Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1894 — Page 1

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Coxey and His Army Arrive at Washington, Footsore and Weary, Over Three Hundred Strong, And Pitch Their Tents in Brightwood Park. THE CAPITAL OUT IN FORCE In Order to Inspect the Famous Aggregation. The Commander-in-Chief Will Appeal to the Courts In Case the Washington Officials Checkmate Him. He Declares That the Army "Will Stay All Summer it Necessary and Predicts the Greatest Revolution In History In Case Consress Refuses the Demands of the Commonweal Carl Broirne's Disquisition on Finance and Religion Coxey's Speech to the Maltitarie An Exciting Condition of Affairs in Iow-Mnch Sympathy for Kelley and His 31 en. WASHINGTON. April 23. Citizen James S. Coxey, commander-in-chief of the good roads army of the Commonweal, standing1 on a rickety wagon in the center of the Brightwood driving .park waving aloft his alpine hat to one of the most cosmopolitan and extensive audiences ever gathered in Washington, anannounced this afternoon that the greatest march of the nineteenth century had been, accomplished. Three hundred and a half of miserably dressed, woe-begone, grumbling, out at the elbows and run down at the heels, specimens of humanity marched into the park, led by a wheezing apology for a band, pitched tents and stretched themselves In the sun. Thousands from the city turned out to make a holiday of It and Inspect the curious aggregation. Thick clouds of dust overhung the two roads leading to Brightwood from the city all day long, and they were plowed with more travel than customarily beats them in months. Two" endless processions swept along the roads all day with such variety of travelers as had never turned out In Washington since war times. Every horse and wheel vehicle in the city had apparently been pressed into the service, while the little trolly railway line which was built for the benefit of suburban residents, was ridiculously Inadequate to the demands upon it. Lining the entrances to the park enterprising colored citizens had established their booths for traffic in gingerbread and sweetened water, which passed current under the guise of lemonade. The semblance to a circus layout was further enforced by the thimbleriggers and shell men skulking about the outskirts of the crowd. But when the people poured into the park enclosure the suggestion of circus day was fullblown In the center of the half mile race track, flapped the canvass enclosure which encircled the quarters of the Commonweal army. . Half a dozen weather-beaten army tents stood about the canvas-drawn circle, with several canvas covered commissary wagons. Tents and wagons were covered with black painted daubs, legends which were a queer mixture of good roads, reincarnation and finance. The great Percheron horses were tethered about the wagons. Near by were fastened two large American flaga and the emblematic banners were piled on the grounds. Most interesting of the sights, however, were the human elements, the men who had marched and borne the brunt of mud and storms and cold. They were the most unique and inexplicable aggregation ever brought together. Some of them were at work about the tents and wagons, others curled up on the damp ground munching great chunks of bread, and many more stretched sleeping In the sun with their heads pillowed on rolled up coats. COXEY SPEAKS HIS JIKD. Says the Constitution Is His Platform May Appeal to the Coarts. Over in the most pretentious tent, which bore the sign, "Headquarters." painted across it, were found the leaders of the army, Gen. Coxey and Marshal Browne. The ma-shal busied himself in changing his buckskin suit for a more conventional black cutaway in preparation for the "incarnation services." which n ere about to begin. Clad In a fashionable spring suit of light drab hue, -with as perfectly creased trousers as could be seen on Flfth-ave., with a cup of coffee in one hand and a boiled egg in the other, from which he alternately took refreshment and sustenance, sat Gen. Coxey. The question which was most agitated In Washington of late was propounded to him by the Associated Press reporter. "What do you intend to do when the police prevent you from holding your meeting in the capitol grounds?" he was asked. "No one. will prevent us," replied the seer ' from Maasilon. "Does not the constitution guarantee the right to peaceably assemble and petition congress?" "But there is a police regulation passed by congress which forbids proceaslona and assemblages on tiie copitol grounds, and the police will top your army if it attempts to treppass." "The constitution was written before any police regulations," replied the general. "If they come in conflict with the constitution they are void. We 6tand squarely upon the constitution; that is our platform." "How da you intend to enforce your rights?" There la but on? way; by ait appeal to th courts. We will jjo before the highest court in the land, if necessary. Meanwhile we will wait here in Washington If it takes all summer. If the courts, cefusa us vur rights there win bo

a revolution. I do not advocate revolution, nor do I desire it, but it will be irresistible and it will be the greatest revolution of history if the American people are once thoroughly aroused." ' The conversation of Mr. Coxey was broken into by a trumpet call, which summoned the choir of the army. Following Carl Browne this choir of a dozen privates in the army flocked out to the platform wagon. Browne climbed into the wagon, beside him stood a stalwart man holding aloft a banner with the legend. "The Kingdom of Heaven (on Earth) Is at Hand." The choir sang In various keys, a key to each individual, a parody on the revival hymn, "Holl the Fort." Before the singing was ended several hundred people . gathered around the wagon with uplifted faces. Across the' race-track In front of the improvised platform the grand-stand seats were filled with solid rows of women and men like a race-day crowd. The track itself was full of carriages, in some of which ladles and gentlemen of the fashionable world leaned back, shaded by parasols, and listening curiously. Senators Manderson and Frye. with their wives, were in handsome carriages. Senator Coke and Representative Kilgore of Texas stood wedged in by the populace. The long, gray beard of Senator Dolph of Oregon shone conspicuously. Representative Dolliver was at the head of another group of congressmen. Mrs. Anna L. Diggs of Kansas, the populist speaker, stood with a baby in her arms.

