The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-11
asliingtOn Letter.

WAsHINGroN, ID. c., April p, 1891. -
President Cleveland and his cabinet
are pursuing the even tenor of their Of
fetal duties just as though there were
no such thing in existence as Coxey's
army The President has promised 10
attend the unveiling of the Martha
Washington monument at FrederIcks-
burg. Virginia, on the 10, inst, and to-
morrow Secretary Herbert Will leave for
the Pacific coast To inspect ihe govern
ment navy yards in that section.
CUxey 5 march upon the capitol was
one of the most farC'Icai tizzi+s Of the
aye. To day he and Carl Browne and
Christopher Columbus Jones are being
tried in the police court for violating
the law in attempting tn make speeches
from the steps Of the Capitol. Ihey are
not likely To Toe severely punished
probably small fines as a Warming. If
the foolish men now ON their WAY To
Washington To join C"Xry could get
within smelling distance ot the pest hole
in which tire poor CuNeN lies ale con
! fined-CoNey says camped-they would
turn back at once luasmurh ~ CuNey
was told 10y the Health officer of the dan
| ger attendant upon putting those poor
,
| dumpingS of CITY filth, with AN open
| sewer on one side and stagnaut green
scummed ces>pnuls on the other, and
the foul atmosphere thoroughly impreg
mated with nlalarial germs II looks as
though lac would Toe glad la gain lit
tie additional notorlety 10y having lot
of them die like. dogs. Nearly all of the
fodr hundred men now there are half
of
food and the daily inspections 10y the
health officials is followed 10y the amhu
lance carrying some of them To the hos
pitfalls. CuXey, beihg comfortably quar-
tered at IL hotel, says he intends To keep
these men here until they are Joined 10y
several hundred Thousand, but he won [.
Those who don't get sick will desert;
every day some of them get arrested tor
begging IN the streets amt are sent down
as vagrants.
In addition to recovering So .5l3, 24
paid out on fraudulent or illegal pen
siunS,. the Democratic management Of
the pension bureau has saved the gov
eminent in the neighburhood of mill
ION dollars during the last twelve
months 10y the discovery of frauds and
the stopping of accrued payments on
that the people have right to expect
from the Democratic management: of
every branch of the government
They would doubtless resent being
called lobbyists, but there can be no
doubt that the work upon which the
gentlemen who are here representing
the various parties interested IN Pacific
= railroads Legislation, now being consid
| -
are engaged in Is lobbying pure and
simple. Each and every one of them Is
after legislation that will protect the in
terests of the government.
The Republicans III Congress are not
doing much talking this week about the
special election tuesday in the third
Ohio Congressional district, AT which the
Democrats elected Paul j. Sorg To Con
gIess 10y a substantial majority, although
IA week ago they were boasting that the
} district would go Republican as pro
test against tariff reform. 1t seems
that the Democrats of that district are
like those of all other districts-theN
want tariff reform, and the Democratic
senators cannot give it to them any too
> soon.
The Republicans are as quarrelsome
> anu SDlleiuI dS Il lol oI StlilnS mems tneSt
days, and all because the Democratic
senators do not see tit to take them into
their confidence as 10 the nature nf the
proposed amendments to the tariff bll
, With the exception of the day that the
senate adjourned Immediately after as
SemblIng, because of the death of Sena~
tor Stock bridge, of Michigan, there has
: not been session of the senate for a
} week at which the Republicans have not
attempted to provoke the Democrats in
to "A row To the credit of the Demo-
Gratis be it said they have as a rule kept
their tempeIs, allowing the Republicans
to make a lot of ridiculous statements
about something that they knew abSo
lutely nothing about-the Intentions OF
the Democrats. The favorlte misstate-
ment seems to be that the new tariff hill
is being prepared. Although denied
when first made, by Senators Vorhees
and Harris, it has since been reiterated
+ by a half dozen Republican senators
The Democratic senators will in due
time announce the amendments to the.
tariff blll which will be supported by the
finance committee and they will pass
them, too; also the bill The object of
the Republicans Is to create dissention
among the Democrats, hut il will NOT
succeed. The Democrats are to dav
nearer together than they have been dur
ing the session, and will femain so.
VI.