The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-11

Washington, May 1O-In the Senate
today. Allen, of Nebraska, introduced a
bill to repeal the act. regulating the use
Coxey and his lieutenants We're prose
cuted.
PETER introduced a resolution for the
appointment of a special committee of
three to investigate the condition of
the country with special reference to
the prevailing business depression and
what legislation is needed to afford re-
lief
Aliens resolution to investigate the
alleged police clubbing on May 1 then
came up.
Gordon, of Georgia, said the Coxey
movement was a child of the paternal
theory of government. The remedies
for the existing conditions were to be
found in the decentralization of power.
Not Wicked Scheme.
Teller favored the resolution. Coxey
lis a law abiding citizen. He and his
followers had trudged through rain and
mud, and were entitled TO a respectful
consideration. He did not endorse the
statute under which they had been ar
rested. He did not think the Senate
could refuse to investigate the police
clubbing. He himself would furnish
names of witnesses. Whether Coxey
was a crank or not did not matter. His
statement was absurd, as were many
others put forward in the hour of dis
tress, but. it was not a wicked scheme.
It only asked Congress to provide work
for the unemployed.
Mr. Stewart, of Nevada maintained
istrenuously that CoXey had committed
no offense, and drifted gradually into
1.-THE country, which he attributed gen
orally ito the monetary policy of the
government.
Was a Deliberate Violation.
Mr.. Hoar said Coxey knew the law
under which he was convicted was on
the statute books. He came here with
the deliberate intention Of violating it.
| He wanted to test the power of Con
gress in the court, and when he found
both court and jury against him he set
up a howl.
There is danger said Mr.. Hoar, Sin
such assemblages. They afford cover
for one or two fanatics. 1t does not
do to scott. Within ten years an at
Tempt has been made to blow up the
house of parliament; within two years,
another attempt to blow UP the French
assembly. Two presidents of the United
States have been murdered-one in a
crowd a t depot, the other in a crowd
at theatre-by misguided, fanaticei
persons to whom the peaceable assem-
blageS afforded an opportunity to es-
cape. This is why, in the provision of
the riot. law of every state, when the
magistrate reads the act all the people
must go home. A man may be there
with peaceable intentions, but if when
the riot act is read he refuses to go, he
is liable to punishment. Those who are
peaceable shield those who are not
"DisgracefuI Political Ambitions"
ct is needless for me-" said Mr..
Hoar. drawing his figure up and look
ing about the chamber, his eyes paus-
! ing when they reached Mr.. Allen and
Mr.. Stewart, Ito declare that 1 SYM
pathize with all my fellows in dis
itress. 1 sympathize with them a great
: deal more than some of those who al
ways pirate of sympathy for the down
trodden in order to advance their dis
graceful political ambitions"
J The Senate burst into ringing ap-
Dlause at this utterance, and, in order
to quell the demonstration, Mr.. Faux
/ ner who was in the chair, was forced
to use the gavel vigorously and threat
en- to clear the galleries.
| Mr.. Hoar closed with an impressive
declaration that the Senate would
stand on its constitutional rights. and
! it would not be frightened into doing
what was not best for the country by
any MISREPRESENTATION or by declara-
tons. whether they came from the
camp of Coxey or the seat of war
from Nevada.
Mr.. Harris closed the debate for the
day with a vigorously worded speech
Until this morning he had opposed the
idea of appointing a committee TO in
vestigate the alleged outrages on the
capitol steps. But when a senator
like Mr.. Teller, usually careful and
calm in his Judgment, entered charges
of outrageous conduct against the po-
| lice of the District of Columbia, he
! thought the Senate was entitled tc
know the facts.
Mr.. Gray OemocraD, got the floor
one minute before 1 o'clock and was
proceeding to say that he had never
seen anything in connection with the
CoXey movement that warranted Con.
gress in taking the slightest heed of it
when the morning hour expired anG
Nh. Harris insisted on going ahead
with the tariff bill.
When it was laid before the Senate
Mr.. Gallinger Republican,, Of New
Hampshire, offered the amendment Of
which he had heretofore given notice
+ concerning the tariff operations be
tween this country and Canada.
Other senators expressing a desire tt
speak upon the amendment, Mr.. Gal
Gnger withdrew it with the intention O
again offering it.
Acetie Acid.
1 The first paragraph of the tariff
schedules. viz: That of acetic or pyro
lhgenous acid, in the chemical scned
ule. was taken up, and Senator Ali
son offered an amendment substitutin,
!, the provision in the Mckinley law OF
this article for the provision III tn
pending bill of 20 per cent. ad vaIorem
He called attention to the fact tn
acetic acid duty in the Mills flli wa
in accordance with the spe eific system
and intimating that Mr.. Mills had not
in that instance, been unfriendly t
specific rates.
Rising at this juncture, Mr.. Mill
said the Iowa senator was dong hin
entirely too much honor.
81 was not" he said, .rasponsibl
! for the specific rates in The Mis- bill
The senator knows very well 70 on
man makes tariff bill.
Mr.. Mills thought the acid shoul
go on the free list.
Mr. Allison's amendment was lest b.
a strict party vote-27 to %.
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