Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-02
COXEY WILL WAIT NOW
No More Attempts to Speak on l the Capitol Steps.
MARSHAL BROWNE IS OUT ON BAIL

Christopher Columbus Jones Spent 8 Dis
 nal Night In 8 Police Station CeII-Com
 mOnweal Army Awaits Re-enforcement,
 In It's New Quarters.
 WASHINGTON, May 2.-The march of Cox
 ey's commonweal army, which started from Massillon, O., on Easter Sunday, that It's leader might speak from the steps ol the capitol in advocacy of his bills for non interest bearing bonds and for giving work to the unemployed on public roads by ar issue of legal tender, ended, as might have been predicted, in interruption by the DO lice.
 Fortunately and remarkably enough there were no casualties, and today Gener al Coxey has his bur1esque army in camp Marshal Carl Browne occupied a police station cell for time, and Christopher Co lumbus Jones, leader of the Philadelphia commune and the comedian of the move ment, endeavored to appropriate a share of the martyrdom in an adjoining cell. kaThe performance which was enacted within the shadow of the capitol is with out a counterpart in the memory of Wash ingtonians. Over the broad, smooth plaze of several acres facing the east front of the capitol was packed a crowd of men and women mum bering 10000 by conservative estimate-such a gathering as is never seen there except on inauguration days.
 All conditions of people were there, the lower elements in largest proportion, with many negroes among them. The capitol steps and the porticoes under the GreciaL pillars were packed with well dressed peo pie of both sexes, and most of the members of congress were in the throng.
 Congressmen In the Crowd.
 An early adjournment had been taken by the senate on account of the death of Senator Stockbridge, but the house, not wishing to seem to be terrorized by the demonstration, went through the sem blance of a session with handful of mem. bers. More than POO city police re-enforced the capitol officers, and detectives from several cities were sprinkled through the crowd, for the concentration of lawless To cal characters gave just grounds for appre- hension of trouble apart from the presence of the Coxeyites.
 It was shortly after 1 clock when the army halted in the public street south of the capitol grounds. Its five mile march dowh from Brightwood through the prin- cipal streets of the city had been witnessed by thousands attracted more from curios ity than by any interest in the movement, their good natured yells were in- terpreted by the commonwealers to be aL' plause. Such fantastic aggregation never before paraded itself in seriousness before the public.
 There were 500 in the line-Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, the populistic agitator of Kan. sas, in a barouche; Coxey's 17-year-old daughter in white on cream colored steed representing the Goddess of Peace; Carl Browne on a great gray Pereheron stallion; General Jacob Slecher Coxey, his wife and the infant Legal Tender Coxey together in anothe: carriage; Virginia la Valette, said to be an actress, on horse back, draped in an American flag, as the commune's Goddess of Peace; the unemployed carrying white flags of peace on slaves, and the nondescript ban ners setting forth the doctrine of reincar- nation, good roads and enmity to pluto crats sprinkled through the caravan