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S. B. OOODLANDER,
pobll.bor. I
iauyfrs' Carfls.
TT W. SMITH,
ATTORNEY
-AT-
LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
T J. LINGLE,
.aI'TOHXEY-AT-LAW,
1:11 Plilllpeburg;. Centre Co., Pa. yipd
R
OLANPDSWOOPE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
I....... ..Ml. rUaFft.ld ffnunlv. Pa.
oct. 9. 'IB-It
0
SCAR MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARKIEI.il. PA.
jT-nm la Ibo Optra llouae. oelv, 'Ta il.
1 R. W. BARUETT,
IJe ,
ATTOBNETB AND COUNSELORS AT l.AW,
CLEARPIEI.D, PA.
Janoary 80, 1878.
rSRAEL TEST,
ATTORNEY AT
Clearfield, Pa.
aar-Ofoeo In Ibe Coart Home,
LAW,
IJjll.'M
Til. M. McCULLOUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
offi -a In Ha.onie building, Second elreet, op
po.ite the Court llouae. -
C. AliXOLT),
l.AW COLLECTION
OFFICE,
CURWENPVILI.E,
,:s ' Clearfield Count. Peno'e.
I4J
s
T. I'.ROCKBAXK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
lUtoe in Opera Home. ap 2177-ly
gMlTIT V. WILSON,
vtttornty-at'lMtr,
CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
HHt-mn la the Maeonlo Building, orer the
County Naltonul Hank. Iiuar2-S0.
Tll.LIAM A. II ACiERTY,
CLEARFIKLD, PKNN'A
alind to ell leael bu.lo... wllb
i,inpln ood ndelitT. febl l,'0.lf.
WM.I.IAa A. WALI.At'
DArin 1. aaeea.
joaa w. waieLBY.
a r r. WALl-Aca.
UfALIiAl
1? ISu-ti
K hrtr.nn,
ISu-eee.nrr to Wallace A Kiel Jinn, I
A T T O R X K Y 8 - A T - h A W ,
Ji.nl'71
Clearfirld, Pa.
SXYUKR,
J.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
ifliee ia Pie'. Opera Uouea.
June 3, 'Itilf.
g L. McOEE,
.ITTOItJtrEI'- iT-LAH', '
DuBois, Clearfield Count;, Penn'a.
jrer-Will attend prompt ly lo all legal ba.lae.1
eatroHed lo k oara. Ijeall, 'all.
TBOI. . MURRAT. CTBt'l aoBnOB.
JURRAY A OORDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, FA.
-OSee la Pie'a Opera llonee, aeoond floor.
V.107I
foeara a. H'aaALCr. - babibl w. a'cfanr.
rcENALLY & McCUKDY
ATTORN KY8-AT-L AW,
ClearBeld, Pa
IB' Legal bBtineu attended to promptly wllhj
Adelity. OtBce on Beeoad atreet, above :ba Flrot
National Bank. j.n:l:7
Y - KllAMKR,
A T T O R N E Y - A T - L A W ,
Real EaUte and Collection Agent,
CLKAHMEI.I), PA
Will promptly atteod to all legal bu.lneae en
tra.ted to bit tiere.
pV-Omo la Pi.'. Opera lloaea., Jeol
ne.
J.
F. JIcKENRfCK,
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
CLEARFIKLD, l'A.
All legal bueiBoae eatraated to hia eara will ra
ealre prompt atlealian.
r-OAee In Ibe-CoBrt llou.e.
'eugl4,IM.y.
.1
OUN L. CUTTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
' tud Heal Eetate Afreut, Clearfield, Pa.
Ufnee ea Third atreet, bet.CkerT A Walnat.
Reepeotfally effera bla earvieea la aelllng
aad buyiBg laadl la Clearfield aad adjoialng
yara ea a aarveyor, flattera himeelf that be eea
. reader aati.faotloB. IFoh. Iet3:tf, '
yitpltiaiis' Cards.
JJR K. M. SCIIEURF.U,
IIOMdOFATUIC rUYSIClAN,
OOea la reeideaee os Firet at.
April 14, l7t. Clearfield, Pa.
0R. W. A. MEANS,
I'UYSICIAN A SURGEON,
DI'BOIS CITY, PA.
Will attend profaadonal oalla promptly. auglllTO
, JR. T. J. 110 a F.R,
I t'HYSICIAN AND SU RO EON,
' OBea oa Market Street, CloarlelePa.
V-Ofil koarai I to I a. m , aad 1 to I p. m.
,JU. J. KAY WRIQLEY,
I UOMlKPATHIO PHYSICIAN,
' le-Omea adjoining the rerldenra af Jamat
Wrigley, Kaaj., on 8ecnadlil., ClrerMd, Pa.
,jl,,7 tl.
R. H. B. VAN YALZAH,
CLRARtrtELU, FEB' A.
OFFICE IN RKDIIIRNVR, CORNER OF FIRST
AND P1NB rlTKKKTN,
OBca koure-From II to 1 P. M.
. May II,
D
VL J. T. BUHCUFiKI.D,
lata 8arfoB of Ue ttd t.gimenl. Paaaeylvaala
, ' Volaatoere, havlag retaraed from the Army,
' orlere hie prefoeoiBBl earv iaet ta thaaitlaaae
ef Oteeraeldaeanty.
tXr-Prereeeloaal oalla premplly atuad.d to.
''fie aa Beaoad itreat, foraierlyowaapied by
Jr. Wood.. (apr4,'M.f
10H PBIXTIlaO OF KVRRT DIi.RIF
tloa aeatly eieealee at.thll oBoa.
CLEARFIELD
GEO. B. GOObLANDEB, Editor
,
VOL. 51-WII0LE NO.
Cards.
TimTICEM' a ciiwhtahi-kh' r."
Wo bave printed a largo aambor of Ibo Bew
VKI BILL, aad will aa Ibo receipt of
ly.
five mmiia. aioll o midt i ey addreee.
I
WILLIAM Jl. HENRY, Justice
or taa Paid Ann Scaivanne, LUMBER
CITY. Colleetlooa ai.de and monoy promptly
paid oor. Artltloiof agreement and deadi ol
eouveyanoa aeotly oieeaud and werranled eor
raot or ao charge. A'iy'71
JOHN D.THOMPSON,
J utile of Ik P-cj n& St-rifMMr,
C-.rweBiYl.le, Pt.
.CollMtloDl -.. nd
pktd '.
money promptly
fabll'TUf
HENRY KRETH,
(oeruno r. o.)
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
roa sill, towsemp.
M.r a, I8TS-ly
TAMES MITCHELL,
Square Timber & Timber Lands.,
jell'TJ CLEARFIELD, PA.
REUBEN HACKMAN,
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Peun'a.
fcej.Wlll execute Joba In nil line promptly a.n
In a workmanlike manner.
apr4,7
JOHN A. STAPLER,
BAKER, Meiket 81., Clraraeld, Pa.
Fro.b Breed, Ruik, Rolle, Flea and Cekoe
B band or made lo order. A general ae.ortmeal
of Confertionarlei, Fruit, aad Note la itock.
loe Creem and Oj.tere In eeaeoa. Salooa Bearlj
oppmita Ike PoiloBce. Prioee moderele.
