Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-24
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FROM WASHINGTON.
OF tie Alexandra Gazotte.J
WASHINGTON, April "A, 1884.

Chief of Police here has put 10 iorce
precautionary measures. These con-
sist in inspection of all trains
arriving with view to arrestlng
all known CROOKS or other sus-
picious characters. Inhammatory speech
makers who may hold forth on
street corners will be suppressed.
The police authorities have neither
seen nor heard anything to indicate
that the Coxeyites will be greatly aug
mented in numbers prior to or on their
arrival at the capital, and plans for
dealing with the coming influx of the
unemployed will be held in abey-
arce until the army of the common
veal enters Rockville, fifteen mites
from Washington, where it is proposed
TO concentrate all the forces for the
march TO this city If it is apparent
that the little band of mountain climb
ers will draw about them great crowd
of idle men. Major Moore will probably
ask Congress for an appropriation fer
number OF special policemen to guard
property and persons in the District
Oh side the city limits and particularly
between Georgetown, or West Wash
ipgtou. and Glen Echo, the Chautau-
qua Assembly grounds, where Citizen
C0xey proposes to establish q camp,
perhaps a permanent resting place for
his army. There is little doubt that
such an appropriation would be speed
liz granted and there is 10 question
whatever that il would be approved by
tie President. The two men giving The
name of White, who arrived in Wash
ington Yesterday with credentials from
Carl Brown. willremain here ualil the
army arrives in the capacity of recruit
ing officers.
Col. Snow, the Sargeant-at-Arms OF
the House, had conference this morn
ing with Capt. Garden, OF the Capitol
police force, regarding the Instructions
TO be observed by the latter when the
Coxev forces reach Washington. Capt.
Garden believes that his force is sutficl-
entity large TO preserve order in the
Cap;tol, and nothing further will be &C.
manded of him. There is no DISPOSE
ton TO resort t. hash or repressive
measures so far as CoXey's followers
are concerned. They will be allowed
every privilege that can be enjoyed by
any American citizen visiting the Capt.
tol in proper spirit. But they will
moi be permitted, as has been stated III
these dispatches, to overcrowd the gal
leries or 70 loter in groups within the
corridors of the building. Its general
ly believed at the Capitol that Coxey's
ut!erances in New York yesterday, that
he and his followers proposed staying
in Washington until their object had
been gained, is sheer buncombe.
His men will have nothing to
live on except what is donated
to them by certain of their
simpathizers in Washington, and it is
believed that these latter will speedily
check their sentimental interest in the
army after the latter shall have been
here few days. None of the Coxey
forces, it is believed, will, with a few
individual exceptions, be found in
Washington a week after their arrival,
and no trouble is anticipated with them.
Notwithstanding this belief, the mill
tary and local authorities are fully pre-
pared for any emergency which may
arise, as the industrial army will speed
ily learn if any overt act be attempted
iy them. If the army or any of the
guerillas attached to it make an attack
upon the Treasury, they will meet with
warm reception, as several stands Of
small arms and repeating rifles were
delivered there this morning from the
War Department. The small arms
were turned over TO Captain Putnam,
of the Treasury Watch, and the repeat
lug rifles were placed at convenient
points about the Treasurer's end of the
building.
The case against Secretary Carlisle
brought by Eugene E. Gaddis was call
ed up to-day in the Circuit Court Of the
District. Mr.. Gaddis was formerly in
the employ of the Treasury Depart
ment, where he was promoted by sue
cessive steps from 81 900 position to
that of membership on the central
board of examiners of the civil service
commission, and claims that he was
discharged last August Tor political
causes. He entered the employ of the
Treasury on examination under the
rules of the civil service, and according
10 the ailidavits which he offers in con-
nection with his petition maintained an
enviable record for efficiency. An in
vestigation OF the causes which led to
his dismissal was made by the civil ser
vice commission, and protest was
made against the action of Secretary
Carlisle. The case will be q test OF the
civil service law, and it is understood
that it has been brought at the instiga-
ton of that commission. Gadlis asserts
that repeated offers were made TO him
TO restore him to his position by Regis
ter Tillman of the Treasury if he would
say that he was democrat. The case
will be defended by the Department of
Justice When the case was called this
morning counsel for Secretary Carlisle
stated that the government was not
ready to proceed, and Judge Bradley
gave the Secretary till next Saturday
to file his answer
William McGarrahau, one of the most
conspicuous figures about the Capitol
for the last thirty years. died at Provi-
dence Hospital at Ills this morning.
The old man, better known by every
body in Washington, as Billy Nc
Garrahan, was about 20 years of age,
and has been prosecuting his claim to
the Mexican grant in California to the
Rancho Panoche property for the past
thirty years, and before that time for
many years in the departments and
courts. 1t was one of the measures
vetoed by President Harrison after the