THEOLOGY AMD FINAXCE. Some Vntqae Deductions by Carl Brorrne Coxey's Sentiments. The speech of Carl Brown was a strange mixture of theology and finance. He acknowledged that he was a crank because it took a crank to move anything, as he said. The present condition of the country he declared to be the fulfillment of the revelation to St. John. The seven heads of the beast were the seven conspiracies against the money of the people, the ten horns were the ten monopolies, foremost among them the sugar trust. Grover Cleveland had called an extra session of congress, and by the aid cf "that gray-headed rat from Ohio, John Sherman." had been able to heal the wounds of the seventh head by repealing the silver purchasing clause. Browne's speech was listened to with impatience, because the people wanted to hear Coxey. When finally the general scrambled awkwardly upon the wagon and was introduced, he waved his hat to each quarter of the compass. The citizen launched into his description of the millions of starving unemployed, shouting, "We'll stay here all summer until congress takes action on these bills." (Great applause, with bell accompaniment.) "I believe they will be passed in two weeks. You only have to pick up the papers to see what desperate straits these men are coming to. to get to Washington. Look at the trains that have been seized. I don't believe in lawlessness. No, far from It. It makes no difference if they don't get here Tuesday, we will go to the capitol steps and make our demands and come back here to camp and wait. This revolutionary spirit of '76 is making the money-lenders tremble now. Congress takes two years to vote anything if left to itself. Twenty millions of people are hungry and can't wait two years to eat. Four million men idle for nine mohths. That's what Grover Cleveland has cost this country. (Great applause.) Sherman and Tom Reed have helped him, so the republicans have not got the horse on the democrats. (More applause.) If congress knows what the people need and does not give it. congress is dishonest. We propose to give them the benefit of the doubt and show them the way out of the hole." In this strain Coxey talked for half and hour, bare-headed under the hot sun, explaining his bill for good roads, for plenty of money and its companionpiece for universal luxury through non-interest-bearing bonds. Every thrust at the plutocrats was accentuated by the clang of the bell and ihe crowd which listened was a constantly changing, but altogether an attentive one. Meantime the army inside the canvass had been disposing of a miserable meal. The men lined up before a commissary wagon from which squares of the bread which they call "punk" was dealt out to them. This they took over to the camp fire, where several buckets of uninvitinglooking meat stew had been concocted. Kach wealer received a big spoonful of the stew cm his bread and they sat about on the ground gnawing this ration in a famished way. A much more elaborate meal was prepared for the leaders in the headquarters tent. The gate receipts for the day are said to be but $10. Gen. Coxey declares that his army will march to the capitol Tuesday noon, hold its great mass meeting on the steps to demand the passage of his bills and then return to camp to wait until they become law. The start cf the army from Itockville on the final stage of its march was delayed this morning by the need of proVisions for seven sick members of the army. The only provision possible was attendance in the alms house of Montgomern county, of which Rockville is the county seat. When It was learned by the sick men that they must be cared for at the poor house, six of them, refused to go there, but would march the last half mile with the ranks if they mipht ride on the wapons up to that point. This they did. but the seventh man was so crippled by rheumatism resuiting from exposure that he could exercise no option as to his course. COXEY AND HIS Alt MY. He Declares That the Men Will Meet on the Capitol Steps. The second day of the Commonweal army in Washington was spent by Commander Coxey in making arrangements with the authorities for his May day demonstration, and by the men In the miserable little camp up at Brightwood in grumbling at poor fare provided for them. The long advertised procession will start tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock If the program Is carried out the Rood roads army will march past the white house, war department and treasury, and up Pennsylvanla-ave. to the capitol. Nine mounted policemen detailed ,by MaJ. Moore wiil ride at the head of the procession. If the army attempts to march Into the capitol grounds It will be topped and its leaders will be arrested if they persist. Mr. Coxey saw Maj. Moore, the chief of police, and announced to him his intention of speaking on the capitol steps. Some Commonwealers Intimate that when repulsed, the army will disband, its members will enter the grounds as individiate and then do their speechmaking under the great statue of Christopher Columbus on the steps. "If they do," says MaJ. Moore, "they will be arrested." Having finished their public demonstration the Commonweal soldiers will march to a vacant lot at Second and M-sts. southwest, where they will pitch their tents. The leaders announce that this will be the permanent camp of the army of peace until the Coxey bills are pasred by congress. Other contingents are expected to Join them they say. Coxey sallied forth after breakfast to the district building. He announced his desire to move to the new camping giound. Commissioner Powell objected on the ground that the proximity of the James creek canal with Its foul odors made the place unhealthy. "We would fumlgite the grounds;" said Mr. Coxey. "Besides our people are very healthy. They can stand a great deal. If you couM suily. bave ee.n, eqms pt thft trials

