Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-17
cOxEY'S UNEMPLOYED

WAL o V bN WV ~ - 0 Are Arriving by Freight In Large Num- bers-The Invasion Is Taken Seriously Now.
 l WASHINGTON, April 17.-Washington ar thorities, civil and military, are beginning to take an active interest in the arrival of CoXey's army. As the commonweal ap- breaches and the stories of detachments | from various cities begin to be authenti. cated the outlook for rather troublesome | problem for the District authorities to solve becomes bright. The question is, What will be done with the Coxeyites after | they disband? The individual mem bers of the army will be without means to go out of the city, and General CoNey has dis claimed all intention of leading away the
 men he brings in. It begins to look as I though the men might encamp in the Dis trict and practically say to the authorities, 'Here we are, and what do you propose to do with us:''
 The District commissioners have had pre- pared list of the statutes under which Coxey and his men could be arrested and dealt with. There is no lack of laws-laws against vagrancy, against bringing paul pers into the District, against assemblages on the capitol grounds or processions with out a permit, s,.. t.-.--. .. . Commissioner Ross, the president of the | board, says that the authorities do not think they will have trouble in dealing with the Coxey army, and that he considers the invasion chiefly dangerous because of the precedent it would establish. If dis gruntled factions were to form the habit of marching upon the capital in force to voice their demands, he thought it would be disturbing to legislation and decidedly uncomfortable to the residents of the city. Police Too Few to Stop Them. There are 450 men on the local police force, but of course only fraction of the body would be available to handle the Coxeyites, and the probabilities are that it would be necessary to call upon the mili
 tia for assistance. There are 1,600 troops
 so we'll drilled that they could be massed
 in marching order on two hours notice
 from General Albert Ordway, their com
 mander. The District militia is under the
 direction of the president. They can be
 called upon in case of riot, insurrection or
 menaces of riot or instruction.
 If Coxey's men are dealt with by the po-
 lice court, there would be no opportunity
 for labor organizations to appeal their
 case to a higher court with the hope of es-
 tablishing a precedent By curious de-
 feet in the organization of the District
 courts the authority of the police court is
 absolute There is no appeal from it's
 sentences, and this arrangement may prove
 dampener on the ardor of the people who
 may be disposed to make martyrs of Cox
 ey's men.
 A petition under discussion by the mili-
 tia officers is to corral the Coxey army on
 the edge of the city line, herd it into camp
 and confine it there until the local author
 ities or congress shall decide what course
 to take. If Coxey's army was met at the
 edge of the District by the police or mill tia and forbidden to enter, the men proba-
 bIy would skirt around in small detach-
 nlents and enter the city by night, inat-
 gurating reign of terror among women
 and children, unless the militia were kept
 patrolling the border. Unattached tramps
 or workingmen out of jobs are entering
 the city in unusually large numbers every
 day. Nearly every freight tram brings
 them in, and the undesired traffic of one
 line has increased so greatly that the train
 men havf. all been armed with revolvers.