THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED lS6t. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, eitabushep i837. consolidated 1869. Published Eveky Thursday Morning, At Bloomsburj, the County Scat of . Columbia Couniv, Pennsylvania. (1EO. E. ELWELL, Editor 1). J. TASKEK, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAN'. Foreman. Terms: Inside the county $1. oo a year ia advance; fl.50 if not paid in alvancc. Outside the county, ft. 25 a enr, s.rictly in advance. All communications should le nddressed THE COLUMBIAN, bloorasburg, Fa. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 190I. When Kdward VII, then Prince of Wales, was in Boston he n:et Ralph Farnutu, who was one of the American officers present at Bur goyne's surrender. "It was inter esting," said one of the Prince's friends, "to witness a veteran of the Revolution, 105 years old. shaking hands with a Prince whose great-great-grandfatber.George III, he had contended against during the Revolution." A bill providing for a uniform primary election law was intro duced in the Senate by Mr. Fliun, of Al!echenv, the sakent features of which are as follows : It shall hereafter be unlawful to be nominated any candidate for any office in this State, to be filled by the votes of the people, including Congressmen and Congressmen-at Large, bv, at or in any convention, or any assemblage of delegates or representatives, or in any other way, nietuod or manner tnan is hereinafter provided. There shall hereafter be held annually two primary elections and no more, one upon the second Tuesday of January and one upon the second Tuesday of June, of each and every vear hereafter, and at such primary elections all persons seeking nominations for any of said offices shall be voted for by the peo pie directly, and selected and chosen in the manner hereinaiter provided All such primary elections shall be held at the regular polling places. and by the regular and duly elected election boards. All political parties having polled at least 5 per cent, of the total dumber of votes :ast at the last preceding State or national election, shall place their candidates in nom- " ination in the manner hereinafter provided and in no other way. and no other party or political organiza tion of any kind whatever shall have any place upon the tickets or ballots hereinafter mentioned and described. No person at any general or spec ial election shall be a candidate for any office in this Commonwealth, to be filled by the rotes of the peo ple, except persons whose najies are placed upon the tickets or bal lots herein mentioned, and who are selected, designated and chosen in the manner herein provided, ex cept candidates running upou nom- ' ination papers. The bill provides for the qualifi cations of candidates ; that county commissioners shall supply neces sary blanks for the primary elec tion ; that returns shall be filed in Court ; penalty lor refusal to be a candidate, &c. The bill is a good one, 'though in some respects very trude. One Trust Bjycotta Another- It is said that one of the big packing companies at Kansas City has concluded to purchase the salt it .requires in its business from refiners at Lisbon, Portugal, and have it shipped five thousand miles, rather than pay-the price charged by the American Salt Trust. One cargo of Portuguese salt has already arrived in this country, and part of it has been shipped to Kansas City. Here is an object lesson in Trust extortion. The average housekeeper who uses le3S than a pound a week, does not teel this extortion, but a packing company which consumes fifteen or twenty car loads does feel it. There is another object lesson in the salt question, however. The Kansas City Packing Com pany ii one of the big corporations which compose what is called the Beef Trust, and two or three times a year that organization takes occa sion to mark up the price of all kinds of meat two or three cents pound. While the big pactmg company ran send to Portugal for salt, and thus get ahead of the Salt Trust, the average person can escape neith er the Salt Trust nor the Beef Trust by sending to another country for salt and meat. The individua consumer must pay the trust price without protect. It i9 gratifying to know that while the Meat Trust is being squeezed by the Salt Trust, those bie packers will have a chance to know how it feels. Cleveland Lead er (Rep.). , Iff THE LEGI&UTUKE. The Legislature melon Tuesday. There was a flood of bills of all kinds in both Senate and House, tnauy of them being appropriation bills. Among those of general in terest were the following . Senator Fox, Dauphin, intro duced a bill creating a board of three commissioners learned in the law for the promotion of uniformity J 01 legislation in me united mates. The commissioners shall serve for four years and shall receive no compensation, but shall be allowed actual disbursement of necessary expenses. Senator Cumnungs, of Warren, introduced, by request, a bill au thorizing the courts of quarter ses sions to grant licenses to sell intox icating liquors at retail, wholesale or by brewers, tor a longer or shorter period than one year in cer tain cases. The bill provides that whenever any of the several courts of quarter sessions shall deem it expedient and desirable to change the dates, as fixed by rules cr standing order, from which licenses to sell intoxicating liquors, either at retail, wholesale, or by brewers, shall run, it shall be lawful for any of the courts, in order to make 5ticL change, to grant such licenses for a longer or shorter period than one year ; provided that in no case shall licenses be granted under or by virtue of this act for a shorter period than six months, or a longer period than eighteen months. Mr. Champaign, of fioga Pro viding that District Attorneys in counties whose population does not exceed 100,000 shall be paid a sal