The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-09
TWICE. TOO MUCH.
People Who Fed First Band of
COmmonwealers,
Not Anxious to Provision Any
More Armies.
TAKES LOTS OF FOOD
To Feed an Army Says a South
ern Member.

WASHINGTON. May Especial =
All the parks are gorgeous in their sum
mer beauties, and all the people have been
vaccinated. The smallpox scare is over,
the cholera scare has not revived, and If
Coxey's army. and their kindred hobos do
not start a pestilence 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
lied Even from the remote provinces
comes news of a rather encouraging nature,
for the reports run that tho various detach-
ments of 50 called industrials are finding
it very hard to get any nearer to Washing
ton. The people who fed the first detach-
ment and badc it godspeed look upon the
second orc rs u nuisance. 1t is interest
ing also to note that the few congressman
who served in the comrnissary department
during the war take a very different view
of the proper remedy from those held by
their colleagues.
Difficulties of q March.
A southern member, speaking to a group
on this subject, said: People without OK
pericnce have very little idea of the enor-
NOUS difficulty of supplying 1, 900 men in
q march across the country, and really
was glad to hear that KelIy's army ex-
ceeded that number, for knew they would
never reach here. Start ?, 900 men from
Council Bluffs strai ght toward this city
through the farming regions without a
coTnmissary and with the most peaceful
intentions in the world destroying moth
ing in mere malice, and they will Clevas-
tate strip two OF three miles WIDE and
unless under the very strictest discipline
they viii completely befoul any small area
in which they camp three days And that
is just what even these 500 or 400 of Cox
ey's men would do if they should remain
in their first camp fortnight. Why, a
regiment of raw soldiers not under good
commander will render a camp of two or
three acres unfit for visiting in a week
and would mako a mere city lot too moi
some to abide in His remarks Were but
too well verified soon after COxey's men
were located, but the place which was Civ
en- to them was already the vilest in the
District of Columbia
A Reversal of Policy.
In the meanwhile congress is showing
business along with quite an increase of
speed, and as the various committees of
the house wind up their most pressing
business many things are made certain,
mostly in the negative. 1t is, first of all,
certain, so those most interested say, that
there will be no new states admitted by
this congress; also that tho Nicaragua
canal bill viii not become q law, for the
house committee is very much opposed to
it. The chairman in particular believes
that the time has come to completely re-
verse the machine, and tAat all forms of
what he calls patcrnalism should be OPP
posed for the present and some years to
come In short, this committee will have
no land grants, no money subsidies, no in
dorsing of bonds lending the govern
ment's credit for the Nicaragua canal or
anything else of that class AS to the bill
prepared by Attorney General Olncy for
lN IF flair of hn rail
way, the committee declares after each
hearing that the time before anything can
be done must be greatly extended The
attorney for the Central Pacific has pre-
sented a batch Of facts and figures which a
novice in tho business could not hope to
understand in less than month and
promises that after consultation with thu
officials of the road he viii present a plan.
The committee on patents is wrestling
with bill Introduced by Amos Cum
mings which is by title an act to amend
title 60, chapter 5, of the Revised Statutes.
1t provides that any person publicly per
forming or representing any copyrighted
operatic or dramatic composition without
the consent of the proprietor shall be fined
not less than 500 for the first representa-
tiOn nor less than $50 for each subsequent
representation and shall be guilty of q
misdemeanor besides. So far the measure
seems searching enough, but the meat of !
it is in what follows. The proprietor may
court anywhere, and that may be served
anywhere in the United States. The bill
is favored by the dramatic association of
New York, which is to have d hearing be-
fore the committee
Military Matters.
The veterinarians of the United States
army have joined in request that they |
may have and enjoy the same rank as sec
ond lieutenants of cavalry, and Mr.. Pick |
Ter of South Dakota introduced a bill to |
crafty their. ambition, but the subcom- |
mittcc of the committee on military affairs
has reported against it, and its fate, there
fore, is probably sealed One object of this |
bill and probably tho only object of it's
companion bill is to give a military stand !
ing to men who need it for other purposes |
than the pay The second bill authorizes |
the secretary of to issue commission |
to any contract doctor or hired surgeon /
who served three months during the war /
in attendance upon United States troops /
Every old soldier viii remember that in /
emergencies physicians were called from /
civil life and followed their profession /
among the troops just as if employed by 1
private citizens At the beginning of the /
war this was very common, and thousands |
probably of young doctors served in hos /
pital or elsewhere These men now want /
a rank that will enable them to Join the /
L oval LEGION he Grand ATrnv oT- other