The Washington times., 1894-04-21
HAWLEY ATTACKS MR.. ALLEN
The Connecticut Senator Does Not
Mince Words at ALI.
OPPOSED TO COxEY'S COMING
Aliens Speech Characterized as Coming from
Person in Full Sympathy with Anar.
chists-Mr. Hawley Panied and seriously
Wounded Over the Peffer Resolution.

The PETER resolution for the appointment
of reception committee for Coxeys army Of
the commonweal to be known in Senate par
lance as "the Committee on Communica-
tions," came up few minutes before /
O'Clock, but in those few minutes it received
some very rough handling.
Senator Hawley, who dealt the blows said
he would have preferred to have some mem
ber of the dominant party In the Senate take
the floor, for certainly the remarkable speech
yesterday of Senator Allen of Nebraska ought
not to be allowed to go forth to the country
as representing in any degree the views Of
the Senate.
He had been very much surprised and
panied to hear that speech There was not a
citizen Of the United States who did not SYM
pathize with the hundreds and thousands of
poor people who were affected BY the present
business depression, and no one proposed to
restrict the constitutional rights of the people,
but there had been circumstances arising
within the last month or two which did not
come under that category. Many bodies OF
men were assembling in different parts of the
country with the intention of marching upon
Washington and making some kind of DEM
onstration
They were to gather before the Capitol,
where they would be addressed by their ora
tors, and then they were to march bodily
into the Senate. Such thing was without
precedent, except when in colonial times
body of men in New Hampshire had taken pos
session of the members of the legislature. and
again when the Gapls had marched into the
Roman Senate and had shaken the venerable
boards of the senators. He wished to insist
respectfully that the United States Senate
owed something to its own traditions and
dignities. The House of Representatives
could take care of itself, but whatever the
Senate did or said in regard to the matter,
which might establish a precedent should
be done and said thoughtfully and carefully.
1t was quite possible to manage this business
| quietly and firmly. so that it should pass
away. and it was equally possible to so man
age it as to make these pilgrimages yearly
occurrence.
| The Senator from Nebraska, said Mr.. Haw-
| lev. had referred to this army as 1.-The peo-
ple'' and had said that they had a perfect
right TO come here and fill the galleries. Per-
haps they had. but the Senate had more ac-
curate advices from the people than Mr..
Coxey could give US. The Senate had ad-
vices regularly fer a hundred years in the
Constitution and laws and in the traditions
and rules OF the Senate.
The will OF the people was here carefully
sifted out by the use of a most complex and
universal system OF selection by the votes of
the people and by the action of their repre-
sentatives and men who by their patriotism
were extremely desirous of doing the best
thing.
1t was a matter of common sense that the
behavior of multitudes around the Capitol
should be carefully guarded by laws and
rules and by a sufficient number of police,
and, in cases OF necessity. by the military. to
the end that the Constitution and laws and
rules of the Senate should be observed in
every inch of ground and every second of
time.
He was also panied to hear the Senator
from Nebraska (Mr. Allenl refer TO the
organized militia of the District of Columbia
in the style and manner in which he did. The
militia was credit to the government. and il
was thought wise that instead of being de-
pendent on the regular military to have
troops of citizens.
| Senator Allen had also referred to 50 per-
son named Ordway." Senator Hawley said
| he took great pleasure in bearing testimony
! to the galiantry, courage, and high personal
1 character OF Gen. Ordway. commander of the
| District militia. 1t was quite ridiculous to
represent him as modifying the militia at the
/ District limits with the purpose of clubbing
the members of the organization of ''unem-
| ployed'' over the head or thrusting the bayo-
nets through them. He ventured to say that
/ Gen. Ordway had given more study to the
/ question than the Senator from Nebraska,
and not one step would be taken by him ex-
/ cept at the command of the civil power.
/ These men who are coming here did not
represent the general views of the American
! people; they were not coming with the inten-
4 ton of prostrating themselves at the feet of
1 Congress, but to impress them by their pres
J ence.
In conclusion, Mr. Hawley said there we're
/ many other things in the remarkable speech
of Mr.. Allen which should be refuted, but he
! did not propose to do it.
Il am sorry to say it, he concluded, "but
l feel bound TO say it, that the speech of the
Senator from Nebraska was such as would be
received with tumults of applause in gang
| of anarchists and that it.would not require
microscope to discover in it the microbes and
baccilli OF anarchism."