Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-08
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The Coxey Movement Still Divides
Public Attention.
Change Of Heart Nav That the Second De.
tachment 10 in Evidence.

vaccinated The smallpox scare Is over,
the cholera scare has not revived, and IL
Coxey'S army and their kindred hobo5 do
not start a pestiIence we may be happy
yet. All ladies are in their summer rigs
and all the society men testify that lawn
parties, ice cream festivals and evening
walks and rides were never better patron
tied. Evan from the remote provinces
comes news Of a rather encouraging nature,
for the reports run that the various detach-
ments of SO called industrials are finding
it very hard to get any nearer to Washing
ton. The people who fed the first detach-
ment and babe it godspeed look upon the
second one as nuisance. 1t Is interest
ing also to note that the few congressman
who served in the commissary department
during the war take very different view
Of the proper remedy from those held by
their colleagues.
Difficulties Of March.
A southern member, speaking to group
on this subject, said: People without ex-
perience have very little idea Of the enor-
NOUS difficulty Of supplying 900 men in
"a march across the country, and really l
was glad to hear that kelIys army ex-
ccedcd that number, for knew they would
never reach here. Start 1000 men from
Council Bluffs straight toward this city
through the farming regions without a
comnissary and with the most peaceful
intentions in the world, destroying moth
ing in mere malice, and they will devas-
tate strip two or three miles wide, and
unless under the very strictest discipline
they will completely befoul any small area
In which they camp three days. And that
IL inst what even these 300 or 400 Of Cox
~ iich wouii uo IL ',ioy ohouiu ~,
III their hrse camp ior'hish', why
regiment VI raw soiu,'rS i'o' uli'',f s'ou
commander VIII renuer camp vi TWO or
thfee acres uhh1 ior Visiting III "eeh
ana wound make a mere Guy lou 700 nor
some 10 apioe IN. his REMARKS were p'i'
TOO wen Vefiiicd soon ai.er Coxey men
were located puo ehe piace Whicn was
given W 'n.i'i was airc''uy oiio 'iioso III 'iio
Districo Oh ooI"n'pia.
Reversal OF foiicy.
In the meanwhile congress Is showing
BUSINESS aiohs WIN quioe All ihcrea'e Vi
speed. ana as the various committees OF
the mouse wlhd up their most pressing pusl-
ness many things are maze certain most
~ In the negative. IL Is, Iirst OF all, Ger
tain, so those most Interested say, thaf
there VIII DC no ne" States adihicoeu by
thls congress- also 'ha1 the Nicaragua Gu
nal bill VIII not become a law, Tor the house
committee Is very inuch opposed TO IL. The
chairman In particular believes That the
time has come to completely reverse the
machine, ana that all forms OF what ne
calls paternaiisin should ne opposed Tor the
present ana some years TO come. In snort,
this committee VIII nave no lahd grants,
no money subsidies, no lndorsing OF bonds
or lending the government credit Tor the
Nicaragua canal or anything else or that
class. AS to the bill prepared by Attorney
uenernl olney Tor consolidating bho aiialfs
OF the Pacific railway, the committee de-
clares after each hearing that the time be
Tore anythingca DO done must DC greatly
extended Inc attorney Tor the Cehtri!
racine mas presented u Datch OF lacts ana
figures which novice IN the business
coulu not nope 10 understand III less thah
month ana promises that ai,cf cohsultl-
tion win The OFFICIALS Oh lhe ROAD nc Will
present plan.
The committee on patents Is wrestling
with bill introduced by Amos Cummings
which Is by title an act to amend title oo,
chapter D, OF the Revised statutes, Ii pro-
vides that any person publicly performing
or representing any copyrighted operatlo
or dramatic composition without the con
sent OF the proprietor shall be lined not
less than 500 Tor the first representation
nor less than 900 for each SUBSEQUENT rep
csentation and shall be guilty OF mi'dc
meanor besides 80 tar the measure -
searching enough, put the meat OF III
what follows The proprietor may "oi't
an injunction oeiore 'he ieucr'' -oahy