company. The train usually carried a number of freight cars and long before it started the army began climbing into the box cars, but re switched off, leaving the indus- the yard. The last overland Union Pacific train which went out carried a| dozen deputy United States marshals, who will endeavor to keep the industrials from interfering with the train at Troutdale. TROUTDALE, Oreg., April 26.—The in- @ustriai army from Pcrtland will undoubt- edly make an attempt to take a train to- day, but the railroad company is deter- mined not to carry them. A carload of special officers passed through ahead of the last freight train to circumvent any move the irdustrials might make. Marched Through Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., April ‘The north- ern irdustrial army, 160 strong, passed out of tovn last night, first making a demon- stration on the principal streets, which were packed with people to see them de- part. They marched through Seattle, four miles, and camped for the night in a church and several deserted store buildings. Com- mander Shepherd says the men will be marched to Puyallup, thirty miles distant on the Northern Pacifi AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT. A Dispatch Received From Col. Swaine State Authorities Criticised. ‘There was little cpportunity for the es- cape of the Hoganites last night, owing to the completeness of Col. Swaine’s plans. The men were fairly caught between posts and could neither proceed nor retreat, even had they sought to take advantage of the waning conveyed to them by some of their sympathizers in advance, to the effect that the troops were in waiting for them at Fort Keogh, nesr Miles City, Montana. Col. Swaine telegraphed late last night that he had brought four companies of troops down from Fort Custer to Custer Station, on the Nothern Pacific line. This is west of Forsythe, so that the Hoganites could not return. Then, leavirg sufficient —— oy to == train if it cceed in passing him, Col. Paige hurried forward to Forsythe with another force, and, taking advantage of the late hour, pounced down on the train stealers and arrested them without bloodshed, an important consideration at this time. ie problem now is what to do with the captives. Col. Swaine has been instructed to turn them over to the United States marshal, but it is feared that the latter cannot at mt take care of all of the risoners. ie Attorney General is wait- ing to hear from him, and will lend all the assistance within his power. At the War Department it ts believed that the marshal will simply hold on to the ring- leaders in the movement and return with them to Butte for such action as the court may direct. The others, it is presumed, would break up their organization and disperse, warned by the fate of their leaders to refrain from further trespass on railroad or private property, and being a under espionage by the troops mean- while. Col. Swaine Heard From. Advices from the seat of war in Mon- tana were slow in coming to hand at the War Department this morning, but this is probably accounted for by the considera- ble difference in time between Washington and Montana. About noon the following dispatch came to army headquarters from Col. Swaine, commanding the de] ent of the Dakota: “ST. PAUL, Min., April 26. “To Gen. Schofield, Washington, D. C.: “The twenty-second infantry, under com- mand of Lieut. Col. Page, continued west to Forsythe, Mon., arriving there at mid- night. Hogan, the leader, surrendered his ‘band as prisoners. All quiet. (Signed) “R. T, SWAINE, Tue War Department has taken no action as yet towurd interfering with the Frye party, which captured a train on the Van- dalia railroad in Indiana yesterday, and probably will not do so unless application is made for assistance by the governor of Indiana. The conditions in this case are different those in Montana, as the Vandalia line fs not operating under the direction of the United States courts, and, therefore, the federal government cannot take the Initia- tive in moving against the train stealers. It is evident that the national authorities are somewhat disappointed and ined at the failure of the governors and local au- thorities in western states to do their full duty in such cases as that happening at Terre Haute yesterday. All along it is thought in official circles here there has been shown a disposition to refrain from in- terfering with these organized bodies, even when they have violated property rights and the laws of the states, each locality content- ing itself with transferring the evil as rapidly as possible to the neighboring town or state, as the easiest way to get rid per- sonally of the trouble. State Authorities Criticised. It is felt that rather unworthy political considerations have operated in such cases, and that these have led