The record-union., 1894-05-11
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
BILL TO REPEAL TIE CAPITAL
GROUNDS ACT.
Senator Hoar. Makes Vigorous speech
In Opposition to Aliens Coxey
Resolutions.
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Special to the RECoRD-US1oN-
WASHINGTON, May 10.-In the Senate
to-day Allen of Nebraska introduced
bill to repeal the Act regulating the use
of the Capitol grounds, under which
Coxey and his lieutenants were prose-
cuted
PETER introduced a resolution for the
appointment of a special committee of
three to investigate the condition OF the
country with special reference TO the pre-
vailing business depression and what leg
islation can afford relief.
Aliens resolution to investigate the
alleged police clubbing on May 1st then
came up.
Cameron of Pennsylvania said the
Coxey movement was the child of pa
ternal theory of government. Remedies
for existing conditions were to be found
In the Capitalization of power.
Teller favored the resolution. Coxey
was a law-abiding citizen. He and his
followers had trudged through the rain
and mud and were entitled to respectful
consideration. He did not indorse the
statute under which they had been ar
rested. He did not think the Senate
could refuse to investigate the police club
bing. He himself would furnish the
names of witnesses. Whether Coxey was
a crank or not, did not matter His
statement was absurd, as were many
others put forward In the hour Of distress,
but it was not a wicked scheme; ii only
asked Congress to provide work for the
unemployed.
Stewart of Nevada maintained strenu-
ously that CoXey had committed no Of
tense, and drifted gradually into a dis
cussion of the general condition of the
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to the monetary policy of the Govern
ment.
Hoar said Coxey knew the law under
which he was convicted was on the stat
ute books. He came here with the de-
Hberate intention of violating it. he
wanted to test the kBwer of Congress in
the court, and WheE he found both court
and jury against him he set up howl.
There is DANGER" said Hoar, Sin such
assemblages. They afford cover for one
or two factions. 1t does not do to scott.
Within ten years an attempt has been
made to blow up khe House OF Parlia-
ment, within two Years another attempt
To blow up the French Assembly. Two
Presidents of the United States have been
murdered, one in crowd at depot, the
other in a crowd at theater. by mis-
guided tanatical persons, to whom the
peaceable citizens afforded an opportunity
to escape. This is why the provisions of
the riot law OF every State provide that
when the magistrate reads the Act all the
people must go home. a man may be
there with peaceable intentions, but if
when the Riot Act is read, he refuses TO
go, he is liable to punishment. Those
who are peaceable shield those who are
not. 1t is needless for me- said Hoar,
drawing his finger up and looking about
the chamber, his eyes pausing when they
reached Allen and Stewart. ito declare
that that l sympathiZe with all my fell
lows in distress, | sympathize with them
great deal more than some of those who
always pirate OF sympathy for the down
ftrodden in order to advance their dis
graceful political ambitions"
The Senate burst into ringing applause
at this utterance, and in order to Quell
the demonstration Faulkner, who was in
the chair, was forced to use the gavel Wig
orousiy and threaten TO clear the gall
leries.
Hoar closed with an impressive decla-
ration that the Senate would stand on its
constitutional rights, and it would not be
frightened into doing what was not best
for the country by any demonstration or
by declarations, whether they came from
the camp OF Coxey or the Senator from
Nevada.
Harris closed the debate for the day
with vigorously worded speech. Until
this morning he had opposed the idea of
appointing committee to investigate the
alleged outrages on the Capitol steps.
But when a Senator like Teller, usually
careful and calm in his judgment, entered
charges of outrageous conduct against
the police of the District of Columbia he
thought the Senate was entitled to know
the facts.
Senator Gray got the floor one minute
before l o'clock and was proceeding to
say that he had never seen anything in
connection with the CoXey movement
that warranted Congress in taking the
slightest heed of it, when the morning
hour expired, and Harris insisted on GO
ing ahead with the tariff bill. When it
was laid before the Senate, the first par
agraph OF the tariff schedule, viz: that of
acetic or pyroligoneous acid, of the chem
ical schedule was taken up, and Senator
Allison offered an amendment substitut-
ing the provision in the Mckinley law
on this article for this provision in the
pending bill of 20 per cent. ad valorem.
de called attention TO the fact that the
acetic acid duty in the Mills bill was III
accordance with the specific system and
intimating that Mills had not in that in
stance been unfriendly to specific rates.
Rising at this juncture, Mills said that
the Iowa Senator was doing him entirely
too much honor. 81 was not" he said,
responsible for the specific rates IL the
Mills bill. The Senator knows very well
no one man makes tariff bill.'
Allison's amendment was lost by a
strictly party vote-27 to D.
Jones of Arkansas offered the first of
the compromise amendments to change
the rate on boracic acid from 20 per cent.
ad valorem to cents per pound. Perkins
of California offered an amendment to
this amendment, to make the duty cents
per pound tthe present duty. California,
he said, was the pioneer State In the de-
velopment of the boracic industry. Over
5000 families were supported by the in
dustry. Under a protective tariff the
price had fallen from p cents to cents
per pound. A reduction of the duty to 2
cents would paralyze the industry.
At P. NJ. the House resolutions on the
death OF Representative Brattan of Mary
land were presented. Appropriate reso-
lutions offered by Gibson were adopted
by the Senate. The Chair appointed a
committee to attend the funeral. and the
Senate at 5:15 P. NJ, as a further mark OF
respect, adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-In the House.
Talbot of Maryland briefly announced
the death OF his colleague, Brattan, and
offered the customary resolutions. which
were adopted. The House adjourned at
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