Meri.li I l.-'Th
WEAVER &. BETT8,
OKALBRe IS
Real Estate, Square Timber, Saw Legs,
AND Ll'MBKR Of ALL KINDS.
i-0oo oa Reeond .treat, ia rear of .lore
room of Ueorge Wearer A C. Jar '7 lf.
RICHARD HUGHES,
JI STICK OF THk'pEACE
roa
Uttatur Totrnthlp,
Oueola Mill. P. 0.
II oflloial bu.ioei. enlrarted lo blm will be
promptly atlrndod t. meh2ll, 7.
TTAKRY SNYDER,
II BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER.
Shop oa Market St., oppmlte Court ll n.
A eleaa towel for every eurlomer.
A leo dealer ia
llo't Hranda of Tobarro and Cltara.
ri....U P a It. 'a
JAMES H. TURNER,
Jl'STICK OF TnK PEACE.
tVallaretou. Pa.
M- He ha. prepared bimeelf with ell tbe
oeoe..ary bleak f..rml ondrr tbe Pea.icB and
Bonnty Uwt, at well al lilank Deede, ele. All
Irgal metteri entra.ted lo bii etre will rerelre
prompt etlenlioo. Aley Ilk, I87t-tf.
XliREW HARW1CK,
V Market Htreet, llearfield, Pa..
HABi'rACTVaaa AMn dialbb in
llnrnem. Bridles, Saddles, Collars, and
Uorst-h'vrnishing Good.
pVAW bind! or repairing promptly attended
to. Haddlere' Hardwire, Horeo Brnabea, Carry
Combe, Ae., alweya on band aad ror aale at tbe
lowe.l eaah prloe. (Mereb 1, 1179.
G. H. HALL,
RACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
r Pump, elwaya ob hand aad Bade lo ardor
en ahort aotiee. Pipea bored oa raaeonable tamaa
All work warren ted to reader aatlafeetloa, and
delivered If da.ired. myltilypd
lAvery Stable.
X tbt.1 h ii do folly prapaj- to vfoomo
4i.t kll im thi wty of furnlibing 1U. hi, Uukk1
Mtvddlu taod Huttui. 9 tht iborutt notie and
n rtuoiitbl Urni. KtwldoDMOB Loooat itratt,
bitUHD Third and rourth.
UKO. W, OBAKHART.
lltvloU. Fab. 4, 1874-
WASHINGTON HOUSE,
OLKN HOPE, PENN'A.
rpilK aader.lgiied, having leaaed thia aom.
X modiuaa Hotel. Is tbe village af filen Hope,
le aow prepared ta aeeommodelh all who may
call. My table and bar ohall be (applied with
tbe beat the market effnrda.
(IKORIIE W. DOTT8, Jr.
Illaa Hope, Pa., March It, IHJ. tf.
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
DBALBB IB
HENKKAL MEIiCIl ANDIHK.
(.RAHAMTOK, Pa.
Alao, eiten.l.e Btaaafaotarer and dealer la Saaare
Aimoerana sawao i,amoeroi an iinaa..
er-Ordera aalielted aad all billa promplry
Hied. l,Jyl'l
E. A. BIGLER & CO.,
DBALIM IS
SQUARE TIMBER,
and maBQfantirera af
ALL HINIMOP BAWtl) I.IIMHKM
7'7I CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
I.SNYDER,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
ABB tilALBB la
Watohon, Clotka tnd Jewelry1
0n.aa'a H-m, Mtrht Stmt,
CLKARFIKM), PA.
All hind, nf repeiring In my line promptly at-
enned to. April In, 1174,
Clearfield Nursery.
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY.
riMlK BBderalgBad, having a.uhllahed a Ner-
eery ea Ibe 'Plha, ahoat halfway botweea
Clearfield aad Parwaneville, le prepared to far-
aiak all klade of FHUIT TREKS, (etaadard aad
awarl.) Mrergraeae, Bbeubbery, terapa Viaee,
Ueoaeberry, Lawtue, Blaokberry, Htrawberry,
aad Reapberry ViBee. Alao, Hiberkaa Crab Treea,
galnde, and early eearlet Rhebarb, Ae. Ordera
prompUy attowded to. Addreaa,
J. D. WK101IT,
aepIO . Carwea.ville, Pa.
MEAT MARKET, j
F, M, CAED0N 4 EE0., .
Oa Market St, ana dear weet of Meealoa Uoeea,
CLEARFIELD, FA.
Oar arreagemeate are rf the meet eomplete
eharaoter tor furatebiag the publle with Freeh
Meateof all hind, aad of tbe very beet Quality.
Wa elaa deal la all blade of Agrlenltaral Impla.
mente, whieh e heoB OB eahlhllioa for the bea
eflt of the aablla. Call aroBad whoa Ib tawa,
aad tahe a look at thief e, ar eddraea aa
f. II.CAKDON A BR0.
Claaraeld, Pa., July 14, im.lf.
f ltarRtld Inimrann trrHry.
ieaaa aaaa. cabboix l. bidpi.b.
Kinn eY BinitLV, jitmi.
Rrpraaeat the following ead other Iretlaaa Ca'a
C.mpeDle.. Aeaeia.
Liverpool Uadoa A Oli.be V. N. If.l4.ul.gt
Lyaonlag ea malaal Aeeeh plena. ,W,tao
Phmnn, of Hartford, Cana . 1.(14.013
laaureaoe Oe. of North Amerlra ,4.1.74
Berth Brltleh A MereanUle U.B. Br. I.7AI.MJ
Soottlah Cemmereial U. S. Branch. u 7ll,l4h
Watertoaa Ia4,llt
Treveleri (Life A A eeldeel) ........ 4,ale,4f4
Olllee oa Market SU, epp. Coart Uoaae, Clear
field, Pa. Jaaa4,'7fi-lf.
& Proprietor.
2.CC7.
SPEF.CII
.... - OF..,.. . ...
Hon." Tin. "A; Wallace,
OF PENNSYLVANIA,
In the Heaiate ar the I'ulted Htatea, Monday,
March I5lh, ltw,.
a .
MAIL TRANSPORTATION DE-'
-. F1C1ENCY. " '
The tSenatu a in Commitluo nl' the
Whole, proreodiid to conoiilcr tho bill
( U. It. No. 47311) to provitlo for a de
licienry in tho apprnpriiitionn lor the
trnnsportatlon ot the mail on mar
roiitett for tho finc-al yer ending June
30,1880.
Tho bill wattrcporU'd Irom thoCom
mittee on Approprintioni with amend
mentH. The limt amendment was, in ejection
1, alter the word "year" in line 8, to
Htriku out the following words :
"At or within contract prices ns they
oxinted on February 1, 1H8U : Provided,
That upon any route where there hm
been an increase ol the original eon
tract price during the last or the cur
rent lineal year lor expediting the de
livery of mailt on any nuch route, at
the ratu of more than 82,500 per an
num, the compennulion lor expedited
service on nch route ahull he reduced
to the term, of the originu) contract,
on and alter the Int day ot March,
; and nothing herein contained
hull he construed to require the re
duction of the number of trips per week
over any mich route below lliu present
number."