and tribulations they Oiave undergone on their march here you would not think the presence of a canal would affect them." "How long do you expect to remain here?" asked Commissioner Ross. Gen. Coxey smiled and chuckled audibly. "Why, we expect to remain here until we get action on our bills. The few men that are with us are only a forerunner of what 13 coming. Of course, when the full 6trength of the army arrives this lot will not be large enough." Mill Meet on the Steps. " remission was granted Coxey to encamp by the canal on the condition that he would employ a plumber to make the necessary sanitary regulations. Coxey went, at 4 o'clock, to the office of the sergeant-at-arms of the senate, armed with a letter of introduction from, the chief of police to Col. Bright. He said to an Associated Press reporter: "Nothing remains to us but to make an amicable arrangement for meeting on the steps. We will not Insist on marching Into the grounds, but when we reach the curb I will tell the boys to break ranks and march in like other citizens." "Then what?" "Then the meeting will begin." "Suppose the sergeant-at-arms objects?" "He cannot object. We can hold our meeting there as the constitution gives tis a right to do. It would be another thing if we undertook to come inside the building and hold a meeting, but that we shall not assume to do." "You will attempt the meeting then in the face of official objection?" "Yes, and regardless of the law, because of our constitutional rights."

EXCITING TIMES IX IOWA. Kelley's Men March Many Riles Without Food Sympathy for Them. DES MOINES, la., April 29. Des Moines is in a state of Intense excitement tonight over the arrival of Kelley's industrial army. The men marched twenty-seven miles last night without food and were held by the police five miles out of the city in a driving rain storm all day with no provisions or shelter. The action of the authorities aroused much indignation among the laboring people and when, at 5 o'clock this evening, Ihe army finally marched up Grand-ave. to the camp on the east side of the town, wet, haggard and weary, their pitiable condition aroused sympathy almost as great as that which was theirs in Council Bluffs. A mass meeting of laboring men has been called for tomorrow, committees are at work soliciting food and money, and threats are made that unless transportation is secured to Chicago radical steps will be taken. During the last twenty-four hours the army has undergone greater hardships than at any time since it left Utah, but notwithstanding the severe test, not twenty-five men were missing when Des Moines was reached. The start from Van Meter was made last night in a heavy storm and when day dawned the column was still fifteen miles from its destination. The commissary wagons were empty and the men, wet and hungry, but they plodded on, the advance guard reaching Walnut Creek, five miles west of Des Moines, before noon. The men straggled in during the afternoon and by 3 o'clock 1.000 men had gathered. Mayor Hillis sent thirty policemen and Sheriff McGarraugh as many deputies to meet the army and inform them that they would have to pass on through Des Moines to a deserted stove factory, where ample food and shelter were provided. This Kelley flatly refused to no, saying that his mn must be fed before they marched the additional miles. The officers were obdurate and the one thousand hungry men stood shivering in the rain until 4:3) o'clock, hoping for provisions. Gen. Weaver sent out forty loaves of bread and that served as breakfast and dinner, Mayor Hillis saying that if the men would not go to where the food was they should have none. At last Kelley consented to move and the march began. Dozens of carriage lined the route into town and with the sheriff, chief of police, mayor and a guard of officers and deputies the industials moved up the city's principal streets, feebly singing their army songs. The streets were lined with spectators and as the weary men marched by, weak and hungry, women wept and sympathizers grew violent In denouncing the authorities. The stove factory, one and a half miles east of the capital, furnished shelter for all the men and their spirits soon revived, when, a wholesome supper, furnished by the city, was given them. Many straggled in during the evening and 1,200 slept in the camp. All, day long the city