The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-10


Coxey; l do not claim that, sir
This closed the hearing OF Coxey He
| was followed by /. c. Dean. q member
| OF the executive committee OF the Farm
| ers' Alliance. He urged the appointment
| OF special committee to investigate the
whole subject OF industrial depression.
! and said that such action on the part OF
| Congress would inspire great confidence
/ among the people Dean was also sub
| jected TO a course OF questioning which
did not result more to his satisfaction
or 20 the enlightenment Of the committee
than did that OF Coxey The committee
then went about It's regular business.
a JOINT INVESTIGATION.
After hearing Coxey to-day the House
Committee on Labor, by a vote Of TO
2. decided to report a resolution for
/ joint investigation by a special committee
| Of the Senate and House Of the CoXey
movement and the depressed condition of
| labor I'm general.
This decision was hailed with salts
1 faction by Coxey and Browne and by
number of prominent Populist and Farm
ers' Alliance leaders. including the Pres
ident OF the Alliance and the chairman
/ and secretary of the Peoples party.
The vote to report the resolution was:
/ Yeas Erdman Pa) Wells (Wis), Ryan
! On ". Talbert Is. O., Democrats;
| Pence (Col) Populist; Phillips Pa),
| Kiefer Oiinn), Republicans
Nays-Dunn N J). Democrat and APPS
| ley CNass) Republican.
McCan and McCleary did net vote.
Tre tl~u-Co, ey fes"lu'i'n.
WASHINGTON, May 9-Early in the
session Of the Senate to-day the resolu-
ton offered last Monday by Mr.. Allen
! for the appointment of a select com
mittee to investigate the police assault
upon and arrest of Coxey, Browne and
! Jones. in the Capitol grounds, on the
| lst day of May, was laid before the
! Senate. and Mr.. Allen made an argument
| in support Of It, He had expected, ne
| said. that the senior senator from ONO
| Sherman would have introduced reso-
| luton looking TO the investigation OF that
| outrage But as the senator from Chlo
| had taken no such step ne (AheD hou
| been moved TO do so. He had deemed j.
| his duty, although it was not Peaao"'
| one bv any means. 10 offer resolution
| for the purpose or haNlhs ''V'
and complete Investigation Of the re-
| martable scene. COxey had come 10
! Washington. as was stated by the press
! 0f that was TO be relied upon TOT lhe
| purpose of exercising his consul
| right Of petuoning the senate AoI '"e
redress of what he considered q eIle'
anca ~ himself and many millions OF
people in common with him. lie (AHeh
had taken various occasions TO say lh"'
with the purpose Of the CoXey movement
he had not, and never had mao llo
| s,igbtest s,,-r1Dathy. lie did not believe
| that IL would be wise for Congress ~
appropriate money for the construction
of highways in the States. That portion
NJ Coxey's mission found no sympathy
with him. But he had 10 deal with MN
and the unfortunate, and perhaps ms
guided. men who accompanied him SIM
ply in the light Of American cltlzehs
coming to the capital Of the nation Tor
the Durpose of peaceably petiuonnS con-
cress for 1edress Of grievances. Mr.. Al
len went on TO read the address Whlch
Coxey had attempted TO read from Ine
Capitol steps, and which he had been
prevented from doing by the police VINO
laid violent hands upon him and drove
him from the Capitol grounds.
SENATOR DANIELS PERTINENT QUERY.
care you not the counsel Of Mr.
Coxey?" Mr. Daniel Dem, Va asked
mo. sir" Mr.. Allen answered.
Has not" Mr.. Daniel further asked
"Coxey full legal remedy for any wrong
he may have suffered
|
Senator from Virginia will not undertake
to divert me from the course "hlch
have marked out"
Il do not desire to divert the Senator
Mr. Daniel said, but } want to judge
as 10 the propriety Of the Senate acuns
in this case, ii the man has been injured
and if he had legal remedy for the IN
jury"
Mr. Allen went on to say that it was
not true that he was or ever had been
counsel for Coxey. He had been called
in consultation by two representatives. as
to CoXeys right and he mad gone 20 the
Police Court in connection with the mat
ter He wanted to say to the senator
| from Virginia that IL was rule Of his
life to go wherever his duty required him;
and should DO So regardless of whether
it pleased or displeased the senator from
Virginia But the rough hands that had
been laid upon COXey had been laid
on the rights OF seventy millions of
American citizens. 1t was for their rights
that he spoke to-day The policemen's
| clubs which had been aimed at the de-
voted heads of these three men had been
| aimed at the head OF every American
| citizen who saw fit TO raise his voice in
| defence of his constitutional right The
| blow aimed at them was blow at free
speech, at the right Of free assemblage.
! and it was for those great rights that ne
stood.
IIKENED TO RUSSIA.
lie described the occurrence at the
| Capitol grounds on the first Of May, as
a scene worthy Of having taken place
in ST. Petersburg or in the capital OF
some Eastern monarchy and entirely
| out of place in a republic. These men
had not come armed. They had not been
backed by a mob and had made no show
| Of military force. They had come simply
as law-abiding, peaceable, but, perhaps
| misguided citizens, for a lawful purpose.
| Mr. Allen ridiculed the charges on whlch
! Browne. COxey, and Jones had been in
dicted in the Police Court, treading on
and injuring the turf of the Capitol
grounds. and spoke with derision OF the
| sacred soil Of those grounds being trodden
by the vulgar feet Of people who were
| not residents OF Washington. But there
| was not. he said senator of American
| citizens. who did not know that the real
charge against those men was their at
tempt TO exercise their constitutional
| right of peaceabie assemblage and OF free
| speech on the Capitol grounds or the
| nation. He traced back the right of peti-
,ion "a the wear 90 when Magma Charter