Mr. WALLACE. Mr. l'residont, by
direction ol tho Committee on Appro-
Iiriations I move to strike out "nino
iiimlred and seventy" in tbe original
bill, and insert "eleven hundred" in
tine 3.
Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. I
suggest to my friend Irom Pennsylva
nia thut the question now is on strik
ing out tho words iust read.
Mr. WALLACE. I desiie to liavo
this amendment como first.
M r. DAVIS, of West Virginia. Very
well.
Mr. WALLACE. 1 desire to pro
pone on bcliulf of the Committee on
Appropriations and amendment in line
;t ot the original Dill; to sirme out,
"nine hundred and Bevunly" and in
sort "eleven hundred," so as to make
the appropriation 11,100,000,
Tho ICE-1'RESIDKNT. The
amendment ia in order. The question
is on the amendment ot tho Henutor
Irom Pennsylvania.
Mr. WALLACE. Aow, will the
Secretary read the bill as it will stand
i if tho amendments of tho Committee
1 bo adopted.
! Tho Chief Clork rend us follows :
j "That tho sum of $1,100,000, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be.
and the same is hereby, appropriated
out ot any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, lo meet the
expenses of inland mail transportation
ou slur routes lor the remainder of the
current fiaonl year. During tbo ro-
muinder of the current tiscal year no
lurlhor expediting ot service or in
crease ot Irijisonuny postal star routo
shull be maile.
Sec. 2. That tlio lurthor sum of
1100,000 be, and tho same ia hereby,
appropriated as aforesaid lo enable tho
l'ostmaslcr- beneral to plueo now ser
vice as authorized by law : J'rovidtd,
That the Postmoster-Uoneitl shall nol
horeattor Lrnvo tho power to expedite
any contract either now existing or
nereatter given lo a rate ol pay ex
ceeding 50 percent, upon tho contract
an originally let."
Mr. WALLtAUr.. Tbo Senate will
see that this bill relates, as it now
Htunds, entirely to the transportation
of the mails on alar routes. Star
routes, as I suppose the Senate under-
aluuds, include all other modes of
transportation of the mails than thoso
by slcamboutand railway. Thisscrvice
includes two hundred and fifteen
thousand miles of tho transportation
ot the mails in every section ot the
country, whilo transportation by steam
boat aim railroad includes about ono
hundred thousand ; no that there are
about twice as muny routes paid for
under the head ol star service us there
are under that of railroad ami steam
boat service.
Mr. CONKL1NG. Will tho Senator
be good enough to repeat the miles ?
.nr. wALiij.u;ri. two Hundred
and fllloen thousand by star service,
twenty-one thousand by Bteamboat,
and seventy-nino thousand by railroad.
The amount appropriated lor tbe pres
ent fiscal year fur star service was
15,900,000 ; the amount appropriated
tor all other means of transportation,
111,300.000.
Now, whenco crmes tho deficiency,
for this ia a bill providing tor a de
ficiency, in tbe transportation of the
mails in this particular way f Tbe
actual cost of tho transportation of the
mails by Ibis mode ol service lor this
fiscal year under contracts aa they
now exist as shown by tbe report of
the Kixlb Auditor or tbe Treasury Is
,033,uiiu, J tie amount apprnpriuted
lor thia fiscal year is (5,000,000, show
ing a deficiency of Il,Lio,OuO to com
plete the service on its existing; basis.
The Senate will understand this is not
on the basis ol the contracts as origin
ally lot, but on tbo basis nl the eon
tracts as they exist at this dny. Who
is to blame for this deficiency I Why
does it exist? Why did Congress not
appropriate too amount necessary lo
conduct this service to the end of the
fiscal year, tbe 30th of June, 1880?
Congress did appropriate all the money
tbo PosLOfflee Department asked for
this form ol sorvicv, 15,000,000. The
deficiency exists because additional
speed and added trips and now routes
have been pot by the Department to
tbe service as existed It a year ago.
From tho Department the answer
that comes to Onngress is that there
are two thousand new routoj eroated,
fur the inauguration of service on a
portion of which B-tlJ 1,000 have been
used during the current fiscal year j
and it is also answered that the in
crease in publio business, the Increase
in the demand for mail transportation.
tbe large Increase In tho general busi
ness ot tbo country bave callod lor an
addition to the mail service by giving
more trips and by tho expediting; ol
speed on old routes, and that those
were not Calculated tor when tbe esti
mates for this fiscal year wore made,
What is the demand? The I'oeb
mastor-Ueneral on the 8tb ot Decern
bcr, 1870, sent to Congress a lotlerr
asking that (2,000,000 bo appropriated
tor lite purpose ot meetinit tbe de
ficienry to cover "the necessities of the
sorviee or the country durine tho cur
rent fiscal year." . With that hs baa
also sent to Con press a loltor from
the Second Assistant Postmaster Ges
oral, which 1 will read to the Henate:
Peeverwa DvpAarvewr, '
OrrtrsnrSaoeffB AaeTpeeTweTra (fBOBRAt.,
Aeaieate,D 0, Mereh , law.
Bta t I have the honor ta etate that taa ear. re
prietiea for lalead mall tfeaepertaliaB aa eter
reaiee lor taa rnrreai a.eat year aaa praeea ta.
CLEARFIELD,
eelBoleot to meet tbe wenta of Ibe rapljly grow
ing eervlee.
Tbe ennual ooot of the eervioe aow IB opera
tion la I7,MI,0I, wblla theapproprlatloa ia but
$:,y00,0UO. Not only will the proeenl appropria
tloa allow no Inereaao of mail faollltiee during
tbe year, but It will be neoet.ery to oartell tbe
e&i.ttog aerviee in order to bring ita ooat within
the expropriation.
Relieving that thi. eaii&ot be dona without
great Injary te men, deaervlng oommuaitiaa, aod
further tbat preaalug Beoea.lty ell.la lor inorealed
aerviee Ib menr pleeea, I venture to auggalt a
method of rebel.
During the four flaeal yeerl la.t pa.1, namely,
11,70 to 187V, there bea beta oovared book into
tbe Tieeaury or unaiponded belanoea of eppro
priationa for inland meU traarpurlatioo tAimj,
4SS.27. Ia view of thia fact, I here the honor tore,
qurat your reoomm.ndatloa lo Cnngreae that
about one half thia amount, eay il,llll,ill0, be
reapproprieted for mail tren.portatiuu on atar
routea.
Thia will enable tbe Department to maiatein
the protest eervioe, and bealdea aflord a margin
for tvaaonable and aaeetiary tBoreeao during tbe
remeioing fiaoel yeer.
Veryaro.peelfully, Ar. TII0&. 1. BRADY,
Second Aae't Poatma.ter-tleneral.
Hob. D. M. Ker,
Poatmeater. General.
