Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-10
Washington Letter
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT


FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT,
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 18th, 1894.
Well, Coxey's army has been in
Washington week. They are camped
In spot that physicians declare to be
dangerous to health and life, and from
which Coxey has removed his horses, but
none of the FIVE hundred odd men have
died. although some of them have had
to be sent to the hospital. The receipts
from admissions to the camp-twenty-
five cents is charged-and from indi-
viduai contributions have so far been
sufficient to feed the men, but as both
haye begun to fall off and the number
of men in camp is constantly increasing
this condition of affairs may not last
much longer. Large accessions to the
army are expected this week. There
has not been the slightest disturbance
between the police and the army since
the arrest Of Coxey, Browne and Jones,
for attempting to speak on the Capitol
steps. The police court has been crowd
ed for three days to hear their trial and
they have had as counsel. besides local
lawyers, Senator Allen and Represen-
tatiyes Pence, OF COL; Hudson, Of Kan;
Sibley, of Pa Halner, of Neb., and Van
Voorhis, of N. Y. The trial is expected
to end this afternoon or tomorrow.
Conviction is doubtful, and if secured
the penalty probably not be severe.
Coxey still insists that his army is going
to remain here until Congress passes his
good roads bill.
ut is still the lst of May with us
until we haye the meeting on the steps
of the Capitol" said Carl Brown yes.
terday. ut is simply a continuation
of the legislative day and we shall keep
turning the clock back until the meet
ing is held. The Washington police
haye shown themselves pretty expert
In clubbing heads, but they will haYe
to get more practice on Western heads
before they can stop this crowd"
Browne was swinging with langu,d
grace in yellow cord hammock in a
small tent at the slough Of despoud
which these men call camp. There
are not more than a hundred men left
in the camp of the crowd that came
with the Commonweal over the noun,
talns. Nearly all of the old men who
had the sembance of faith in the
movement have become Disguised and
have shaken the dust of the camp from
their feet for a more self-respecting
mode ofsupport. But the fact remains
that there are now quartered upon the
District three or four hundred men who
have been egregiously deceived by the
leaders who have brought them to
Washington. The best thing that these
men can do, and as body they are
doubtless well-meaning.is to seek every
opportunity for extricating themselves
from an unpromising predicament. Bad
as their original condition may have
been, it cannot be as bad as what is
sure to overtake them if they persist in
squattlng upon vacant lots in Washing
ton and subsistiug on charity. And it
Is a mistake, akin to crime. for others
to follow the Coxey hallucination, now
that the utter hopelcssness of the Coxey
crusade is demonstrated.
The democrats promise that all of the
proposed amendments to the tariff bill
shall be made public this week, and
claim that they have forty-three votes
"a majority-pledged to the amended
bill, but this claim Is disputed, as 1t is
now said the Louisiana Senators will be
compelled by the legislature that meets
on the 18th inst. to take their choice
between refusing to vote for the tariff
bill, unless duty OF two cents a pound
is put upon sugar, or Of being supplan.
ted by two men who will do as required.
Both Of these Senators were appointed
by the Governor to fill unexpired terms
both wish to succeed themselves, and
the legislature will decide. It is an
other uncertainty added to those alrea-
dy existing.
Congress may have waste basketed
some petitions, but it meyer took any of
them out and deposited them in the
dump, as Mr.. Coxey mas done with his
"living petition"
The House committee on Railways
and Canals, was 80 faYorably impressed
with the project Of building a canal
between the Ohio river and Lake Erie,
that 1t ordered favorable report on the
bill appropriating $4,000 for a prelim-
mary survey Of the proposed route.
Pitchers Cestorla.