Bellefonte, Pa., October 12, 1906. CRIMES OF GANG LEGISLATORS List of Popular Demands Refused and of Vicious Bills Passed. A brief list of some of the delin- quencies of omission and commission in the last regular session of the state legislature should help to guide voters in choosing their candidates for state representatives and senators at the November clection. That session was absolutely controlled by the Republi can leaders who have nominated the Stuart state ticket, and re-nominated more than 69 of the worst members of the house at Harrisburg. The fol lowing is part of what was done in that session: Bills Killed. }-puployers’ liability. 2—Trolley freight. 3—Personal registration. 4—Primary election reform. 5—General election law amendments, 6—Senatorial re-apportionment. 7—Representative re-apportionment. 8—Eight hours for day's work. 9—Anti-trust. 10—Creasy’s State Grange tax re- 11—Anti-school book trust. 12—Normal and industrial school foi colored youths, 13—Herbst probe into white slavery. 14—To catch rich tax dodgers. 16.—Creasy's anti-railroad rebate res- olution. 16—Resolution to investigate corpor- ate magnates paying off Java old roiissory notes in return for naming nited States senator. 17—Local option. The offense in this case bears not upon the question of merit in the bill, but upon the sneaking way of killing it by strangling it in the committee room. Outrageous Bills Passed. 1—Trespass on private property. This is a law under which ed dc em- J oyere corporations, etc.,, can y e and imprison employes who in time of strike or other trouble leave their own door step to get a breath of fresh 2—Constabulary bill, containing gome outrageous provisions against the liber! aran by the constitution. 8—Puhl bill, to protect the speak- pasies vice dems, white slave dealers, gambling hells, ete. 4—Ehrhardt (three of them) bills, having Precisely the same Plject as the Puhl bills, but on different lines. uay monument. 6—Philadelphia ripper, cause of the state's political upheaval. T—Passenger railway franchise “steals,” supplemental to those of 1901. 8—Public grounds and bulldings “grab,” trebling the number of offices and employes under the board which has surreptitiously abstracted $9,000,000 for “furnishings” for the new capitol. Even in the late extra session the “reform” bills were largely perverted so that they must be amended by an honest legislature. One of the extra gession laws, the state treasury meas ure, is so framed as to tie State Treas: urer Berry's hands in important gar- ticulars. Let the miners and laboring people generally consider the sufferings im- posed upon them by the “gang” legis lature through only one of their many vicious measures—the trespass bill— which became a law. In fact, only the vice-den bills and the public grounds and buildings “grab,” out of the list specified, failed to get on the statute books. The “trespass” law, under a penalty which can reach $10 fine and ten days in jail, with costs of prosecution, provides: “That from and after the passage this act it shall be unlawful for + person willfully to enter upon any land within the limits of this commonwealth where the owner or owners of said land has caused to be prominently posted upon said land printed notices that the sald land is private property and warn- ing all persons from trespass’ng there- ou ander the penalties ve Bi in this This is the trap laid by monopolies and corporations, particularly the coal operators, to practically paralyze the employes who may clash with the em- ployers over the pay system or other differences. Such an employe may only intend to step out for a little quiet smoke, or to sun himself, sitting on a log, and neither harming nor intending to harm anybody. But the property owner, revengefully desirous -of punishing strikers or trouble-mak- ers, can clap that poor fellow into jail and fine him to boot. Will the people who want to see great, good things come out of the ‘approaching legislative session, vote ‘for the candidates for the same old bosses who stand indicted in the fore going list of outrages perpetrated by ‘them against the commonwealth? MORE REVENUE FOR“FURNITURE"” Gang Scheme Was to Make It Harder to Miss the $9,000,000. The cat is out of the bag. In the light of the disclosures of the ability of the new capitol grafters to sneak oft with $9,000,000 from the state’s surplus, without the people's knowing anything about it until Berry lifted the lid, a very clear understanding can now be had of the bills backed by the “gang” in the last regular session of the legis. lature, for the purpose of swelling the state's revenue. In view of the then existing surplus of $12,000,000 or more in the favorite machine banks, wonder was expressed as to why it was neces. sary to make a large addition to the annual income of the state treasury. Auditor General Snyder, in Febru. ary, 1805, pub on’ gross receipts. The other levy a four-mill tax on their actual value. The stated that he expected add $500,000 or more to revenue. The bills were to be rushed through under “orders from Philadel- phia.” Nobody took seriously the talk of lack of money to meet all the obliga- tions that the legislature could possibly concoct. Apparently the sole purpose of the revenue raisers was to increase the deposits in the favored banks, which, being required to pay the state only 2 per cent. interest on the enorm- ous sums apportioned