Hero it will be noticed that the
amount stated by the Department is
t7,i!20,000 or (1,720,000 iiiBtead ol (1,
103,000 elated by iheSixlli Auditorneo
essury to complete the service for tho
current fiscal year. These oro very
strunge figures. They domotistiute
very clearly that either the Post-Olllco
Department did not know its own
needs or that tbe Kixlh Auditor of the
Treasury does not know what tbe ser
vice requires to complete it lo the end
of the lineal year, lor while tho Postmaster-General
Buys two millions aro
necessary and tho Second Assistant
Postrauslei Genera! says that$1.720,000
are indispousahlo to carry Ibiougb ibo
service, tho Sixth Auditor says that
(1,155,000 are all that is. needed, a
diftcrouco ot $565,000 between the
Second Assistant I'ostmasier-Goueral
and tbe Sixth Auditor.
The conclusion is forced upon us
either that they had sotno other pur
poso to serve, either in the incrense ol
trips or in tho increase of speed upon
these routes, or that they proposed lo
huve onongh of money to do all that
tho Post-Olllco Department saw fit It)
do during the current tiscal year. It
is our duty, of courso, to take the charit
able view of tho subject, but I desire
to call the attention of tho Senate
to tho discrepancy in these figures.
The Post-Office Department link lor
(1,720,00(1 as a deficiency lor this
year, whilo tho bixth Auditor or tho
Treasury demonstrates that it takes
but at the outside (1,155,0110, making
a difference ot $505,000 between the
Auditor and the Post-Olllco Depart
ment, From this standpoint It is certain
that tlio House ot Representatives was
justified in initiating a careful-inquiry
into the subject matter of appropria
tions for this Department and probing
it to the bottom. The House bill ap
propriated but (1170.000. Tho demand
of the Department was (2,000,000.
Your committee have adopted what is
substantially the amount fixed by tho
Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, as nec
essary to conduct this sorvico to tbo
and eflho tiaoal year upon tho bssiaol
contracts as they exist at this hour,
expedited and increased trips, and
altogether the sum of (1,100,000.
Mr. TELLER. I should like to ask
the Senator it (1,100,000 is what ho
reported ?
Mr. WALLACE. I will give the
Senator the figures in a moment. Tho
figures are as follows ; 1 read from tbo
roportol the Auditor:
SeMMura elafvoMNleAowiao lAeeeteaale. fce f fee-
fere, amid Beat ( le ee imtd, aceortftey le tee
reoerda e tkUofitt, eel o lae opprowriufiM. for
afar rraeaperfnnoa or tee Jiecai erareaiiieg
June tfv, ISOV.
Amount paid aa an- - '
oennt at quarter
ended Kept. 0, la. l,r.77,:i.6
Amount aapaid ob ao-
eount or quarter
ended SepL III, 'IP. 12,718 Oil
Total for aeld ijuarter .,..,. Il,tl,07i 74
,mouot paid en ae-
eount of quarter
ended Deo. 31, '79 l,OJ,.',77 21
lnouolunpaidba ao-
euunt of Quarter
ended Dee. 31, ';.... 110,1111 77
Totel for aeld quarter l,Tf,J,7 01
Amount unpaid on aeeount of uui r
lereaaing moron di, mnv M i,bus,iii ay
Amount unpeid oa aeeoeat ol quer
ter ceding Juae el, ISsO l,H9,b55 71
Total 7,1S,S.I 60
- F. B. LILLatV,
Aeting Auditor.
Orrics or taa Avntvoa or van TuBAaoar.
T-oavHB Poar-OrptcB DaeAaTuear,
MaraBId, ISS0.
If wa deduct from thia tbe (5,900,-
000 which have been appropriated fur
tbia service lor the carrertl tiscal your,
and tbon deduct what is tho probable
amount of fines upon tho ooulractors,
which will accrue in the remaining
quarters ot the year, which we call
male at (55 0U0 during the pant two
quarters it was $101,000 we have tbe
amount actually necessary to continue
lbs service to the end of the fiscal
year on tho basis of existing contracts,
(1,100,000, which sum 1 am directed
by the Committee to move to insert as
u part ol this bill as the amount neo
essury to conduct tho service to tho
30tb of Juno, 18S0.
The amount In the House bill was
too small by (130,000, but tho Depart
ment asked (000,000 more than was
needed on tbe tiasls nr the enntrnnta
as thoy now exist. Tbe Committee nn
Appropriations ot the Senate havo
tuken this viow of it; that it is our
duty to vole tbe money needed lo
carry on tbo service on its existing
basis to the ond of the current fiscal
year, but no more. We are willing to
put under the control of tho Post
Olllee Department so largo a surplus
aseithor $505,000 or (000,000, but we
woro willing to treut it as a valid ex
isting survicu in lis presoot condition
until ths end of the tiscal year- -
Mr. CONK LI NU. What is to bup
pon tbon, on tho 1st of July ? ... ;
Mr. W A LLACB. The regular Post
Office appropriation bill will be passed
before the 1st of July lor tho succeed
ing fiscal year, which will make tbo
necosMiry appropriation of what
Congress judges is required to conduct
the service lor that year. The pur
pose ol tbe Committee is simply to
provide that ths Post Oflioo Depart
ment should ksreoopnlrcel as our agent
in creating the sorvico nndcf tho law
as it now exists, thst wo would vote
the money needed to carry . it on for
tbo present, but tbat we would exam
ine tbe subjovt closely and bs governed
as to tho suewnding year by ths tacts
developed.
Tbo proviso in tho llouee bill sus
pends or destroys all expedition above
(2,500 over the amount ol tbe original
contract ; that is, wherever the Post
al sstur-Uon oral, nnderautborilr or law,
had increased the rapidity with which
the mail was carried, and agreed to
pay an amount exceeding (2,500 there
for, the House proviso out down that
expedition or increased rapidity ol
transportation absolutely and without
discrimination. There were 107 pi
those routes, all of them wost of tbe
Mississippi Itivor, and the contracts
upon all ol Ucm would be changed in
terms and amoonu. Many of them
were largely increased by reason of ex
PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN.
PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1880.
pedited lime indeed, 1 may say enor
mously Increased. For instance take
tho Fort Worth and Port Yuma route,
oxpedited in 1878. Tbo time that was
required for the transportation nl the
mull from Kort Worth to Fort Yuma
was shortened some three days, and
the amount allowed by the original
contract (13-1,000 per year for
carrying tho muil thereon was
increased in umount for the added
speed to(20!),000,an increase nf (105,
0(10. The route from Hock Crock to
Fort Custer was expedited from (10,-
507.12. Tho route Irani Bismarck to
Fort Kongh was expedited from if 2,35ft
to (70,000.
The total increase on existing con
tracts for expedition on these 107
routes made in tho last nsoai year, not
in tho current fiscal your, was (MO,-
810. The total eirrmint ms.lo in this
fiscal year was (.108,010, making a total
increase of (1,115,705 for expedition
or increased speed alono. Hero is a
tremendous increnso in tne cost ol
tho transportation of the mail by slur
survico, $1,115,000, when the whole
cost por annum is about (7,000,000,
hence conies tho power lo do this r
Where is the authority under which
tho Posl-OffiVe Department can dnthis
and bo within tho law ? I havo tho
sections ot the Revised Statutes ami
I will read them :
8ic. .11100, ComtifBoatioa for additional lervloe
in earrying the mail ehull not be in eaeaea of the
oveot proportion which the original oomp.n.e
lioa tM-ara to the original aervioet aad when any
each additional eervma 1. ordered, the aum to be
allowed iberefor ebeU be aapre..rd in tbe ord.r.
and entered upon tha bouke of tbe Department;
and ao eompen.atioa ehell be peid fur any addi.
