Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-05-24
Washington Letter.
(From our regular Correspondent
WAsHINGroN, D 4. Nay II, 1884.

/ proper n me OF the leader OF the wide
| ly advertised Common amy"
He now fuilA rea zss that tle cJuyic-
ton OF himself. Browne, aud Jones in
the police court Hhves It in discl G ion
of the Judge o tn Il court whether he
shall serve sentence IN Jail, for the
application Tor new trial Is certain TO
be denied, and psuding attempts to get
| the case before a higher court sentence
will be pronounced and enforced.
| The law VIII ch they were convicted of
| having violated provides either fin or
imprisOumeI or both as the Judge may
decide II Is beHeved that Coxey
would now gladly lrJniise to take him.
/ self and his army out ot " asbington II
thereby he can KEEP himself out of
| Jail. lnde, d, the popuIist Representa-
I tive, Ii q on of KansaS. wto was one
4 of the sOiuHteel ,Uuusei at the trial,
/ tried To gel rim i.ole 10 crawl OFT of
by stating tnat Coxey and his army
/ intend 10 ,et.e Washington as soon as
| he can 20, IA hauhg before enh,r a
1 Senate or H0u~. 90 nmttfee in favor of
I his bills. aud hist ne has 10 utilization
/ with office S called "Commonweal
armies" now on the way 10 Wsshing-
| ton. Coxr9 af erwards deuied that
/ Hudson was author Zrd To say so much.
| 1t is nip aud tuck between hunger aud
| the officials as to which shall succeed
/ in scattering the Coxryites. The fall
! ing off in contributors has brought
the men still in camp down to TWO
rather sCaItr meals day, and the
! health officials want the camp broken
/ m
given Coxey as hour notice. which
expires to-uight, 10 put the camp in a
SAINT Try condition-an impossIbility-
or remove he men therefrom. De-
Sertions by wholesale are going on and
unless the food supply is increased the
army canuot be held together a
mother week Coxey got short hear
ing before the House committee on
Labor, hut only succeeded in making
an ass of himself
Senator Aldrch, II l., thus sums up
the result of the democratic tariff con-
cessions: There are 409 amendments
10 the tariff bill, and an ANALYSIS of
them shows some curious results. 32S
of them show an increase ia the rates,
ranging from 10 To 500 per cent. But
six Of these amendments reduce duties
and two of these are on rice and two
on opium The remaining changes are
chiefly in the phraseology of the bill
of the transfer from the free to the
dutiable list Another notable fact is
that in nearly every case whore these
increases were made the change was
also made from adj volorem 10 speci-
tic duties. Ii these increases had been
made with regard 10 the requirements
of the different industries from pro-
tective standpoint, the bill would have
been comparatively good one, but
they were evidently made in response
to pressure from certain Senators, aud
no such purpose governed those who
prepared the measure The height of
the rate was evidently fixed by the ex-
tent of the pressure brought to bear by
reoellious Senators and the result is
that the inequalities and anomalies of
the bill as originally reported are mag
niiiud and made prominent in the new
bill formulated by the mysterious con-
ference, whose membership is uncer-
tain.
The democrats of the Senate have
conciliated the so-called conservative
Senators, except Hill. of N. Y. by the
amendments to the tariff bill, but they
have stirred up a regular hornets nest
of opposition among the extreme free
trade Senators of the south, and the
final result is as much in doubt as ever.
Senator Mill, who probably comes as
near voieing the sentiment of the free
! trade element AS any one Senator, was
| goaded into making few remarks
1 that created a sensation On the demo-
cratic side of the Senate. by refer
ence 10 his recent speech by Senator
/ Aldrich He started out by saying
Ethat he was = little nearer the devil on
the subject of the tariff bill than he
| was when he made his speech the
| other day, IN which he said that be was
| between the devil and the deep sea
He said that the bill was no 10 1ger the
Wilson bill, but should be called the
German bill or The Brice bill, and de-
clared, waving his arms in intense ex-
element. that the Senators who framed
the compromise amendments should
not shirk their responsibility, but
| should stand out in the open sunlight
aud a, sumo the responsibility for every
amendment, all OF which he intended
to vote against II Is understood that
MIR. Cleveland has undertaken the Job
of quieting the free trade opposition to
the amendments.
Senator Allen has apparently been
trying to see how many kinds of a
fool he can make himself appear to &c
in connection with Coxeyism. While
} loudly declaring his lack of sympathy
with the movement be went into the
police court IS CoSey's counsel ans
| showed how little of lawyer he vas
/ Then he tried TO Get q resolution
passed in the Senate TO investigate to,
arrests. Like Coxey, Allen has wheels
/ in bis head.