local authorities to disregard the comity of one state to- ward another, and of all of them toward the national government, which is threaten- ed by the easy transfer of disorderly mobs to the seat of government. It cannot be set up in extenuation by the state authori- ties that they have not the power to deal with the law breakers, for the national gov- ernment has shown its readiness to exert its forces and power whenever called upon by the authorized authorities. At present a close watch is being kept upon the large body of men in the state of Washington who aré reported to be making ready to capture a freight train in that state and start eastward, and at the first overt act of that character the federal judiciary, and then, if necessary, the federal troops, will interpose and arrest the law breakers, for in this case, as at Butte, the railroad is in charge of the United States courts. THE USE OF TROOPS. The President Was Obliged to Order Out the Soldiers. It is explained at the White House that the army was used in Montana simply for the enforcement of the order of a United States court for the recovery of property forcibly taken from an officer of the court, and which could not be recovered in the usual way by the marshal and his deputies. The property seized—a train of cars—was within federal control and the mob had re- sisted the mandates of the federal courts. Sections 5297 to 5316 of the Revised Stat- utes authorize the use of federal troops to suppress insurrections, rebellions and con- spiracies, which prevent the enforcement by judicial process of civil proceedings of laws of the United States. There was no ground for the interference of the governor or state authorities of Mon- tapa, for the matter at issue was an of- fense against the federal laws and a viola- tion of the orders of a federal court. So there was no recourse but to the President, and no course open‘to him save to main- tain the law, and the usual civil process having failed through the marshal’s ina- bility to control the situation to direct the United States troops to enforce that pro- cess. Hence the orders issued to Col. Swaine to intercept the law breakers, ar- rest them and turn them over to the United States marshal for such action and punish- ment as the court may prescribe. The Governor Asks for Aid. Yesterday the President received the fol- lowing telegram from Gov.Rickarts of Mon- tana, dated at Helena: “Information reach- es me by wire that a band of Coxeyites, fleeing the state with a stolen train, were overtaken at Billings by Deputy United States marshals, who were trying to serve a writ emanating from United States courts. A fight ensued. One deputy mar- shal wounded and leader of Coxeyites wounded. The deputy marshals were over- powered by the Coxeyites and driven off with revolvers and other weapons. Mob then surrounded the deputies and now hold them prisoners. The train of Coxeyites is within a few hours’ run of Fort Keogh. Im- possible for state militia to overtake them. As governor of Montana I hereby, request you to have federal troops at Fort Keogh | intercept, take into custody, arrest and hold the Coxeyites subject to orders of the Unit- ed States courts issuing writs referred to. If Coxeyites pass Fort Keogh before orders can emanate from you for their apprehen- sion, I request that federal troops be or- dered to overtake them. Promptness re- quired. (Signed) G. E. RICKARTS, “Governor of Montana.” -2- More Statistics to Be Printed. Secretary Carlisle has sent to the House of Representatives a letter from Mr. Worth- ington C. Ford, the chief of the bureau of statistics, requesting authority for printing an annual statistical abstract of foreign countries. In his letter Mr. Ford says many inquiries are addressed to the bureau for statistics bearing upon the commerce, in- dustry and general economic factors of European and other foreign countries. The number of these inquiries is constantly in- creasing and makes a continually greater demand upon the clerical force. CITIZEN TRAIN He Comes to Washington and Tells of His Work. A GREAT REVOLUTION 15 COMING It Can’t Be Stopped, but It Will Do Good. HIS REMARKABLE TALK It is all right; the danger that has been menacing the land is over. that is impending will come and cannot be stopped except by the hand of one man, and he thinks that it is best it should come. It will be all for good. He knows it. He has the Force back of him, the Force that might avert the revolution, but the revolution will be for the best interests of mankind. He is going to see that the people get their rights; that the doom of the monopolists shall be firmly sealed, and that the people shall issue from it cleansed and purified, as did the people of France after the horrors of the French rev- olution. In other words, Citizen George Francis