Uonel regular aerviee renirou ueioie toe la.uing
of auch order.
Sr.c. 89111 No extra alloueBee ohall be mode
for eny lncree.0 of espaaition la carrying the
mail anleea th.reby the employtaeotof additional
etork and earriera ia uadeoecrifary, and in eueh
ca'e the addl'lonal ournp.naation aball beer BO
greater proportion to tue additional atook and
carrier, neeea.arily employed then tbe aoiupoli.a.
tion ia tbe original eontrect neera to tbe atock
end earriere aeeeaasrily eaiployed In Ita execu
tion
Tlieso aro the Bcctinus under which
this power is now claimed and has
long been exercised.
Mr. JlcDOMALl). 1 wisti to ask
he Senator a question. The Senate
Committee on Appropriations bave in
creased the amount ot the appropria
tion in tho Jlnuao bill '.
Mr. WALLACE. The Senntecom
mittco have increased tho appropria
tion in the House bill from (070,000 to
$1,100.000
Mr. McDONALI). Wbero is that
increase found 1 1 havo a copy of tho
bill.
Mr. WALLACE. An amendment
proposed by niysell to bo inserted now
by direction ot tho Committee.
Mr. hcuuhalij. ii ones not ap
pear in the printed hill.
Mr. WALLACE. It does not.
Mr. McDONALI). The increase is
from $070,000 10 $1,100,000?
Mr. WALLACK. Yes, sir.
Mr. McDOXALl). Is that under
stood to be a sum sufficient to carry on
tbo present servicer
Mr. WALLACE- Yes.sir; we based
our r.etimatn on the report of tbaHivtb
Auditor of the Treasury, which I have
iiiHt read to the Senate.
It will bo seen that an exercise oi
such discretion at is vested in this De
partment by tbe statutes I bave read
has in this instance been such as to
strike tho ordinary mind with force as
almost an unlimiied discretion. Hero
is an increnso of more than a thousand
per cent, on the original bid, Tako
the case of the mail Irom Bismarck to
FortKoogh tboincrcaso istrom$2,350
to $70,000 : from Rock Crock to Fort
Custer $10,508 to $H8,7G8; yot tho
power to do thn plainly exists under
tbe slalUo.
Mr. TELLER. I should liko to ask
the Senator a, question. Take the
route from Bismarck to Fort Keogb ;
is there any evidence that there bus
been any violution ot the statuto in
tbe additions! muney allowed ibom ?
Mr. WALLACK. Cortainly not. I
am not attempting to arguo that there
has been : l Know ol none ; out i am
commenting upon the provisions of
these statutes and tlio practices under
them in order lo demonstrate thut the
discretion given is enormous ; whether
that discretion bus been exorcised
wisely or unwisely is for Congress to
determine.
Tbo Department has too much dis
creliun on this subject. Such is the con
elusion thut all of your commitleo
como to. No Senator can lnko these
statutes and read them and seo tbo
practice under them without coming
to the sitme conclueion. This is loo
much discretion to vest In any execu
live officer. No executive otUoor who
desires to perform his duty with exact
ness and without reuroacli nut would
shuddoi at such a responsibility being
vested in bim.
Mr. TELLER. Iloesthocommiltce
propose any chance In tho stututes ?
Mr. WALLACE. They do, and this
bill contains it. The excuse given lor
this discretion, and it may bo a valid
one, is that tho bids originally put in
for the carrying of the nail in this
character ol service aro too low lor
thoir oorformance, and as the Depart
inent is compelled lo accept tho lowest
bidder it does so with a full knowledge
and unuorstuiuling that tlio service is
to be expedited or tho number of trqis
increased, or both, and then tne rim
master Gonuralcun give tho contractor
hat he thinks will pay bun for carry
ing tho mails anil what snob service is
justly worth.
lho Department is compelled to
take tho lowost bid and then may in
crease the pay, both by authority of
law ; the whole thing simply results
in this ; that the Post Office Depart
ment can make just what contract thoy
plcaso, lor they may mold every con
tract by the expedition of service or
tho increase of trips on any given
route. Thispracliceoiight to bo ended.
Tho policy of these statutes is a'tnnst
unsafe and unwise policy, and tho
practice, under them opens tho door
tbrfav$fjtirtof thogrusnoat character,
and if corruption has not already en
tered thore tl certainly cannot luil to
enter at some not distant day.
Kocognizitig this as a plain result I
also quote what tho Postmaster (ton
era!, in his last annual report, said
upon tho subject of those laws:
"The operation or tho present laws
regulating lho increase of compensa
tion for increased speed and increased
frequenry of servico upon star routes
rosults in groat, loss to the Govern
ment Those Isws (sections 3000 snd
3901 of the Revised Statutes) havo
boon In forco for many years, and aro
the Source of nearly all lho deficien
cies in the appropriations for star
service which navo cor been created.
'lt frequently happens, especially in
the mining regions el the West, that,
at the time of advertising, sorviee is
nol required upon now routes more
frequently than ouco or twioe a week ;
but alter the contracts bave been mado
and sorvico begun, population Increases
alone the line, and an increase of
speed and more frcnuent service be
come necessary. Under such circum
REPUBLICAN.
stances it is clear that the rate that
was reasonable tor service once or
twico a wook, through a sparsely
settled region, becomes exorbitant
when multiplied by three or six to
cover duily service. I woultl there
fore recommend that section 3fll0 be
so amended as to permit the Postmaster-General
to advertiso for new
proposals for tho increased service,
the contract to bo awarded to the low
est responsible bidtler, as usual. Sec
tion II! Mil should bo so amended thut
when the cost of incroasel speed
would amount to more than lifly per
cent, of the cost of the original service
the Postmaster Gonoral should re-ad-vertiso
for servico at tho increased
speed."
Thus it will bo seen that tho Post
master General bimselfrecognir.es the
fact that too much discretion is be
stowed on bis Department and recom
mends a change oi the law. Your com
mittee have added to the socond section
of this bill the following proviso :
Providnl. That the Po.'.maitor-Genere! ohall
not hereafter havo the power to expedite any
contract either now exiating or horeerier given to
a rata of pay exceeding od per rent, upon the
oootra.rt ee originally let.
If that proviso had been in force be
fore 187H wo should havo had no com
plaint on this subject of'inereased expe
dition. Tho largo increase could not
have boon made ; the contracts could
not have boon changed so enormously;
tney would have bud lo be surrendered
and new ones mado.
Another objection to ihis practice is
that, under tho law us it now stands,
there is no competition for tho increased
expedition or for tho increased number
of trips. Tho Post-Olllco Department
is compelled to giro the increased ex
pedition and tho increased number ol
trips to tho contractor who has the
route. Tho Department has no discre
tion unless it forfeits the contract and
relets the whole.
