The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-05-04
General Coxoy's Reception Populists
Dsown Him, Whatever the Anti. Tariff
Reformers May Do Tor Him.
John Wedderburn's Urookedness.


ocratic Senators on the tariff and the
party presents a united front to the
enemy. Concessions have been made
which will not be satisfactory to lots of
Democrats, but 1t was only by conces
sion that harmony could be secured.
There is one consolation for the party;
the tariff bill as it will be amended will
be a decided improvement upon the
Mckinley law, and it will receive the
vote of every Democratic Senator
Having secured harmony, the Dem.
ocratic Senator's are now forcing the
fighting and will continue to do so un-
til the bill is passed. Everything is to
be made to give way to one object
the passing of the bill ard there is
every reason to believe that it will be
passed in ample time to become law
on the first day OF July. If the Re.
publicans persist in the fiilibustering
tactics they have this week adopted,
the Democrats propose to resort to
heroic remedies to stop it, regardless
of rules and precedents
The great speech made by Senator
Mills, of Texas, (many think the great
est OF his life) in closing the general
debate on the tariff bill, will probably
be the last long tariff speech made on
the Democratic side of the Senate.
The present program is to compel
longer daily sittings of the Senate and
to let the Republicans do most of the
talking until they have becn allowed a
reasonable time to debate the bill by
items. Then there may be a contin-
uous day and night session lasting un.
I'll the final vote is reached, unless the
Republicans will agree upon an early
date Tor taking a vote, and at present
there is no indication of their doing
that. There are at least four Repub
lican Senators who will not fllibuster to
prevent vote
Mr.. John Wedderburn, manager of
the Examiner Bureau Of Claims
and the "Press Claims Co." the last
named concern being we'll known to
newspaper publishers by reason of its
sending out circulars asking big adver
tlsing in exchange for its stock, which
was to have "millions in it," some
time in the future, has had some ugly
charges made against him by Mr.. Will
liam r. Hearst, publisher of the San
Francisco Erdn,iner, in bill filed in
court asking that receiver be APP
pointed and that Wedderburn be re-
strained from intermeddling with its af-
fairs. Mr.. Hearst says that he was 4
partner with Wedderburn in the Ex-
aminer Bureau, and makes the follow
ing specific charges against him That
he established the a" Press Claims Co."
without Hearst's consent; that he
maintained it with money belonging to
the Examiner Bureau; that he mis-
managed claims, including some for
subscribers of the Omaha Bee and the
ST. Paul Pioneer Press, and has re.
fused to refund money which the con-
tracts with those papers called for /;
that he has created large indebted
ness, including a note for SIS, 900 given
to Mr. Hearsts mother and signed
without authority with the firms name J;
that he has Improperly used money for
his personal expenses, and that he has
injured the reputation of the San Fran
cisco Eranliner by his mismanage-
ment of cases and by sending out a
circular offering prizes for inventions,
charging competitors an initial fee OF
FIVE dollars
The local authorities have made al
OF their arrangements to receive Cox
ey's so.called army ''commonweal." 4"
No trouble is anticipated, but if any
comes they are fully prepared for it.
1t 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
car 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 criminals are
By the way, the Populists in Con-
gress are, as the saying is, "between
the devil and the deep sea as to Cox
ey's army. When the "army" first
started they to a man denounced the
movement. Afterwards some of them
tried to hedge, Senators PETER and
Allen introducing resolutions in the
Senate, and Representatives Davis and
Boen bills in the House, in the inter
est 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 that
brings the "army" here. It isn't
likely TO be much of an "army," after
all, as from the best information at
present obtainable, even if all of the
various bodies of men now headed to-
wards Washington should get here,
which is not probable, there would