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