The morning call., 1894-04-27
AND LESS FOR ITS LEADER
Aliens Resolution Was Quickly
Sidetracked.
COULD MUSTER ONLY SIX VOTES
" olcott Pays His Respects to the
CommonweaI and Incidentally
Touches Up Gov. Waite.

WASHINGTON, April 26.-Immediately
after the reading of the journal in the
Senate. Jarvis, recently appointed from
North Carolina 10 succeed the late Senator
Vance, was sworn in. Aliens Coxey
resolution then came up, and Allen stated
there would be no objection on the Demo-
cratic side to its passage. Vest, however,
opposed it. He said these people should
he treated as all other citizens of the
United States. If they did not violate any
laws they would not be molested, but he
deprecated the introduction of such A
resolution, because it intimated want OF
confidence in the Institutions and laws of
the land; their right to come here and
vsit the Capitol was so plain, so evident,
that any suspicion about it was reflection
on the intelligence of the country.
He was opposed to the preamble. how
ever. If 1t meant to include these men who
had trampled on the laws. injured private
property and undertaken TO secure trans
portation to this city by free of arms !;
for them he empba tically dsssented from
it. He declared the men who were march
ing 10 Washington would be protected in
their rights, but they would have to learn
to abide by the laws of the land, and If
Congress for one instant compromised
with them it would open crevasse which
would end in a food of final destruction.
If any one wanted to come here, whether
they were employed or unemployed. to
inspect the public buildings and visit Con-
gross, their rights would be respected. but
when they seized trains to come on, when
they violated the laws of tie country and
trampled on the rights of the people, Con-
gress ought not to treat with them.
Wolcott of Colorado entered vigorous
protest against passing the resolution.
He was at loss to understand the pur-
pose of the resolution. which could not
change the law in any respect, but simply
extended a crlnging invitation to those
men. calling themselves unemployed. some
of whom were coming by begging, some
by their overpowering force and some on
stnlen trains.
The only excuse for such lawless action
as had been recently enacted had been the
uterances of men in high places holding
offices. Mem bers of the Senate who had
spoken of a servle police force and paid
soldery, seemed to think it proper to de-
nounce in the Senate men sworn to do
their duty. 1t was to be regretted the
Governors Of certain States had been so
unwise as TO urge these men to make de-
scent on the Capitol of the United States.
His own State had the misfortune TO have
one of these Governors, whose antics had
brought discredit and dishonor to his COM
monwealth and sullied her fair name.
Wolcott said he was tired of dealing with
these methods of administration. The
times were out of joint, but what made
them so might be attributed to one cause
or another. he believed most of the men
in Coxey's army might be honest. but they
were led by men who were cranks. insane
or vicious. Their methods of righting
wrongs could result in no good. This
could only come from the natural benefi-
cence of mankind, which, as the world
grew better, made men more humane and
kind. There should be no man suffering
for bread in this broad domain of the
United States who was willing to work
There was to-day no man who sincerely
desired to work for the support of himself
and family who could not get work, or
bread to put into the mouths of himself
and his little ones until work could be
found.
II am tired of this talk of national ad-
ministration," he said. I'm Colorado TO-.
day, crushed and Inundated as she is by
the action of Congress, / venture to say
no man'Is suffering because he can find no
work, or no willing hands to assist In
supporting 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 perpeiuity of Republican institutions
and to pander less to that misled portion
of the labor vote, whose labor is with their
ihroats and never with their hands.
ITS time we stood up for American
man hood, for the right Of every man to
work If he wants to. if 1t takes-the whole
army of the United States to liable him
to do so. The right of every man is to
enjoy equal liberty with every other man,
and that means he shall have such liberty
as is not inconsistent with the equal right
of his neigh bors-the right to hold and en-
Joy the property which the laws OF the
country have enabled him to secure. It's
time we had the courage to stand together
nalism which is running riot in this coun-
try and which must end in the destruction
of liberties which the laws give us, liber-
ties which should be dearer to US than life
itself"
A number of Senators took the pains to
go to Senator WoIcott, after he had con-
cluded his remarks, and express their ap-
probation of what he had said. Dolph (R)
of Oregon stated that he fully agreed with
what the Senator from Missouri (Ves) had
said, but he called attention to other OBJ
jeciionable features of the preamble to the
resolution. No one denied the right Of
citizens Of the United States to peaceabiy
assemble to petition Congress or to visit
the Capitol. His objection to the resolu-
ton lay in the fact that it was accompa-
panied by lying preamble, which was in
effect a censure of the authorities of the
District of Columbia.
Gray of Delaware also condemned the
resolution. even while he said he would
vote for 1t IL the preamble was omitted.
He admitted he had kindly sympathy for
the bondage which made our roads SO
picturesque in summer.
IT. 49, -.