The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-09

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monious way in which the freight-car-
load of unemployed from Cincinnati
was taken in charge by the police last
night is a forecast of the reception
that awaits Coxeys army.
Tomorrow the men will be brought
into the police court upon charges of
vagrancy.
The local law against Migrants APP
plies to all men without visible means
of support who are destitute, likely to
become charges upon the city, and who
have no vocation or means of gaining
a livelihood, or who solicit aims.
| The penalty is ninety days in the
workhouse at hard labor but it rests
within the discretion of the judge to
accept their promises to leave the city
at once, or to accept 500 bonds as
surety that they will not become pub
| lie charges, or beg.
| There is no doubt of the application
of this law to the band from Texas
under Captain Primrose, for the search
in the police station shows the total
capital of the company amounts to
about 81.
They have received two fairly good
meals today, and have been passably
comfortable.
band, may find himself in more serious
trouble than his followers. There is an
old law on the statute books which
was passed in 1880, and has never been
repealed, which makes it an offense to
bring into the District of Columbia any
| destitute people who are likely to be-
come public charges, with a penalty
from $25 to $50 fine for each offense
The police authorities are now consid-
ering the advisability of bringing a
charge of violating this law against
the leader, in which case his fines
with the alternative of the workhouse
imprisonment, would amount to a very
heavy punishment.
May Be Brought Against COxey.
The same charge may be brough
lagainst General CoXey, if disaster doe!
mot oyertake the army of the common
veal before it reaches here. OF course
the vagrancy act may not be brough
! into application against his followers
and besides there are two other law
which it is the avoWed and advertised
purpose of the CoXeyites to break. On
is the act of Congress regulating TIN
use of the capitol grounds, which for
bids any gathering for demonstration
or parade, the making of any oratiol
or use of threatening language, the dis
jplay of any banner or device to attrac
attention. The other is a local Law
which forbids men to congregate on tn
steps of a public or private building
1t rests within the discretion of tn
Vice-president and speaker of the Hous
to suspend the capitol regulations TO
any proper purpose, and perhaps Cox
ey's agents will apply to them for pei
mission to carry out their programme
: Major Moore, chief of police, said to
] day, in speaking of the march of Cox
ey:
These last are on the statute book
and we have no discretion in it. w
must enforce them if CoXey's army al
rives, unless Congress should give ther
8 permission to congregate on the capltC
: steps"
The details of the police movemer
: against Coxey are kept a secret. N
: doubt he will be met at the distriC
i limits. and if the numbers of his arm
are too great for the police to cor
9 with, the local militia will be called t
{ their aid. What to do with the arm
l when it arrives and is taken into Gus
l. tody is a difficult question. The static
: houses of the city would not accommt
u date such a crowd. To simply repulS
i the men and forbid them to enter tt
{ district would be to turn them loos
on the suburban residents of Virgin1
: land Maryland, and this is subje'
Il which gives the governors of adjolnin
=. Estates much uneasiness.
. Raising Ned in Pennsylvania.
n Major Moore received a letter fro
l. the chief of police in Allegheny cit,
IS Pa, describing the Coxey men in mo-
d uncomplimentary terms. He declare
J. there are several professional crimina
g in their ranks; that four or five bu
d glaries were committed by them viii
l. they were in the city and that the
,e would have been more depredations bl
d for the close police surveillance ovi
J. the army during it's stay.
IL Colonel Redstone, the WashingtC
lie representative, of Coxey, said concern
J. ing the men arrested last night:
This body of men is not called Il
lie commonweal army as no CoXey me
t. will come on until word is previous
IL sent to headquarters, and none W
al come in disorder and without milital
Y, discipline There will be no resistan
go of the law and none of the men will e
a. ter the city as a body until the ma
lie line arrives