VOL. LXXI. NO. 40 THE RECORD STEAL. dow the Publleation of the Legisla« tive Proceedings 1s Made to Do Duty for Machine Fright- ful Padding, Enormous Indices and Proteges--The the Costly, Confusing and Exaspera- ting Results--When the Price Falls the Cost to the Taxpayers An and Contract Increases -- What Honest and More Intelligent Useful I'er- formance of the Work Would Save, The printing and distribution of the legislative Record involves a shame- fully reckless waste of the public money, and, if it does not include a straight steal, the facts which the fig- ures divulge show a mighty ap- proach to it. Its distribution, during the sessions, which was intended to keep the people apprised of what their servants at Harrisburg are doing with their time and opportunities, for years a scandal, owing to the dila- toriness on the part of the publishers, but even more specifically of the pas- ters’ and folders’ departments of the senate and house. The men appointed to service in these departments are the working politicians in the close by issues, was the strongest pull during the gessions. as salary, but a large proportion them never do any of the work. They are content to pocket the pay and per- quisites and to appear upon the rec- ords as pasters and folders, but either because they regard it or because they have to employ their time, are adverse to toll of refuse to perform the incident and employ substitutes to perform at from one-fourth to one-half they receive from the state. substitutes are generally very and incompetent men, often boys, as a result it is happening constant that even when the printing has be reasonably prompt, the unconscionably and folding rooms stacks of the stuff before have bes ever, as has b cently been in this re ent and le ontinued zens against bel copies of proceedings a mo old and long after, as news lost all interest and value The total cost buting of the as set forth in the va eral’s reports, in the ally named, as foll 1588 ..... 1561 1883 18856 1897 The something els or because any kind, labor it, Yigtrilyigt Gisiriout: ng « ne Serve X ng served v was, Years se IWS figur ding the $3,500 and the sts the sum re ment in 18 A preponderant iz the index. The ceedings and the ord iz paid for, much per page. iement in this steal reporting of the pro- printing of the Rec- under contract, at so Bids are received and the award mde to the lowest bidder. A maximum price of $10 is fixed and the competitors bid so much percentage off that price. The president of the senate and speaker of the house make the award and get, by the way. $100 each for the few hours spent in doing it, while their clerk gets $50. The contract price for 1595 and 1897 was $3.96 per page. This, be it under- stood, is for both reporting and print- ing. $3300 additional being always lowed for the compilation of the Now, the ponderous tomes that tain the proceedings of the legisia- tive session of 1887 cover a total of 8.772 pages, distributed as follows: Proceedings i+ +4.3,732 pages Report aliens’ committee pages Feport penitentiary investi. gating committee Index Jiank pages al. index, COn- 565 pages pages ‘ : pages Here are almost two- thirds as many pages of index as there are in the re- port proper. Add to these the 8503 pages of reports and blank pages, and we have a total of 3.040 pages, or not far from half of the whole number tvhich the state paid for as having been stenographically reported, as well as printed, whereas not a line in any of them was reported Whatever is the difference between the cost of re- porting and printing and that of the printing alone is, as to these 3,040 pages, a sheer robbery. The volumes are pad- ded by reports, Index, ete, to the ex- tent of over 20 per cent of the total fayment, and this is exclusive of the eonetant repetitions and not only use- lees, but confusing superfluities in the proceedings themselves, and which, it fs safe to say, constitute fully two. thirds of the total bulk. What this padding costs at $3.96 per page, inde. pendently of that in the proceedings proper, is as follows: Index Allens’ report Penitentiary report Blank pages ..... «$8,858.52 2,237.40 $14.76 271.72 Sra Rr srt en an An infinitely more Intelligent and sat- jefactory record of the sessions’ pro- ceedings could have been compressed nto about 1,000 to 1.200 pages without pacrificing a word of the "eloguence’” of the senators and members which, it is needless to sqy, 18, as a rule, far more effusive than edifying. An Index that would he really useful for reforence purposes could be put into 200 pages, and this is making a liberal allow. ance, The 2.237 page index to the 1807 volumes ls, In fact, no Index at all, ft jo full of errors. It has countless repetitions, And these are go embar. rasging that on the rare cecasions when the Record must be referred to, the seeker alter information is Hkely to be driven half frantic by the Sietieal- ties he will encounter in obtaining it. For instance, “An act to regulate | brought by and porations doing | monwealth, been may foreign