authorities were in a turmoil of excitement. Processions to greet the army were forbidden and brass bands were put under the ban. All this incensed the laboring men and excited sympathy for the industrials, and tonight the authorities are much exercised over the unexpectedly rapid developments of sentiment favorable to Kelley. The mayor announced that the city would furnish but one day's provisions and then request the army to move on. The trades and labor assemblies called a meeting, denounced the authorities and appointed committees to secure food and raise money for transportation. The impression was general that the Chicago & Great Western road would furnish a stock train to Chicago if paid for it. Division Superintendent Egan said tonight that he had no orders to carry the men for less than full fare, but that he did not know what orders might be issued by his superiors. Dunlay of the Rock Island reasserted tonight that the army could not ride on his road for less that full fare. Kelley whs weary but determined when he reached the camp and seemed in nowise discouraged. Most of Them in Jail. PORTLAND, Ore., April 29. The Portland contingent of Coxey's army, who seized a Union Pacific train at Troutdale yesterday and were arrested by Usited States troops at Arlington, were brought to this city early this morning. Gen. Snoffler, with Quartermaster-General Breckinridge and fifty others, were taken to Jail and the remainder were placed under puard of the regular troops. The industrials number 607 in all. They are being fed at the expense of the United States and express no Desire to escape. The leaders will be arraigned In ' the federal court tomorrow on the charge of contempt. Calvin's CroTfd. COLUMBUS, O.. April 29. The Galvln contingent of the Coxey army reached this city last midnight. They went into camp beyond the west bank of the Scioto, a part, however, sleeping in the trades assembly hall. Tonight all went into camp. Their wants were being supplied. About $123 was raised by collection from the crowd that visited the camp today. ITS OBJECT ACCOMPLISHED. The Cliteano Anti-Chinese SundaySchool Society Disbands. CHICAGO, April 30. The Chicago antlChinese Sunday-school society passed out of existence toady, having accomplished Its purpose. Secretary Kllnetop said that with one exception the religious Instruction of Chinamen was now in the hands of men or matrons and that girls would not be permitted to teach them. The society is ucceeietl by the anti-Chinese society, which has for Its object the exclusion of every opium-eating Chinaman I from Arterica

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The Indiana Senator Disposes of Aldrich In a Scathing Speech of Irony and Sarcasm, Which Silences the Rhode Islander. IT CAUSES A SENSATION And Is the Outcome of the Tariff Debate, In Which Aldrich Plays a Conspicuous Part. A Diminutiv Unit in Senator Turpi's Eyes. The Charges Against the Finance Committee Pnt In the Category of Lies Senator Voorhees Makes the Statement That Whatever Other Changes Are Made in the Tariff Hill the Income Tax Will Mick Mills Takes a. Hand In the Day's Proceedings. BUREAU OF TIIE SENTINEL. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 30. The lecture Senator Aldrich received from Senator Turpie today pleased mort of the republicans. Aldrich Is considered rather too frv?sh by the old republican leaders, and his bluff last week when he proposed to vote at once on the tariff bill came near placing the republicans in a hole. Hereafter no one will tread on Senator Turpie's toes. Senator Harris.-'who is in charge of the tariff bill, lost patience today at the way in whic h progra.-jp was! impeded by Senator Hale In the aborning hour. As on several preceding days Mr. Hale objected to giving way for. special measures in the morning hour. 'Finally Mr. Harris abruptly moved that the senate proceed with the consideration of the tariff bill. Mr. Wolcott interposed a question as to whether the committee intended to report amendments which would change the whole scope and character of the bill. He had understood Mr. Harris to admit that changes were to be made and Mr. Voorhees to deny it. This gentle prod, however, did not force the hand of the Tenness e senator, who said he couldn't ay ict!y what amendments were to be proposed. Mr. Aldrich said it was due to the senate and country that they should know what bills should be considered. "House bill 4.R64." interjected Mr. Harris, sharpiy. "Yes." replied Mr. Aldrich, "with the amendments, when they are to be submitted." "When we get ready," said Mr. Gray from his seat. Mr. Hill submitted an observation or two which didn't seem to please some of his democratic colleagues. The senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Aldrich), he said, appeared disturbed about some anticipated amendment's. It occurred to him, he said, that inasmuch as the tariff bill had passed from the jurisdiction of the finance committee amendments reported from that committee wouldn't be entitled to any more consideration than individual amendments and would have no more parliamentary