Evening star., 1886-06-16
CITY AND DISTRICT.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
Capt. Riley Proposes to Defy the
POlice-The New Barracks.

Ae odiNaIlOu ARMY celeDrateO the QrSL an
niversary of their opening in this city by open
Ing a new barracks at the corner of 9Th and G
streets northwest, where largely attended meet
1ngs are held every night after march through
the streets singing and playing tambourines.
The hall now occupied as the army's barracks
is the old Gymnasium hail. In the basement
is q pool room. Over the pool room is a Chinese
laundry and on the next floor above the army
is located. Next door to the barracks is a
saloon, the proprietor OF which says the army's
meetings bring him few extra nickels. The
hall will seat about four hundred persons and
is extensively decorated with flags bearing the
oEiciai coiofS OF the army. When the procession
reaches the hall the crowd rush ahead and get
goOo seats Then the army, headed by Capt.
Miss Mary Riley, having silk flag around her
neck and playing a tambourine, enters and
marches to the platform. where few moments
are spent In silent prayer. The meeting is
then thrown open, and converted thieves and
i,n arunkards give their experiences The meet
1ngs are largely attended at present, q
number of lawyers and persons having busi-
ness about the courts being regular attendants.
barracks they began holding meetings at the
corner of 7th street and Pennsylvania avenue,
Wnlch meetings were kept up until the police
them Alfred Sutton, also held meetings at the
same corner. The latter was arrested and taken
District ordinances. Thus the Salvationists
were forced to abandon their meetings tempo
rarily and petition the Commissioners for per-
TONED; The matter passed through the hands
OF the police, and permit was
only and now the army threaten to mold meet
lngs, Notwithstanding the action of the author
ltles few evenings ago, when the meeting
was called to order in the barracks, Capt. Riley
stated the differences between the army and
the police. She said that, passing through the
city, crowds OF men could be seen on street cor
nerS, some OF them drunk and some prOfane, and
because the Salvation army want to hold pub
lie meetings to worship God, the police promptly
1nterfered After awhile, she said, the Lord
willing, they would go upon the corner and hold
a tremendous meeting, and IL necessary they
would march to prison. praising the Lord on the
way. She had always thought that in this
country everybody was permitted TO worship
God according to the dictates of his own con-
science, but here it seemed he had to worship ac-
cOrdlng TO the dictates of the conSciences of the
officers OF the law. Ii necessary to go to prison
for serving God, she was willing to go, and
thougnt every member OF the army was ready.
Some Words Of Righteous Wrath.
HOW CONGRESS TREATS ITS DISTRICT WARDS.
To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
l observe in the recent proceedings of Con-
gress that Representative Taulbee of Ken
lucky, introduced resolutions in the House
asking the civil service commission upon
what authority twenty-three clerks in
the classified service of the government had
been appointed for the District of Columbia,
when, by the rules of disappointment, there should
have been but three. This is a good text for
snort discourse on the everlasting punishment
which Congress visits on the miserable sinners
OF tnis Dlstrlct. Not content with depriving the
people OF the District of the right of sefgovern-
ment, which the Constitution Of the United
States guarantees to all the people of this coun-
try: not satisfied with foisting upon US q muni-
cipal corporation run by the United States
government, which the United States courts
have decided that it has no constitutional
authority to do; not ashamed of taxing the
poor people of the District millions ofdollars for
Improving Hipg streets belonging TO the United
for other uses Of the United States,
which the Constitution expressly tor.
bids, unless the whole country is taxed
Tor 1t uniformly; and many other un-
constitutional and oppressive acts against our
people, Congress at last descended into the very
depths of meanness and wrong by depriying
the inhabitants here OF their birthright IN tak
Ing away their occupation. Every one knows
thatgovernment employment is the legitimate,
people in the capital of the nation ali other
business being subordinate and chance busi-
ness, and Congress has pitiessly taken from us
Nowhere else on Gods earth can place be
found where sons cannot grow up and learn
and succeed 20 the occupations of their fathers:
ana nowhere can prosperity attend people
whose children cannot succeed to the occutJa-
lions OF their parents. But here, the only place
In the world, the sons, as they grow up, must
livelihood. See the result already in the
depletion OF the male population Of the Dis
trietEsome t thirteen Thousand less than the
person that the clerkships in Washington
should be largely, if not almost exclusively,
sons and daughters of other government clerks.
And yet Congress has imposed the absurd pro
rata proportion on the District of Columbia
And they have not stopped here even; they al
low the states to have all their i0cdt gouer,,.
nent Offices. numbering many thousands in
some states, and, besides, a full quota of the
Washington government Offices. Nor even is
this al, incredible as it would seem anywhere
else, they take away from US many of the local
tn nS nd iY,,r,
states our Commissioners, marshals, registers
OF deeds, school superintendents, &C., &C., to the
exclusion OF our own people! And now, as a tit
paralieled oppression, just and innocent Con-
gresham rises In holy indignation against our
getnng more than the exact pound of fiesh
nails In prison are treated humanely; but we.
we, the miserable offenders OF this District
have no rights which Congress is bound to re.
spect. ID.