Train is here. Yes, the veritable George Francis Train, the man who keeps a generation ahead of the people by associating with little chil- dren, the man who has circled the globe many times, who had to visit Paris @ hundred times and scour the farthermost parts of the globe to realize what a vast institution is humanity and what a mere trifle is the one human being. He appear- ed this morning, coming over from New York on a, night train, full of enthusiasm, brilliancy, wit and ready to talk on the Ego, physics, bloated monopolists, Coxey, little children and a thousand and one other subjects touched upon so rapidly in his conversation that it was difficult even to follow him mentally. His Personality Described. When two Star reporters dropped in on Citizen Train at the National Hotel this morning, this man, who has back of him a “force so stupendous as to surpass com- prehension,” was all ready to talk. And how he did talk! For an hour and a half a perfect stream of oratory poured out from beneath his silvery mustache, and if it be true that he has “wheels in his head,” as many people aver, it cannot be dented that he is interesting, fascinating, and chock full of ideas. He has explored the earth, believes in the brotherhood of man- kind, has lived such a simple life that he has gone back to the first principles of nature, has learned twenty languages, made the world's fair a success, and has spent a small fortune buying peanuts for little children in Union Square, New York. As he talked it was seen thatheisa hand- some man, of fine figure, with snow-white hair that stands like a bush on his head, and a complexion so tanned by exposure to the elements that he is positively swarthy. He was handscmely dressed, and had the general bearing of a gentleman of polish end education. He was courteous to a degree, As he rattled away, never giving a chance for a reporter to put in a ques- tion, he sat “a la Turque” on a disordered bed, with the bed and floor littered up with papers, extracts from newspapers, and all sorts of little incidentals that a man of his character would carry about him. For a smoking jacket he wore the coat of a suit of pajamas. He did not smoke, though he had no ob- jections to his visitors smoking, and he in- formed them that he had spent more mon- ey than any other man alive for chibouks, nargilehs and other smoking implements. He had had more men drunk under his ta- ble than any other host on record, but he never drinks a drop. He has known more dissolute people the world over than any other traveler, but has lived a life of mo- rality and rectitude. “I am the only Train that has never been held up,” he said. When one of ‘the visit- ors suggested, after he had been taiking an hour or so most delightfully, that a Train of thought was a phrase that might apply, he was immensely pleased and declared that it was a good idea. The Greatest Man Alive. “I am the greatest man alive,” he said. “I am the best known man in the world and at the same time ain completely unknown. 1 am the greatest mystery of the age; no one understands me except little children. For years they were my only associates, and, learning from them, I have passed all other men. When the children grew to be thirteen or fourteen years of age I cut them off and so have been able to keep a generation or two ahead of the rest of hu- manity. I built the town of Omaha and my private secretary is the mayor of that city now. My Ego is grand, immense, incompre- rensible; my eye is a cyclops; do you catch? By the way, have you noticed that none of these industrial armies that are heading for Washington have started from the south? No; they all come from the west—from the mining and the manufacturing Greatest conspiracy of the age. Jeff Davis was as nothing to it. Cleveland's in it. Carnegie, Whitney, Flagler, lots of others, all in it. “They've bought the coal fields of New Brunswick, and now we’ are going to have free coal, see if we don't. But the money is all gone, there isn’t any of it in the country. The millionaires haven't got any money, it is all gone away. Mr. Stanford died and left no money, and now Mrs. Stan- ford has had to ask for $5,000 to buy—pea- jnuts. And now they are going to try to stop the people of the country from coming on to Washington. They can’t do it. I om the only man in the world who can lo it. I have a force back of me that is irresist- ible. For twenty years I have not eaten meat, and now a cup of coffee makes a hearty meal for me. ‘The result ts that this force has grown until all mea recognize me as the greatest genius of the world. The best advertised man, the most talked about man and withal the man least understood. I could organize an army or I could stand up in the face of it and defy them like dogs. No man has ever shot me or would shoot me. regions. He