privilege. Mr. Aldrich admitted that this was true in a parliamentary sense, but, perhaps, might not be true of this committee. Then, taking a paier from his desk containing the Associated Press interview with Secretary Carlisle, printed in the morning papers, he said he thought it a strange coincidence that the executive Officers of the government seemed always in possession of advance information regarding the progress of tariff reform. President Cleveland, in his message to the country, said in advance what the Wilson bill was to contain, and now Secretary Carlisle came forward with this advance information about the harmonizing of democratic discord information, he volunteered which was in direct conflict with the recent statement of the chairman of the finance committee. Vest Makes a. Point. Mr. Vest raised the point of order that newspaper Interviews couldn't be dragged Into the senate chamber, but Vice-President Stevenson ruled that the chair was helpless under the rules to lay the course of any senator in debate. But there was a means of stopping matters temporarily. The debate had been proceeding by unanimous consent and Mr. Allen at this point suddenly threw "senatorial courtesy" to the winds and demanded the regular order. The tariff bill was then laid before the senate committee. Mr. Aldrich wanted to continue his comments on the Carlisle Interview. Then came a controversy as to Mr. Dolph's right to yield to Mr. Quay and Mr. Quay's right to transfer the privilege to Mr. Aldrich. It ended In Mr. Ä1drich's having the floor and he renewed his comments on the Carlisle interview. In reply to a remark Mr. Vest said that Mr. Aldrich had been falsely Informed concerning the proposed amendments to the tariff bill and if these statements were repeated it must be on his own responsibility. Mr. Aldrich accepted the challenge and rose with the statement on his lips that he was infotmed and believed that amendments had been prepared to the bill since it had been reported to the senate, as he had previously stated. He asserted that the amendments were in print and said it was his understanding that they were to be submitted to the senate shortly. They were, he was certain, from what he had heard, of a nature to completely change the character of the bill. As a result of this condition of affairs the senate wasn't nearer the final consideration of the bill than it was three months ago, when the bill came from the house. 31111s Sizes I P the Opposition. Mr. Mills followed in a brief, sharp speech characterizing the proceedings of the day as pyrotechnical on. the part of, the republicans, while those of last Tuesday were in the nature of a military movement intended to determine the strength of the democratic forces. He said that Mr. Anrieh, when he asserted that there were 300 amendments prepared and ready to be offered, displayed a greater knowledge of what was going on on the democratic side of the chamber than he (Mills) possessed and suggested that the Rhode Island senator must have an underground connection With the democratic side of the senate. But eupposa there w 200 pr 3,000," ha

continued, "I Know not how many there are, be the number wbat it may, if they do not meet my approval I shall not vote for them. Every senator has the same right to reject them." Mr. Palmer declared that it wasn't necessary or expected that a bill should be perfected in the committee. As for himself he had not given a power of attorney to any one. Mr. Aldrich "Not to the secretary of the treasury?" Mr. Talmer "Not to the secretary of the treasury, though I do not know what the practices of the republican senators were when there was a republican secretary of the treasury." Senator Voorhees was slightly pale and not quite steady when he. took the floor for the purpose of replying to the speech made by Senator Sherman last Saturday and quoted a long paragraph from the Ohio senator's speech in which he said that the finance committee hadn't had onportunity to consider the pending tariff bill in the usual way. He took especial exoeption to a sentence in Mr. Sherman's speech reading: "This bill has never been considered by the finance committee." He asserted that the tariff bill had been reported to the full finance committee on March 8 and hadn't been reported by the committee to the senate until March 20. Sherman Not Satisfied. Senator Sherman, in reply, said the bill was never read in detail to permit changes. If it had been and votes had been taken a more satisfactory measure might have been presented. Senator Harris interjected a question. He wanted to know if Mr. Sherman and other republican members of the committee hadn't had opportunity to offer amendments in committee. "Not the usual opportunity," replied Mr. Sherman. "It was Idle to do so when the six democratic members had agreed upon amendments, and they had been submitted to the democratic caucus." Mr. Harris "The senator says he did not have the usual opportunity. I want him to answer distinctly and deny, if he chooses to do, explicitly. Did he not have the same opportunity that democratic senators had when the McKinley