The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-27
The Coxeyites at Last Make an
Impression,
And the Senate is Aroused at
Least.
SHOWED CLEAR UNDER.
Senator Aliens Resolution is
Overwhelmingly Defeated.

in the senate yesterday, Mr.. Jarvis,
recently appointed from North Caro-
lima, to succeed the late Senator
Vance, was sworn in.
Senator Aliens Coxey resolution
came up, and Mr.. Allen stated there
would be no opposition on the Demo
cratic side to its passage.
Mr. Vest, however, opposed it.
These people should be treated the
same as all other citizens of the
United States. If they did not violate
any laws, they would not be molested,
but he deprecated the introduction of
such a resolution, because it intimated
a want of confidence in the institu-
tions and the laws of the land; their
right to come here and visit the cap
itOl was SO plain, so evident, that any
suspicion about it was a reflection
on the Intelligence of the country
He was opposed to the preamble,
however, if it meant to include these
men who had trampled on the laws,
injured private property and under
taken to secure transportation to this
city by force of arms, for then he en-
phatically dissented from it. He de-
clared the men who were marching to
Washington would be protected in
their rights, but they would have to
learn to abide by the laws of the land,
and if congress, for one instant, COM
promised with them, it would open a
crevasse which would end in a flood
and final destruction. If any one
wanted to come here, wheth they
were employed or unemployed, to in
spect the public buildings and visit
congress their rights would be re-
spected, but when they seized trains
TO come on, when they violated the
laws of the country and trampled on
the rights of the people, congress
hf OF fn wit hn
Mr.. Wo1cott of Colorado entered
vigorous protest against passing the
resolution There was to-day no man
who sincerely desired to work for the
support of himself and his family, who
could not get work, or bread to put
into the mouths of himself and little
ones until work could be found.
Il am tired of this talk of national
demonstration" he said. ''Th Colo
RADIO to-day, crushed and Inundated
as she is by the action of congress, L
venture to say no man is suffering be-
cause he can find no work or no will
ling hands to assist in supporting him
until work can be found for him.
believe the time has come when those
of us who are in public life ought to
begin to cultivate more regard for the
perpetuity of republican institutions
and to pander less to that miscalled
portion of the labor vote, whose labor
is with their throats and never with
their hands. 1t is time we stood up
for American manhood, for the right
of every man to work if he wants to,
if it takes the whole army of the
United States to ena BILE him to do So
The right of every man is to enable
him to enjoy equal liberty with every
other man, and that means he shall
have such liberty as is not incOnSlst-
emit with equal rights of his neighbor;
the right to hold and enjoy the prop
erty which the laws of the country
have enabled him to secure. It is
time we had the courage to stand to-
gether against this socialism, popu-
ism and paternalism which is running
riot in this country and which must
end Gf not crushed) in the destruc-
ton of liberties which the laws give
us, liberties which should be dearer
to us than life itself"
A number of senators took the pains
to go to Senator Wolcott, after he had
concluded his remarks, and express
their.approbation of what he had said.
Mr.. Dolph, Republican of Oregon,
S tated that he agreed with what the
senator from Missouri (Vest) had said,
but he called attention to other OBJ
jectionable features of the pream BILE
to the resolution. No one denied the
right of citizens of the United States
to peaceably assemble to petition con-
gress or to visit the capitol His OBJ
lection to the resolution lay in the
fact that it was accompanied by 1y-
ing preamble, which was in effect
censure of the authorities of the Dis
trict of Columbia
Mr.. Gray of Delaware, also con-
deuned the resolution, even while he
said he would vote for it if the pre-
amble was omitted. He admitted h e
had kindly sympathy for the vaga-
bonds who made our roads SO pietur-
esque in summer.
Mr.. Allen defended his action in
Il
for some time. In the course of his
speech he called these gatherings
spontaneous uprising of American cit
liens against wrong and oppression"
He denied it was a socialistic move
ment- Whether it was Populistic
he did not know, because he did not
know whether any Populists were en-
gagged in it. 1t was, he said. peace
able gathering of men engaged in a
peaceable project.
At las o'clock, before any action
had been taken on the resolution. Mr..
Harris moved to take mp a resolution
providing that tomorrow and until
otherwise ordered, the senate shall
meet at IL o'clock a. M
Senators PETER and Allen objected
to the pending resolution being dis
placed and demanded yea and nay
vote. The vote (Which also showed
the attitude of the senate on Mr.
Aliens resolution) was as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allison, Bate, Berry,
Blackburn, Blanchard, Brice, Gallery,
Call, Camden, Coke, Cullon, Dubois,
Faulkner George, Gibson, German.
ley, Higgins, Hunton, Jarvis, Jones
of Arkansas, Lindsay, Lodge, Nc
MILAN. Mcpherson, Henderson. Mar
tin. Mills Mitchell of Wisconsin.