THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR The RerorTER was just ten days ahead of Attorney Genera! Kirkpatrick in says ing that Judge Metzger was entitled to his commission, and didn’t nved to have any lawyers to argue the point for us, If any political party desires a presis dential candidate for the next hitch, who ie free from factions and has no enemies, then the Rerorrer would recommend Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, he has no old scores to settle. EE —————CE The people of the State will have an opportunity on June 18 to decide wheths er Pennsylvania shall be “wet” or “dry.” The State having heen wet fur nearly ix months, we are inclined to think they will vote “dry” for a change. SA TIS We received a copy of the Philad. Times Almanac. It's just what every man needs—bhandy, full ofinformation that is not found in other publications and re- liable on election statistics. The besg daily in the state, it naturally gels out the best almanac, Mrs, Harrison and Mrs. Blaine got at outs during the Garfield administration ~~ Mrs. Blaine having snubbed Mrs, Hare rison. This is said tobe a veto on Blaine's going into the Harrison cabinet. Well, Mrs. Blaine will wear a bigger bus. t'e than Mrs. Harrison, and so get even. Luzerne county has a “Honey Pot"— that would be a sweet place for a fellow to stick his finger. Mifflin county hasa “Honey Creek”—and that would bea sweet and delicious place for a bath, Texas has a “Honey Grove,””— and that should be a delightful place to loaf in the summer. Cyclones are for some good too. There is an old lady in Brooklyn who hadn't walked without crutches for ten years. She forgot them when she heard the cyclone comingand has been able to walk 8s well as anybody ever since. (Gruess she is able now to get ahead of the next cyclone. President Cleveland goes on vetoing and opposing special pension bills, just as he did before election, He has sign- ed great numbers since the election, but at the same time has a quick eye to sin- gle out the claims of bummers and de serters, and stamp them with his dis approval. One bill vetoed on Friday was disapproved for the reason that the claimant twice deserted his regiment, and that an application to the war de- partment to remove these charges has been denied, The Pittsburg Post says the fact that Quay, Andrews and others have decided to go to the Western end of the Swate for the Republican candidate for State treasurer bas not discouraged the major and he will not, he says, depend upon the people for the nomination. Should the nomination for State treasurer go to Allegheny, Adjutant General Hastings would have a clean field for the guber natorial nomination. Hastings is posi. tively a candidate for the place and he has been slated. This srrangement is another Quay effort to bury Magee and his friends, How can the Philad. Times be so eruel to speak thusly: Charles Austin—confidential books keeper, Bussey & Mcleod, Troy, N. Y.— gone; ditto $10,000 company’s funds Splendid fellow—good society—charming wife. Dido’t know it was loaded, and #0rry now, very, that the thing went off. Speculated some, not much, only enough to get left, which nocessitated drawing on firm. Employers much astonished Mrs. Austin heartbroken. Clear case of an old disease haviog origin in false pride, Canada. ten a strong, clear and characteristic pas per on spiritualism says the Pres, in which he reaches the conclusion of most sensible men that there is absolutely nothing ia the manifestations but skill on one side in making them and an un fortunate readiness on the other side to believe them. The eminent converts Dr, Huxley waves aside with the statement that eminent men have always been ready to believe the current delusion of the hour, whether mere witcheraft, de- monise possession or spiritaslism, Dr, Huxler has bad the customary experience of clear-headed scientific men who have investigated these phenomena and he adds, what few realize, that scarcely any- one is taught to observe accurately and that “one who has not tried it can not imagine the strain of the mind involved in sitting for an hour or two in a dark room, on the watch for the dodges of a wary ‘mediom.” ADMISSION OF NEW STATES. There is a strong probability the bil] of Mr. Springer, that passed the house on Friday by the decisive vote of 144 to 98 a number of Republicans voting with the Democrats for it, will also pass the sen. ate. It isa fair measure, and will secure the admission of the Territories entitled to Statehood at an earlier day than if ac tion should be postponed until the next congress. An extra session might let in South Dakota a few months earlier, bug there would be little difference, as under the Springer bill that State will be ad mitted to representation in congress in December next, when the regular session conveuves. North Dakota will also come in when congress approves the constitu, tion it may adopt. As to South Dakota, the bill gives ig two representatives in congress. An election is provided for on the 5th of No_ vember next on the subject of division North and South Dakota voting separate. ly. If both agree to a division —of which there is no doubt—and South Dakota rati fies its constitution of 1885 at the same election, the president may issue his