The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-05-16
COAET GIVEN 4 HEARING.
HS CErENDS Ills BILLS BEFORE 4
NcUSE COMMITTEE.

HcUSE COMMIT TEE.
The Committee wa. NO; Much I'm
pr.sssd-vigoroue Cross Questioning
The Labor Depressinns 70 BE- Iavesti-
ga.ed.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-Coxey ap-
pearea on the floor OF the House today
before the hour Of business ander es-
cort of Representative Pence OF Ccio-
rado. Some Of the representatives
who were earlier il their seats crowd
ed about him, but when their curloslty
was satisfied they dropped away one oy
one, and left him alone with Pence. AT
II o'clock Coxey appeared before tne
House Committee on Lahor.
Coxey laid before the committee
petition bearing the signatures OF his
followers, the character of their occu-
pations aud their place OF residence: IL
was written on paper bearing the let-
ter head of the army Of the common
veal. AT the top of the page were
printed in bold, black letters, the mot.
Toes. Good Roads" Good Money"
"Good Work" Beneath this appeared.
single line-"Commonweal of Christ.
The petition is dated at Camp ~
ranny, in the field, Washington, u; T.,
May 1884," and reads as follows: we,
the undersigned, citizens OF the OnlIeo
States of America, now soJournlng IN
the District of Columbia, which IS not
only the asylum of oppressed by all ma
tions. but our natural home, do hereby
respectfully petition your honorable
body to allow Brother J. S. Coxey, OF
Massilop, Ohio, and Carl Browne OF
Calistoga, Cal, to appear before you as
our spokesmen, to voice our wishes IN
regard to the proposed legislation for
which we made the march to Washing
ton, namely, the J S. Coxey good roacS
and non.inteTest bearing bond bills,
and which we believe, il passed by
Congress, would not only soiVe me
present prevalent business depression,
give employment to US, representing as
we do all branches of industry or many
millions more like us all over tne un-
ion. but would effectually, we believe,
provide against any possible Iecur-
renee of the extraordinary condltlon
now existing in the industrlal ana
business arteries of the nation Walch
bit seems plain to US, if not remedleo,
will bring death to republican lnstltu-
tiops or revolution to-malntaln them
bv force OF arms, which all must de-
plore."
Coxey's petition was read OV tne
| c,ork tha ncerohe Of the committee
following the reading carefully. Carl
Browne came IN as the clerk finished
and seated himself beside Coxey.
Mr.. MeGann, the chairman OF tne
committee, said the petltloo "ou1o
have to 90 to the special clmmltIee'
which they hoped TO have formed 10
Investigate the entire SUBJ ~ the IN
dustrial depression. Coxey then tooh
the floor and started to address the
committee. He had ouly proceeded
| moment when the mem oerS began
questioning him. His replies to these
Queries were ram oliag and unsausfac'
tory. Tue impression made by him up"o
thecom mitEea was obviously DOT IaV-
reriop Que. q. was treated courteous!y
and held The floor for ten minutes, cut
he said nothing that was el'her origl-
nal or profound, or that ADDED 10 auy
manner to the knowledge desired D'
the committee. He began by saying
that billions of Improvements cugaI 10
| De made throughout he coun'rySand
that millions of people are ready 10
make them. The only thing NEEDED
was money.
"We c!aiu," be said, "thes.me privi-
leges that one per cent. of tne peoplr,
the national bankers, have had 10 lssn-
money based oa the wealth oithe state,
vo4"lry aud munlc, pallty
Gun (Dem of New jersey asked II
our institutions were to be turned into
banking powers.
C.xev replied that the National
Banks had that privilege for twenty
RYAN (Dem.) of New York: you
claim to represent ninety mine per cent.
of the people of this country
Coxey: Eyes sir"
Ran: "Oa what dc you bass that
claio?'
Coxey: 81 claim that ninety nine Per
cent. Of the whole people ask the sans
privileges that one per cent, the ma
iona! bankers have had for twenty
eight years. That one per cent. nave
had money at a cost of one per cent.
Ryan: "Ihe information / desire is
bv what warrant of authority you
claim to represent n.nety-nine per
cent. OF the people of the country -"
Coxev: g" will answer you in this
way. You can take the Farmers All
ance, the Knights Of Labor and other
organizations and you will find IN
their preamble that they want money
Issued directly without interest. All
the orders are demanding that. 1t is
true they have not been voting the
way they have been thinking. will
acknowledge that.
Ryan: Don't you believe that more
than one per cent. Of the people are
represented in CongresS?"
Coxey: "Yes, believe they have
been misrepresented. There is but one
per cent. of the people represented"
Ryan: Il would like to know by
what authority you say you represent
ninety-nine per cent. OF the people.
Ccxey. II came here to request that
this nlnety-aine per cent. of the people
be given the same privilege under the
Constitution-which guarantees equal
and exact justice to all the people that
the one per cent have had FOR twenty
eight years
Ryan: Il understand you to say you
came here representing SO per cent: OF
the people. OF course if that be the
case we would like to have the proof OF
it, so that Congress can act. as pre-
s,ime Congress would act with the re-
quest of SO per cent. OF the people.
How can you show that you represent
50 per cent. of the people,?
Coxey: II do not claim that, sir
This closed the hearing of Coxey.
lie was follo3e by I. E. Dean Of
Pennsy ylvaDia, a member Of the eXecu.
tive commitse of the Farmers Alliance.
He urged the appointment OF a special
committee to investigate the whole
subject of the Industrial depression,