The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-05-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. G., May 18th, "a.

vertlsed "Commonweal Army" He
now fully realizes that the conviction of
himself, Browne and Jones in the police
court leaves 1t in the discretion of the
Judge of that court whether he shall
serve sentence in Jail, for the appli.
cation for a new trial is certain to be de.
MED, and pending. ATTEMPTS to get the
case before higher court sentence will
be pronounced and enforced. Tie law
which they were convicted of having
violated provides either Inc or imprison.
ment Or both as the Juts se MAY decide.
1t is believed that Coxey would now
gladly promise to take himself and his
army out of Washington if thereby he
can keep himself out of Jail. Indeed,
the populist Representative, Hudson, of
Kansas, who was one of the volunteer
counsel at the trial, tried to get him
hole to crawl ouf of by stating that
Coxey and his army intend to leave
Washington as soon as he can get
hearing before either Senate or House
committee in favor of his bills, and that
he hasno affiliation with other SO called
"Commonweal Armies" now on the way
to Washington. Coxey afterwards de.
MED that Hudson was authorized to saw
so much. 1t is nip and tuck between
hunger and the health officials as to
which shall succeed in scattering the
Coxeyites. The falling off in contribu.
| finnc hos hrnnnhf ha 90; -.
down to two rather scanty meals day,
and the health officials want the camp
broken up as sanitary measure, and
have given Coxey a 4S hour notice,
which expires tonight, to put the camp
in sanitary condition-an impossible.
ty-or remove the men therefrom. De.
sertions by wholesale are going on and
unless the food supply is increased the
"army" cannot be held together another
week. Coxey got short hearing be.
fore the House committee on Labor,
but only succeeded in making an ass of
himself.
Senator Aldrich, of r. l., thus sums
up the result of the Democratic tariff
concessions "There are 400 amend.
ments to the tariff bill, and an ANALYSIS
of them shows some curious results. 32S
OF them show an increase in the rates,
ranging from 10 to 800 per cent. But six
OF this 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 or /
the transfer from the free to the dutiable
list. Another notable fact is that in |
nearly every case where these increases
were made the change was also made
from ad valorem to specific duties. If |
these increases had been made with re.
gard to the requirements of the differ.
ent industries from a protective stand.
point, the bill would have been a COM
paratively good one, but they were evi.
IDENTIFY made in response to pressure
from certain Senators, and no such pur.
pose governed those who prepared the
measure. The height of the rate was
evidently fixed by the extent of the
pressure brought to bear by rebellious
Senators, and the result is that the in.
equalities and anomalies of the bill as
originally reported are magnifed and
made prominent in the new bill formu.
lated by the mysterious conference,
whose membership is uncertain"
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 regular hornets nest of
opposition among the extreme free trade
Senators from the south, and the final
result is as much in doubt as ever. Sem
ator Mills, who probably comes as near
voicing the sentiment of the free trade
element as any one Senator, was goaded
into making a few remarks that created
a sensation on the Democratic side of
the Senate, by reference to his recent
speech by Senator Aldrich. He started
out by saying that he was now a 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 he was between the devil and
the deep sea. He said that the bill was
no longer the Wilson bill, but should be
called the German bill or the Brice bill,
and declared, waving his arms in intense
excitement, that the Senators who
framed the compromise amendments
should not shirk their responsibility,
but should stand out in the open sun.
light and assume the responsibility for
every amendment, all of which he in.
tended to vote against. 1t is understood
that Mr.. 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 fool
he can make himself appear to be in
connection with Coxeyism. Wh;la