proc’ lamation declaring South Dakota a State in the Union. If either North Dakotaor South Dakota shall vote against division, neither of them will have any seperate status, and Dakota Territory is to be ad- mitted as a single State, This is really what should be done, bat the people out there are in favor of two States, and the Springer bill provides that South Dakos ta may become a state as soon as the re_ sult of the election of November 5 is cer tified to the president. Montana is to be admitted upon pro- clamation, if a majority of the voters at the election on November 5, 1889, shall ratify the constitution of 1884. The Territories of New Mexico and Washing ton are authorized to elect delegates and hold constitutional conventions and frame and adopt constitutions. They will be admitted when congress passes laws to that effect. If this bill become a law the probabil. ities are that North and South Dakota and Montana will be admitted early in 1890, and as to South Dakota and Mon- tana probably in December next. North Dakota, Washington and New Mexico will come ina little later, when their constitutions are ratified by their own people and approved by congress. This will add five States to the sisterhood of 38. and increase the vote of the electoral college from 401 to 417, —— oo -. ————— WHAT IS CIDER ? In the case of Commonwealth against Reyburg, which was a criminal proseous tion against the defendant for selling ci- der without a liquor license, the supreme court on Monday delivered an opinion reversing the quarter session of Warren county, and sending back for decision by a jary the; question whether cider can be fairly included under any one of the four kinds of liqguor—malt, brewed, vin- ous or spiritous—for the sale of which a license is required, It being admittedly neither malt nor brewed it does not call for a license un- less it is either vinous or spiritous. The county court held that the prosecution against Reyburg would not lie because cider was not an “intoxicating” liquor, but the supreme court holds this to be erroneous. The question is not is it in. toxicating? but, is it vinous or spiritous? And this, the court declares, is not a question for the court, but one of fact for the jury. “In common acception,” says Judge Williams, by whom the su. preme court opinion is delivered, “cider is not understood to be either a vinous or spiritucas beverage, and yet, when fermented, it contains a percentage of alcohol sufficientfto bring it within the fair meaning of the term ‘vinous,’ and although not the product of distillation, it may when mixed with spiritous liquor and sold in that condition under the name of cider, be regarded as the spirit- uous within the meaning of the prohibi- tion. The evidence on the trial was very weak indeed. No skilled person having knowledge of the composition of cider was called, and there was no direct evidence as to whether the liquor sold as cider wes vinous or spiritous liquor, but we do not know and can not ray, as matter of law, that its character may not beso changed by fermentation as to bring it within the meaning of the term ‘vinous.’ Of coarse, en admixture with spirits might render the compound ‘spiritous,’ mn A A——— CHILLING, Philad, Presa: Ice can be produced by artificial processes, but coal can not, LL. PA - sy A BANKRUPT LAW DISCOVERED, A most remarkable recent legal discov. ery is the sole theme of discussion among the legal fraternity of Pittsburg, the discovery resulting from the failure of George C. Roll, grocer. The proceed- ings by creditors have been under the provisions of the Attachment law of 1860 amended in 1887 by the State Legisla ture. Somers & Bros. one of the credi- tors, retained John W, Echols, late of Athens, Ga. as their counsel. This gen« tleman made a vigorous search of Pars don’s Digest and nnearthed the “Domes tic Attachment law” of 1836, Mr. Echols said. “The law of 1 in really a comprehensive State bankruptey law, It has been supposed to be obso« lete, owing to its supersedure by the na tional bankrupt law, passed by Congress in 1867, The repeal of the latter, ever, in 1878, again put the law of into force, it never baving been repeals ed. According to its terms the slightest concealment of the person of a coupled with an evasion of debts, enables an action to be brought, an at tachment to be issued against his entire estate, either real or personal, or against apy property deeded to him by anybody with the intent of circumventing his jast debts, “There trustees are to be appointed who have plenary powers. The debtor's house can be broken open, his clothing and trunks searched and his property seized and held awaiting adjadication. The law being designed to place th property with friendly custodians, all as- sets can be reached at once, Not only this, but no other attachment can be se- cured against the property, real or per. sonal, held by the trustees under this act, “Theer is no creditor's bond called for under the provisions of the act of 35, nor are there any indemnifving damages for the debtor, who places himself with- in the pale of the law upon the first in- timation of an intention to defraud his creditors. If sustained, and I see no rea- son to doubt that it will be, the act of 1838 will revolutionize the methods of