t Columbian. ESTABLISHED Ztt ffolumlsto Jimorrat, ESTABLISH El) 18HT. CONSOLIDATKD lti. rt'Bl-IKHKO T CLWELL & BITTENBENDER EVEHY t'KIDAY MOUSING M liloomsburg. the. couuty spat o( Columbia County, l'enn lvuut.i. srnjcHirrin i.noa year, in advance, 11.50 f not paid In advance. All communication!! should b addrewd to THE COLUMBIAN, , Nlooinshursr. Pa. FRIDAY, OCfOliKR a, tSot. PATTISON'S PROCLAMATION. THE SENATE TO CONVENE OCTOBER I3TH. Following is the full text of Gover nor Pattison's proclamation calling an extra session of the Senate, together with his letter to Chairman George Handy Smith, of the legislative com mittee appointed to investigate the offices of Auditor General and State Treasurer. In the name and by !! authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania : PROCLAMATION. Wheheas, The Constitution pro vides in Article VI, Section 4, that all officers elected by the people, except Governor, Lieutenant Governor, mem Lers of the General Assembly and Judges of the Courts of Record learn d in the law, shall be removed by the Governor for reasonable cause, after due notice and full hearing cn the ad dress of two thirds of the Senate ; Whereas, Grave charges have teen preferred, involving the Auditor General and State Treasurer and most seriously reflecting upon the manner in which their official duties have seen performed ; Whereas, It is proper that diligent inquiry should be made to ascertain whether or not "reasonable cause" does exist for their removal ; Whereas, There is in the public mind a profound conviction that the officials referred to and some of their subordinates have been grossly ineffi cient, shamefully negligent and entire ly wanting in due fidelity ; Whereas, It is the prevailing opin ion that some of the officials connected with these offices have been guilty of absolute faithlessness and downright dishonesty, in violation of their oaths of office and of the criminal laws of the Commonwealth ; Whereas, If any one of the charges so made should be established, ap propriate action looking to the re moval of the officials involved should be taken by the Senate of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, as a duty to the people of the State, whose good name has been dishonored and whose ' money has been stolen, squandered and lost ; Whereas, John Bardsley. late Treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia, is now a convict in the Eastern Penitentiary for embezzlement and misuse of public money, a larger portion of which would have been in the State Treasury long prior to an ex posure of his transactions had those charged with the administration of the duties of Auditor General and State Treasurer performed them with due fidelity : Whereas, John Bardsley's stubborn refusal to disclose any information whatever as to the conduct of these officials has compelled the abandon ment of proposed criminal prosecu tions at least for a time ; Whereas, A proper inquiry by the Senate may develop evidence sufficient to satisfy its members that 'reasonable cause' exists for the removal of the Auditor General and State Treasurer, and Whereas, Under the Constitution the duty and responsibility ot making uuigeni inquiry ana or tailing appropn , ate action in the premises are devolved upon the Senate and the power vested in the Executive to give the Senate the opportunity to act ; Now, therefore, I, Robert E. Pattison, Governor of the said Commonwealth, in the discharge of what I conceive to be my duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" and by virtue of the power vested in me by the Con stitution to convene the Senate in ex traordinary session by proclamation for the transaction of executive business, hereby convene the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in ex traordinary session on Tuesday, the thirteenth day of October, anno dom ini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State at the city of Harris burg, this twenty-sixth day of Septem ber, in the year of our Lord one thous and eight hundred and ninety-one and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and sixteenth. By the Governor : Robert E. Pattison. William F. Harrity, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Kxecctiti Cbamvir. Harrtsburg, Sept-6 IBM. PATTISON