ary in lieu of all fees. The salary in counties whose population does not exceed 10,000 shall be paid $500 a year ; in counties whose population does not exceed 20,000, $5oo ; in counties whose population does not exceed 30,000, $700 ; in counties whose population does not exceed 40,000, $800 ; in counties whose population does not exceed 50,000, $900 ; in counties whose population does not exceed 60,000, $t,ioo; in counties whose popula tion does not exceed 70,000, $1,200; in counties whose pooulation does ft "He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last A KesAy Uugh indicates A degree of good hetlth obt tin Abie through pure blood. As but one person in ten his pure blood, the other nine should purify the blood Koith Hood's SrsaparilU. Then they CAn Uugh first, Ust And sU the time, for 3CQGd6 SaUafmUffg 1 ture is to some extent compelled to take measures now to carry the work forward. But there can be no compulsion to make it a continu ing drain upon the revenues of the State. If this ugly framework of a Capitol cannot be made complete for less than six million of dollars, it would be more economical to tear it down, sacrifice the half-million or more already put into it and start anew with an honest and suitable design that could be carried out at reasonable cost. Half of six millions should be enough to give Pennsyl vania a great architectural monu ment, but Mr. Cobb's Capitol never will be that. At the best we shall never have any pride in it and it seems destined to le a continual source of shame. - Patriot. So Tax Belief for tha People. It is now doubtful that the pres ent Congress will pass any bill re ducing the war taxes, although the Republican party is pledged to such reduction and the President and Secretary of the Treasury have both recommended it. Only five weeks remain of the present ses sion. A tax reduction bill passed the House before the holidays, but it has been materially amended by the Senate Finance Committee, and, even though it should be passed by the Senate, which is busy with the Ship Subsidy bill and other meas ures for increasing taxation, it would in all probability fail in con ference, or be dropped at the end of the session for want of time to brinjr about an agreement. It is said that the President has grown not exceed So.ooo, $1,500, and in j indifferent upon the subject, rcaliz counties whose population is more ing that the extravagance of Con- than 90,000 and does not exceed gress will make necessary all the 100.000, shall be paid $1,800. revenue that can be collected under A new and comprehensive com pulsory education bill comes from Mr. Ford, of Allegheny. It pro poses that all children between the ages of 8 and 16 shall be required to go to school continuously during the entire time that a day school in their district shall be in session. Ir regular attendance will not be permitted. Children between 14 and 16 who can read and write the English lan guage intelligently are not reached by the bill if they are in useful em ployment. Persons employing child ren shall furnish each month.all facts regarding the children, name, age and parentage, under 16 years of age in their employ. Failure to conform to the law subjects princi pal, teacher or employer or parent to conviction for misdemeanor. The emDloytnent of truant officers by school boards is provided for. They shall arrest and apprehend truants and others. They shall be placed in schools especially estab lished fortruants. Truancy is deem ed disorderly conduct and the truant officers shall proceed before an al derman or justice against an incor rigible child, who may be sentenced to a reformatory. The bill further provides for a census ot school children in every district of the State. Parents fail ing to observe the law are liable to fine, and truant officers neglecting their duties are also liable to a fine not exceeding $25. School districts neglecting or refusing to enforce this act shall have their State school appropriation withheld. . . The Capitol Job- Various plans have been proposed in the Legislature for spending the six millions on the - new capitol They differ as to the persons who are to handle the money but they all agree that the money is to be spent. This is the biggest job that has been in sight at Harrisburg for some years. The sum originally appropriated for a new Capitol was ample for such a building- as was required. A sim ple and dignified example of Colo nial architecture could have been completed, according to the original intention, that would have met ev ery requirement and have been a credit to the State. W7hen the Commissioners disregarded the law under which they were acting and started on the present indefinite scheme, it was with the understood purpose of making a continuous job. They used up the money in build ing a mere skeleton that would re quire large appropriations to make it fit for permanent use, not to speak of making it fit to be seen. Thus the Legisla- INI STAR CL (MM HOUSE SALE! WE NOW HAVE URPR Clearing Out Sale of WINTER CLOTHIftJC! To Make Room for Spring Goods. Big Reduc tions in OVERCOATS, at Townsend's Star Clothing House, BLOOMSBURG, PENN'A. jn existing law, and that leading Sen ators are opposed to the bill for the same reason. If it should be passed its enactment will be due to the pressure ot lobbyists tor tne beer and tobacco interests. The Presi dent and Secretary of the Treasury recommended a reduction of $30, 000,000 per annum in the revenue from war taxes. The bills under consideration provide for a reduc tion of $40,000,000, and this in it self is sufficient reason for Admin istration lukewarmnessf Of the $40,000,000 reduction, about $14, 000,000 is a gift to the beer brew ers and about $S, 000,000 is granted to the tobacco monopoly. Consum ers of these articles get no share in this reductiou unless concessions should be voluntarily made to them by the beneficiaries of such legisla tion. These two items alone rep resent more than one-half of the proposed reduction, and it is possi ble that beer and tobacco lobbyists may force Congress to pass the bill for their especial benefit, notwith standing the indifference of the President and Republican Senator ial leaders to' their party pledges. 