among them, were generally credited with being en- tirely willing to contribute proportion- ately to the Republican machine's cam- paign funds. Dr. Snyder admitted: “These measures were prepared by department in accordance with a request from the state leaders that we recommend the legislation to increase the revenues of the state. We are facing extraordinary expenditures for the new capitol and other things, and are, every , increasing our contributions charities, and the draft upon the treasury is very heavy.” Little did anybody outside of the clique of capitol grafters think at that time that the object of those bills was to make it easier to scoop millions out of the surplus for capitol “furnishings” and not let the general public be the wiser. With from $12,000,000 to $15,- 000,000 surplus in the machine deposi- tories, it would not be difficult to ab- stract, on the dead quiet, two or three millions a year during the period of erecting the capitol, and keep the peo- ple from missing it. Of course, the less the banks got, the less they would give to the Penrose state committea, and therefore, the nice little game was | planned to increase the already super- abundant revenue. Although those particular bills, ow- ing to influential “outsid."” opposition, did not get through the legislature, the revenue has continued to grow so stead- ily that the huge balances in the banks have remained about as unnecessarily heavy as they used to be, despite the $9,000,000 secretly paid for capitol “extras” since the bill to build the capitol was enacted in 1901. But the fact remains that if the two bills had been passed, the surplus would have been so unusually large that the inno- cent people might have supposed that their servants in Harrisburg were spending so little upon furnishing the capitol as to skimp things. But the favorite bankers havebeen just “so much out” by the failure to rake in something from new taxation to even up for the surreptitious abstraction done by the department of public grounds and buildings headed by Gov- ernor Pennypacker. U. 8. TROOPS IN CUBA First Detachment Landed and In Camp In Havana. Havana, Oct. 8.—The first landing of American soldiers in the present occupation of Cuba was accomplished with marvelous promptness, and the Second and Third battalions of the Fifth United States Infantry are set- tled under canvas in Camp Columbia. The First and Fourth battalions of the same regiment also were brought to the camp promptly. General Fred- erick Funston established his head- quarters at Marianao, convenient to his command. Colonel L. W. T. Waller, commanding the marines, has been ordered to report to General Funston, and the entire force of regulars and marines will be under General Fun- ston's command until the arrival here of General J. Franklin Bell, who will direct the distribution of the forces througbout the island. The disarming of former insurgents goes on much better. Reports from members of the disarmament commis- sion in various provinces indicate that the trouble which was threatened may be avoided, although ex-rebels and volunteers in a few towns in Santa Clara province are still disinclined to be the first to disarm, and it is feared that American soldiers will have to be sent to back up the demands of the disarmament commission. Havana, Santiago, Pinar del Rio, Matanzas and Puerto Principe provinces are practi- cally clear of rebels and show no signs of trouble. Governor Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and General Funston are gratified at the situation and be- lieve that the difficulties in Santa Clara province will be overcome in a few days. So confident are they that Governor Taft and Mr. Bacon say they believe they will be able to start for home next Saturday. Governor Taft will spend the time after Tuesday in familiarizing his successor, Charles B. Magoon, with the situation. Mr. Ma- goon is expected here on that day. THOMAS F. RYAN'S SON DEAD Heir to New York Financier’'s Millions Dies Suddenly in Virginia. Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 9.—W. K. Ryan, died suddenly at Oak Ridge. Mr. Ryan, who was 33 years old, had been suffering for some years with tuberculosis, but his death was unex. pected at this time. William K. Ryan was one of the sons of Thomas F. Ryan, who is at present very much in the public eye as a financier. The elder Ryan is a member of the Ryan-Belmont syndi- cate, which financed the subway con- struction in New York. He began life as a dry goods clerk in Baltimore, and his fortune is at present conservatively estimated at $50,000,000. His latest achievement was the purchase from James Hazen Hyde of the stock of the Equitable Life Assurance society for $2,500,000. son of Thomas F. Ryan, of New York, | Ross MR. ROOSEVELT'S FOES ON RECORD Creasy's Anti-Rebate Resolution Op- posed By Republicans’ Now on Ticket. ‘4 Lewis Emery, Jr. recently referred to the repudiation of President Roose- velt's interstate commerce policy by the present state house of represen- tatives, which McNichol, Durham and Penrose absolutely controlled in the regular session of 1905. At the very moment when the president was a guest within this state, Representative William T. Creasy, now fusion nom- inee for auditor general, presented the following resolution on the evening of January 30: Whereas, the nt of ng Portions engaged in ay state commerce; and Th t of the