is a Mystery. “You may remember the Chicago riots? Well, I was there and everybody thought I Was at the head of it, but no one arrested me. No matter what it is, if there is mys- tery about it I am supposed to be the leader. I am supposed to be the head of the anarchists and nihilists, socialists and all the other ‘ists’ in the world from India to Oshkosh. Why, not long ago I was charged with being the head of the Jesuits, Now if there is anything I hate more than a Catholic it is a testant. If there's anything I hate more than a democrat it is a republican or populist. And the popu- ists are the worst of all. By the way, old Stewart and Peffer have taken hold of the populists and now they are shouting for silver and have forgotten all about green- backs. Funny idea, isn’t it, that a million or so of people should dictate to the other seventy millions of this great land when a hen crop is more valuable than all the sil- ver? Again I tell you that the eggs laid in this country in a year are worth all the silver ever mined. “These people up at the Capitol are all afraid of me. What are they afraid of? Are they afraid I am going to tell some- thing? I guess that must be it. Well, I guess I could if I tried. I know a whole lot of things. I remember when I was at the head of the credit mobiller that 1 gave $60,000 to one member of Congress just to pay his poker debts. What was that? Why we had just lots of money. Millions. Great- est thing in the world. The great Ego. The vastness of my intellect. I am the only man in the world who invariably makes a success of whatever he puts his band to. I have never failed. The force that is behind me carries me through and over everything. The Revolution is Comi “I tell you the revolution is coming. It will be the greatest thing this world has The revolution: ever seen. It will sweep everything before it and the idea of trying to stop these peo- ple when they want to come to Washing- ton! “I tell you Washington is the worst city in the world. There are more ling houses, houses of ill-fame and everything that is evil in this city than there is any- where else. And they talk about turning these American ¢itizens out of the Capitol. And then how they did surrender when Allen and the others introduced resolutions into Congress. Why, it is absurd. A truth suppressed is the greatest kind of a le. I tell these people to come here and sit down in the streets. And all the talk of an army to stop them is rank nonsense. “By the way,” said Citizen Train, as the mame of one of the reporters suggested arother idea to him, “you remember that man Cromwell, in England? He started toward London and everybody laughed at him, but in a little while he had swept the rvemp parliament out of existence. What a remarkable coincidence there is right here. Why, gentlemen, it is more than a coin- eidence. Charles and Cleveland, Commonwealth and Commonweal, Commons and Congress, Cromwell and Coxey! it the C’s. Isn't that amazing? When the fishwomen march- ed out to Versailles the court laughed, and yet, in a little while Marie Antoniette and all the rest of them were—" as he made a suggestive cut at his throat with his right hand. “Beheaded. Do you catch on? And there was Danton and Robespierre and Marat and Mirabeau. There was the com- mittce of safety of five members; four of these are known in history, but the fifth was a great unknown. I might tell you who he was, but I don’t intend to do it,” and Citizen Train looked very wise and much as though the fate of empire rested on his lightest breath. You Can't Stop It. “This revolution is coming. You can’t stop it. A chip starts on the mighty flood at the headwaters of the Mississippi and dashes along on its course toward the mouth of the river and it makes no differ- ence to the chip whether it passes a pole- cat or a city. So with the revolution. The revolution in France did all the good in the world. It broke up five thousand es- tates into five million farms; and look at the people of France today! A funny thing about this Coxey movement. Coxey, you notice, is from Ohlo. Never heard much about him before. Now you hear of him all over the country. Selling houses in New Orleans, Chicago, fine horses in New York. Lots of money in his pocket. He never will get arrested. Who Is the great man in Ohio today? Who is the great power in the G. O. P. Why McKinley. Tell you gentleman the high tariff is baek of it all. Money? Why they’ve got lots of it, but it’s a funny thing about that army. There aren’t any thieves or criminals in the crowd, nothing to steal. No money, consequently you see there are no lawyers in that crowd. No organiza- tion, hence no politicians. They haven't a lot of rich food to eat, so they don’t ge! sick and need doctors, and M. D. means money down, anyhow. But they have got votes