Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-05-04

pathlserS, either with the army or
Its objects. The great majority
went merely to crafty curiosity to
see the widely advertised army.
While there have been some con-
tIibutiOnS of money aud food, the
quantity has BEEN such AZ to make
1t certain that ii the army remains
for any length OF time 1t cannot
hope for food from Westinghouse
50 tar no complaints have been
made of tue behavior of any men,
bers Of the army, but some Strag'
ghng trapps have been arrested
for committing depredatlons.
There is not the slightest indi-
cation at the present writing that
the army will have any influence
with Congress, or that even any
serious consideration will be given
to its petitions by either the Sen
ate or the House. While there
are a lumber Of Senator'S and
Representatives who feel the deep
est sympathy for the members of
the army whom they regard as
representatives of the great army
of unemployed at present III THIS
country, there is not so far as
known a single man IN Congress
who endorses CJxey's gOod'roads
bill. The populists are anxious
that Congress should do some
thing for the men, but 1t is because
they are here in need and are
HELPLESS, and not because they
think that they should have come.
The members of the local labor
organizations as a rule take about
the same view Of the matter.
The "Press Claims Company,
of this city, which claims to be
under the management of a number
of big newspapers, has had Its
claim upset by a bill which MIR.
VIM. X. Hearst, publisher of the
San Francisco Examiner, has filed
in court against Mr. John Wedder-
burn, manager OF the "Press
Claims Company" and also of the
Examiner Claims Bureau" which
It seems to have succeeded, aud in
which Mr.. Hearst was a partner,
asking for the appointment OF a
receiver for both concerns. Accor-
ding to the charges in Mr.. Hearsrs
bill there has been no management
both of the business of the con-
Germs named and of that of the
people who sent their business to
them because Of their supposed
connection with prominent news
papers. This mismanagement, to-
gether with questionable scheme
offering prizes for inventions, has,
Mr.. Hearst says, injured the rep
utation of the San Francisco
Examiner; hence his desire to put
Wedderburn out and a receiver
in, to wind up the business. lie
charges Wedderburn with having
mlsapprOpriated money: creating
a large Indebtedness; signing
without authority the tirm'S name
to a note for $4,000, long over due
and not paid, with general mis-
management.
r. preventative Meyer, of La,
does not take kindly to the turn
ing down of his combination bill
TO coin the seign'orage and TO
Issue bouds-by the House COM
mittee on coinage. He claims
that majority Of the House
favors bis bill aud he proposes to
Iput it to the test by offering the
bill either as an amendment to or
as a Substitute for the free coinage
bill that Is expected TO be reported
to the House from the coinage
committee in the near future. 1t
will greatly surprise me if the
House passes this or any other
bill! providing for the issue OF
bonds.
Senator PETER believes, of course
as a pOpulist that government
ownership of roads would be a
good thing. He has introduced a
bill that will, if it ever becomes a
law, probably lead to government
ownership of at least one big rail-
road and Its branches. The bill
instructs the Attorney General to
begin proceedin 8 at once for the
collection of the money the Union
Pacific railroad and, its branches
owe the government, and If it can't
be gotten in any other way to have
the road sold, and in the absence
of bid high enough to pay the
government Indebtedness to bid II
in aud sue the stock holders fol