The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-20
CALL OF THE COMNONWEAL.
PETER and Allen Want the Army Well
Received by the Senate.


Coxey's Band Is an Army of Peace.
Allen Favors the Adoption of the
Resolution to Appoint a Committee
to Meet the Men.
Washington. April 19.-In the Senate
to-day the conference report on the fur
Their urgent deficiency bill was presented
and agreed to- The Senate amendment
striking out the provision for printing the
census abstract is disagreed to and the
provision restored. All the other Senate
amendments are retained
The resolution heretofore offered by
MIR. Gallinger, rep, Of Few Hampshire,
calling on the Secretary Of the Treasury
and the Secretary of the Interior for
list of all the clerks and employees APP
pointed, promoted. reduced dismissed,
and who have resigned by request since
March 4, 1893, was presented and agreed
to.
The resolution offered last Saturday by
Mr.. PETER for the appointment of a select
committee of nine senators to receive all
written or printed communications from
citizens or bodies of citizens visiting the
capitol or intending to do So and to hear
them orally, was presented and became
the subject of discussion.
PETER SPEAKS ON IT.
Mr.. PETER spoke of a growing DISPOSE
ton on the part of many people to present
their views 10 congress, and Of the news
paper statements that such movements
were taking place from Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago,
Minneapolis, ST. Louis and san Francisco.
The object Of his resolution was to make
their way easy. He was of the opinion
that if it went out that the Senate, Re
garded by many as the American
House of Lords, had appointed a
committee to look after this matter, it
would go far toward modifying and mol
Nfying public sentiment. He therefore
hoped that his resolution would be
agreed to, or would. at least, be referred
TO committee. He had regretted to see
the language in the Washington papers as
TO the intended arrest of Gen. CoXey and
his followers as Migrants.
HoAR HAS TILT WITH HARRIS.
Mr.. Hoar put question to PETER, but
as his voice could not be heard on the
democratic side Of the cham Der, Mr..
Harris called attention to that fact. The
interruption was resented by Mr. Hoar
who said that Mr. Harris was entirely
out of order in speaking while in his seat
and was also out of order in fancying
that he presided over the Senate while
the Vice-President was present. Laugh
ter.
Mr.. Harris admits that he was out of
order, and no man can watch the senator
from Massachusetts as vigilantly as | do,
and keep in order by any possibility"
Renewed laughter.
Mr.. Hoar retorted with an intimation
that Mr.. Harris should attend to his own
business, and then repeated his question
TO Mr. PETER, this time also inaudibly.
AN ARMY OF PEACE.
Mr. PETER, in response, explained that
the followers of Gen. COxey were known
them portraits Of the prince of peace, of
the carpenters son, of the lowly Naza-
rene, of the man who taught peace on
earth and good will toward men, These
men, he said, were coming on peaceful
errand. They were coming to say to con-
gress that they were out of employment,
and that they wanted something to do in
order to have a decent living. They
wanted to say this orally and in person.
1t might be that their object
was visionary; but it was like
the coming of a child into the world
Everything was ready and the child had
TO be born. 1t was a movement of the
people that was coming naturally, logic
ally, and reminded one of the popular
movements prior to the French revolu-
tion. He did not believe that it was be-
meath the dignity of the Senate to be
ready when these people came to Wash
ington, and to be able to say, "Here is a
committee of our body, appointed to con
fer with you to see what you want, to
hear what you have to say and to report
1t to the Senate" The Senate, he said,
could not undertake to laugh the move
ment down.
ALLEN FAvoRs THE RESOLUTION.
MIR. Allen, pop, of Nebraska, favored
the adoption of the resolution, not be-
cause he approved of Gen. CoXeys army
or any other army coming to Washington
for the purpose of presenting a petition in
person to congress, but because he be-
heved that they had right, as American
citizens to do so, and that it would be I'M
wise on the part of the Senate to deny that
right. 1t was not for the Senate to Judge
whether their purpose was visionary
or not They had a right to come and
look in upon the highest legislative body
of the country of which they were citi-
zens. They had right to come and to be
heard by committee of the Senate, and
they had right to present their griev-
ances in person. No man, whether sena-
tor or citizen, had the moral or the legal
right to deny them that privilege.
ENTITLED TO GOOD TREATMENT.
He believed that Gen. Coxey has a
right, and that his followers have a right
to be treated with as much courtesy and
kindness as the President of the United
States. Any different reception of them
would be altogether un-American, and
would not be sustained by the common
judgment of the American people He
has seen newspaper statement as to Gen
Ordway modifying the military forces
of the district for the purpose, he sup
posed, of receiving Gen. Coxey and his
followers with the bayonets of soldiers
and the clubs of policemen. Was it, 81
he asked, right, was it American, to
deny these men the right of entering the
city of Washington and coming to the
galleries of the Senate if they saw fit?
They had as much right to do so as
the railroad lobbyists and the tariff
lobbyists that filed the galleries every
day TO the exclusion of visiting strangers
Replying to a remark of MIR Faulkner
that no parade in the streets could take
place without special permission, MIR
Allen declared that if there YVES such
rule it was a shame and disgrace
The discussion was still going on at
O'Clock, when the resolution went owe
without action and the tariff bill wa
taken up. II was stated by Mr. Aldrich
rep, of Rhode Island, that Mr. Quay
who had the floor TO continue his speech
was detained from the chamber to-day by
illness.
MIR. Perkins, rep, of California, ad
dressed the Senate in opposition to tn,
bill.