bankrupt practice in this State.” Mr. Echols appeared before Judge Ewing and sprong his discovery upon the legal fraternity. His Honor consids ered the matter three days, finally grant- ing the attachment and appointing Mes srs. J. C. Brown, 8. J. Fleming and J. D, Glover as trustees of the Roll estate. Judge Ewing's recognition ofthe points at issue is regarded ss very conclusive as to the force and effect of the statute which has eo long slumbered in obliv- ion. “a4 Nets how L800 debtor. his a If the republican senate tariff bill should become a law the American peo ple will be required to pay a bounty of one cent a pound to the domestic pro- ducers of cane and beet sugar. This is to be a direct gift out of the funds in the United States treasury to the sugar pros ducers and differs from the tariff bounty in that the latter is collected from the consumers by the producers themselves while the direct bounty is collected by the government in taxes of ail kinds lev. ied upon consumers of all articles taxed in both the costoms and internal reven- ne laws. This republican dose of boun- ty was too strong even for the stomach of Senator Quay who refased to swallow it. It might be asked why the producers of cane and beet sugar are to be favored with this bounty and producers of ma- ple sugarleft to work out their own sweet salvation? Bome of the northern states, notably Pennsylvania and Ver mont, produce large quantities of maple sugar, the saccharine quality of which is purer and more delectable iu every way than that extracted from the beet. Why then ignore the maple sugar men of Pennsylvania, nay, why tax them in ‘or. der that a bounty may be paid to the beet sogar men of Kansas and the cane sugar men of Louisiana’? The injustice is as glaring as the principle of paying government bounties to favored classes is inconsistent with the genius of repubs lican government, i — nat som M5 Besides the “White Caps” who perpe~ trate violence in some of the Western States, there are humbugs who take that title in this part of the country, says the Sun, and raise terror by their anonymous threats, We hear of them in the rura; regions of New York, and of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, These fellows ought to be caught and suppress od as soon as possible, Their conduct is criminal, and renders them liable to pun- ishment. Their attempt at terrorizing cannot be tolerated. The law must be suprems in every community, A MI ABS AIO. If the Germans don’t behave thems born. If Uncle Bam's of war get out there he'll up” in a way which will make BOUNTIES AND compete with the gugar growers France, Germany and Bpaipn, says the| Philad, Times, They encourage the sug. amounting to over $50,000,000 annually, | It is now proposed by the dunce the tarifl tax senate to re- all the older Btates can't compete with the free and more fertila growers of lands of the far West, and and farms in Pennsylvania are now gen- erally profitless. If bounties should be i 1 i aid to sugar farmers, why not to wheat, corn and oats farmers ? If the govern- and make regardless of 10 become paternal every bosiness profitable. the swift changes of the age, why not @ bounties to the farmers of Pennsyl. vo. 2} . 1 Indiana ? few--not fifiv in gy vania, Ohid A Congress that tin now taxed in 11 we TI rODH0OR fe ail propose Lo Su per cent be taxed nt. to enable sn 'n capitalists to make large pro- Tin fund T @ iand, It shall 70 per ce few done fits by is used its measure, in every home of tl on the poor of, in his is dinner of cane have to can their fruits and vegtables; and the prop- man's re used ‘n the millions which small farmers must osition is simply to tax the try some 210,000,000 a year to enable al few capita become millionaires and monopolisis, If the government ia owned and is to! be run solely in the interest of centraliz- pay the 81 ai direct to the t : ‘ ” ris &0 money, why not 3 O00 OG n as bounty combine in-| stead of taxing the poorer people of the land ? If the many are to be mere tax! subject for the benefit of the few, lat the! that the! and pay bounties to the manufacturers of tin. truth on ita government face, and provi capitalize 0 will It was assumed by the few who profit by monopoly taxes imposed upon the) people, that tariff and tax discussion was| ended by the late election; but ¢ | tors are n discussing it in and the cloven fool sends a shiver among , wl he vie-| yw the Senate the people as particular industries are se. | lected to be the recipient of direct LOY ernment bounties, Let the discosaion go It will go on with the there shall bea return to! honest protection to the wages of labor! and needless taxes are taken from the necessaries oflife, 3 the denate, on in 4 people antil i - Last week in one day five liquor bills) were launched on the House, ofl which were introduced by members from Allegheny county, three One of them is intended as a substitate for the Brooks law, and proposes to from courts the authorty to grant licenses and to lodge it ina board Excise Commissioners at a salary of $6,000 al year. Another seeks to transfer the) power to grant licenses from the Court! of Quarter Sessions to the Court of Com-| mon Pleas, Two of them contemplate the abrogation of the provision in the| Brooks act requiring the bondsmen