Show WORK OR THE I 1 washington authorities will I 1 give them employment I 1 NINETY DAYS AT HARD LABOR tho the no recaption caption that awaits tho the army of the commonweal at tho the national cap tal advance guard of forty one in tail jail troops teams will ila eo willoa out tf if tho police oliv Ar ara dUnable to handle tho the army washington D C april 8 the unceremonious way in which the freight car load of unemployed from cincinnati was taken in barge by the iho police lat alit night Is a f ecart of oc the reception that awaits coneys army tomorrow to morrow tle the men will be brought into police court upon harges of 0 vagrancy tho the local loal law against vagrants applies to all men without visible means mcana of fit support who n ho are arc destitute likely to lo become charges upon the city and who have no vo vocation catlon or means of gaining it a livelihood or who solicit limn the penalty to 16 ninety days in the workhouse at hard labor but it 11 rests within tho the discretion of 0 the judge to accept their promise to leave the city at oner once or to accept bonda bond us as surety that they will not become 0 o me public charges or beg there li Is no doubt ot of the application ot of this law to lie hie band from rora texas under captain primrose for or it search in the police station knows the total capital of 0 the company amounts to about 2 they have received two fairly good meals today to day and have been passably comfortable captain primrose the leader ot of the hand band may find himself in more serious trouble than his followers follower cheze Is an old law on the statute books which was passed in IS 18 9 and has never been repealed which makes it an offense to bring into the district ot of columbia any destitute people who are likely to become public charges with a penalty ot or flona dom 23 2 to 30 50 line fine tor for each offense the police authorities are arc now comly erly the of bringing a thary I 1 V ot Vol violating tills this law against the aling ma I 1 COTO cape ills his fine 4 edth the 1 the imprisonment in ont would a amount a 1 t to a very heavy punishment DOSE FOR COXEY the same charge may be brought against general coxey if disaster does doea not overtake the army of the commonweal beffie it reaches here of 0 course the vagrancy iancy act may be brought into application against ills hla followers and besides there are two other laws which it is the and advertised advert laed purpose of 0 the Coxey lLes to break one la Is the act of congress regul aung the use age of 0 the capitol grounds which forbids any gathering tor for demonstration or palade the making of any oration or use of 0 threatening language the display of 0 any banner or device to attract attention the other Is a local law which fo forbids r bids men to congregate on the steps ot of a pub public I 1 to or private building it rests within the discretion of the vice dent and speaker of the house to suspend the capitol regulations tor for any proper purpose and perhaps coneys agents hlll apply to them for permission to carry out their pro gramme major moore chac t or of pollee police said bald today in speaking of the march of 0 coxey those these laws are on tile the statute books and wo we have no discretion in it it we must enforce them if coneys army arrives unless congress should give ill them era permission to congregate on oil the ca capitol pl tol steps tile the decall de tAll of the police movement against coxey are kept a peer secret L no doubt he will be met at the district limits and it if the numbers ot of his army are toy great for the police to cope with the local militia will all he be ca called ile d to their ald aid A SERIOUS PROBLEM what to do with the army when it arrives and it 14 taken into custody is A difficult question the station house of the vity not ao such a crowd to simply repulse the men and forbid them to anter the district bould bo be to them loose on the hu burbon residents resident 4 of cc virginia and maryland and this thin la Is a subject which gives the governors governor ot of adjoining states much uneasiness major moore received it a letter from the chief of police of 0 allegheny city PIL PI describing the coxey men in most moat uncomplimentary terms H he e declares there are arc several professional criminals in their ranks that four or he burglaries were committed by the them m I 1 while v hile in the city and that there would have been more depredations but for the close police surveillance lance over the army during its stay colonel redstone the washington representative of coxey said concerning the men arrested last night this body of men is not called the commonweal army as aa no coxey men will come collie on oil until word Is previously sent cent to our headquarter sand none x will III come collie in I 1 n disorder or der and without alt hout military discipline there will be no resistance of 0 the low law and none of the men will enter the city as aa a body until the main line ar ilves LABOR LEADERS INCENSED many abany of the labor leaders in this city tire are incensed at the ar arrest rest of the fort forty y one unemployed and declare the pro cc edings were without lawful authority they say also that major moore has no right to del with these men as an a means of a horrible example for coneys army it is claimed that when the case ase comes into ourt court tomorrow to morrow morn morning ing there will mill be plenty of friends of the men including a member of Con giess and it if the law lias has been overstepped over stepped in tills this arrest the proper people will bo be made to all suiter fi or for it brownsville Browns ville ri ra april 8 this city welcomed the army of the commonweal fairly well this evening it was not until 7 this evening that the bugle wa was l heard sounding down the valley und and just an all the twilight was doe deepening I 1 aning into right night the ho commonweal ra marched arched over the poi t L brid brodse ge and entered the city the ainaly ai my la Is camped tonight to night in brucchi lilse hall in ill alie cc center ter of town and the marchers barchers mar chers retired early |