The House bill strikes at ull of these
routes, 107 in number, without dis
crimination, and does not conduct the
service to tho end of the fiscal yeur
upon its oxisting basis. The bill, as
amended by your commitleo, conducts
tho service now in existence to tho end
of the fiscal year, but allows tlieso ques
tions of wrong or fraud or increase lo
be settled and adjusted in tho bill for
the coming fiscal year, when wo shall
havo carefully examined all tho fuels
and are able dispassionately and judi
cially to apply tho knife if it bo the
remedy. Contractors and omciuls are
equally within our roach, but wo must
act ou facts and not upon suspicion.
Tho evil effect of the House proviso
which strikes without discrimination
would ho lotind in tho cao of tho
routes to Deadwood or to Lcadville,
where within tbe last eighteen months
has grown up enormous communities,
wbicb required nioro rapid transporta
tion of tho mails, and an increased
number ol trips per week. Tbo power
to do what has been dono existed, and
in tboso cases tho Postmaster General
exercised a proper and wise discretion ;
and no nunator surely will sny mat
baoaueo tho increase is ovar(2,5IO upon
thoso routes wo should strike down
tho servico from lho railway to Dead
wood from a fust muil to a slow one
and give thorn a freight wagon in room
of a pussungor coach. Tho etl'oct ol
thut would he felt at onco in tho East
as well as in the t est, and so it would
be with tbo routo to Leadvillo. Your
committee hove differed with tho
House upon this subject and have
eliminated from tho bill tho proviso
which struck down all tlieso routes,
because thero was no discrimination
among them. It is a sweep at the
whole and has cut them all up by the
root. The etlcct woultl bo to change
fust routes to slow ones. It would have
deprived wholo communities of tho
rapid interchange of business Inter
course between them, so much a char
acteristic of our people. It woultl, as
1 have already said, prevent the rapid
transportation of mail matter from
New York, tbo heart now of tho min
ing interests, to Leutlvtlle or Deadwood
and to all the mining camps in the
West.
Bosldes that, it would havo given to
tho express companies the opportunity
lor carrying that is now possessed by
tho Government, and whero a fust
team Is given by us a slow ono would
havo been put in its place, whilo the
express companies would have reaped
tho profit, VV e had serious complaint
beforo tho committee from contractors
who alleged that thoy had taken their
contracts in good faith, bad thoir allow
ance for increased speed mado in good
faith, put upon their contract route
large expentlitures of monoy in good
limb, and thut the effect ol tho House
bill was to financially ruin thorn. Bo
foro tho sult-committoo one of thoso
contractors presented ' a memorial
which 1 will ask tho Clerk to read as
showinir tho effect of the House hill
proviso upon existing contracts. This
complaint has reference to one of lho
routes 1 have already named.
The Chief Clork read as follows :
Wa.sisorna. D. C, March 1.1, ISSll.
fb f Ar fTAaf mna o la. eeo.ena.onHr f tee .-e-
nfe Committee ea Approria'feae Aaeiao ia eAaroe
Joeat OIH moaieg aa cparcprtatioa Jur tht yo.
Imt ilar errrt're :
1 re.nertfullv eubmlt the follnwlng faele In re
gerd to etar route no. Ill lO.Wyomiug, whieb
1 em eonlreetor.
Thi. route run. from Rock Creek on the Union
Parino Railroad hv Fort Pettorman and Port
MeKlaaay ta Fort Colter, Moataaa DhS milee.
It wae advvrtiae.1 by tbe roat-onee Deportment,
eiae lit, lain, eervioe tft commence Itjloner I
.f s, for three) tilpa per week. I bed that part
ol ,1 between nool ureeB anoi Ion retteveian
(looked, and aalried tbe mail during the Mummer
of IS7I. I wae a bidder for the through eervioe
at $IS.77S per annum. It wa. awarded to rieorgc
U MhDoaoagh (loweat hldder) for (11.777 per
anaum t waa afterward earteiled forty mile, and
tl,2ll.7t deducted, leaving 110.907 li. 1 .eld
my atoch to McDonnugh. He waa declared fail
ing contractor by tbe Poet-OtSee Department
ebwat April I, 1S7I, aaa the inroUee ea Bta rea.
tract were oRered the eervioe.
I being aware that a good end feat aervli-e
woald heaeeded, aad had already bean aeked tor
by the military ot ratte Vetlaraiea, MoKlanev
end Cualera, alao by the lerge aattla end mining
Intereate of thai country, took thia route from tun
auretice end went Immediately to work to
atoch tha route and build etetiaae. I eoeeiaenied
the eervioe April la, ItTS, tri weekly, with eight
deya' time each way, pay, 11(1,007. 3. Th. Idng
time wae ohleclloneole. I wae, howeeever, eora
polled ta aee It in order to krwp wlthis the mail
IIBT.
Petltioni and reaue.te from all parliea Inter-
e.lad were aeol to tae department praying lor
dally earvlea and a ahortar tine. Juno II, I STB,
tha Department ordered four addltloaal trie, per
week at aeoat of $l4.00u.rtfi, and aa OAPeditroa
of lima from eight daya to three deya and threw
hewra, at a Boat at ant.xoi.xi per eauam.
H rale 1 only required eight etatieaa for eight
daya' time in-weekly, twenty-four etetinna were
required for three dev.' time delly. I built Aft'
of tha iweety.feur etelloea at my ewe aoet, aad
aeeieted la awi Idiag lho atbera. They were eleekad
w lb bar ABd IratB tolaat lo Juae I, isso.
Corn la all ahl,.ped from Omaha, 700 mile, by
re limed, ead thea heeled tha rraglh of tho route,
Io( mile It averages me S3 aa war buehel, de
livered aloag tbe route. Hey ia out ea the Use,
aad eo.u from fill ta loo par tea ; having often
M heal It sny milee.
I have twa haadred home sad melee, with aa
entire aalfll af hacka, huexbwarde, haraeoe, Aa.
now la aaa bb thia 31 roilea ofriad, put there at
great eapenee ta meet Ike aerviee erderad hy tbe
rW-Omee Department,
la ardor t atook thia roael la the ehor! tl
given me, I aaa forced to borrow $-lS,0eu In
money. Ta lake off tha evpeditlaa aad cetera la
eight daya' time, wblam I will ha eaeanalled te
do. woald Bet oaly deprive deeervlag people of
the beet moil fee llitiee, bat would throw a aurplae
ar .tack aad grata, aapeld fur, aa aaa aaaaa,
which eertoaaly erlpnle me Bneeelally.
Fort Fettarmaa ia s Ave-wampaay peat t Fort
MoKLaaey ia a aevea-aompaay post Fort Caater
le en elevon-oompauy poat, and baadquartera of
the regiment, Ao You can readily eeethat half
daily or three tripe per week, wi'h thrao-deya
echedule, would be fer preferetde to delly oorvioe
with eigbl-deye aehedule. '
I bave tha honor ta he, very re.pectfully,yoar
obedient eervant, M. T. I'ATaicx,
,ti Contractor.
Mr. WALLACE. To that is append
ed a certificate by the I'nited .Htutos
district judge of Nebraska, with whom
I am well acquainted, as to the chai se
ter ol Mr. Patrick as an honorable and
upright man. That route was expe
dited from one hundred and eighty
hours to seventy live hours. 1 also
havo a statement furnished me hy
Vaile, Minor k Co., of the routo from
Bismarck to Fort Keogb, which 1 ask
the olerk to read. This routo was ex
pedited from eighty .four hours to sixty
fire hours.
