Among other measures, he urged that since good roads and money were both greatly needed by the country at large, the Government should issue $500,000,000 in "non-interest bearing bonds" to be used in employing workers in the improvement of the roads.

After an orderly march through parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, in the course of which his men received many donations of supplies from places through which they passed, Coxey and his army arrived at Washington on the 1st of May and were allowed to parade to the Capitol under police escort along a designated route.

When Coxey left the ranks, however, to cut across the grass to the Capitol, he was arrested on the technical charge of trespassing.

The army went into camp, but on the 12th of May the authorities forced the men to move out of the District.

They thereupon took up quarters in Maryland and shifted about from time to time.
Detachments from the Western bands arrived during June and July, but the total number encamped about Washington probably never exceeded a thousand.