The record-union., 1894-04-09
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.


Force.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
SALT LAKE. April 8.-A special train
bearing Governor West and portion of
the Utah militia left here at o'clock this
morning and arrived at Ogden an hour
later, where they were met by the Mayor,
Chief of Police and other officials. A
consultation was held between Governor
West, General Superintendent Bancroft
of the Union Pacific and Superintendent
Knapp of the Southern Pacific roads.
Superintendent Knapp was notified
not to bring the so-called Industrial
Army into the Territory; that they could
not stay at Ogden or any other point
within the Territorial limits. and unless
arrangements could be made to send them
East they must be returned.
The consultation ended, and the troops
were marched up town and Gatling gun
was planted in the Public Square. A
lorg consultation was held in the Mayors
Office, and the military force was placed
under command of Lieutenant Lassiter.
The Governor and railway officials held
another consultation at 2 O'Clock, and the
Governor was informed that the Industri
ais had been halted seven miles west of
the Utah line, pending arrangements
which the Southern Pacific was trying to
make with the Union Pacific for trans
portation East. At o'clock the Union
Pacific gave its ultimatum that it would
not carry the men at less than tull rates,
and the Southern Pacific then ordered
the train brought into Ogden in defiance
of the Governors protest. Governor
West expressed himself in strong terms
to Superintendent Knapp and character
lied the whole matter as conspiracy be-
tween the railroad and the State of Cali
fornia.
The train arrived in Ogden about 6
O'Clock, and was switched into the yard
and surrounded by the military, and it
was more than two hours before they got
anything to eat. They are still under
guard, and the Union Pacific refuses to
modify it's ultimatum, while the Terri
tOrial authorities are urging the Southern
Pacific to take them West. The men are
reported to be peaceable and orderly so
far, but determined to go East, il possible
Governor West secured permission
from Superintendent Knapp for the in
&ustrial army TO use the round house
for sleeping quarters, and to return to the
cars al a. NJ. The men are being closely
guarded. All interest now centers in the
question of whether the injunction
against the Southern Pacific will stick.
and as to how long the people will have
to feed their unwelcome guests.
MORE RECRUITS FOR THE ARMY.
SAN Francisco, April S.-A second di-
vision of the San Francisco industrial
army was organized here to-day. 1t eX-
poets to leave San Francisco Thursday
morning for Washington with 500 men,
i Dol III
ADVANCE GUARD AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, April 8.-The advance
guard reached here shortly after o'clock
last night. 1t came in a boXcar on the
Baltimore and Ohio road. Chief of Police
Moore had prepared for them, and the
visitors were crowded into patrol wagons
and taken to the police station to await
their final disposition at court Monday
morning. They bore no i'll will against
the authorities and rather seemed pleased
with being supplied with food and lodg
ing.
The unceremonious way in which the
unemployed men from Cincinnati were
taken in charge by the police is forecast
OF the reception that awaits CoXey's
army. Tomorrow the men will be
brought into the Police Court upon
charge of vagrancy. The local law against
vagrants applies to all men without visi
BILE means OF support, who are destitute,
and likely to become charges upon the
city, and who have no vocation OF means
of gaining a livelihood, or who solicit
aims There is no doubt of the applica-
ton of the law. The men have received
two fairly good meals to-day, and have
been passably comfortable.
Captain Primrose, the leader of the
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 re-
nealed, which makes it an otfense to bring
into the District of Columbia any desti-
tute people who are likely TO become pub
lie charges, with penalty of from So to
$50 for each off'ense. The police authori-
ties are now considering the advisability
of bringing charge Of violating this law
against the leader.
OF course the Nagrancy Act may not
be brought into application against his
followers, and beside there are
two other laws which it is the avowed
and advertised purpose of the Coxeyites
To break. One is the Act of Congress
regulating the use of the Capitol grounds
which forbids any gathering Of men for
oarade, the making of any Grafton or OF
threatening language. the display of any
banner or device to attract attention. ne
other is a local law which forbids men to
congregate on the steps OF pubic or
nrlU2I6
discretion of the Vice President and
Speaker of the House to suspend the Capt.
tol regulations for any proper purpose,
and Coxey's agents will apply TO them
for permission to carry out their pro-
gramme.
Major Moore, Chief of Police, said to-
day, in speaking of the march OF CoXey !:
''These laws are on the statute books, and
We have no discretion in 1t. we must
enforce them, if Coxey's army arrives,
unless Congress should give them the
privilege to congregate on the steps"
The police movement against Coxey is
kept secret. No doubt be will be met
at the district limits, and if the numbers
of his army are too great for the police to
cope with the militia will be called 10
their aid. What to DO with the army is
difficult question. The station-houses of
the city would not accommodate such a
crowd. To simply repulse the men and
forbid them TO enter the District would
be to turn them loose on the suburban
residents of Virginia and Maryland, and
this is q subject which gives the Gov
ernors of the adjoining States much un-
easness.
Major Moore received letter from the
Chief of Police at Allegheny City, Pa,
describing the Coxey men in most un-
complimentary terms.
Colonel Redstone, the Washington
representative OF COXey, SAID concerning
the men arrested last night: This BODY
OF men is not called the Commonweal
Army, as no Coxey men will come on
until word is previously sent to our head
quarters, and none will come in disorder
and without military discipline. There
will be no resistance of the law. and none
of the men will enter the city as body
until the main line is arrived"