The Chief Clerk read as follows :
"Wd now call attention lo tho routo
Irom Bismarck to Fort Keogh. ' Saint
Paul is the nilllilary headquarters tor
all those Northwestern Ions. Prior lo
our taking the above route all mail
mutter for Fort Keogb and in the
other forts in that region went tlown
to Omuha ; thence lo Franklin by rail
road ; thenco north about lour hun
dred und twenty miles to Helena ; then
east to Jlozenian and F'ort Keogh,
making a eurcuit of near twothousund
four hundred miles, one thousand miles
of it by stage when its destination
could be reached, and is now reached in
ahoutsoven hundred miles only three
hundred miles of it by stage. There was
a weekly mail from liisiuarck to Fort
K oogh via Fort Huford, Ion r h tl nd red and
fifty miles ono hundred and titty longer
than our present route. Through the
intercession ot General Miles, Congress
established this route on a straight line,
and except at tho ends, not a person
lived on the lino or within fifty miles
of it ; not one ponton had ever been
over tho line ; there was no track or
trail even. We surveyed tbe road ;
built mounds in sight of each other so
that we could keep tho road across tbo
prairie ; mado approaches to streams :
built bridges and lorries, houses and
stables, seventeen in number; dug
wells and built a road through the bud
lands, which Were considered quite im
passable. "This road cost us near $ 10,000 bo
foro we received one cent ; and would
havo (Hist the Government more than
(200,000 to havo done the same work.
Tho building nf three hundred miles of
road, through a period wilderness, und
the worst Indian country at that timo
in the I'nited States, was a task which
has never been attempted before in
this country by private parties. Tho
result is, thut each one ot our stations
is a fort, as wo must keep men enough
to guard our stock, for if the1- arc
stolon by Indians the mail would stop.
and the Government does not pay us
for stolen stock, and we cannot afford
to suffer tho loss. They do not oven
bury our men who are killed. HV
must protect three hundred viilcM of mail
communication, which the (lofcrnment
teas not able fully to do boloro our day,
thereby saving morotltsn f.Klli.uno per
year. Again, tbe txovernment pays
tor transportation ot soldiers and sup.
plies on tbo straight line over which
we have built a road, and on which we
travel moro than one hundred miles a
doy.therebysavingthecost ot one hun
dred and filly miles of transportation,
which amounts to a very large sum.
On tbe slow time and small mail wb
could get along with thirteen animals
and twelve men, as wo could travel,
liko ths Arab, with our tents and pro
visions, making twenty fivo in all. By
expedition to lost lime and six trips
per week, wo estimated it would take
150 men and 150 animals ; but to-dny
we have 200 men on the line shoveling
snow, and 200 animals. Wo make
every trip, although the railroad can
not make one trip in two weeks. Our
animals' legs are skinned by tho froscn
snow from thcirhoels totheirgambrols.
We incase them with sacks, wet, which
quickly freeao, and in this way only
can we travel. Al tbo ratio ol 25 to
300 wo woro entitled to more than
(1C0.00O undertholaw j but wooffercd
lo accept (07,050 lor fivo additional
trips and expedition. But in this offer
we made a great mistake. We did not
know that it snowed nearly every day
for four months in that eountry, and
the thermometer fur weeks at 30 to
54" below xero, ns has been the case
this Winter. Wo did not know of the
blir.xards that would cut the flesh off
men and beasts liko fire, or we would
not bave made it. 1 Tho current quar
tor will not cost us less than (30,000,
leaving only $10,000 for tho remaning
three quarters, less deduction", which
may bo onc half, for not running on
timo."
Mr. WALLACE. There has also
been furnished tbo sub-committee an
expense account of several routes by
one of tho largest firms carrying mails
west of tho Mississippi River, (iiimer,
Salisbury A Co., from which I road an
extract as to but one t
, res stack Bttta neorBt.
Mall pay
:I115S, Sidney ta Deadwood. per an'mfi lJ,J21 00
, Cheyeona t Deadwood, per
annum; leJ.MOO 00
Total pay per annum
I tS.IJl 00
F.tpcaee aeeount from Juno 1, 1879,
to November 0, IS7S:
Kmployee ooeoael....M.. ...... ...........
Klpen.o aeoount -
llraia aeeount .
Hey aoeount...
Hoard aaeeUBt , ...
Toll eoooual ,....
Damage eceoaot
West aad tear aaeouat...M.....H....
Sis mental H......MH.
Double fo, the y'eer .1
lBloreotaalaeoe:n)eBlBIM,OaOat III
par cent, per aaouoa -
IS SIS ii
11(1111 43
il.SIO II
S.I24 03
r,j t as
. .U0 04
Isu SO
I1.MS at
7I.I1S 17
I !,.., ol
lo.oon oi
Total fot tha year.......
Total pa; per eooum.,
U,4M M
4l,l2i Ot
t Kxeaeaef expeaaee over reoeipte...B ll.Velt 64
Showing that the businoss they had
built up requires a largoly increased
amount lo conduct it over tho mall
pay, and that the compensation from
the mails Is but a trifle as compared to
tho whole compensation they receive
lor tbo passonger and other work
douo on those rouloa. They carry now
about fifleen hundred pounds freight
daily, and the rnto they receive is
about six cents per pound.
I have referred to theat apeoilio
cases of complaint id order to lustily
tho action ol tho committee aa lo the
House proviso. There is another point
of view in which lho action of the Sen
ate committee will be soon to be bettor
tor the Governmont than the House
bill. It is that tbia bill Is cheaper than
the forfeiture of all these routes under
the proviso in ths House bill. The
amonnt of ono month's pay, wbicb
would have to he paid if the contracts
were all lorleited on one handred and
seven routos, wonld bo 1207,113. Tbe
amount appropriated hy tho House bill
lor the present service ia $970,000,
making a total of (1.237.113. Tbe
amount required to continue tha sor,
vie on the present bases, as show by
the Scares of the Sixth Auditor of the
Treasury, is $1,100,000, tbe amount of
Ibis bill as wt propose to amend it,
TERMS $2 per annua is Advance.
NEW SERIES-V0L.'21, NO.. 15.
The difference and saving to the Gov
Arnrmmt hv l.tds hill, therefore, is (1H7.
000 over tho House bill, so that from
any stand point this is hotter than thej
adoption of the llonso bill.
Wo were asked to do two things ; to
slop fast mails on all tho routes wont
ol tho Mississippi and to ruin contract-
ore who on the laith of our luw admin
istered by our agents had spent liuoi
sums ol mooev.
Iti.dit here. Mr. 1'resiiieul. it is wir,e!""""i'l''tu""n. which would destroy
to distinguish between tho action of
the PoBt-OHice Department and tbe
rights of theso contractors and tbo in
terests of the people. On the one band
our people want rapid transportation
of the mail ; they do not waul tbe mail
carried on a rude wagon, but on tbe
contrary they want it carried just as
rapidly as it can bo transported in
overy locality.