ereas, e powers of the interstate commerce com- faistion the end that the pavaling c ppers may have prom: and adequate relief from thao to which they are subject in the matter of transportation is essential to the ful- filment of this Jurpose, therefore, Resolved, e house of resenta- tives of the Ye bi Penn- sylvania, That our senators be instructed, and our HBR hed ve the interstate commerce com- mission larger powers, to the end that shippers may have prompt and ade- guate | relief, and that rebates be pro- At first the house, seeing nothing but justice as well as common sense in the resolution, together with a deserved tribute to Roosevelt, passed it unani- mously. But presently the gangsters learned that the Democratic chuckling was over the fact that the wish of god- speed to Roosevelt was connected with a clever abstract from the Democratic platform. When the gangsters recovered their breath they prompted Shern, of Phila- delphia, to move for reconsideration of the vote by which the resolution had passed. He did so half an hour after Creasy’s success. Huhn, of Philadel- phia, seconded Shern. Creasy, after giving fair warning that the Republi- cans would slap their president in the face if they adopted Shern’s motion, caused the resolution to be read again. Then “Farmer” Creasy pleaded: Mr. Speaker, this resolution is in Fhe plait Hueot What ihe president It is exactly what or ba in the newspapers of both political parties during the last cam and I think it is in line with w! gvery industry,except possibly a few in Pennsylvania, want, and I can- not see why the vote should be re- considered when it is as plain as this is. All the industries in this state resolutions for several years k asking for exactly what this resolution and what the pres- ent op Yao, Unjtad States today i ng to get thro congress, an it seems to me that with the great wers that are against the Pre - ent (and this house knows t), we should give all the encourage- ment ible to the president, and I ask for the yeas and nays. But Shern frantically resumed: Mr. Speaker, my reason for mak- ing a motion to reconsider is sim- pw because the members of this ouse at the time did not have suf- ficient opportunity to consider the resolution, and, furthermore, I be- lieve that this house feels that the president is fully able to cope with she matter and that Pe oubste n congress m v should be uninstructed in a matter of this kind they know what pertains to the manufacturing industries of Pennsylvania better than we do, in the form of the reso- lution offered by the Democratic member from Columbia. McNichol and colleagues in the mean- time had hurried into the house from the senate upon an alarm call and the vote to compliment Roosevelt was re- scinded through adoption of the Shern motion by a vote, as announced by Speaker Walton and Clerk Garvin, of 100 to 31. Then a final vote on Creasy’s resolution squarely defeated it by a vote of 118 to 28. Many of the Republican representa- tives who thus finally voted to repu- diate the president whom the Penrose state platform professes to compli- ment, are now on the machine tickets for re-election to the house that will convene next January. Here are the renominated members who put them- selves on record in favor of continuing the discrimination of freight rates and the payment of rebates, when they | brid slapped Roosevelt's face by voting to kill Mr. Creasy’s resolution: fah M. Landis, John E.Rex, George A ea and Charles A. Ambien, of ; Edward E. Beidle- ard, Cameron; Edmun bria; Griffin B. Jones and George , Lugerne; Edgar Kress, coming; L. O. McLane, Crawford; briel Moyer, Lebanon; 8. N Jefferson; Charles A. and John W. Wi William L. Wood, ; JO! 8 lair: and the following Patladelp : e whom the McNichol-Martin-Penrose conventions have put upon the present tickets: ames Hitt Fly: Thal BSR Frank G. Mumma, John H. Rebel. Sam 1 Ri ohn 0. Sheatz and Rob: ue. , JO » ert H. Smith, Neither these candidates for re-elec- tion to the house at Harrisburg, nor their sponsors on the stump, can con- sistently appeal to the voters to sus- tain Roosevelt; nor can they claim to be as valiant as Lewis Emery, Jr, fighting to bring law-defying cerpora- tions within legitimate bounds. 5 THE WALK--OVER SHOES J DE A — Costs Money to Inherit It ' Six million, two hundred and filty thous- | and doliars in ‘‘death duties” bave been uid into the exchequer during the current | nancial year, an amount exceeding the | estimate for the whole year, which does | not end until March 31 next. So many millionaires have died recently that this inheritance tax bas added $2,500- 000 to the revenues within a week. Na- turally Chancellor of the Exchequer As- quith laments the decease of these numer- ous wealthy but he finds the bigh amount of she death duty often releives bim as an official from pecuniary em- barrassment. Some heirs declare that the duty presses weightily ov estates however large. The Marquis of Beete, who inherited an estate worth $50, 000 had to pay $3,000,000 death duty. has offered for sale his railway and dock es at Cardiff, Wales, which are w $25,000,000, de- olaring he must d of them to recoup bimeelf for the inheritance tax and to make provision for his brother. ——Dr. Houghton, of ‘“Tbe Little Church Around the Corner,” ormed the mar- riage ceremony on last fora Jou couple from a town on Isiand. 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