1'hila. Ledger. WASHINGTON. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington Jan. 28, 1901 Democratic Senators are now call ed upon to decide whether the Ship subsidy bill, which is again the 'un finished business'' of the Senate, shall pass or shall fail to reach a vote. It is admitted by friends and foes of the bill that if the Democrats choose they can easily prevent its being voted up on. The course of the Democrats is not yet certain. There are not two sides to the question. Some contend that on general principles it is the duty of the Democratic and Populist Senators, as representatives of the people, to defeat such a vicious bill, while others are equally confident that as a matter of party policy the Dem ocrats ought not to stand in the way ot the placing of such a millstone around the neck of the Republican party as this subsidy bill would be likely to prove, if allowed to become a law. There is some talk of a cau cus to decide what shall be the Dem ocratic policy toward this bill. Gen. Miles can thank his personal friends in the senate for the discovery in tme 10 aeieat it, ot a scheme to depose hi 11 from the command of the army, under the Army Reorganization bill. That bill as drawn by Adjutant Uen. Lorbin, whose hatred for Gen Aiues b widely Known, specially pro vided that the present Adjutant Gen eral should be retained and with the same rank, but in providing for the appointment of a lieutenant genera who should have command of the army, the appointment was lett wide open. The scheme first became known by friends of Gen. Otis and of Gen. Brooke seeking Senatorial support for the nomination of one or the other to be lieutenant general. Fortunately the nomination has to be confirmed by the Senate which wouid never have consented to such a low down trick being played upon Gen. Miles, even had it not been made impossible by an amendment added to the bill in conference. It is customary lor Senators who in dulge in bad language toward each other to apologize to the Senate, if not to the blackguarded Senator, but Senator Hawley has made no apology for having called Senator Chandler a liar at the Secret Session of the Sen ate that confirmed the nomination of Justice Harlan's son to be Attorney General of Porto Rico, several days ago. The incident was brought about by the leading from a pamphlet writ ten by Chandler, twenty-odd years go, by Senator Pettigrew, of a stati- ment that Justice Harlan was given his place on the berch for work done as a member of a political commission sent to Louisiana by Hayes, and that Hawley, who was a member of the same commission, was to have receiv ed the appointment of U. S. Commis sioner to the Pans Exposition of 1878 as a reward for his work, but declined it because it didn't carry enough sal ary. Chandler's only reply was that Hawley s age and irresponsibility pre vented his feeling any resentment, and that he stood by his original state ment. Chandler's strong point is not resentment ot ptrsonal insults. Joe Blackburn once tweaked his nose in a committee room, in the presence ot seven or eigiit Senators, and he didn't even make an effort to resent the insult. Inviting sons of ex-Presidents to be assistant marshals of inaugural parades is an old custom, but those in charge of the coming inauguration are said to be afraid to invite Russell Harrison, lest he take advantage of the oppor tunity to say a tew things about his discharge from the army, for instance in a letter declining to serve. Russell Harrison is in Washington. When asked if he had been invited to be an assistant marshal in the inaug ural parade, he said that he had not, and added : "I know I am persona non grata at the White House, and it would seem a little strange for me to occupy a prominent position in the inauguration for that reason." A review of the woik of the U. S. Patent Office for 1000 shows the im portance of the know how in soliciting patents. A single firm of Patent Lawyers, C. A Snow & Co., of Wash ington, secured for their clients dur ing the vear, 1407 allowances of Patent, many of which had been pre viously rejected. Without in the slightest detracting from the many good qualities of Queen Victoria, which were known and re cognized by the whole world, especially those relating to her domestic life, many think that it was unwise to make a precedent, as Mr. McKinley did when he ordered that all the flags on the public buildings in Washington be half-masted on account of her death, by paying such unusual honors to the head of a foreign monarchy. Appropriation bills and private bills including one for the relief ot that struggling shipbuilding plant maintain ed bh the Cramps, have occupied the attention of the House all this week. The Senate Committee on Finance Sale Our Annua Linen egan Wednesday Jan. 30,. See Prices on Dodgers Now Distributed. f. p. pm At Tooley & Co.'s, for WEEK I THIS Oranges, bananas, sweet pota toes, nuts, pecans and cranberries. Also plum pudding and fruit cake. Call and see us.J TOOLEY & CO. instead of reporting the Revenue Re duction bill this week as expected, seems to have got things awfully tang led up by amendments it has decided to make to the House bill and by what it has refused to do. The brew ers are clamoring worse than ever and demanding that promises made to them when they were asked to con tribute to the campaign shall be lived up to, and they have got some of the Senators badly frightened. Bmti tfc IM Kind You Han Always iKWgft Blgutan of
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