cors in this coms certificates have be issued, ete,” is in- dexed under the word “Issued.” Was | there ever padding for robbery so | bold or a method of Indexing more com= | pletely imbecile? And this but a sample of hundreds of similar ine stances of the fraud. What is referred Lo above as the aliens’ report is the report of a committee appointed by au- thority of the legislature of 1886 to ascertain the number of allens quarter- d upon the commonwealth in the vare lous public institutions thereof. As a printed public document it is of no more value than would be a second tall to a cat. The 665 pages covered by it contain nothing but the names, sex, nativity, ete., of the individual aliens fcund to be in the various prisons, hos- pitals, almshouses and other like in- stitutions of the state, each case being made to consume eight: lines, or nne inch in the length of a column, follows: John Smith Sex-—-male Nativity- Number Cost per me cents, Total cost ty-one cents Any sane such a thing { this way: Jno, Smith, days at $1.31 But that against business to which OF in Kamschatka. of days treats day—One 'd--Thirteen, dollar and thirty- Sixty-one dollars and fif- having put it in dividual would private to print in Kamschatka; treated 12 per day: total, $61.51. i woul nsumed only {two lines, and v 1 ave loss the { grab of the Legis: Red | tractor $3 out of 84. far more gened ord con- every that fe to say in- roOCe6 i] or 1 a third of of the { publication, to all those whe cause of its cumbers | deseribed faults, d would inclu for b whic st exasy it be- ; other L it sum fair co worter | name mi { tion and ath tho the sav in car other part yt he handlin rinting to the | introductic a for { printing, n i ote In 1883. { page; in 1887-89 It was $4.90 The fu etting, 08 per in 1881.53 an contract f has oe parties 901, has th irre SAY re { ing the next two # the t for print w the warded ti arded t ative rd Ins party As the the pro- is doubt. this con- same Ir years before Worse, h e last for wer than had { 10 Con uld have been But the ntracts are of doing busine mpetition yard state oe #8 that abarre odie of the work tecord, though Justified, It ia Th ough from t price feil from t's done on the it is even worthy of i885 to 1861 the contrac $6.56 to $4.90 per page. the reporting and printing kept increasing The lower ft higher the cost. In 1863 was a small drop In the all in mn to contract price, but in the successful padding tailed, it went up again, If there is an office In connection with the state government which, under Republican machine rule, does not in- volve a theft or criminal profligacy, the fact has not yet been made apparent. A MACHINE INFAMY. Exploiting the Schools, Prisons, Hos. pltals and Charities, re than mark that re natantly he price the and 1885 there cost, but not at the drop in the 1897, by fo:ce of already de- proportic Ete , for Rase Partisan Purposes-<-Full Detalls as to the Methods of Achleving This Great Ountrage--Senntor Penrose’s Attempt to Decelve the State as to the School and Charity Appropria- tions Fully Refated From the Neos ords, At the late Republican convention that met in Harrisburg to express its contempt for Ronesty and economy in the state government the boss sent the Junior senator to represent him and sing a siren song into the ears of the people which, if it did not deceive them, might still be used by the heelers for such clamor as should confuse and drown the cries of the reformers. Mr, Penrose made a very valiant, but manifestly very laborious effort to ful- fill his task. He, of course, ignored the detalled, specific and widely published ‘evidences of the Republican ma- thine's theft and waste of the public moneys, because It ls impossible for kim or anybody else to fairly meet ang successfully refute them. But sweeping them aside, as with a wave of the hand, he undertook to account for the con- gtantly Increasing cost of machine rule by ascribing it to a greater liber ality to the schools, the hospitals and elemosynary institutions of the state, leaving it to be Inferred that Mr. Quay and the. machine were being criticized and abused, not for any real wrongdoing, but for their liberality In caring for the von oo wee tras that the difer the groks annval the the are and main- istute state were accounted for solely by larger appropriations to the schools, hospitals, ete, these appropriations themselves made to dishoneptly unlawfully contribute to the tenance of the machine, whose chief and ever watchful lieute would consider themselves derelict in permitting such fums to pass through thelr hands without gathering on it some profit on the way. But the excess of the of main- taining the state government as be- tween 18835 and 1897 was three and three-quarter 1 greater, leaving who sideration the t penitentiaries, the nsane and charities, as the follow gures show: YA TANT A TY A RF THE PA ibD PAY Mr. Wanamnior, Eikin, Giy Names pnd Records of Same of the Men Who loll, Mr Brog large Cost almost iar the will ROLL. in Heply to man es the on the + speech Were In his Med] sald: “*Chalrman you I politi pay roll state? Gorl, who debt mad discarded IL from the padde performed n “Dare Greiner, ing senten ary for ward fre $1.000 st Dare f Sh of was the api Xt once werform divid dress an orga “Cha been de cial and have from publ tempted d sion of ¥« tions, have « representiati ciple a copie and gives to the go yet be yourself, give lared To Bun the State Quayism as Compared With the i nder Democratic Management. figures showing the ranches of the state er the appropriation i respectively, the been the nearest ap- yweratic year the state War fost Here ar SOM cont of certain b it und acts of 1843 and former having proach to a Dem has had since the Executive office Legislative expense Judicial expenses . 