bill was before the senate?" Mr. Sherman repeated that there was no opportunity for consideration until the democratic majority passed upon changes. Mr. Morrill made a brief statement confirmatory of what Mr. Sherman had said, after which senator Harris, taking the floor for a moment, said with much emphasis: "If the senator from Ohio and the senator from Vermont desire to be understood that the republicans were not permitted to shape the bill in committee they are within the limits of the exact truth and they are within the limits when they infer that they will not be allowed to shape it." "That's all right." said Mr. Sherman. Mr. Harris "Of course it's all right. But if they say they were not permitted opportunity to offer amendment they do injustice to themselves and gross Injustice to other members of the committee." Mr. Voorhees insisted that the record showed that the bill had been considered in every detail from end to end and that the minority had had ample opportunity to offer amendments. He called particular attention to Mr. Aldrich's motion made In committee to strike out the income tax feature. I desire to say right here, said he. commenting on this motion, no matter what rumors may be floating in the air, that income tax will stay in this bill." Messrs. Allison, Teller and Hawley then took a hand in the discussion, while Mr. Hale returned to the Carlisle interview, declaring that it bore all the earmarks of authenticity. Then Mr. Palmer took a turn, and then Mr. Carr and Mr. Chandler joined the colloquy, which Mr. Harria vainly endeavored to bring to a close. Senaior Tnrpie's Squelcher. A few minutes afterward an incident occurred which created a profound sensation. Mr. Turpie, who got the floor when Mr. Talmer sat down made a direct assault on Mr. Aldrich, the like of which has not been heard in the senate chamber for years. He declared that three monstrous untruths had characterized the opposition, three gross, palpable lies of inconceivable mendacity. The first of those untruths was that a new bill was being prepared by the secretary of the treasury; the second, that three, or three hundred amendments (it didn't matter which) were to be presented, and the third was that the bill reported from the finance committee wasn't the bill to be passed. All these assertions had been categorically denied by four democratic members of the finance committee. "And yet." continued Mr. Turpie, raising hitf hand aloft and stretching it toward Mr. Allrich, "the senator from Rhode Island comes in here and says he believes they are true. There could be no sharper issue of veracity. I prefer to believe, and I do believe, the senators on this side, and I disbelieve the senators no I will not say senators I disbelieve the diminutive unit on the other &ide who asserts the contrary. Who is the author of these reports that are being circulated here in the newspaper press? Who claims the paternity of the senator from Rhode Island? I recollect the predecessor of the honorable senator from Rhode Island," he continued, with biting .and venomous irony, referring to the Senator Aldrich of 1S90 as a different individual from the Senator Aldrich of today, "but even he couldn't then have been the author of all three of these untruths. He might have been the author of one, but three would have driven him from the field. He had been a drug clerk, and was thoroughly familiar with that line of business, and of other lines as a wholesale grocer. We who were here then will never forget the writhing of his distinguished countenanpe, his enormous development of cheek that extended from ear to ear and from chin to forehead. AVe will never forget his auricular appendages that scraped the dome of the capitol. How can the present senator hope to rival his predecessor in the hate of truth and in the love of falsehood that has always characterized the cheats of protection?" Unable to Reply. "When Mr. Turpie sat down there was a hush upon the chamber. Everyone was amazed at the personal character of the attack upon Senator Aldrich. Then all eyes were turned on the Rhode Island senator. He arose slowly. "In the position the senator from Indiana now takes," he said slowly and deliberately, "he speaks for no one but himself. Under other circumstances and conditions I do not believe he would have made the speech he has made." Mr. Aldrich took his seat. The incident Closed without another word, and Mr. Quay took the floor and resumed the prepared speech he bepan some weeks ago. A motion to go into executive session developed the absence of a quorum, and at 5:50 the senate adjourned. . CAN'T HOLD CORNER LOTS.

Decision Affeetlnjr Government Offlclnls in Oklahoma. GUTHRIE, Ok. T.. April 30. The decision of the interior department regarding an Important corner In this town is that C. M. Harnes, ex-register of the land office, cannot hold lots because he was a povernment official. This bars all federal officials from securing titles to lots on lands and gives to actual settlers over one million dollars' worth of property in the leadIns towns of Oklahoma, attained by government officials.

