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pose last night. About three hundred
agreed to march to Washington.
YESTERDAYS PROCEEDINGS.


se~- ~~~~'e~''s 49, VA A<@~sSA Aah1oys
that its leader might speak from the
steps of the Capitol In advocacy of his
bills for non-interest- bearing bonds and
Tor giving wsrk to the unemployed on
public roads by an issue of legal tender.
ended yesterday. az might have been pre-
dicted. In interruption by the police.
Fortunately and remarkably enough
there were no casualties, aud last night
General Coxey addressed his burlesque
army in camp, while Marshal Carl
Browne was released from police station
cell. Christophsr Colum bus Jones, leader
of the Philadelphia commune, who en-
deavored to appropriate share of the
martydom. couldn't get bail and spent
the night In cell.
within she shadow of the Capitol is with
out q counterpart In the memory of
Washingtonians. Over the broad, smooth
of the Capitol was packed crowd CT
men and women mum bering at least 10,-
000 All conditions Of people were there,
the lower elements In largest proportion.
The Capitol steps and porticos were
packed with people of both sexes. well
dressed, and most Of the members Of con-
gress in the thropg.
More than 200 police surrounded the
Capitol Offices. Detectives were sprinkled
through the crowd. for the concentration
Of lawless characters gave just grounds
for apprehensions Of trouble. apart from
the presence of the Coxeyites.
The Parade.
II was shortly after o'clock when the
army halted in the public street south Of
at.~r ~. eAl ...L. Ts. l.
down from Brightwood, through the
principal streets of the city. had been wit
messed by thousands. attracted more
from curiosity than by any interest In the
movement.
paraded itself in seriousness before the
public There were 500 men in line; Mrs.
Annie l.. Diggs. the Populistic agitator
of Kansas, in barouche; Coxey's l7-year-
old daughter in white. on q horse, repre-
sentipg the goddess Of peace; Carl
Browne, on q gray Percheron stallion;
General Jacob Slecher Coxey, his wife,
the infant Legal Tender Coxey, together
in another carriage; Virginia L. A. VAL
lette, said to be an actress, on horseback,
draped in an American flag, rs the Phila-
delphis commune's goddess Of peace; the
on slaves, and the nondescript banners
setting the doctrines Of reincarnation,
good roads and enmity to plutocrats,
were sprinkled through the caravan.
On to the Capitol Steps.
Marshal Browne halted the procession
there In the street, walked back to Coxey's
carriage. the general kissed his wife, and
then the two moving spirits of the affair.
Browne swinging aloft . small banner,
forced their way over the plaza to the
Capitol steps, their men. acting under
orders, standing in their tracks. After
Coxey and Browne pressed a yelling
crowd OF men.
Trampling and tearing its way through
the costly shrubbery the mob went, while
q squad of mounted police which had
headed the parade, dazed a moment by
the unexpected move, dashed recklessly
into their midst. Coxey was confronted
by the police as he took of his hat to
speak on the steps. and his demand for
his constitutional rights, as he called it,
being refused, thrust upon them a
printed protest which proved to be we'll
worded epitome Of populistic doctrines.
Meanwhile Carl Browne was being lit
orally dragged by the collar of his coat
through the crowd toward the nearest
station. after he had made fight to re-
tain his banner.s The mild-mannered
Coxey, without violence, was thrust back
across several hundred feet of humanity
to his carriage. Mounted police were
forcing their horses among the people,
several of them cracking their clubs over
the heads of the nearest persons; women
were shrieking with terror, men yelling
fiercely; some were being knocked down
and trampled upon.
Peace Soon Restored
For five minutes there was riot in that
section of the mob In front Of the east
steps which occupied about an acre of the
asphalt Then the two az q iting spirits
having been removed, half a dozen par
ticularly belligerent men having been
taken In by the police, the disturbance
was quelled. without serious injury to a
single person.
Another riot was started almost i'm
mediately near Coxey's carriage in the
street, whittier the crowds pressed rs soon
as the leader had rejoined his lines. and
clubs were freely used. Cable cars clang-
ing through the mob increased the dan.
ger, but here also none but minor injuries
were inflicted.
Somehow the army was started off
toward it's new camp between double
lines Of police. followed by q mob Of thou
sands OF negroes ana wni,e men cheering
like demons. Within an hour the Capt.
tol grounds had almost regained their
normal quiet, with only few hundred
people strolling around and nothing but
trampled sbrubbery and grass ground
under thousands of feet left as evidences
Of the riot.
Over in the station house, six squares
from the Capitol, in the southwes
section of the city, Carl Browne was look
ing through the gratings of his cell. his
pockets having been searched, and his de-
pcription taken down as is done with or
dinary offenders. The result Of the search
was $3.50 In money, a small dismantled
revolver and Q consignment of common
veal literature.
Philosophical Leaders,
General Coxey accepted the situation
quietly. His army was put to work
clearing up the new camping ground for
occupancy, while Coxey drove over to the
Office of the district commissioners with