The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-05-11
IN CONGRESS-.
The Trials and Tribulations of Ooxey and
His Work -Escapers.
About 81 900, 900 Saved on Fraudulent and
Illegal Pensions In Year.
LOBBYISTS STILL AT WORK.
Fslsity Of Republican Prophecy Prospects
OF Democratic Harmony.
From our Regular Correspondent.

ing the even tenor of their official
duties just as though there was no
such thing in existence as Coxey's
army. The President has promised
to attend the unveling Of the Martha
Washington monument at Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, on the roth inst. and
to morrow Secretary Herbert will leave
for the Pacific coast to inspect the
Government Navy Yards in that
section.
Coxey's march upon the Capitol
was one of the most farcical fzzles of
the age. To day he and Carl Brown
and Christopher Columbus Jones are
being tried in the police court for vio-
lating the law in attempting to make
speeches from the steps of the Capitol.
They are not likely to be severely
punished-probably small fines as
warning. If the foolish men now on
their way to Washington to join Coxey
could get within smelling distance of
the pesthole in which the poor Coxey-
ties are confned-Coxey says camped
they would turn back at once. In.
asmuch as Coxey was told by the
Health officer of the danger attendant
upon putting those poor devils in
marsh partially filled with dumpings of
city filth, with an open sewer on one
side, and stagnant green scummed
cesspools on the other, and the foul
atmosphere thoroughly impregnated
with malarial germs, it looks as though
he would be glad to gain a little ad-
ditional notoriety by having a lot of
them die like dogs. Nearly all Of the
four hundred men now there are half
sick from exposure and lack of proper
food, and daily inspections by the
Health officials is followed by TIE am
bulance carrying some of them to the
hospitals. Coxey, being comfortably
quartered at hotel, says he intends
to keep these men here until they are
joined by several hundred thousand;
but he won't. Those who don't get
sick will desert; every day some of
them get arrested for begging in the
streets and are sent down as vagrants
In addition to recovering S17,sI3.-
"a paid on fraudulent or illegal pen.
slons, the Democratic management of
the Pension Bureau has saved the
Government in the neighborhood of
million dollars during the last twelve
months by the discovery of frauds and
the stopping of accrued payment on
them. That is just the sort of thing
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 Paci-
hc Railroads legislation, now being
considered by House and Senate com.
mittees, are engaged in is lobbying
pure and simple. Each and every
one of them is after legislation that
will protect the interest he represents,
regardless of the interests of the Gov
eminent.
The Republicans in 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 Congress by substantial
majority, although a week ago they
were boasting that the district would
go Republican as a protest against
tariff reform. 1t seems that the Dem.
ocrats of that district are like those of
all the other districts--they want
tanff reform, and the Democratic
Senators cannot give it to them any
too soon.
The Republicans are as quarrel.
some and spiteful as lot of setting
hens these days, and all because the
democratic Senators do not see fit to
take them into their confidence as to
the nature of the proposed amend
ments to the tariff bill. With the ex-
cception of the day that the Senate ad-
ourned Immediately after assembling,
because of the death of Senator
stockbrldge, of Michigan, there has
not been session OF the Senate for
week at which the Republicans have
not attempted to provoke the Dem
ocrats into row. To the credit Of
'he Democrats, be it said they have,
as rule, kept their tempers, allowing
'ne Republicans to make lot Of
iuiculous statements about something
'nat they knew absolutely nothing
aoout-the intentions of the Dem
ocrats. The favorite misstatement
seems to be that new tariff bill is
peihg prepared. Although denied
wnen first made, by Senators Voorhees,
ana Harris, it has since been reiterated
Dy nan dozen Republican Senators.
The Democratic Senators will, in due
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