987.000 Printing and binding. 605.863 Ra $1,513,971 724,828 542.682 1,130,984 $2.630,980 $4,722,465 These figures need little explanation. They show that in fourteen years, un- der the unbroken direction of Republi- can lawmakers, executive departments have been multiplied, salaries increased, new and useless deputies and clerks employed and contingent funds padded, until from a half a million, our execu- tive expenses have swelled to a mil. lion and a half for each two years. They show that while the number of senators and members and the al- lowances for mileage, stationery and postage are the same as in 1883, by in creasing the already large enough force of clerks and other employes, by add- ing enormously to contingent expense to fee party favorites, by awarding pay for regular committee services, by creating whitewashing and fraudulent investigating commiitees (whose per- quisites were not vetoed), by piling up the éost of contested elections, ete, they have swelled the charge upon the people for holding a legislative session about $200,000, or over 35 per cent. They show that the expendifure for printing and binding the often worse than uselegs state publications has al- most doubled since 1883, although the actual cost of doing that kind of work has been very materially reduced in the interval They show that even the bench has been made to contribute to the imposis tion largely by laws that multiply the number of judges beyond all reason and then making statutes that enable some of them to add almost 60 per cent to their legal salaries by holding court tn other districts in years when, in ore der to keep up with the trial liste, they must have other judges come and hold court In thelr own districts, They show, In brief, that under Re- publican rule, the system Is rotten from core to rind, and that there is but one chance for real reform, which les in electing a Democratic executive ad ministration and a Democratic legisia- a i scm A IATA, Ol. Stone Shurged the State $10,000 to collect » ini oF Sus, Can you |i b washineTon LerTer WN ARREST OF SENATOR QUAY CAUS ES A SENSATION. Mrs. MeKinley Left Washiogton for Can- ton, Ohio, to Attend the Vupernl of Her Brother WasHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Lawyers for the defense seldom bring out any | testimony against the The | | me mbars of the McKinley war investi- “The 'is what a who have put witnesses who accused, | gation Commission local the have so far { Hef Commission,’ | per calls it | tions to the pa~ (ues. consider Alger's lawyers, but, if they | | were, their questions could not in the { opinion of man { testified may not | Secretary y unprejudiced persons, | have been more carefully of prepared to undesired witness—Col, Lee, started to tell a of the i Department's mismanagement, giving evi- | Une who bout some without be- subject, was to of the Investigation, » hint and thereafter quest ions as were en- branch » took ti only asked, H.V. TR for so responsible ‘amp Thomas, and brigade surgeon Instead of trying to find the Commission appears to be try- indorsed it. out, Ree Alger's mriment, retary management It appears to will be com- There is much sympathy expressed or Mrs. McKinley, who left Wash- for Canton, Ohio, Saturday attend the funeral of who killed, supposedly Friday her ner, was by a jealous woman, evening Omaha Exposition today, with Mr. McKinley | Canton by Mr. McKinley, but Mrs The arrest of Senator Quay, for con- | the failure | talked in unanimous Washington. to whether about EE of this particular charge, but, aside from | the letters from to the cashier of the who | mitted suicide after bank Com- the bank closed its his Quay is utterly in the U. 8 is, has been for Quay and He was one of the most prominent of the Senatorial sugar speculators, whose operations shocked the country, and brought about an alleged investigation while the tariff’ was under considera. tion by the Senate Finance Commit- tee. At the investigation, Quay adopt- ed bluffing methods, told the commit- tee that he speculated in sugar or any- thing else, whenever he wished to, and in effect asked what the commit- tee was going to do about it. No real patriot will deny that the country would be better off if all such men as Quay were driven out of the Senate and kept