The record-union., 1894-04-24
WHEN SHALL THE ARMY MARCH ?
The Men Appeal For Help to Pay
Their Fare.
They Regard Mr.. Huntington's Propo-
sition as Fair-Meeuing Called
For Tonight.

The situation in the Industrial Army at
Agricultural Park is becoming more and
more complicated. Colonel Inman and
his officers of the Industrial Army called
yesterday morning upon Mayor Stein
man to see if he would consent to aid
them in getting out of the city.
They stated that they had realized some
500 through collections in the churches
on Sunday, which would be augmented
by the donations of citizens, and re-
quested him TO allow them to circulate a
petition requesting The Trustees to pro-
vide means for them to leave.
! The Mayor told them he should de-
cidedly object to the circulation of any
such petition. People, he said. would sign
anything i'll the shape OF petition on
any subject, and it would simply result
in putting the Trustees in an unpleasant
position. The men who were asking for
assistance had never cOntri buted one
cent to the payment OF taxes here. They
were not asked 10 come TO this city, and
have no claim on it. He advised them to
telegraph to {. p. Huntington and ask
him if he would not make arrangements
! TO transport them cheaply TO the East.
course, and lett. Colonel Inman at once
sent a telegram to President Huntington
of the Southern Pacific Company, and
Mayor Steinman received the following
from Mr.. Huntington in reply thereto:
MR.. HUNTINGroN's REPLY.
SAN FRANCIsco, April 23d. 2:l0 p. NJ.
Hon. b. L. StetnMdn, Mayor, Sdcra-
nento: l.. Inman, Colonel of the Army
of the Unemployed, telegraphed me ask
ing, by your request, the cheapest price
for 800 men in box cars to Ogden. While
the Southern Pacific Company would
like to accommodate the unemployed, it
could rot send them to Ogden for less
than regular rates. Although we do not
| think we ought to send 800 men to that
town, where there is less population and
less resources than you have, while
provisions are higher, we will take our
pro rata OF any rate that any OF the roads
east of Ogden Will carry them for and
land them in Chicago or ST. Louis, where
the great population OF those places will
absorb, so to speak, these 300 men, a Id
where 1t will not be so great a tax upon
the people as it would be upon the towns
this side of the Missouri. They could
also probably reach their homes or get
among their frlends more easily from
those cities, as take it they are not Cali
fornlans, but are mostly men who have
drifted here from the East during the last
year. G. z. HUNTINGTON.
While this telegram, at first glance,
might appear disappointing to the army,
its wisdom and kindly spirit will be ap-
preciated after moments consideration.
Mr.. Huntington is we'll aware OF the
difficulties encountered py the first regi-
ment on its arrival at Ogden, as well as
the proceedings in court against the
Southern Pacific Company.
Readers of the RECORD UNION are all
familiar with the proceedings by which
it was sought to punish the company for
carrying the men to Ogden, the injunc-
ton issued TO compel it to remove the
men from the Territory, the calling out
of the militia, and the hardships to which
the men were subjected.
Naturally, Mr.. Huntington is anxious
to avoid repetition OF these troubles. He
points out the injustice that would be
done to Ogden by sending these men 10
that place unless arrangements can be
made with other companies TO carry them
farther East. He leaves it to those COM
panies to tx any rate they please, and
says his company will accept its pro rata
of any rate fixed as its compensation.
His proposition is certainly fair one,
and he evidently has most kindly and
sympathetic feeling for the men.
Inquiry and interviews prove that he is
also right in his conjecture that most o1
]
desire to return to their homes.
THINKS THE OFFER FAIR.
In regard to the dispatch from C. p
Huntington, Colonel Inman last evening
said:
IF Mr.. Huntington means that he vii
accept for transporting US his share of the
rate that the other roads will fix, no mat
Ter how small, l think his proposition is
fair and just and in line with what he die
for the iirst part OF the army"
BEFORE THE TRUSTEES.
Colonel Inman, in the evening, ad
dressed the City Trustees on behalf of the
Industrial Army, saying that he was sorry
to trespass upon the time of the Board
but il was a case of starvation. The OBJ.
jective. point of the men is Washington
Their primary desire, however, is to ge
home to their friends, as they are all East
ern men, stranded here, but who can be
helped and taken care OF If they can react
their homes. Their funds amount to be-
tween Sl0O and 500, contributed by work
ingmen of this city. He believed tha
the railroad company owed the city some
money for taxes, and he wished to know
, if part of it could not be used to helI
, the army.
1t had been suggested, he said, that the
men seize a train, but they did not pro-
pose TO do anything against the law. II
Ddu also DSeH Sdlu blldb the pest Lllng
they could do was to disband. He did
not think so. Ii they did so, they would
: simply spread out over the country and
be forced ultimately to drift back here
and beg. Ii they did this they would be
arrested and would have to be fed while
in jail-not tor crime, but because they
were in want. He had taken a vote o1
the men as to whether, if some large
work were being done and they wele
Oi "a ah at nj
, they would accept it, and they had unani.
mously answered yes. All they ask is a
chance to work and to earn for them
selves living.
J Several of the Trustees made remarks
on the subject, and committee, consist
ing of the Mayor, President of the board
and Trustee Devine, was appointed to see
what could be done for the men.
Colonel Inman then asked that, while
the matter was pending, his men be
allowed to work on the streets enough &c
pay for their food. but it was stated thai
ii could not be done without taking the
work away from the men already en-
gagged 1t 1t.
AGAINST JAPS AND CHINESE.
At meeting of the Council of FEEDER.
ated Trades last night the following reso-
luton was adopted:
ResolUed, That we, the Sacramento Council
of Federated Trades, having learned that q
number of Japanese are employed at East
Park by the owners of the property, feel it oui
duty, in justice TO the American citizens and
the Army of the Unemployed, to protest
most emphatically against such injustice
The present condition OF the times we hold
should be sufficient cause TO withhold patron
age of either japanese or Chinese, while sc
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