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Illinois Miners Become More Warlike And Finally Riot at the Toluca Mines, TROOPS NOT NEEDED. The Lieutenant - Governor Talks to the Crowd And Induces Its Members to Return Home, One of the Operators Threatens to Import Florida eroes Indiana Block Coal .Miners "Will Join Their Urethren of the IUtnniinons Beaton Evictions in Pennslyvania Iron Miners in Michigan Make a Demonstration. TOLUCA, 111., April 27. Rioting broke out here at 8:30 o'clock tonight and the first blood was shed owing to the refusal of several miners to quit work. Three men were wounded before the deputies could reach the scene of the trouble. The fighting lasted not more than two minutes. Several pistols were fired without other effect than to attract a crowd of miners who had been carousing in the neighboring saloons and dance halls. The wounded are: F. Garibaldi, Italian, miner. Jaw smashed. Martini, Frank, Italian miner, badly cut about the head and face and skull injured. Teik, Dimetrl, Polish miner, face c it and head bruised. Two more Italians, known to have been badly Injured, were carried into the woods by their friends, and have not been found. Martini, Sipek and Garibaldi were carried into a saloon, where their wounds were dressed. The doctors ay the men will recover. Their wounds were the result of the general club play indulged in by a band of striking miners from villages near by. They encountered a few men, who declared that they would not work. Hard words led to harder blows and serious trouble was averted only through the fact that belligerents were on the outsikrts of the town. The attacking party followed and after a brief search the deputies gave up the attempt to locate them. TOLUCA, Ills., April 27. The miners who halted for a rest at Big Sandy last night broke camp at 4 a. m. today, arriving at Toluca at 6 a. m. with the blare of brass bands and drum corps. There were nearly 4,500 of them. As they filed into town they were met by the citizens. Although footsore and weary, they had not lost any "enthusiasm. Most of the colored miners that work here left for other places last night to avoid a skirmish and are not likely to return until the army leaves town. As soon as the men arrived they assembled on the commons near Superintendent Duggan's house, but adjourned again to await the arrival of the army fiom Streator and Kangley. This wing arrived later, having marched all the way from Streator. A few minutes previous to their arrival Lieutenant-Governor Gill, President J. A. Crawford and Vice-President James W. Murray arrived on a special train from Joliet. A conference took place between the men and Charles J. Devlin in the latter's private car. The miners officers wanted Mr. Devlin to addre.-s the miners, but he declined, saying that he had not invited them here and consequently had no desire to address them. The meeting was called to order by Chairman O'Connor of Spring Valley and was addressed by Messrs. Gil!, Crawford and Murray, who counseled peace and urged the army to leave and told all the Toluca miners to decide for themselves. Finally this was agreed upon, and Mr. Devlin at once arranged for a special train to take the army home. When Lieutenant-Governor Gill was introduced to the assemblage of 7,000 miners he opened his address by reading telegrams he had received from Sheriff Lenz, and also the replies he had sent in answer to them, giving it as his opinion that the ordering- out of the militia was unnecessary. He said he knew that the situation was not as serious as the sheriff had represented it to be and further stated that he had every confidence in the miners not making a hostile demonstration. Continuing, he said: "You are all well aware of my mission here. I came here personally to view the situation and have found you, as I thought you were, peaceably assembled and not of a disposition to destroy property or to take life, as I was informed by the sheriff of this county in dispatches last nisrht. I do not believe those telegrams emanated from him originally, but that he was misinformed and the facts terribly exaggerated to him. I have come here today to declare peace and to plead with you not to attempt any violence or destruction of property. When I refused to send the state troops, I had every confidence that you would not, and now I hope you will reciprocate my friendly feeling toward you by upholding the dignity and institution of the state by quietly going home and allowing the miners of this place to settle th?ir own affairs in a way that is acceptable to them. If you persist in remaining here and make any attempt at hostilities, ts the acting executive of this state, I can do nothing but my duty, and you all know what that is. "I ask you as American citizens to uphold the supremacy and dignity of the State. I came here to plead with you to do so and I trust you will. I was not Justified in sending troops here vj-iil there was a riotous proceeding, and I would not have done so. I believe your visit here is based upon Just grounds, and I can see nothing you have done that will cast reflection upon you. Confet with the Toluca men If you wish, Kr.d use. moral suasion to get their assistance to your cause. If they will help you. return to your homes peaceably. If they will not return in the same manner, anyway. Hut If you attempt to use toiie my only duty is to call out vhe militia and protect the people of this place against your invasion. This is your opportunity to prove to the public that you can" peaceably march through tie country and assemble for things that are most laudable and commendable, and I sincerely hope you will take advantage of it." J. A. Crawford, president of the united mine workers of Illinois, next addressed

the assemblage. He said the miners were not sinking, hut that they simply suspended work until such -a time as tha Hg-bug operators were wkling to g int conference with the miners and adjust th3 scale of prions. He sail the suspension was as much to the interest of tha operators as it was to the miners. SaJd he: "The greatest curse to the mining industry is the blackleg competition of the operators, and to this mainly is dua the deplorable condition of the miners, and which, at last, has caused them to turn against the aggressor and demand a different condition of things." President Crawford urt .-d the Toluca men to Join the strike and march to the front and be men. as did also Vice-President James W. Murray. After the speaking a motion was carried requesting all the miners not residents here t immediately depart from the city, and allow the Toluca men to settle among themselves about Joining the movement. Lieutenant-Governor Gill and Mr. Devlin telegraphed for a special train to take the miners to their respective homes as soon as the above decision had been reached, and the men were in a vesry congenial mood wtK-n they learned they were not to march home. The train arrived in this city during the afternoon and the army boarded the thirty flat-cars bound for Streator, going thence to LasaJlo and Spring Valley. The people of this city felt much relieved after the departure of the men and the excitement died down. The Toluca miners at onoe called a meeting to decile upon ihe question of returning to work. Some of the colored men said on th-j streets that they w.re willing to take out their tools If tha whites were. Mr. Devlin said that if his miners quit he would import negroes from Florida to work in the mines. If the miners here do not return to work, and any such attempt is made, trouble, is sure to follow.