WRITES TO SMITH. The following letter has been ad dressed to George Handy Smith, chair man of the joint committee to investi gate the offices of Auditor General md State Treasurer : "Dear Sir : Recent disclosures af .. fecting the administration of the duties of the offices of Auditor General and State Treasurer, particularly the letters and other documentary evidence re cently produced in the Court of Quart- cr sessions 01 me county 01 t nuauci phia, and subsequently made public, justify me in asking that you permit Attorney General of the Common wealth to assist in the investigation directed to be made by your commit tee under the terms of the joint reso lutions approved January 26, 1891, and May 27, 1891, by the examina tion'of sucli witnesses us may appear or be deemed proper to produce be fore your committee. "As the evidence already made pub lic seriously involves officials charged with faithful and efficient administra tion of two of the principal offices of the executive department of the State Government, and as it is my consti tutional duty to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed,' I deem it proper to aid in the inquiry contem plaed by the terms of the joint reso lutions under which you and your colleagues are proceeding. "I have requested the Attorney General to appear at the next meet ing of your committee, which I am in formed will be held on the 28th in stant, and I trust and believe that every facility will be afforded him. He will, I am sure, be prepared to attend the sessions of your committee from day to day until a thorough and sys tematic investigation of the offices which are the subject of inquiry is completed. Yours respectfully, "Robert E. Pattison." The Never Failing Eemedy. Those who continue to suffer with contagious blood disease, after having gone through the usual course of treat ment, have one consolation : 1 hey can fall back on the never-failing specific, S. S. S. Sometimes they suf fer from the disease itself, and some times from the effects of the treatment itself, especially if mercury and other mineral poisons have been employed. In either case they can find an infalli ble remedy in S. S. S. It would be better to take advantage of the remedy before undergoing other treatment, as thousands have done and are doing, but it is not everybody's foresight that is as good as his hindsight. WASHINGTON LETTEB. From our Regulur Correspondent, Washington, I). C. Sept 28, tSoi- Senator Sherman has written a let ter that is far from taking the rosy view of the republican prospects in Ohio that is prevalent, in the republi can press. It was written to a depart mental official, and was intended to be personally shown by the receiver to every republican from Ohio that is employed by the Government. In it the Senator says that he regards it as imperatively necessary that every re publican voter of the State of Ohio, now temporarily in Washington, shall at once return to the State in order to help brace up the weak-kneed mem bers of the party who are showing a disposition either to vote against their old party or to stay at home. In con sequence of this letter it is said that the department officials have intimated that all Ohio voters employed therein may take thirty days leave with pay whether their annual leave has all been used up or not. Evidently Senator Sherman isn't figuring on any fifty thousand majority. Speaking of Ohio, it is creditable to the prominent republicans now in Washington, that they, to a man, con demn the recent attempt by certain members of their party in Ohio to make Governor Campbell's private business transactions the basis of an attack upon him. Attorney-General Miller, if rumor be true, is again to be made the vic tim of Indiana politicians by being compelled to give up the seat upon the Federal bench which Mr. Harrison had promised him in order that an other Indiana republican John M. Butler, once the law partner of the late ex-senator McDonald may be provided for. This is hard lines for Mr. Miller who has ever since Mr. Harrison became, President had his mouth puckered up preparatory to taking a life time suck at the public teat. As a patient waiter he is a suc cess. Representative Mills' opponents for the Speakership, have, some of them, tried to