out. Nothing could show more encour. agement for Democrats in the Con- gressional campaign than the fact that Republicans acknowledge their fear of losing four out of the eleven Iowa dist- ricts, now all represented by Republi- cans, A gain of thirty seats is all that is needed by the Democrats to put the Republicans in a minority in the next House, and the prospects of getting them and many more, is very bright at this time. Ex-Senator Blackburn, of Ky., now in Washington, said: “The political outlook in Kentucky is as satisfactory as Demecrats could wish. Of the elev- en congressional districts they will car- ry nine certainly, and of the remaining two there is more than an even chance of carrying one—the Louisville dist- riot. It seems to me that there is every reason to regard the condition of the Democracy throughout the nation, with complacency, and I believe that the gains made by the party in No vember, will be large ina majority of the states,” Col, Phil Thompson, once a member of the House from Ky., who spends been telling his Washington friends about the campaign, He sald: “I be. eve that Judge Van Wyck will beat Col. Roosevelt, for Governor, by a heavy majority. There is an element like Roosevelt and will for his course while police cominission- | er, and they will work like beavers to {roll up the ballots for his opponent, | Then, too, Judge Van Wyck is an am- iable and upright man, with no blem. {ish in his record, and conservative people think he will make a far better | executive than the brilliant, but rath- ler impracticable rough rider. The strongest card, however, for the Dem- ocrats, is the bad record of the Repub- lican state admintstration, The tax payers are up in arms over the canal improvement fraud, and when they come to vote they are going to take a sure way of manifesting their displeas- ure with Gov, Black's regime.” Mr. McKinley said to very { much disgusted at the position taken by Teddy Roosevelt, that his election to be Governor of New York is sary as an indorsement of the admin- | istration and the war and it would not be surprising if he should take some way of letting it known that he would not consider Roosevelt's de- feat an aflront to himself or his admin- istration, although pressure brought to 0 ke ep his mouth shut. - - Bo Mp tly PATTISON FOR JENKS, is be DeCER- become is being the other day, Ex-Governor Pattison gave answer to the following questions: “It is really your opinion Jenks has the vantage is it not? leing interviewed Mr. the that ground in contest, “Unquestionably, unquestionably,” he replied. “I firmly from what I have seen, from what I person- ally know and from what | t hat A. Jenks will be elected gover- nor of Pennsylvania. He is the man the people need in an emergency of this kind they know it, I kvow of no man in t believe, hear, Cleorge just and he country so em- LOCAL ITEMS, Culllogs of More than Ordinary Juterest from Everywhere. Cider is not very plenty. Bhook's cider mill made some busy runs this week, Abednego Btein, of Loveville, granted a $6 pension, Esq. Rishel, of Farmers Mills, nishiog the evaporating many loads of apples. was i= fur- plant with Miner's apple evaporating establish ment has taken in several thousand bushels of apples this week. Mitchell Gardiner for Prothonotary is popular. He is well qualified and has an unstained character. Israel Confer, an old resident of Mill- heim, seriously ill for a number of weeks, is still in a eritical condition. R. A. Bumiller, of Millhelm, is not improving from the paralysis which followed his severe of typhoid fever, illness The showers during the nights of Friday and Tuesday, have had derfully freshening effect upon grain fields, WOoli- the a Rev. Rearick’s appointments, Sun- day Oct. 16: At Centre Hall, 7 p. m. : at Spring Mills, 2 p. m. ; at Tusseyville 10 a. m. A chicken and waffle supper will be served by the g their new ball, on Thanksgiving evening, to which all are invited. \ Some parties in have refused 3 to pay that part of their tax noted “boro tax,’ thinking it disguise, as we rangers in town is water tax in are informed. Adam Krumrine's new traction gine has arrived, and it will introduce itself to en- it forth- isa dalsy ; farmers the exist inently adapted for peculiar cir-| cumstances that in Pennsylvania | A. his today Lieorge Jenks, | His character, a as this very ever and tia lif nat 131 3 $ qualification mould him out as a per- bility son specifically fitted for the duties an honest governor would feel called upon to perform at such a time as this, The | voters appreciate this; they are bound Where Mr. Jenks is known he is and revered. Think of the fact | ha there is not a single incideut of | is life out of which his desperate ene- Ik nmke capital. He will | as a remarkable figure the § tay, Hive in history | of Pennsylvania politics | Y"Now take { his little band of Prohibitionists he is hardly a figure in the campaign. Ad- i mitting be has stirred up considerable do you think that anybody { who is sufficiently in the campaign to give it a