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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.
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ESTABLISHED i?66.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
S T APLISI1 F T 1837. C'NSOLIPAIED iSty
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A -Bjmshurg. the County Seat ot
Coiumbi a Coun'y, Pennsylvania.
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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?
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WASHINGTON
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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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