and they are coming here to Wash- ington.” Has Made Connection With Coxey. So Citizen Train talked without inter- ruption, skipping from thought to thought as lightly as the mountain goat would go from rock to rock. He is one of the few men of whom it can be honestly said that his eyes twinkle. He has a keen idea of hu- mor and oftentimes laughed heartily at the drollery of some of his own ideas. Oc- casionally it seemed as though he were laughing at himself, but the earnestness with which he talked quickly disposed of any such idea. The citizen has made con- nection with Coxey and Citizen Redstone and Citizen Train is going to lecture at Masonic Temple tonight on chic fore He has secured Metzerott Hall, however, and tomorrow night and from then on until after the revolution is over or averted he will hold forth there. Citizen Redstone called on Citizen Train this afternoon, but his Psychic Force had induced the latter to go out for a walk, so they did not meet. Among Citizen Train's callers today were two ministers. Mr. Train used the word “damn” very frequent- ly during the conversation, but when he discovered the calling of his two visitors he explained to them that there was no offense, because the word “damn” in the Malayan language means banana. His family, he said, had been ministers for so long that he found it impossible to get along without the word “hell,” and he never could accustom himself to ‘‘sheol.” Citizen Train is unique—as he calls him- self, “sui generis. chalet, A SILVER CONFERENCE. Representative Mever Will Bring His Bill Before the House, Representative Mever of Louisiana is confident that his compromise proposition on the silver question will pass the House, notwithstanding the action of the Bland coinage committee in pigeonholing it for | Mr. Meyer | the present session of Congress. will no longer address his efforts to the committee, but will get the compromise di- rectly before the House as a substitute to any free coinage bill Mr. Bland may re- port. Once before the House, Mr. says he has the utmost confidence, basad on assurances, that the compromise will prevail. He is satisfied thet radical silver legislation cannot prevail, nor can the other extreme of no legislation be pursued. Te- tween these extremes he believ the lines laid down in Mr. Clevel: message. Mr. Meyer is now pre new bili, which changes the phra. y of the old one. In its revised form it may go to the coinage committee, but Mr. M will place his future reliance on presenting it directly to the House as a substitute. Representative Bland says he will try have a committee vote on the free co’ bill next Thursday. When once rep the bill becomes privileged, owing to 2 rule giving the coinage committee special right of way on its bilis, so that a recurrence of the silver struggle anpesrs to be near to hand. Mr. Bland says he does not th the Meyer bill would be germane as a <ub- stitute for his free silver bill, as it em- braces: bonds, which is a subject not ger- mane to a silver bill pure and simple. AN AGGRESSIVE POLICY. ‘The Indiana Declaration Regarded as the Republican Key Note. The demonstration of the republicans in Indiana yesterday, which was participated in by ex-President Harrison, attracted a good deal of attention in Washington, and the enthusiasm there displayed and the bold arraignment of the democratic ad. ministration and Congress is regarded in- dicative of the aggzessive policy to be pursued by the republicans throughout the country as the political struggle ad- vances which is to determine the com- plexion of the next House, and ultimately the next President. The platform adopted is, in its national reference, regarded as the keyrote of the republican rally call. The republicans have so much campaign material that it is a matter of selection for | issues, and the feeling among republicans in Congress is that the most prominent of these issu while the public attention is drawn to them, nd that the campaign work must be ed vigorously and fearlessly, without waste of time. With the opportunity thus presented properly availed of republican leaders don’t see how it is possible for them to fail of a continuous line of victories un- til the government is once more in the hands of the republican party. + @ + MILLER’S BEHALF. IN JUDG! A Strong Petition for His Reappoint- ment Filed Today. A committee of the bar of the District,in- cluding Messrs. R. Ross Perry and H. E, Davis, waited on the President at the White House today and left a strong pe- tition in favor of the reappointment of ‘Thomas Miller as judge of the Police Court. Judge Miller was appointed to the bench by President Cleveland during his first ad- ministration, and his term of office will ex- pire May 10. Although the President did not say so, there is reason to believe that he 1s decidedly in