Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-02
C0XEY'S ARMY A JOKE.
Washington Looks on the Common
Wealers and All Her Fears
Quickly Vanish.

there is no danger to the city
in the 800 or 400 footsore and weary pill
grims who have followed Coxey from
the lake regions over the mountains to
this point, where the ocean tides mako
| themselves felt. So far as affecting
legislation is concerned the Coxey
moveme Mt was foredoomed to
failure Congress cannot be
reached by anything that looks
like intimidation. The army will be
permitted to parade the streets and
march to the capitol grounds tomorrow,
but they will not be permitted to enter
them as an organization. Nor will they
be permitted to hold meeting OF the
steps of the capitol.
Visible evidences of preparation for
| the COXeyltes were to be seen about the
halls and corridors of Congress to-day,
but everything had been done SO quiet
ly that the same serenity prevailed as
that of any ordinary day. A double
force Of officers was on duty, Capt. Gar
den and Lieut.. Watkins having charge
of the Senate end, and Lieut.. Burns be-
ing in charge at the House
end. The double force of pri-
Yates gave men for all the
entrances of the capitol and for the
main assembling points. Two men
were in the main rotunda. Each of the
main doors and the basement entrances
had an officer. The lobbies Immediately
were patrolled by officers. The halls
sional galleries were also patrolled
Each man had his post and
was expected to remain there
unless called to assemble by whistle.
The officers were courteous to the sight
seers who thronged the halls There
were no rough characters in the crowd.
| The people came and went with the
same freedom as usual, and the extra
officers demeaned themselves so quiet
ly as to pass almost unnoticed.
The main outward sign of pre- paration
was in the erection Of two large parti-
tons, with gates on each side Of the
main rotunda. They were heavy pine
| bars extending twelve feet from the
floor and fitted securely to the stone
arches. The gates were not provided
| with locks. Sergeant-at-ArmS Snow eX-
| planned that the gates were the same as
| those used at Inauguration times and
whenever unusual crowds were expect
ed to assemble. They were to be used
only to prevent the congestion of a
crowd in the rotunda or at one end or
the other Of the capitol, he said.
When closed people would be moved
down the stairs outside each door to
the basement below, whence there was
ready access to the streets. All the
main approaches and entrances to the
capitol were open as usual except
some of the obscure entrances in the
sub-basement. These were closed, not
rs a means of precautiOn but in order
| to allow officers to be utilized at other
points. The doorkeepers in the gal
leries we're giving seats to all corners.
but with the purpose Of keeping the
seats no more than comfortably filled
without crowding the aisles and door
! WAYS.
| There is to be no Coxey talk in the
House Of Representatives if those who
direct the course of legislation can pre-
vent it, and they think they can. 1t
has been appreciated that an infamma-
tory debate might readily be started in
the House as an adjunct to the Coxev
demonstration outside, and care has
been taken to cut off the possibility of
such discussion. The House leaders
feel that such course is i'm
! perative IN order to avoid con-
gressional encouragement to the
movement. Resolutions which may be
submitted bearing on Coxey's bills, or the
treatment Of Coxey's men, or hearings
| for CoXey delegations, will be promptly
referred to committees without debate.
| Once in committee there is no likeli-
| hood Of the measures emerging until
| the question subsidies. Neither will the
House leaders construe any COxey reso-
luton as embracing question OF priv
ilege, permitting it to be debated
without reference to committee. By
these means the House will proceed
with its regular business as though the
! Coxey demonstration had not occurred.
The only means by which reference can
be crowded into the debate will be by
the injection of Coxey speech into the
debate on one of the pending appropri-
alton bills. Even this will be discour-
aged and if possible prevented, and at
the most an injected speech can accom-
| plish nothing.
| Out at CoXey's camp, at Brightwood
Park. the morning sunlight thawed out
:: stiff and cold and hungry lot Of tour
| lists after the first night passed in the
District Of Columbia. Many of the
rank and file had stretched their limbs
| unprotected on the bare ground within
the enclosure of the canvass which en-
circled their quarters. The leaders,
Gen. Coxey and Marshal Carl Browne,
were in the city ensconced in the lux
urious surroundings of a S3-a-day hotel.
The shabby tents only provided accom-
mediation for the commune leaders and
| privileged characters of the retinue,
and as for the privates they swarmed
like rats into the commissary wagons or
dropped to sleep without blankets or
covering on mother earth. There was
q scramble for the shelter Of the horse
Gheds in which Coxey's high-priced
stations were stabbed. Stations fetch
market price, and it is necessary that
they should be rubbed down, bedded,
watered and fed. Men have not been
exchangeable for legal tender in these
parts since before ode wah," and it
goes to no ones loss but their own if
they drop off. One contingent of wealers
was provided for in the long shed at
tached to the clubhouse of the race
track near by. The landlord of the
house had dumped a load of bristling,
thorny-eye straw into the shed. and
upon this half hundred privates made
their bivouac. They snuggled into the
straw like sardines in a box and de-