The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-08
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~ tree coal ana LuIlDcr VII cHcH 4
s ClcveIand's Personal Friends Who Have
Interests in Nova Scotia-hIr. WILSON'S
Treaoiiery to His Own State.
WAsH1NGroN. D. G., Jan. 7.-Certain
Interpretations. trusts and other concerns
will be greatly benefited if the Wilson
bill passes. In these Secretary of War
#Lamont, ex-Secretary OF the Navy
e whitney, ex-Postmaster General Dick
inson and others, all close personal
81 friends OF Mr.. Cleveland, some of them
II officially associated with him in the
present and his former administration,
are managers or otherwise interested.
Notably is this the, fact as to the Nova
Scotia coal fields owned by a company
of which Mr.. Whitney is the head.
If the purchasing of coal property
] recently was not with direct reference
to a market in the United States, with
&. tariff bill that put coal on the free
list in competition with the coal Of
1 Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Yir-
ginin and other states, it is nevertheless
true that the placing of coal on the free
list would put millions in the pockets OF
the owners.
Mr.. Whitney is not known to have
] been in Washington in the interest of
4 the Nova Scotia speculation. In truth,
1 there would beno need of coming here,
4 for Lamont, as a member of Cleveland's
3 cabinet, is ~here-that is, when he is not
8 looking after speculations elsewhere.
] But Don M. Dickinson, who was Cleve-
lands postmaster general, another OF
Tie partners, has been.here in. close con-
ference with Mr.. Wilson, chairman of
the ways and means committee. He
/ doubtless has conferred with MI. Cleve-
] land, who, as President, is not less
d aarneSt for free coal.
Mr.. Wilson is from West Virginia, a
state whose greatestinte-est is in coal,
to which his tariff bill deals death blow.
1t has already been asserted that his
public careerin West Virginia is ended.
There is no other outward evidence, but
the logic of the facts, that Prof. Wilson
is not acting from conscientious con-
victions as a West Virginia statesman.
Such self-sacrifce is indeed eXtraor-
binary. Such treachery tolone's own
/ state is qnite as extraordinary, and it is
i a logical inference that there exists an
1 extraordinary motive. It is a common
i saying where there is an extraordinary
! action there will be found, if you look
q for it, m, extraordinary explanation.
Il No one would wish to intimate that
q Prof. Wilson has not acted upato his
convictions Of duty.
He is more or less a theorist, and it is
q possible his theries as to a tariff for
revenue may have led him into placing
q coal, which is the principal product of
81 his state, on the free list and hen if the
d bill should pass not only lose the ma
tional treasury a very considerable rev.
enue, but at the same time destroy an
interest of inestimable importance in
his own state. powerful theorizer, in
deed must be Mr.. Wilson and no one
II will venture to suggest that MIR. d
ney or any other person interested in
Nova Scotia coal has ever supplied him
with reasons. that an honest man might
not entertain.
Nor is this all orfthe most. The VIII
son bill puts: logs andlumber and those
products from which wood pulp for the
e making OF paper ia made, on the free
s. list. but subjects wood pulp to Topper
sMcent duty ad valorem. The German
patent for making pulp IS owned by a
prominent in which are YIN.
C..Whitney, Daniel Lamont, Don NJ.
Diekinson, J.. Pierpont Morgan and
others. To this list, Mr.. Charles Z.
Pack. Of Cleveland, Ohio, adds the name
oE@Grover Cleveland. The company
thought the patent for S90, 900 and
ssoukeditin :or. So, OO0, 900.
The gentlemen who own the Nova
seotia coal fields own the wood pulp
patent, the two companies being yir-
tuaIlysidentical. The pulp concern is
SSfSitlQa ~ La aCGuFeE Ss%1IE ISL
mansGompany-.sof whichNY.O Whit
neys president: George ". Horen,
VICE president; Daniel Lamont, secre-
Estargand treasurer, and Fred w. Taylor,
gsneralsmanager. They havefa mill at
A9adsson, Me-, making 10000 pounds OF
putpper day; another at Appleton,
tnrning out SO, 900 pounds dailyEoi
sulphate#fber Their business Office is
hesNIills building, New York. Be:
Hidesssie above they own another mill
neaf The Canada line, where they can
out (Which the pulp is
nade cheaper*than anywhere else:
Noone$ is going to charge President
4 GlsTaland With Observation-Disclosures