Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-26
ALIENS RESOLUTION
It Causes a Lively Discussion in the
Senate.
Mr.. VESTS VIGOROUS OPPOSITION
Mr.. Wolcott Also Speaks Against
It and Allen Replies.
THE sALARY-DoCKING RULE

THE SALARY-DOCKING RULE
| There was an unusually large attendance
Of Senators present when the Senate was
called to order today, and the galleries were
also well filled.
Immediately after the reading Of the jour-
nal Mr.. Ransom On. c. announced that
Hon. Thomas Jordan Jarvis. recently ap-
pointed to succeed the late Senator Vance
Of North Carolina. was present, and asked
| that he be sworn in.
| The new Senator was escorted down the
center aisle by Mr.. Ransom and up to the
| Vice Presidents desk. where the oath was
| administered. after which he was intro
duced to a number of his colleagues and
| held an informal reception.
The Senate joint resolution authorizing
and directing the Secretary of War to
| cause an examination to be made of the
Mississippi river levee near Walmouth
Bend, Ark, to determine whether there was
any danger of the river cutting through to
the st. Francis river, was reported by Mr..
Berry from the committee on commerce
and passed.
The Coxey Resolution.
Senator Aliens resolution authorizing
| Coxey's army to come to Washington
(Which was reported In full yesterday was
laid before the Senate and Mr.. Allen stated
there would be no opposition on the demo-
cratic side to the passage Of the resolution.
Mr. Vest CMo), however, opposed the
| resolution. 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 depre-
| Gated the introduction of such resolutions,
because they intimated a want of confidence
| in the institutions and laws of the land,
which was much to be deplored. Their right
to come here and visit the Capitol was so
II was reflection on the intelligence of
the country.
Opposed to the Preamble.
He was opposed to the preamble, however.
| IL 1t meant to include those men who
had trampled on the laws. injured private
| property and undertaken to secure trans
| portation to this city by force of arms,
then he emphatically dissented from it.
This issue must be met right here and
now. he said. I'VE cannot for one instant
hesitate or falter in view of what has been
done in this country in the last few days
In the name of the unemployed workmen
am not here to make any protestation of
my sympathy for any particular class of
people, but L am an American, and there
| is not a drop of blood in my veins which is
want"
ne ueciareo tnat the men who were
marching to washington would be protect
ed in their rights, but they would have to
! learn to abide by the laws of the land. and
II Congress. for one instant, compromised
with them 1t would open a Gre
vase which would end in flood
J and final destruction. If any one wanted
TO come here, whether they were employed
or unemployed. to inspect the public build
lngs and visit Congress, their rights would
be respected. but when they seized trains
TO come on, when they violated the laws
of the country and trampled on the rights
or the people, Congress ought not to treat
with them.
MIR. WolcOtt's Protest.
Mr.. Wolcott (ColD entered a vigorous
protest against passing the resolution. He
was at a loss to understand the purpose of
the resolution, which did not change the
law in any respect. but simply extended a
| cringing invitation to those men calling
themselves unemploy ed some of whom were
coming by begging, some by their overpow-
| erlng 1orce and some on stolen trains The
only excuse for such lawless action as had
peen recently enacted had been the utter
ances of men in high places holding office
Members of the Senate who had spoken
/ OF servile police force and a paid soldiery
/ seemed TO think proper to denounce in the
Senate men sworn to do their duty 1t was
! deeply to be regretted that the governors of
| certain states had been so unwise as to
| urge these men to make descent on the
of Colorado had the misfortune to have
| one of these governors, whose gyrations
and antics had brought discredit and dis
/ honor on his commonwealth and sullied her
] fair name.
Mr. Wolcott said he was tired of dealing
with those methods of administration The
] times were out of joint but what made
them so might be attributed to one cause
or another. He believed that most of the
men in Coxey's army might be honest but
they were led by men who were cranks,
insane or vicious. But their methods of
righting the wrong of the time could re-
suit in no good; this could only come from
/ the natural beneficence of mankind which as
the world grew better, made men more
/ humane and kind.
J There should be no man suffering for
bread in this broad domain of the United
States who was willing to work. There was
( today 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 his little
ones until work could be found.
/ Il am tired of this talk of national demon
stration," he said. I'm Colorado today
! crushed and Inundated as she is by the ac-
/ ton of Congress. l venture to say that no
man is suffering because he can find no
| work or no willing hands to assist in sup
! porting 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
! TO that miscalled portion of the labor vote
whose labor is with their throats and never
with their hands. 1t is time that we stood
, for American manhood, for the right of
every man to work If he wants to, II it
! takes the whole army Of the United States
/ to enable him to do so. The right of every
man to equal the party with every other
man, and that means that he shall have
| such liberty as is not inconsistent with the
! equal rights of his neighbor; the right to
| mold and enjoy the property which the laws
| of the country have enabled him to secure.
| MIR. Allen Talks Again.
Senator Gray criticised the preamble. He
vas followed by Senator Allen, in an i'm
! passioned speech. in which he declared his
love of the Constitution, and denounced the
! issue of the proclamation by the District
! Commissioners. He said Senator Wolcott
I had no right to term the movement populis-
| tic. Senator Wolcott asked him If he in
| dorsed the seizure of the Northern Pacific
! train, and the killing of a deputy marshal ?
! Senator Allen said he would not be drawn
| on to that ground; that when the resolu-
| tions We're introduced nothing was known
of the seizure of the train. He criticised
! the preparations by the District militia for
| the reception of the commonweal army.
To Meet at IL O'Clock.
| At 2:35 Senator Harris moved to take I'd
his resolution changing the hour of meet
| ing to IL o'clock each day. A yea and
nay vote was called. Many republicans
| yotad In tho firm tive apd ~ ,ras ,,rrxaa