Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-05-11
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
REPORTS SAY. AL is QUIET ON
THE POTOMAC"

The Coxey Fizxle-Saving to the
Treasury by Discovery Of Fraud.
ulent Pensiens-Republica En-.
deavor to Create Dessension
Among Their Political Oppon.
ents.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May 4, 1894.
President Cleveland and his Cabinst
are pursuing the even tenor of their
official duties just as though there
were no such thing in existence as
Co1ey's army. The President has
promised to attend the unwilling OF
the Martha Washington monument
at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on the 10,
inst, and tomorrow Secretary Herbert
will leave for the Pacific coast to in
spect the Government Navy Yards in
that section.
Coxey's march upon the Capitol was
one of the most farcical fizzles of the
age. To-day he and Carl Browne and
Christopher Columbus Jones are being
tried in the police court for violating
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 q warning.
If the foolish men now ON their way
to Washington to join Coxey could
get within smelling distance Of the
pest-hole in which the poor Coxeyities
are contradictory says camped-
they would turn back at once. mas
much as Coxey was told by the Health
officer OF the danger attendant upon
putting those poor devils in q marsh
partially filled with dumpings of city
filth, with an open sewer on one side
and stagnant green scummed cess
pools ON the other, and the foul at
mosphere thoroughly impregnated with
mslarial germs, il looks a. though he
would be glad to gain little addition
al notoriety by having 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 the daily inspections by the Health
officials is followed by the ambulance
carrying some of them to the hospitals.
Coxey, being comfortably qusrtered at
. hotel, says he intend 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 Migrants.
In addition to recovering $27 ,513.24
paid out on fraudulent or illegal
pensions, the Democratic management
Of the Pension Bureau has saved the
Government in the neighborhood of Q
million dollars during the last twelve
months by the discovery OF frauds and
the stopping of accrued payments on
them. That is just the sort of thing
that the people have q right to expect
from the Democratic management OF
every branch Of the government.
They would doubtless resent being
called lobbyist, but there can be no
doubt that the work upon which the
gentleman who are here representing
the various parties interested in Pacific
Railroad legislation, now being con-
sidered by House and Senate commit
tees, are engaged in is lobbying pure
and simple. Each and every one of
them is after legislation that will pro-
tect the interest he represents, regard
less of the interests of the government.
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 ].
Sorg to Congress by q substantial
majority, although a week ago they
were Boosting that the district would
60 Republican as . protest against
tariff reform. It seems that the Demo-
Gratis of that district are like those of
all other districts-they want tariff
reform, and the Democratic Senators
cannot give it to them any too soon.
The Republicans are as quarrelsome
and spiteful - lot Of setting hens
these days, and all because the Demo
cratic Senators do not see fit to take
them into their confidence as to the
nature OF the proposed amendments
to the tariff bill. With the exception
of the day that the Senate adjourned
Immediately after assembling, because
of the death of Senator Stockbridge, OF
Michigan, there has not been a session
of the Senate for a week at which the
Republicans have not attempted to
provoke the Democrats into a row.
TO the credit OF the Democrats be it
said they have as rule kept their
tempers, allowing the Republicans to
make a lot Of ridiculous statements
about something that they knew alb.
aolutely nothing about-the intentions
of the Democrats. The favorite mis-.
statement seems to be that a new
tariff bill is being prepared. Although
denied when first made, by senators
Voorhees, and Harris, it has since been
reiterated by half dozen Republican
Senators. The Democratic Senators
will in due time announce the amend
ments to the tariff bill 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 Demo
Gratis, but it will not succeed. The
Democrats are to-day nearer together
than they have been during the SEES.
sion, and will remain so. Dem.