favor of Judge Miller's retention on the bench, Meyer | $ must be seized upon now, | ALLEN’S RESOLUTION | It Causes a Lively Discussion in the Senate. MR, -VEST'S VIGOROUS OPPOSITION Mr. Wolcott Also Speaks Against It and Allen Replies. THE SALARY-DOCKING RULE There was an unusually large atten@ance of Senators present when the Senate was called to order today, and the galleries were also well filled. Immediately after the reading of the jour- nal Mr. Ransom (N. C.) announced that Hon. Thomas Jordan Jarvis, recently ap- pointed to succeed the late Senator Vance of North Carolina, was present, and asked that he be sworn in. The new Senator was escorted down the center aisle by Mr. Ransom and up to the Vice President's desk, where the oath was adininistered, after which he was intro- duced to a number of his colleagues and held an informal reception. The Senate joint resolution authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to cause an examination to be made of the Mississippi river levee near Walmouth Bend, Ark., to determine whether there was any danger of the river cutting through to the St. Francis river, was reported by Mr. Berry from the committee on commerce and passed. The Coxey Resolution. Senator Allen's resolution authorizing Coxey’s army to come to Washington (which was reported in full yesterday) was laid before the Senate and Mr. Allen stated there would be no oppcsition on the demo- cratic side to the passage of the resolution. Mr. Vest (Mo.), however, opposed the resolution. These people should be treated the same as all other citizens of the United States. If they did not violate any laws they would not be molested, but he depre- cated the introduction of such resolutions, because they intimated a want of confidence | in the institutions and laws of the land, which was much to be deplored. Their right to come here and visit the Capitol was s0 plain, so evident, that any suspicion about it was a reflection on the intelligence of the country. Opposed to the Preamble. if it meant to include those men who had trampled on the laws, injured private property and undertaken to secure trans- portation to this city by force of arms, then he emphatically dissented from it. “This issue must be met right here and now,” he said, “we cannot for one instant hesitate or falter in view of what has been done in this country in the last few days in the name of the unemployed workmen. I am not here to make any protestation of |my sympathy for any particular class of | People, but I am an American, and there is not a drop.of blood in my veins which is not in sympathy with those who are in | want.” . He declared that the men who were marching to Washington would be protect- ed in their rights, but they would have to | learn to abide by the laws of the land, and | if Congress, for one instant, compromised | with them it would open a_ cre- vasse which would end in a_ flood and final destruction. If any one wanted to corhe here, whether they were employed , or unemployed, to inspect the public bulld- ings and visit Congress, their rights would | be respected, but when they seized trains | to come on, when they violated the laws | of the country and trampled on the rights of the people, Congress ought not to treat with them. Mr. Wolcott's Protest. Mr. Wolcott (Col.) entered a vigorous protest against passing the resolution. He | Was at a loss to understand the purpose of | the resolution, which did not change the | law in any respect, but simply extended a cringing invitation to those men calling themselves unemployed,some of whom were | coming by begging, some by their overpow- | ering torce, and some on stolen trains. The | only excuse for such lawless action as had | been recently enacted had been the utter- | ances of men in high places holding office. Members of the Senate who had spoken of a servile police force and a paid soldiery seemed to think proper to denounce in the Senate men sworn to do their duty. It was deeply to be regretted that the governors of certain states had so unwise as to urge these men to make a descent on the capital of the United States. His own state of Colorado had the misfortune to have one of these governors, whose gyrations | and antics had brought discredit and di: | honor on his commonwealth and sullied her fair name. |__Mr. Wolcott said he was tired of dealing | with those methods of administration. The times were out of joint, but what made them so might be attributed to one cause or another. He believed that most of the in Coxey’s army might be honest, but were led by men who were cranks, insane or vicious. But their methods of righting the wrong of the time could re- sult in no good; this could only come from the natural beneficence of mankind, which,as the world grew better, made men more humane and kind. There should