The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-04
" ashingtOn Letter.

At last there Is harmony among the
Democratic Senators on the tariff and
the party presents united trout TO the
enemy Concessions have been made
which will not be satisfactory to lots of
Democrats, but 1t was only by conces-
sions that Tn o: V could be secured.
There is one consolation for the party.
The tariff bill as il will be amended will
he decided improvement upon the
Mckinley law, and it Will receive the
vote of every Democrat. Having secured
harmony, the Democratic senators are
now forcing the fighting and will cuntin
tie to do So until the bill is passed. Ev
erything Is TO be made Ia give way TO
one ohject-the passing of the bill; and
there IL every reason 10 believe that il
will he passed in ample time 10 become
a law on the first day of July. If the
Republicans persist in the fiiihustering
tactics they have this week adopted the
Democrats propose To resort To heroic
remedies To stop IT, regardless of rules
and precedeutS.
The great speech made by Senator
Mills, of Texas, (many think the greatest
of his life.) III closing the general de
bate ON the tariff hill, will probably toe
Democratic side of the senate The
present programme L. to compel longer
daily stIiugs of the senate and ID let the
Republicans do the most OF the talking
until they have been allowed a reasona-
bic time to debate the hill 10y items.
Then there may be "A continuous day
and night session lasting until the final
vote Is reached, unless the Republicans
will agree upon an early date for taking
a vote, and at present there Is no in1I
cation of their doing that. There is at
least four Republican senators who will
not tillibuster To prevent vote.
Mr.. John Wedderburn, manager of
the Examiner Bureau of Claims, and
the Press Claims Co, the last named
concern being well known to newspaper
publishers by reason of its sending out
circulars asking big advertising in ex
change for its stock, which WAS To have
''miliOnS in ii, sometime in the fu
ture, has had some ugly charges made
against him 10y Mr.. William K Hearst,
publisher of the San Francisco Examiner.
IN a bill filed III court asking that re-
celver be appointed and that Nedder
burn be restrained from lntermeddling
with It's affairs. Mr.. Hearst says that
he was Il partner with Wedderburn in
the examiner bureau, and makes the
following specific charges against him:
That he established the Press Claims
CO. without Hearst's consent; that he
maintained 1t with money belonging To
the examiner Bureau; that he miSman-
aged claims, including some for sub
scribers of the Omaha Bee and the st.
Paul PiOHeer-PreSS and has refused to re-
fund money winch the CON
tracts with those papers called for; that
he has created large Indebtedness, in
cluding note for IS, 900 given to MIR.
Hearst's mother and signed without au-
thOrity with the firm name; that he has
Improperly used money for his person
al expenses; and that he has injured the
reputation of the San Francisco ErdDiin-
eT by his mismanagement of cases and
by sending out IA circular offering prizes
foI inventions charging, competitors an
initial fee of five dollars.
The local authorities have made all of
their arrangements to receive Coxey's
so-called army, which will arrive in
Washington early next week No
trouble is anticipated, but if any comes
they are fully prepared for it. If the
men who come here with Coxey behave
themselves and violate no law they will
be allowed to remain as long as they
please, or rather as long as they can get
enough to eat, and you may be sure that
will not be long. If they violate the law
they will be treated just as other crimin-
ais are.
By the way, the populists in congress
are, as the saying is, between the devil
and the deep sea" as to CoXey's army
When the ''army' first started they to a
man denounced the movement. After
wards some of them tried to hedge, Sen
ators Peffer and Allen introducing reso-
lutionS in the senate, and Representative
Davis and BOen bills in the House, in
the interest OF the army This week
they held caucus on the subject. 1t
isn't the army they are Worrying
about, but the votes of their constituents
who sympathize with the absurd idea
brings the army" here. 1t isn't likely
to lie much of an army" after all, as
from the best information at present oh
taInable, even if all of the various bod
les of men now headed towards Wash
lugtOn should get here, which is not
probable, there would only he Is, 500 of
of them.
The House is steadily pushing its pro-
gramme OF rapidly disposingo of the reg
ular appropriation bills. NJ.