make it appear that in his re cent speeches in Ohio he took a differ ent position on the free coinage of sil ver from that which he had for a long time previously occupied. This is an attack upon the rugged honesty of Mr. Mills that his friends resent. One of them said : "Mr. Mills' Ohio speeches do not announce any change whatever in his views touching free coinage. He opens his speeches with the distinct statement that he is now and ever has been a free coinage man. What he does say, however, and with great em phasis, is that free coinage will not produce the far reaching effect that its warmest advocates hope for, and that it will not relieve the distress under which the country is alleged to be suf fering. This Mr. Mills says, can only be accomplished by lighter taxation and a freer foreign trade. Now so far from this being a new pronunciamento of Mr. Mills, its just what he said in an Children Ory for Pitcher' Catc?ifi, address delivered before the legislature of Texas a free coinage body only the Texas statement was, if anything a more earnest speech than that con tained in his Ohio speeches against re lying on relief from free coinag. When it is remembered that Mr. Mills' am bition is to be elected to the Senate by the legislature of Texas, it can easily be seen that the bold stand he took before that body, which was composed of men the most of whom will have a vote on the question of his selection as Senator, was just like the man, and that his Ohio speeches are only in the same line." It is now said that it is a neck and neck race for the democratic vacancy on the Interstate Commerce Commis sion between Representative Culbert son of Texas and ex-Representative Clements, of Georgia. The latter gen tleman was thought to have been ahead until a delegation of Washington ne groes filed a protest against his ap pointment, because they mixed him up with his colleague, Mr. Grimes, who a year or so ago left a Washington hotel at which he was boarding because a negro was seated at the same table at which he was eating his dinner. They thought it was Mr. Clements, and told Mr. Harrison they would consider it an insult to the negro race if he was appointed1 Under ordinary circum stances this would amount to nothing, but just now "nigger' influence is mighty strong at the White House. Lost The first volume of Troubat & Haley's Practice was lost on the road between liloomsburg and Ber wick. The finder will be suitably re warded by returning it to this office. 2t. Judge Bucher of Lewisburg, who has adorned the bench of the L'nion-Snyder-Mifflin district for twenty years, has been nominated by the Democrats for a third term. There is no more able and fearless Judge in the state. His opponent is H. M. McClure, a young attorney of Sunbury, who ac cepted the nomination after it had been declined by Mr. Elder and sever al other well-known lawyers. The Union county Republicans have en dorsed Judge Bucher. If McClure does not withdraw before the election, he will find some very cold weather in November. A woman " run-doun,n overworked, weak, nervous and do bilitated that's a woman that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is made for. It gives her health and strength. All woman's weaknesses and all woman's ailments are cured by it. It's a logitimato medicine not a beverage ; an invigorating, re storative tonic and a soothing and strengthening nervine, free from al cohol and injurious drugs. It im parts tone and vigor to the whole system. For all functional irregularities, periodical pains, organic displace ments and uterine diseases, it's a positive remedy. And a guaranteed one. If it doesn't give satisfaction, in every case, the money paid for it is re funded. "No other modicino for women is sold ' on these terms.' That's because nothing else is "just as good." Perhaps the dealer will offer something that's " better." He means that "it's bet ter for him. DEMOCRATIC TICKET- STATE. Auditor General, ROBERT E. WRIGHT. State Treasurer, A. L. TILDEX. Delegates at Large, Constitution al Convention. C1IAS.U.BICKALKW, GKORGKA. JKNK8. 