thought believes he has secured the difference between about 20.000 and 505.0007 Of course you don’t. It is a reflection upon the thinking capacity of our people. The Swallow boom is based almost entirely upon misrepresentations and the senti- ment will gradually disappear. It is not dangerous new and will be incon- siderable before election day. I give it about the same thought the Stewart movement proved to deserve. The one virtue of the Swallow movement is that it offers a haven to those Re- publicans who are not sufficiently in earnest and do not appreciate the im- portance of voting for Jenks." “Are you sufficiently interested in the success of the ticket headed by Mr. Jenks to remain on the stump until the fight is over 7 1 asked. “I have tendered my services for what they are worth, I will do my best, and cheerfully do whatever is mapped out forme. I am as deeply interested in the success of George A. Jenks as I was when I was myself a candidate. The very thought of that man as the governor of Pennsylvania, with a sympathetic Legislature, is enough to inspire any man to his highest and greatest efforts. Think what could be accomplished through his great ability, determination and honesty. It would be one of the great- est eras in Pennsylvania's history. Its effects would bless future generations,” ——————— A Found a Petrified Indian. The Philipsburg Journal says an in- téresting discovery was made a short time ago in Clearfield county, which is already attracting wide spread atten- tion. It is the perfect body of a large Indian, solidified through petrifica- tion, The discovery was made by the workmen who are building a railroad from Clearfield Bridge to Belsena. As the men were making a eut through the rocky hill they unearthed the pet- rified body of the Indian at a depth of seven feet from the surface. The body is a perfect specimen in every respect, the features being clean cut and life like, except for color, and the entire specimen resembling a statue chiseled by a master hand. The arms of the Indian are folded. Ten men were re quired to remove the petrifed body Swallow's case. With interested with and meet with favor, no doubt. Mrs. spring Sarali Tressler, of Centre Hill, last planted five pecks of pota- had a yield of 30 bushels this fall. This is hard to beat. Roth is at work upon the walls of grange hall The completion he brick work gives the edifice a stately and impos- ing appearance. Plasterer George now of A pew ruffie has appeared on the lepublican waters, by Dave Martin urging the election of Harry C. Me- ‘ormick, of Williamsport, to the Unit- ed Biates senate, to succeed M. 8. Quay. Next to McCormick he is said to favor C. L. Magee, of Pittsburg. Thomas Hettrick’s farm at Hum- 's Wharf, Snyder county, a bed of stone has been discovered, of a very fine grain, equal to the finest whet- and which, on being tested, has all the qualities for bringing the sharpest edge on a razor. On me] stone, From Baturday evening at 5, until Monday morning, there was no water from the new plant in one half of the town, the north part. The storing of the liquid during this interval, made certain of a fair flow from most of the hydrants on Monday, washday. Newt. Bpangler, candidate for dis- trict attorney, will be the recipient of a rare honor at the polls in November. He will be elected by a unanimous vote. He is so good and worthy a man that no candidate has been put upon the course against him. The frame work for George Benner's new dwelling, at the station, is up and soon it will be under roof. The next to get on its pins will be the new house of shoemaker John Martz, after which one to be erected by dentist Hoster- man, for which the cellar is now being excavated, will rear its head. With a number of new names booked in the past few weeks the Reporter's edition is far above” any period in its history. We are pleased to note this evidence of good will shown over the county. The Reporter has at all times striven to deserve the confidence of public. At an election about a year. ago, the citizens of our town were asked by Council to permit bonding the boro for $5000, pledging “AN ABUNDANCE OF PURE water for domestie and me- chanical purposes AND FOR FIRE PRO- TECTION,” from the Bible spring. Be- ing warned in time that this spring was utterly inadequate, malice led to pushing on the work and spending the heavy taxation uselessly, outside advice evidently getting Council to go it blindly, The water supply, as pre- dicted, proved a failure and the Bible scheme had to be abandoned. Then another demand was made for furthor bonding of the town to the amount of $2500 “for an abundance of pure water for domestic and mechanical purposes and for fire p-ro-t-eo-t-i-o-n,” from another source; ana in the face of earn. est warning that this supply was like wise inadequave, malice got the mas- tery, the money was again spent, and much more unlawfully, and our tax. burdened citizens behold a second fail. ure at “an abundance of water for
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