be no man suffering for bread in this broad domain of the United States who was willing to work. There was today no man who sincerely desired to | work for the support of himself and his family who could not get work or bread to put into the mouths of himself and his little ones until work could be found. “I am tired of this talk of national demon- stration,” he said. “In Colorado today, crushed and humiliated as she is by the ac- | on of Congress, I venture to say that no |man is suffering because he can find no work or no willing hands to assist in sup- porting him until work can be found for him, 1 believe the time has come when those | of us who are in public life ought to begin to cultivate more regard for the perpetuity of republican institutions and to pander less to that miscalled portion of the labor vote whose labor is with their throats and never | with their hands. It is time that we stood for American manhood, for the right of every man to work if he wants to, if it ; takes the whole army of the United States to enable him to-do so. The right of every man to equal the party with every other man, and that means that he shall have such liberty as is not inconsistent with the equal rights of his neighbor; the right to hold and enjoy the property which the laws of the country have enabled him to secure. Mr. Allen Talks Again, Senator Gray criticised the preamble. He vas followed by Senator Allen, in an im- | passioned speech, in which he declared his love of the Constitution, and denounced the jissue of the proclamation by the District | Commissioners. He said Senator Wolcott ; had no right to term the movement populis- tic. Senator Wolcott asked him if he in- dorsed the seizure of the Northern Pacific train, and the killing of a deputy marshal? | Senator Allen said he would not be drawn on to that ground; that when the resolu- tions were introduced nothing was known of the seizure of the train. He criticised the preparations by the District militia for the reception of the commonweal army. To Meet at 11 O'Clock. At 2:35 Senator Harris moved to take up his resolution changing the hour of meet- ing to 11 o'clock each day. A yea and nay vote was called. Many republicans voted in the affirmative, and it was agreed to by a vote of 54 to 6 Mr. Aldrich stated that there would be no objection to meeting at that hour, and the resolution was agreed to without di- vision. The Tarif’ Debate. The tariff bill was then taken up, when Mr. Peffer moved the consideration of the He was opposed to the preamble, however, | Allen resolution, which was lost, and Sen- ator Higgins (Del.) took the speak on the tariff. THE HOUSE. visitors: To the Military Academy, Messrs. Black (IL), Hatch (Mo.) and Curtis (N. Y.); to the Naval Academy, Messrs. Myer (La.), Outhwiate (Ohio) and Randall (Mass.). As to “Docking” Members. At this point the first fruit of the attempt to enforce the law of 1856 to “dock” mem- ceived blank certificates to be showing the number of days they absent, and the reasons therefor. hon (Pa.) precipitated the matter by rising to a question of privilege and offering the member's salary on under the act of August Mr. Kilgore (Texas) raised the point that the resolution did not present a question of privilege. Mr. member of the House had been in the sergeant-at-arms. The act of ’56, under which the sergeant-at-arms assumed power to make deductions for absenteeism, hold o' he said, every He did not propose to keep “tab” on him- or any certificate on the Mr. Outhwaite (Ohio), one of the demo- cratic members of the committee on rules, maintained that the resolution did not Mr. Bland’s Views. Mr. Bland (Mo.), also in support of the point of order, contended that the right of a member to his pay wa» not a pariiamen- tary, but a legal right. It presented a con- arms was a officer of the treas- ury. It was a private, not a public matter, and a resolution to present a question of privilege must affect the rights of na gg legislative, not their private ca- pacity. Mr. Bland (ill) supplemen Bland’s argument by pointing ont ene a itary was clearly one of remedy, and the right of a member to his salary was r. Payne (N.