Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-25
Aconeressman to Give Light.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The session of the Sherman subcommittee investigating the Danville riots will to morrow be devoted to hearing Redresentative John s. Wise, of Vir- ginia on what he knows of the affair and it's effects on the voters.
 That Copyright Biil-WattersOn Takes It On Flying Trip-The Opposition to the BiI1,
 WASHINGTON Feb 24-Colonel Henry Watterson left here Saturday night for New York witQ his copyright bill lSing as close to his heart as it could get inside the pocket of his overcoat. It was expected the Colonel would cause his bill to be introduced last
 Monday, but there seems to have been 8
 hitch in the matter and he has gone to New
 York to confer with William Henry Smith of
 the Associated FDess, presumably with view
 to determining whether it will bs wiser to
 wiser to keep the bill ont of sight or to in
 treducs it to morrow at the imminent risk of its defeat. Several gentlemen who have tslded with Colsnel Walters on represent him as saying that the object of his proposed measure is not to conserve the interests of the Associated Press, representation which strikes the average onlooker in Vienna as somewhat inconsistent with his present flying visit to New York to confer with Mr. Smith. The latter is well known to be in favor of eopyrighting tine earth in the interest of the Associated Paess papers if it can be accom- plishek constitutionally. The real cause of Colonel Watterson's departure on the eys of bill day undoubtedly lies in facS that most krapaandnuH rnrns1ESnp fn hio hoc manifested itself from an altogether unex- pected quarter. Somo opposition was appre- hended from the United Press the supposition being that the United Press was to some ex- tent dependent on published reports of the Associated Press But not 8 word in the way of demurrer has come from that or ganization, its managers holding that it suf- fers from the pilfering of it's news by ARso- ciated Press papers than it is hsneatted by its having access to the Associated Press reports after they are in print. ':Any big news" said General Manager Phillips on Friday, s' reaches OFT net before it does that of the Associated Press whose dispatches are notofiously tardv This was notably true of the fell of Sin kat which we had three days ahead of the Associated Press. Then we beat them soain again on the confirmation of our previous advices and their papers cabled our disnatcb and made 8 great feature of it. The Nav York Mai and Express, which rnns line at the head Of one of it's eolanhs asserting that it is the only evening paper in New York that is 6 member of the Associated Press. pses all our foreign news that it can lay hold of and it never gives hint as to where it aets it. Readers of the early edition of the Graphic, however, know where they come
 The opposition to the watterson measure reisrred to above comes from county papers and individually they are writing to their senators and representatives asking them to yote against the bill should watterson carry out hisintention of having it introduced Sem stor Seweil has received letters from almost every paper in New York pointing out where Tn the measure would operate to the disad-