THR COLUMBIAN. BI.OOMSftURA. it i THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF U&OOMHBURG, lA. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capiat 8100,003 Surplus 8150,000. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the County, a Strong Directo-atc. Competent Officers and Every Mod ern Facility, we solicit Accounts, Large or Small, and Collections on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with Sound Banking." andInvueYOU. to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. . 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits OFFICERS: t-. W. M . Low, President. James M.ftavr, Vice President. DI RECTORS: James M. Staver, Fred I keler, H. C. Creasy. Clinton Herriii?, E. W.M.Low. F. G. Yorks, Louis Gross, M. E ttHCkliouse. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED i?66. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, S T APLISI1 F T 1837. C'NSOLIPAIED iSty u, : ;-hed Eveiv TKmsnw Mmvivo, A -Bjmshurg. the County Seat ot Coiumbi a Coun'y, Pennsylvania. r.EO. E. F.I.WELI . EniTO. GEO.C. ROAS.Fom.mas. Tes m :--Inaid the county Sl.coa yeat l aivinc; $ 1 . 50 i f not xz:.i in a1anc. Htihtcounty, !.: year, strictly in Iri'c;. All commonicatior? Vi"1! 1 t ilrel THE COLOMBIAN, i Icomsl.ure, fa. HI" RSI) A Y. JUNE IT, If Congressmen Must Stay "on the Job'. Members of the House are going to earn their pay from now until Congress adjourns, or Sereno E. Payne, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, will know why. From the momtnt the tariff bill went to the Senate, members of the House have been slipping away from Washington until it is now found impossible to get a quortm, even if every representative who remains in Washington reported at the House The Porto Rico bill, authorizing e government to make expendi ng in lieu of th; appropriation . Is, has been struggling along in e house for two weeks. Sorne- :ies it gets a chance for consider-..-un and sometimes it does not. Mr. Payne takes the stand that as long as members are drawing $7,500 a year as members of the House they should remain in Wash ington while Cougress is in session The absentees are to be given one more chance. If a quorum is not present next Monday telegrams will be 6eut out ordering all members to report forthwith. The telegraphic orders probably wilL have a good effect, but if there are still an insufficient number of members to transact business the speaker has the power to order the sergeant-at-arms to place all absent members under arrest. This has been done in Washington occasion ally when the House needed a quo rum and scores of members were at a horse race or a baseball game, but it rarely happens that ajnem ber is arrested while in his district. Mr. Payne may not resort to such drastic methods, but he pro poses to lay down the law at least to the members of his own party. Republican Disruption. Disruption awaits the Republi can party if Aldrich succeeds in jamming through without conces sions to the real revisionists of the West the gold-brick tariff measure about which the Senate continues to wrangle. This is the prediction of conservative observers in Wash ington, including some of the West ern Republicans themselves. Ev ery day the debate in the Senate goes on serves to increase the bit terness of feeling between the dis appointed and defeated "revision downward" contingent of the par ty and the reactionaries, wiiom Aid rich is leading. Former Senator Spooner, of Wis consin, who is now in Washington tells his friends that the situation of the Republican nartv in t!on eress is the worst he has ever known it. The feeling that has developed Why Take .Pe, easily tired, lack your usual vigor and siiciigui r 1 nen your digestion must be poor, your blood thin, your nerves weak. You need a tonic and alterative. You need Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the only Sarsaparilla entirely free from alcohol. We believe your doctor would endorse these statements, or we would not make them. Ask him auu una out. rouow his advice. The endorsement Pin, .. . 1 1 1 f, -in vtiiaimytreauy increase your contidnce in Avtr PUU as a family laxative. Uver pills. All vegetable. Atk your doctor anout them! Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frauk I keler, Cashier Mrrnn I. Low, H. V.Hower, Frank I keler. over the tariff revision between the (wo wings of the party is more bit 'er, in his belief, than any that arose over the railroad rate and other leg Ntation under the Roosevelt reg ime. The differences seem to Spooner to be irreconcilable and he made the prediction that the ses sion of Congress, instead of ending by July 1 or early in that month, will dragalorg well through the summer. Primary Board Pay. Tht Bill Passed Increasing Wages Vetoed 1 7 Governor. At the recent session of the Leg islature a bill was passed to increase the pay of primary election officers to equal that paid at the general election, but on account of the lack of rtvenue to meet the many meas ures which were passed Governor Stuart was obliged to veto it al though he saw the injustice which is done under the new primary act in compelling election officers to do this big task for practically noth- lrg. ihe work ot the primary board is just as exteneiveas that of the general election boards except that, due to the lack of interest which is usually manifested