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Show NEWS OF A DAY. The "Good Roads" Army Will Parade in Washington. PETER JACKSON TALKS And Siy Champion Corbett i "The Darndest Liar the World Ever Saw" A Kansas Man Qbjeot. to be Called Breckenridsre. Washington, April 30. The eecond day ot the commonweal army in Washington Wash-ington was spent by Commander Goxey in making airangementa with the au thorities for his May Day demonstration, demonstra-tion, and by the men in the miserable little camp up at Brightwood, grumbling grum-bling at the poor fare provided for them. The long advertised procession will -w start tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, if the program is carried out, and the good roads army will march past the white house, war department, treasury treas-ury and up Pennsylvania avenue, past the capitol. Nine mounted policemen will ride at the head of the procession. It the army attempts to march into the cap-Itol cap-Itol grounds it will ba slopped ana its leaders arrested if they persist. Mr. Uoxey saw Jinjor ivioore, tne chief of police and announced to him his intention of speaking on the Capitol Cap-itol steps Some cumrbonwealers intimate inti-mate tiiat when repulsed the nriny will disband, its members will enter tne grounds as individuals and theD do their speech making under the etatue of Christopher Columbus at tlie steps. "If they do," said Major Moore, 'they will be arrested." After m liking arrangements about camp grounds and seeing to other de tails Coxey went to see about getting permiddiou to eater tue capitol grouuu with his arinv for a deuunsi-rati n. The sergeants -at arms of ttie house anil senate pointed out the statute conceru-ing conceru-ing meetings and processions iu the capitol grounds, and in reply to his objections ob-jections that the law was unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, tney t ld bim tUev were hert to execute the laws and not to construe them. They called ilr. Coxey'e alien tion to the fact that the law provided for its own suspension by tne vice- j,;atUttut iiu4 tue &jaker of the house, whereupon the commonweal leader announced his intention of eeeing them Coxey got no encouragement from Criep. He went to the Normandy hotel twice during the evening to see the vice-pres:dent, but Mr. Stevenson was out. Mr. Coxey 's plan as outlined out-lined this evening is to take every step to bring about his object, not with the expectation of success, but for the purpose of putting his casa before be-fore the courts in the legal test which be expects, lie will proceed tomorrow until he is stopped by the officers oi tLd law. His plan is then to demand that he be arrested and he will appeal to the courts of law, The chief of police today issued a permit per-mit allowing the army to parade. Sat corbett is A liab. Bostox, April 30. When a reporter showed I'eter Jackson and his manager. mana-ger. Parson Davies, the associated press dispatch from London, quoting Corbett's remarks in the Sportsman, Jackson took the matter very coolly, and showed his ivories when he reao the ctiarga of blulliig. He siid : "This man Corbett is thedirndest liar the world ever saw, and the reasou why I am not training is that I am eimplv waiting for something definite from the bluffer acroES the water. Our match was made jears befcre the Jacksonville Jack-sonville fight and ought to have taken precedence over that, but Corbett, with his custimary bluffs, put its off from time to time. 1 will be glad to meet him and ready for any chance that will put ue both in the ring." Jfarson Daviessays: "When Corbett saj,s Brady, Corbett and myself had a quiet talk and agreed that the fight would not take place until autum, he deliberately lies. BASE SLANDER. Wellington. Kan., April 30. William James Tartall, of Convay Springs, Kan., today sued Pierre Dumas, a merchant, for $3,000 damages for "repeatedly and persistently addressing ad-dressing him in public places and in a loud tone of voice as Breckinridge." The olanin tiff sets forth in his petition peti-tion that this pleasantry on the part ot Dumas had the effect of 'a "base and undeserved slander upon your petitioner and did cause him great mental suffering and did tend to injure in-jure him in his business and social bianding." He prays that the court protect him from further insult by the defendant, and afford such other relief as may deem irst. |