ix ivni.vw. The Block !Hiuers Vote ot to World Any Longer. BRAZIL, Ind.. April 27. Special. At the joint conference of block operators and delegates from the mine.-:, held hera today, the offer of the operators to pay 0 cents a ton until the bituminous strika shall have been settled wns rejected by a vote of 1,203 to 127. Of the twenty or ; more block mines in the district only four are yet at work Eureka an 1 Crawford, at Carbon; Nickel Plate, near Cardonia, and the Louisa at Center Point. It is probable that these will suspend on hearing the result of the confrenca and learning that the men at all tha other mines are out. Col. Zimmerman, on behalf of ?he operators, said in the conference today that while the men would have been at perfect liberty t quit on the first of May, their suspension at an earlier day and violation of contract and faith bad destroyed all confidence rn the part cf the operators. The strike is on and bv th first 'lay f May and thereafter, not a iound of coal will be hoisted from the t'l;y county mines until a settlement shall have Lecu effected. HR KAI) OR UI.OOD. The Alternative Offered by Michigan Italians. IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich.. April 27. Four hundred men, chiefly Italians, paraded the streets behind a red flag today demanding bread. They marched to the hijrh school grounds where a relief committee had men working, and stopped them. At the meeting the miners unanimously voted to favor a resolution ordering Poor Commissioner MeClintocle to leave the city in two hours. The governor was notified by telegraph of th proceedings. Fully three thousand men in this city are idle and 000 families ara starving and desperate. LYNCHED FOUR OF A Kl N D. AXOTHKIi ISTAI.IMEXT OF THE! Bül t I! ASSASSINS STIll.VÜ LP. Tom Hrlffln the Only One of the Snsportrd Criminals at LarRf The In fortunate Men Taken from the Sheriff und His Assistants. TALLULAlt. La.. April 27. Four more of the TJoyce assassins were captured lat night and when th-- posse, who had charge of the prisoners, reached tha Suerly place, about two miles from Ta.1lulah, a crowd of 200 mounted mv-n met them. ovenowored the officers and took; the four a-st-ins to the Crescent place, and on the ground whore the villainous shots were fired by the assassins that killed Mr. Koyce. tin fur leaders. Shell Claxton, Pomp Claxton. Scott Harvey and Lory McCoy, were hanged on a tree about ene hundred feet from where they committed their findish deed. The executions were conducted t ry quietly, thej people living in the vicinity knowing nothing about them until this morning, when they were surprised to find tha four assassins hancring near their doors. Kvery efi'ort possible is being made to capture Tom tJrittin, the only one of tha assassins at large. Th?re are seventeen negroes in jail h. re. They will be tried by -i. jury and it is considered by all that th ? ones the law does not hang will go to Jie ie-n. THE BLYTHE MILLIONS. Decision Awnnline the lXnlr to Florence llljlhe llicklcj. SAX FRANCISCO, April 24. The stata supre-me cou-t tlay handed down ton decisions in the ISlythe case, all of whiehi are in favor of Florence lllythe. Five decisions are upon appeals from denials for n?T7 trials. The other fiv decisions bear on eleven other appeals in the case. This petth-s the celebrated case and pives the P.Iythe millions to Florence Plythe Hickley. The estate is valued at fully -54,000,001 an 1 was .awarded to Florence, the illigitimate daughter of Thomas II. Blythe. by th1 probate court. TheTe were nearly a hundred other claimants and man: of them appealed from the decision of the lower court. TORE UP THE TRACKS. Victory for Chicago A&;atnt the Lake Shore Railroad. CHICAGO, April 3.-Judge Fwin-r to-lay dissolvc-l the injunction secured by the Lake Shore railroad restrains-.:; t. city from tearing un tt ;e cunpa.i.y's tracks at Sixty-third and State ts. The tracks, thir(v in number, wre at onoe removed by a force ef seventy-five poliot-men, who had le-n kept In waitir". and outwitted tha railroad company. The city disputed tha authority of th raiirad company to lay the track and threatened to remove Ihn m re than a ni nth a;ro. when the company secured ils Injunction. Coal Operators AVM1 ot Confer. PITTSBURG, April 31 Col. W. P. Rend returns to Chicago tonight without having succeeded in getting the coal operators to agree to a oor.frcnee looking to a settlement of the ftrike.