of] the licensee to reside in the ward or township in which his honse is located. | The last of these bills has for its pars] pose the modification of the Brooks law #0 that cities outside of Philadelphial and Pittsburg and perhaps Allegheny! will not be able to collect a greater lil cense for selling intoxicating drinks than $300, ns the framers of the high license act intended should be paid in cities of the third class, The Brooks bill con. templated that all cities except Philadel. phia, Pittsburg and Allegheny should be taxed this amount, but the decision of the Bupreme Court declaring the classis fication in the inter-municipal act un- constitutional. forbade the enactment of a law dividing cities into more than three classes and compelled cities like Harrisburg, Reading and Lancaster to enter the third ,class, in which the Brooks law says the $500 license fee must evil . asm AI A A As LIFE IN THE FROZEN NORTH. Miss Olof Krarer, a native Esquimanx lady and the only one of het race in this country, gave a lecture ‘in Philadelphia in the Academy of the Fine Arts on “Greenland; or, Life in the Frozen North,” She said: “People of this country bave very little idea of the life and customs of the people who inhabit the Mr North. They think we are savages like your In- diane, In this they are mistaken. True we have no ministers, doctors, lawyers or government, bat there is an air of ore der in everything. Wo have our homes and families and love each other, “When a young man falls in loye with a girl and wants to marry her he must wrest the! of three family sleeps in one bed. Sometimes they number a dozen abd several skins] have to be united in order to cover them all, We never uss water. From the IMPORTANT TAX BETTLEMENTS The Times says: The Auditor General has just made tax settlements against {certain corporations in this State which i {involve the enormous sum of $5,828 490.~ 165. ‘his action of the financia! ‘epartment has not been taken hastily {or inconsiderately, A vast amount of la- given to the subject for two {years past by the Auditor General Norris, the present Auditor General Me- Camaot and Rufus E, {bor has been goverument bounty of one cent a pound | oy to all sugar growers The wheat late Shapely, acting as the State and the result is exhibited in the development of claims to the of unpaid taxes equal in amount entire existing debt of the Biate, the ye resolotely contested 16 Of course, made will 1 Courts, and fax settiements just in the the contest likely to be curied into the Jegigiative halls; but the settlements are doubly op por ie i. . 3 Sa a gipitating both legislative and construc ‘ion of our crude and con ad in tory tax laws, and in assuring in ble legislation on the subject during the present session, Press ng in that city askin nase g law forbidd ¢ PASE B IAW 1OTDIGAIN winder to be hoped that will take the | cigarettes and tobacco to persors 16 years of age. both Houses at Harrishorg matter into consideration and ffoctually serious pass a bill with this evil. The physiological effects Gren 1 TV # # * @ ine The ease aiso 4d are wo with whi only too w ch cheap cigarettes and tobacco can be even g Behool teachers protest against their use procured 1} boys, and every observer )y young $ 4 iris is evident to in vain, and the efforts of rendered abortive by A parents are the greed of shop~ subject has al- the New il on this keepers, ready been bi introduced into Legislature, and Pennsylvania be behind in dealing with -— The amendment is not self-enforcing, and will require a code of laws of a kind : 0 the people of Penns familiar Maine, Vermont, give itany practical effect sylvaaia, but to the people of Kansas and Iowa, to Otherwise it measure than the famous bill against the omet, To pass such a code an extra ses gion of the legislature will be necessary. It is easy to favor submission or prohibis ¥ comes to frame the stringent and arbi. trary laws necessary to make it a reality we only stand at of the weighty problem. The trouble will then commence. Should no laws to enforce the amendment be passed before May, 18%), when 16d under the Brooks law, that law will to be operative, because be in open conflict with the amendment, which sternly prohibits, without reservation or exception, “the mannfacture or sale or keeping for sale” of intoxicants. The legislature is granted the power to pros vide for the sale of liquor "for other pure poses than as a beverage,” and is required to do so, as well as to enforce the general prohibition at its first session after the adoption of the amendment. Ia the ab sence of such laws, devising radical methods, the practical result wiil be tha the Brooks law will lapse as unconstitu_ tional, and the sale of liquor will be freg and onrestrained, just as it was in Oh for years, under somewhat similar condi, tions. the threshold IOPNSes are is CHAR it would 10 BIG SETTLEMENTS BY THE STATE. Settlements made against the Penns sylvania Railroad Company, Philadel- phia and Reading Railroad Company and Delaware and Hudson Canal Com pany, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, Erie and Western Transportation Company and Philadel- phia and Erie Railroad Company, ins volving claims of about $5,000,000, were sent from the Auditor General's Depart- ment to the proper