The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-21
SENSIBLE TALK.
Gen. HawIey Calls Coxeyites
Dangerous and Anarchistic.

WAsHISGroN, April el.-In the senate
The PETER resolution for the appointment
of a reception committee for Coxey's
army of the ecommonweal. TO be known
In. senate parlance as ''the committee on
communication" came up and received
some very rough handling.
Senator Hawley, who dealt the blows.
said he would have preferred TO have
some member OF the Democratic party in
the senate take the floor. for certainly the
remarkable speech of Senator Allen of
Nebraska ought not to oe allowed TO go
forth to the country as representing, in
any degree, the views OF the senate.
He had been very much surprised and
pained to hear that speech. There was
not citizen OF the United States who
did not sympathiSe with thousands and
thousands OF poor people who were af.
fected by the present business depression,
and no one is supposed TO restrict the con-
sututional rights of the people, but there
bad been circumstances arising within
the last month or two which did not
come under that category.
Many bodies Of men were sembling in
different parts of the country with the in
tention OF marching upon Washington
and making some kind of demonstra-
tion. They were To gather before the
Capitol, where they would be addressed
by their orators, aud 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 legis lature.
and again. when the Gauls had marched
into the Roman senate and had shaken
the venerable beards OF the senators.
Senate should BE Cautious.
He wished TO insist respectfully that the
United States senate owed something TO
its own traditions aud 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 thoughtfully and thoroughly. IL was
quite possible TO manage this business
quietly and firmly, so that 1t should pass
away. and IL was equally possible To so
manage il as TO make these pilgrimages "a
yearly occurrence.
The senator from Nebraska, said Mr..
Tawley. had referred to this army as the
people. and had said that they had
perfect right 10 come here and fill the
galleries Perhaps they had. but the
senate had more accurate advices from
the people than Mr.. Coxey could give us.
The senate had advices regularly for 100
years in the constitution and laws and
the traditions and rules of the senate.
In conclusion. Mr. Hawley said there
were many other things in the remark
able speech of Mr. Allen which should be
refuted, but he did not propose to do 1t.
''l am sorry to- say" he said, "but feel
bound TO say 1t, that the speech OF the
senator from Nebraska was such as would
be received with applause by gang of
anarchists, and it would not require a
microscope to discover in it the microbes
and baccilli OF anarchism."
Mr.. Allen was Immediately on his feet
ilaiming recognition, but at this moment
the hour for taking mp the tariff bill had
arrived, and the resolution went over.
Preparing For Coxey.
Provision for the accommodation of the
army Of the commonweal is contem.
plated in n resolution introduced in the
house by Representative Boen, Populist,
Of Minnesota.
The resolution instructs the secretary
of war TO provide within the District of
Columbia a camping ground and tents
for all organized bodies OF laboring people
who may come within the district, and
TO see that their rights as citizens are re-
spected aud protected during their stay
here.
A preamble to the resolution recites
that the reported approach to Washing
ton of large numbers OF unemployed peo-
pie for the purpose of laying before the
government their views on the economic
depression, and TO suggest remedies there
for; that it is the duty of the govern
ment TO maintain peace and to respect
and protect the rights of citizens. and
that peace, order and goodwill can best be
secured and observed by concessions and
recognition by the government as we'll
as by individuals of the rights of citizens
and by extending all possible aid to them
I'm their endeavors to secure such redress
as they may consider themselves entitled
TO.
The resolution was referred to the COM
mittee on military affairs.
A LUNG PARADE.