in this nominating vote, the number of ballots polled is not so great. It is becoming more difficult every year to secure competent election boards for the reason that the work is too arduous for the compensation given them, and a? a result of this, men, intelligent and honorable, but not accustomed tc clerical work, are put into the polling places and the returns are as a consequence great ly delayed and in a number of in stances where their sheets have been found to be in a bad condition as regards legibility and neatness. This matter will undoubtedly be taken up at the very first oppor tunity by the Legislature and let us hope that revenue will be furn ished to meet the new expense which will be thus occasioned, for it is necessary that we have the very best class of election boards at primaries as well as at general elec tion, and it should be made suffici ently attractive to have men fully competent to do the work aspire to these offices. Mother Gray's Sweet Fowdert lor Children, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home m New York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate me roweis ana destroy worms, uver 10.000 testimonials. Thev never fail. At all Druggists, a sc. Sample Free. Ad dress. Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Owe State $250,000. Counties Must Pay Up or Los Benefit ol Per sonal Tax. Many counties havine resisted all efforts ot the State to collect their share of the cost of State Highway construction in their limits, the State will adopt the drastic measure of withholding the amount due from the return of personal property tax to Ihe coun ties in September of this vear. Under the highway act, the State pays the entire cost of road build ing, but is to collect one-fourth from the counties benefited, thev in turn collect one-eiehth from the townships. State Treasurer Sbeatz has received $58,000 from number of counties on this account, but there is yet about $250,000 due. Alcohol? . C. A yet Co. , Lowell, M WASHINGTON !& From out Regular Corrcipondent. Washington, D. C, June 14, 1909 The progress of the tariff bill through the Senate ii strikingly suggestive of a trip up the side of a mouDtain on a cog railway. The bill p-rogrescs but it is by a seiies of short and emphatic jerks. In fact it recalls the somewhat witty ccnundtum propounded by a Dem ocratic statesman regarding 'Mr Roosevelt. He inquired Why President Roosovelt was like a gas oline automobile, his answer being "Because he proceeis by a series of explosions". Considerable prog ress has been made during the last week. The cotton schedule, over which there was probably more wrangling than is likely to attend any other section of the bill, has finally been disposed of, and mate rial progress has been made on the wool schedule. When this trouble some proposition is out of the way a date will probably be set for the final vote on the measure and one-; that is done the debate will move along with increased celerity and diminished interest. The explosions which have at tended the debate recently have not been confined to either side of the chamber. Senator Aldrich as leader of the organization and Sen ator Beveridge as would-be leader of the insur rectos have been clashed f equently and violently. Senator Stone as the close personal friend of Mr. Bryan and Senator Bailey as the determined opponent of the peerless Nebraskan, have crossed swords and made the sparks fly. Senator Newlands, who was a statesman is sui generis, has -contributed to the gaiety of the situa tion by a wea'.th of declamation which has emptied the Senate chamber on more than one instance and proven the occasion for numer ous wagers concerning the school of political economy to which the Nevada statesman might prove ul timately to belong. The administration, despite its efforts to hold aloof from the tariff squabble, has come in for its share of condemnation. The Secretary of the Treasury, than whom there is no more discreet member of Mr. Taft's cabinet, took occasion to ex press a few modest views on the tariff to the Commercial Club of Chicago and as a result the Repub lican leaders in the Senate are now explaining that Mr. MacVeagh's revision-downward views are due solely to his experience in politics and are intimating that President Taft knew nothing of the purpose of his Secretary of the Treasury to discuss this subject, whereas the fact is that the President carefully viewed his secretary s speech be fore Mr. MacVeagh left Washing ion. That noblest Roman of them all, William Alden Smith of Mich igan, whose chief function in the Senate is to secure protection for the beet sugar industry and to pre vent any curtailment of the water power monopoly of a great electric corporation, has publicly declared that Secretary Mac eagh could not make up his mind for him, which led Senator Stoue to reply that not being omnipotent Mr. MacVeagh could not make up anything which did not exist all of which illus trates the spirit of brotherly love which has pervaded the upper house of Congress during the tariff debate. President's Talt's Secretary of the Navy seems destined to earn the soubriquet of "Secret Board Meyer". When Mr. Meyer be came Secretary of the Navy he found himself heir to an extremely troublesome controversy bequeath ed to him by the Roosevelt-Newberry administration. Immediate ly he appointed