8. GU8. THOMPSON, HENRY W. SCIIALL, WM. 8. MCLEAN, JOHN LATTA. WILLIAM WEI HE, SAMUEL CRI FrTl'HS, GEORGE B. ZEIGLEK, CHAfNCUY 1MILACK, GKOKGK M. DALLAS, DAVID W. HELLERS. KOHT. K. MONAGHAN, FRANK M.VANDLING, HOUEH SHERMAN, THOMAS LAZKAlt. GRANT WEIDMAN, IL MORGAN ROOT. Associate Judgh, C. G. MURPHY. Sheriff, JOHN MOUREY. Delegate to Consthutinnal Convention. ANDREW L. . FRITZ. Subject to dnclsloa ot District Conference. Jury Commissioner. m. b. Mchenry. Coronsr. Dr. F. W. REDEKER. A Puerile Defense- The deeper the investigation goes into the corrupt practices of the Audi tor General and State Treasurer's de partment of the government and the City Treasurer's office in Philadelphia, the more appalling the scandal crows. Notwithstanding the manajuvreing of the Republican executors of the law, notwithstanding the Herculean efforts that are being made by interested par ties to prevent further investigation, the fact is still apparent that two offi cers of the government, high in official positions, representatives of the Repub lican party, stand convicted before the people of g-oss negligence and mal leasance in office. One has taken the safer course of evading the legal pro cess of the State and keeps himself out of its jurisdiction, thus avoiding the unpleasant necessity for testifying to damaging things. The other, in his weak struggles to extricate himself from the toils, has belittled himself to that extent that he is the laughing stock of the business men of the com munity. How puerile is the defense which he n.akes in claiming that the Treasurer of the City of Philadelphia acted as his agent for the purchase of neckties and other nick-nacks, giving this as an explanation of his acknowl edgements of "favors received,' in his letters written to Treasurer Bardsley. hat a strange coincidence is it that whenever City Treasurer Bardsley made an entry in his private books, charging Auditor General McCamant with his share of moneys received out of the advertising pools, and wrote his name upon the stubs of his check book to ktep a record of the fact, that Mr. McCamant should just at that time need a necktie of a peculiar pattern and ca pacious length, and that his eye should just have fallen upon some late publi cation in book form of some noted work that he desired to possess, and forthwith the spirit should move him to ask his friend Bardsley to purchase it for him and send it bv return mail. "Chops and tomato sauce," there is something wonderfully significant in this. But these are dangerous times. The people of the State of Pennsylva nia have learned to read, and reading and studying current events, have learned to think intelligently. Such an attempt as this made by a high of ficial whom they have trusted, and who has hoodwinked them, and played up on their credulity, will be taken as an open insult. It is all well enough to charge that the system of the collec tion of the Mercantile taxes in Pennsy lvania, particularly in the City of Phil adelphia, offers a premium for this kind ot work, that through lapse of time it has grown rotten to the core, nevertheless in such an attack upon the system, no justification can be found for the public official or public officials who have, because of the op portunity been led into dishonest prac tice, and because private aggrandize ment was in sight, have forgotten the injunction " Thou shait not steal" No matter if justice has gone astray and these delinquents have escaped punish ment in the courts of justice, they have notwithstanding been adjudged guilty in the higher tribunal of public opin ion. There can be no health for either mind or body so long as the blood ij vitiated. Cleanse the vital current from all impurities by the use of Ayei's Sarsaparilla. This medicine recruits the wasted energies, strengthens the nerves, and restores health to the de bilitated system. LOWEWBEBG'S CLOTHING ! FALL ANNOUNCEMENT! BLACK AND BLUE CHEVIOTS. LADIES SHOULD SEE THE PRETTY SUITS FOR CHILDREN. Call and examine and see for is the right place to buy youi Cothing. LI0HT3TREET- Rev. Whitney preached a sermon to the Odd Fellows on Sunday morning last. The mill wrights are at work on the interior of G. M. Lockard's mill. Mrs. Alfred Ervin returned home on M0nd.1v from Scranton. A. M. Dewitt, wile and daughter of OrangeviHc, Mr. Boyd Henry and A. F. Terwilliger and wife spent Sunday at Buckhorn with J. U. Henrie's, Tbe public schools of East Scott be gan on Mondav last, with C. M. Ter williger and Miss Phoebe Shew in town,and A. F. Terwilliger at the Ikeler school on the hill. The Y. will hold a crazy tea party on Saturday evening a week. The eyesight is the most valuable of our senses. A splendid opportunity to preserve and improve the sight is given during the fair, having your eyes properly fitted with glasses by Wells' and Sears, opticians, either at Mr. Wells office or his optical exhibit on fair grounds. 