officers of the alleged delinquent corporations, The accounts were settled against the companies as & (result of the investigations of Rufus E. Shapley, of Philadelphia, employed while the late Colonel A Wilson Norris was Auditor General. The State debt will soon be wiped out at this rate, sana AMIN Judge Woods, of Indiana, is strongly pressed for attorney general, as just the man to give law to the incoming admin. istration. Colonel Dadley for attorney general, Mr. Wanamaker for the postal department, Clarkson, of Iowa, for the interior, Platt for the treasury, and Blaine for secretary of state, would sos cord with the everlasting proprieties. Senator Betts, on Wednesday, the 9th, introduced a bill in the State Senate, for the election of Assessors throughout the counties of this State for three years And the next day it was reported in the house by Mr. Wherry, of Camberlan ‘We hope this measure will pass #0 as to time one is born uotii he dies not a drop of water touches his skin, enable the tax payers io elect in Fobras NO. 4, THE PROHIBITORY AMENDMENT, The house of Representatives yester- day passed the amendment to the con- stitution prohibiting the sale of alcoholic, vinous and malt liquors as a beverage within the limits of the commonwealth, Doubtless the senate will also pass the amendmest, says the Patriot of the 23rd. Bo far as the legislature is concerned the republican managers have made the matter a party measnre. When it shall come before the people of the tification they will hold off their hands, hoping to cheat both the prohibitionists and liquor dealers. In the event of its rejection by the people they will say to the prohibitionist: “We for your hobby; we sub- the people; but the action of state for ra all we could tted it to crates and di 1 i mit the Demo aemall portion of our party defeated it Yon see we are innocent of Mon whom we could not control at the polls. 1ld it be adopted they bibitionists their the grounds measure and eay to the failed If they had voles we est APA on party they will democrats ved you,” eat of carrying whisky on one shouls ofte i waler on the other 50 oft by the republican managers this state will at t adoption or rejection of the amendment. places in the road over which V De ecuted 16 special e srohibitory 00 many roogh the load i There are t carried, The prohibitory amendment having a party mearure in the leg. the Repub'zan managers be regarded as a republican party While it account and while some demos cats will vote for it made by measure at the gpecial election. many democrats will not vote against on that because their party has been betrayed time and again at the polls by the republican managers of the Liquor democrats will cast a negative ballot because they are to sumploary laws and becanse the experience of the people of states in which League, many opposed prohibition prevails has demons strated that while drunkenness is quite as prevalent in those states as in others which have a system of license the sanc- tion of law in general has been greatly weakened by the open violation and de- fiance of the prohibitory statute. Again there are both democrats and republi- cans who will oppose the amendment because its effect will be to destroy prop- erty to the value of many millions of dollars and will effect {axation and the revenue to the serious injury of tax-pay~ érs in general. Bat the apparent morals of matter is on the side of the rohibitionists and thousands of well meaning persons will support the amend- ment because they imagine that its adoption will be in the interests of good morals; From a political point of view it would appear that as the republicans have un- dertaken to pass this prohibitory job they may as well be permitted to have the whole business to themselves, They would no doubt be glad to have the democrats pull their chestnuts out of the fire for them at the special election, but they may as well understand first as last that they cannot calculate upon any- thing of that sort. They will be held responsible for the fate of their measare whatever that may be. Men who are democrats from principle will vote sae- cording to their principles whether the republican chestnuts burn or not. the fur iy Wie PROPOSED REVENUE LEGISLA TION, It is likely thai a revenue bill to take the place of the measure which was lost two years ago will shortly be committed to the legislature and it is probable, too, that a great deal of discussion will be occasioned by its introduction, The ill fated bill of two years ago al- lowed the connties one half the money derived from the tax on personal prop- erty, but the proposed legislation is not so liberal and under its provisions the counties are entitled to but one-third of the personal property revenue. THE INIQUITOUS MONOPOLY TAX * BILL. Having voted that the people shall pay a tax bounty of 1 cent a pound to all manufacturers of domestic sugar, and a tax of more than that upon all imported sugar, and doubled the taxon every din. ner-pail, teapot and tin can, the Repabli- can senators feel rather nervous about the fate of their bill. The Democrats could ask no better issue on which to go to the people than that afforded by this mons strous measure, : A SS I MP nil
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