a secret board with Admiral Speery at its head to de vise a method of extricating the Navy Department from its difficul ties. Twenty-four hours after the board was appointed an enterpris ing newspaper correspondent rob bed it of its secrecy and thereby, apparently, destroyed its efficiency. It finally made two radically diver gent reports and the unfortunate Secretary was no wiser as to the merits of the controversy than he h id been in the beginning. After threatening courtmartial to all newspaper correspondents in Washington and to all officers who talked to them, be created another secret board, composed of com mandants of navy yards. These also fell from grace, lost their se crecy as expeditiously as did their predecessors and finally submitted two more radically conflicting re ports. In still greater perplexity Secretary Meyer created a third se cret board with Rear Admiral lveutze as its nead, and vo it con fided the four divergent reports o its predecessors. This board man week. It is still in session but is understiod to be preparing majori ty and minority reports. Secreta ry Meyer is breathing anathemy against the newspaper correspond ents, and unprejudiced naval offi cers intimate that they are making surreptitious arrangements for suit able accommodations for the Secre tary of the Navy and all the mem bets of the boards in the govern ment hospital for the insane. Yankee enterprise has invaded the quiet precincts of Bermuda and the residents of that charming is land are systematically abindoning the bucolic pastime of raising on ions and lilies for the fork market. Tbe thrifty Bermudian purposes hereafter to cultivate only the spins less variety of American toutist. Duties of Supervisors. By an act of Assembly approved by the Governor the 13th day of May, 1909. the supervisors of tbe highways in the various townships in the State required within six months after the passage of the act to measure all public roads in their respective townships. Such meas urements shall be made either by the use of a cyclometer or otherwise as the board may direct, and the supervisor shall report the number of miles of road in each township to tbe state highway commissioner. Another law st ill in force but one so universally disregarded as to lead many to think it obsolete is that requiring supervisors to erect and mitntaiu at every crossroad a sign board pointing the direction and distance to the next town or towns. A penalty is also attached for failure to keep such signboards up and in good condition. Another law of considerable im portance to all drivers of vehicles is that requiring supervisors during the months of April, May and June, and September and October of each year, to go over the roads and rake or clean oa all ttie loose stone thereon. This law is only partially observed, notwithstanding that a more than nominal fine is attached for failure to obey the law. The above are three duties de volving upon supervisors that should not be neglected and such officials in this county who do not know the law thereon, or knowing it, disregard it wilfully, would do well to give due attention to the matter; as the better roads move ment is one that is being given more attention every day, and citi zens of the county directly inter ested will sooner or later demand that every law regarding the same be strictly fulfilled. 'A Statement to the Public. In the great fight for the people of Philadelphia against the Rapid Transit Company for increasing car fares in Philadelphia, 20 per cent. recently, "The Philadelphia Press" made the following announcement in its columns, and which should be of general interest everywhere: "The Press" wants tue people of Philadelphia to . know that when he agreement between the City of Philadelphia and the Rapid Transit Company was made, two years ago, "ihe Press ' approved it, believing it to be in the best interest of the citizens of the city. As a part of that agreement it was specified there should be no change in rates of fare without the consent of both parties. The Rapid Transit Com pany has broken this agreement by increasing the fare without the consent of Councils. e regard this as a breach of faith, and the imposition of an unwarranted bur den upon the public, and we have advocated the interests of the peo ple as against this increased fare. As a result of our advocacy of public rights imperiled by corporate greed, and of our refusal, under dictation, to abandon this advocacy, we have already lost a large adver tiser. v bust we regret this action on the part of this particular adver tiser in attempting to punish us for acting upon our sense of duty, we have been prepared to meet such a contingency. A newspaper with a sense of duty so weak, as to permit its self-interest to pervert it is not fit to exist. Our advocacy of public rights will be continued despite any financial losses which may result to us therefrom. The annual exhibit of the Indus trial Departments of the Pennsyl vania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon, Pa., and the exer cises connoted with the close of the present term of the Reforma tory Schools, will beheld on Thurs day, June 24, at 2 and 7:30 P. M. Address at 2 P. M. by Hon. John G. Love, of Bellefonte, Pa. A cordial invitation is extended the public to attend. 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