¥.) argued that the resolu- tion certainly dealt with a question that in- vaded the rights of the members, as it Rot only forfeited their pay, but compelled to inform against themselves. It was a well-established principle of criminal law — a = Rot required to criminate emselves. Immunity from doing was @ constitutional right) ess The Speaker's Ruling. The members displayed a lively and very personal Interest in the controversy, but the | Speaker announced that he was ready to| rule. He preceded his ruling with a state- ment. The House had no control over the salaries of its members, he said. The Con- stitution provided that members should re- ceive the salaries fixed by law. All the House had ever undertaken to do was to provide that the sergeant-at-arms should keep the mileage accouhts of members and pay them their as is provided by law. If the law provided for deductions from the salaries of members the sergeant- at-arms must comply with it. ‘But that is not the law,” interjected Mr. |. “Gentlemen say that is not the law,” con- | tinued the Speaker, “but that is not a ques- | tion for the House’ to determine.” That must be decided by the courts. The sergeant-at-arms is a public officer, |by the Treasury ent. If the House should pass a resolution declaring it to be jits judgment that the law was void, would have no effect in relieving the ser- |Seant-at-arms from HMability. The resolu- tion did not effect the parliamentary rights of members. It is the business of the courts, not the House, to construe the laws. The Speaker went on to explain that the |form of certificate used by the sergeant-at- arms had been s by himself (the |Speaker), and was designed to place it in the power of each member to determine how much salary was due him under the law. It was the Speaker's opinion that jevery disbursing officer had the right to make all reasonable regulations for his own protection. : | As far as he was concerned, he should de- |cline to certify the amount of salary due | for a member under law unless the member informed him how much salary was due | him. He then sustained the point of order | and ruled that the resolution did not pre- | | sent a question of privilege. The ruling was — with applause from the democratic le. Mr. Mahon immediately sent up another | | was privileged: “Resolved, That it is the sense of the House that the sergeant-at-arms has no au- thority to require each member to report to him whether he has been absent from the | | sessions of the House and reasons for such | absence in the absence of a rule giving him such authority, and that notice of such re- quirement given by the sergeant-at-arms is in derogation of the rights of members.” | This Also Ruled Ont. The Speaker also ruled that this resolu- tion was not privileged after a sharp collo- quy with Mr. Reed. Mr. Watson appealed from his decision and Mr. Outhwaite mov- ed to lay the appeal on the table. The lat- ter mction was carried by a strict party vote, except Mr. Lucas (8S. D.), who»voted with the democrats. The House then went into committee of the whole and resumed the consideration of the diplomatic and consul appropriation bill. DEFECTIVE NAVAL CHARTS. The Kearsarge Affair May Result in a Farther Investigation. Recent developments in the case of the wreck of the Kearsarge indicate an extraor- dinary lack of knowledge on the part of the hydrographic office of the Navy Depart- ment, which may become a matter of in- vestigation. It was shown in the court- martial proceedings in the trial of the offi- cers of the wrecked vessel, whose sentence was approved by the Secretary yesterday, that the chart under which the vessel sailed was fifty-nine years old and defective. Lieut. Force, who was sent to represent the gov- ernment on board the wrecking tug to look after the Kearsarge wreck, states in a pri- vate letter that the commander of the tug found himself thirty-three miles south of Roncador Reef, when, according to their calculations, they should have been at the key, and that the tug had to return forty- six miles north in order to make the key. They also found the current utterly at va- riance with the chart, and observations taken showed that the position of the key was three miles west in longitude of the position as charted. a ‘Treasury Receipts. National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $298,447; government receipts, internal revenue, $435,170.41; customs, $531,- 397.63; miscellaneous, $59,232.25. resolution, as follows, which he also claimed | | would do if obstruction was placed in | ; { 128 i Ht i i i é g He # Hy i" rae z & iE H g i i | j i it i i i ° Fi Hy ‘ i i 5 : f Hi a g : i ef § ? f i iy : & jee a ih 2 $ if ii § i i fis i sre? i | i rt i i i it + ef i i i iis hi i ‘The little village of Hyattstown, just the line, was reached at 8 o'clock ternoon and Camp Henrietta was pit elf f fll i Spent money on deputy that much money away, At Rockville, ever, the situation is entirely if separate forces are to comcen’ they will be without disctpline ization. There can i i : j ij Fe been sillon was passed. Coxey, these points, and on the said to me that the feeling aroused in Tred- erick was only a sign of what the “eg -4 path of the movement. Today Coxey learned of the action of the trunk lines in refusing to grant a rate for visitors to Washington. He was at the action, but said that the railroads parallel to them. A Proud Day for Browne. This was a proud day for Marshal Browne. He rode through the waving and