The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-18

"AksA - oVessVSS "AO RuS0 tucA SuIVuEu
without costs. Their destination is St.
Cloud, where they claim that over 1,Ol)O
men are to meet. Their final rendez-
vOus Is st. Paul, from where, Wilson
snys, they will take train through
without steps to Washington with 5000
men. They are not opposed here. but
are encouraged, in the hopes Of enlisting
tie element that can be easily spared.
Fergus Falls, Minn., May S.-A COxey
Orgs nizer who was here with n wing Of
tho army in an interview said that $5,OOO
was raised in Butte to help take the
army which he was organizing FROM the
West to the East. He says that other
cities on the coast are raising large sums
to send unemployed workingmen Fast.
They care nothing about the effect that
the movement is expected to have OH
legislation, but it IL a cheap and popular
way to return to the East u large army
of men which floated West during the
bcem days on the coast, and which is
now drug in Western cities. While
the organizer was here Il prominent and
wealthy man gave him list of 1lp4 un-
desirable citizens and offered him $40 per
head for as many of them AS he would
take East. the money payable when he
reached Pittsburg, SO that the men will
not drift back ut once. The West Ms
been getting dead beats and undesirable
citizens of the East, and 1t is now ship
ping them back by the freight train load
st. Paul, May S.-The following RESP
luton was presented ut to-day's meeting
of the chamber of comult rec and referred
to u committees:
whereas, Our country is being hui
n iliated by the spectacle Of numerous
tt dies of unemployed men from various
localities marching to the national capi-
tai to coerce congress into passing meus-
nres for their relief. The worst feature
of the movement is that it is q menace
to law and order.
Received, That in friendly spirit
We would advice these men To abandon
their foolish and hopeless proceeding.
The United States government has mil
lions OF acres of fertile land which it do
nj tcs to actual settlers in quantities Of
lGO acres to evary head of family or
single person above the age of twenty
one, and IL they IRE disposed to work
they can, by taking the benefit of the
homestead law, attain competence, as
thousands of others have done.
Resolved, That the proctice which has
occurred in some instances of commune
ties, municipal and state authorities lend
ing the so-called Coxeyites facilities for
their progress, unloading them as it were
upon the next city or state, should be
heartily condemned
Washington, May 0.-The three lead
and Christopher Columbus Jones, have
beDn found guilty of violating the laws
by jury of thair peers and will have
to submit to sentence hereafter to be
imposed by the court for their recent
demonstration on the capitol grounds
Thus ends what its leaders styled ''tlc
greatest march of the nineteenth cen
tury." All three Of the accused were
convicted on the first count of the in
dictment which charged them with dis
playing banner designed to bring into
public notice the J. s. Coxey Good Roads
association. Jones of Philadelphia was
acquitted on the second count, which ac-
cused them of treading on the grass,
but Coxey and Browne were convicted.
Attorney LipscQmbe Immediately en-
tered motion for a new trial and an
other in arrest Of judgment. Judge Mill
er gave him four days to file the formal
paper. Two weeks may elapse, during
which the trio will be free on bail, b.
fore the motion for o new trial is argued
and decided. The penalty provided by
law is the same fol each offense, viz, q
fine not to exceed 500 and imprisonment
in Jail for not more than sixty days, or
both, within the discretion of the court.
Accordingly, the maximum punishment
which may be meted out to Coxey and
Browne il 500 and 12O days, while
Christopher Columbus Jones is subject
to 500 and sixty days.
by curious congressional error in
recent bill which reorganized the district
courts there is no appellate court to
which police court case can be carried
The only method of appealing from Judge
Miller's sentence will be an application
to a higher court for writs of habeqs
corpus and certi0rari. Attorney tips-
conbe has announced that he will take
this step if Judge Miller overrules the
motion for new trial. However, such
q petition will not operate as stay of
Judgment to keep the defendants from
serving their sentences while it is pend.
ing.
Des Moines, May 9. - Gen. Kelly's
toats are almost completed, and the
army will soon make start from Dps
Moines. They have food enough for
three days. Oskaloosa will send 1000
loaves of bread and coffee and meat be-
sides. The start will be sort of gala
procession, and the army is in better
spirits than it has been for several days.
Washington May 10. - After hearing
on labor, BY vote Of Z to 2, decided to
report resolution for joint investiga-
ti0n by special committee of the senate
and house of the Coxey movement and
the depressed condition of labor in gem
eral. This decision was hailed with sat
isfaction by Messrs. Coxey and Browne
and by number of prominent POpuiists
and Farmers Alliance leaders and the
chairman and secretary of the Peoples
party. The vote to report the resolution
was:
Ayes-Erdmaq Pa.), Wells (Wis),
Ryan N. w., Talbert Il. c.. Democrats:
Pence (Colo.), Populist; Phillips PAL
Kiefer (Minn.), Republican,.
Nays.Dunn Oem., N. ~. Apsley
lRep, Mass.)
Chairman McGanq says the favorable
report will be made to:m9rrow and be
will sopn thereafter press for q susPensle4
of the rules and ap immediate passage
Of the resolution. Mr.. Dunn says there
will be lnin0rity report.
The district health officers have decided
the Coxey camp to be nuisance and
dai gerous 70 health. The district COM
u fasteners have given G9xey and bis fol-
lowers forty-eight hours ITO abate the
ruisance." This doubtless means that
they must break camp within that time.
saIinq, Kan, May 1.-THE "war" IL
over. The intrepid Colorado contingent
Of the cpmmonwesl which has kent Co!-
orIdo and Kansas IN an uproar for two
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