6t. Th finest One Dollar per dozen Cabinets in the State, at Roshon's. Lyooaiing County lair- The only Agricultural, Horticultu ral and Mechanical Fair in Lycoming county will be held by the Muncy Val ley Farmers' Club, at Hughcsville, Pa., on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 7th, Sth, 9th and 10th, 1891. All arrangements have been completed to make this, the 2 1st fair, the best ever held by the Association, or in the county. The Association now belongs to the National Trotting Association, and the races will take places under the rules of that Association. Already the list of fine trotting horses is large, which promises something unusually interest ing and exciting in the races. The purses amount to $1250. Tickets will be sold at excursion rates on all railroads leading to Hughesville. AvAiKtiairfffrf I THE POSITIVE CURE. I jLMgN 1 ELY EHOT1IZRS, M Wirron BU, New York. w"V,yT " Pianos on Easy Payments. However far away you live you can easily get a Piano by paying a small amount down and the balance in still smaller monthly payments. We send the Piano subject to approval, to be returned, if unsatisfactory on trial, at our expense for railway freights both ways. Write us and let u explain our methods to you. Clear, simple easy. Ivera & Pond Piano Ca Masonio Tempi, x To be awarded by the OHEAT school ok C'OMMEHCK kimih v v ... corr Podooe during the month o, sep, v" S t " JT,,U "T " by prwoMlonul Hnus. Ask Cor (MM) FALL s:E3A.so:rr 1891. THE LATEST COLLARS, NECK TIES, DRESS SHIRTS, NIGHT SHIRTS '&c. Be Sure If you lnvo m!n P your mind in imy norol'i Siirsapsrr.1.1 lo not b Indtieed to tak any other. Hood's Pariwrarllla Is a peculiar medicine, possessing, t7 virtue of Its tinrullar combination, proportion, ud preparation, curative power superior to any other article A Boston lady who knew what wanted, and whose examplo Is worthy Imitation, tons her experience Lelow: To Get In one store where I went to buy Ilood's Barsaparllla the clork tried to lnduco roe boy Uiclr own Instead ot Hood's; he told me tholr's would last longer; that I might take It on ten days' trial; that If I did not like It I need not pay anything, etc. But he could not prevail on me to change. I told him I knew what Hood's Sarsaparilla was. I had taken It, was tatlsAvd wltli It, and did not want any other. Hood's Wnen I began taking Ilood's Sarsapirllia I was feeling real miserable, uflerlo; great deal with dyspepsia, and so weak that at tlmos I could hardly stand. I looked, and had for some time, like a person In con sumption. Hood s Sarsaparilla did ma so much good that I wonder at myself sometimes, and my friends f reqiteutly speak of It." Mas. Ella A. Oorr, CI Terrace Street, Boston. Sarsaparilla JoM by an drainrttU. fl ; six for Prepared out? tjC.t ROOD A CO., ApotkeoarlM, Lowall, Mas. 100 Doses One Dollar Vflflflfl If 1 If " y"11 wntemplnto at IUUyl Mflfl. tending; t'ominorelal 1 ' " " "Vhl. It will tmv you to v1nl the fit it'll KPTKU Hl'MNKSri IMVfUs 1TV before 1"rl!ln where, thouir h you may live a thousand mllen iiway. It ithimls Ht th IhmiiI or the Hit ot eoiniiierelitl nehnobi In It rharw't era nn ediientmniil Curve, a iwrilmn Cr supplying the hiislncM men of ihcninuy wltn traln'il uml rnpalile uHHlitantM, an a means oC pliu'ln amlililoti young men and wmvti on the hK'h road to biii'ci'h.. and In th rxten. rlei'iincH nnd cost oC Itx eipiloinent. Thonmith COMMKItrl l HlloKTIIAN'l) AND l'HMTI t'AI. KNtll.lMI I'OI'ltHKS The Twenly-Sevnitli Annual l atahmue will ! mailed to nnv nddrvK. Willies & Rogers, " SA T KSM AN WANTED. Nulnry Sml expenses nald. Ilrown Mro 1 omiuuy, Hix-h-stor, N. V. -r .,, , Hiiomiami, or bookkeeper, eU, hlipplletl to solim.1 Catalogue, DOUBLE BREASTED SACKS AND CUTAWAYS THE FINEST LINE OF FALL PANTS IN TOWN. yourselves that
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