' So, too, in regard to contractors, do
man who bos colored into a contract
with tbe (iovornmcnl on tho faith of
its laws, under power given by the
laws lo agents oi tbe tiovernment, in
the absence of positive proof of corrup
tion, of Iraud, of wrong, ou tbe part ol
the man thus contraciini;, should be
stricken down. It ia infinitely better
for us to suffer for a timo, to bear these
wrongs temporarily until we can put
our hand npon the wrong, until wo can
discover whero the corruption is, it it
exists, and then at once forfeit bis con
tract, make the contractor pay lor do
bauchini; onr officials, and punish the
official who is guilty of corrupt con
duct in ruloronce to their contracts.
This is the view the committee took
of the subject-matter, and in the ab
sence ot proof of corrupt conduct on
the part of any contractor wo t'id not
feel warranted in striking down ull
these contracts ; but we belioved thai
it was wise and just and propur to con.
duct tho service upon tho basis on
which wo find it to the ond fit this
fiscal year, and at the same time await
the action ol tbe House in its search
for the thieves, and ii they find them
the Committee on Appropriations will
be among tho first, without distinction
of party, to aid in punishing them,
whether they bo found in tho Depart
ment or among tho contractors ; but
we did not teel warranted or instilled
in striking down ths public servico on
suspicion, in lessening the muil service
to lho people in the absence of positive
proof, or of any proof, nor did we feel
justified in ruining men financially who
aro not found to have beon guilty of
complicity with lraud or tainted with
corruption. Ho have guarded this
subject in regard to the fuluro by ad.
ding the proviso I nave already read.
hen wroug is tound tho (senate, act
ing in its judicial capacity, will bo
ready lo try and punish, I have nofonnty-
doubt ; but tostrike men before wronir. I t, ,,i ,,', ij .;,,.
is fouud is to punish with passion and
repent wben cool.
1 make no defense ol the Post-OfHco
Department fur its unreliable figures.
I have no dofonse of it for the initia
tion of tbo expenditure of more money
in the fiscal year than tho law author
ixod it to expend, hut have aoted tion
what we regarded as a requirement
tbat the service should go on upon its
existing basis for this year, and tbat
there is not yet sufficient ground either
in law or in fact for stopping that
servico. This we thought warranted
us in reporting the bill in the term bo
fore tho Senate. The fact tbat there
was no wrong yet found as connocted
witb any of these contractors war
ranted us in sustaining the contracts
to the ond of tho fiscal year ; and when
we find, if we can, beforo tho bill tor
lho next fiscal year is completed that
fraud, corruption, or wrong do exist,
that any of these contractors are con
nected with thorn, 1 shall be among
the first toaid in forfeiting any contract
that oxisls.in tbe hands of any of them
and in punishing them in any mode
within our power.
But, sir, as I have already said, It is
better for us to sudor for a time than
to lesson tho means of business inter
course. This bill contains those two
ideas, that we wish to continue this
service to tho end of the fiscal year
upon its existing basis, and that we
will not punish any man lor corrupt
practices until they aro shown. We
also desire to bring to tlio notice of the
Sonato the fact that those statutes are
full of opportunity for favoritism and
corruption, and tbat they ought to be
corrected and amended.
WliA T DHl'yh'tXa COSTS.
AN fcSSAY BEAD BEFORE Till I'M ION
temperance association, at
pennviixe, by Joseph
m. spencer.
1 presume few persons are aware
of how small auma run up to large
amounts, constantly dotting tbe way
at regular Intervals, and I am inclined
to boliovo H men could see tbo ond
Irom tbe beginning, thero would be
comparatively few caught in the trap,
to the numbers tbat aro constantly
traveling the broad road to ruin. As
I propose in tbis article to illustrate to
this audience nn outline of what drink,
ing costs, 1 will ask you to be patient
with me. I will begin with what it
costs lo be a moderate drinker. I havo
supposed that moderate drinking might
consist ol three drinks a day-morning,
noon and ovening -and haveenlculatod
the amount that would be expended in
thirty years. We say three drinks a
day, at ten cents a drink, makes thirty
cents. Now wo calculate thrco hun
dred and thirteen days in a year that
our laws allow a man to drink at tbe
bar, would make $93.90. Monoy be
ing always worth its interest, we cal
culate the compound interest on this
amount lor twenty-nine years, which,
including the yeur it was being ex
pended, makes the thirty years, and
find the amount to lie the round sum
of (504.45. Then running on success
ively and giving the amount of each
year for ihirtv years, wo find the
aggiegoto to bo (7,412.0ft, as follows:
....-17.41! M
This amount to some of yon may
seem to be an exaggeration ; rat I can
assure yon that if everyone 'man or
womsn-ewho spends thirty cents
dsy unnecessarily would lay it away,
and at the end nl tbe year put it out
ob interest, as here indicated, would,
at the cad ol thirty years, find bim or
herself in possession of the above
amount of money. Now, if this is
only moderatedrinking, where will era
find th immoderate drinker " As
tome drink regularly and some only
periodically, we oan make no dcBolta
estimate of the amount expended ; but
wb presom very few fall below, while
let . (3 OS'lSth MS is
2d Ii ink Ja tit
3d .. le eO,lth.... 2 .1.14
4th Ill Sl'IOih 1S7 4S
4ih........ Ill 4!eih-.......... una
tih .,.... . 121 7 ll.t ......... MO 14
tib - 1.11 a!IJd ! BIS AT
!...,. Ill l!d . MobS
Oil Ill SI tub ' SSlsl
l.llk...... ' IIS SI jttik ...- S7S 17
I lib Il-S SJ'ltUk......,....,, 7N !4
I7IB I7 .V27th 4!tS
13th I M ISlh .... 41107
lltk 200 7i:lib .. 471 Sw
lout..... . 1117
Total......... ...... ..........
many far exoeod tbo above Mtianate).
And iB this all? Mcthinks wo boar
the answer simultaneously, "No!" If
this woro all, we oould stand it; bat
tho dark side of the picture is not
turned yet. Can a man's lifo bs Tat
ued with dollars and cents? Can
his happiness or tbe happiness of
bis tumily bo valued with dol
lars and cents? It would bo a
happy thought to know that thore
were none that could answer this
quostion experimentally. We read in
our Testament (and wo must take this
for authority) that a drunkaid cannot
enter tho kingdom of Heaven ; and
again, "what will it profit a man if bo
gain the wholo world and lose bis own
aoul?" Now, hero is the point that
everyone who drinks ought to mako a
pause at. - Slop and oouaidorl 11 ore,
lho lip of truth declares It shall be so
and so. Shall I continue In my on
ward course unto lho bitter end ? No,
I fellow-mortal, it is bettor when one
finds be has token ths wroug path to
"p short and return. - lVrhaps the
""ay may bo far spent, and thero be no
'" t0 lo"- X"W, in the. preceding
quotation, "what shall it profit a man,"
c. there seemed to ha a gam Indicated
on lho one side either u power or
vwiullh. or emolument, or semie other
, tbe divine lifo in tbo soul und blot out
lho chances of fuluro happiness; but
with the drunkard it is even worse
than this. For he squanders bis for
tune, ruins bis reputation, robs bis
family, destroys his own happiness,
and also, in a degree, that of his Irienda,
and finally his hope of a happy immor
tality. Now, this is what I have figured
out that drinking costs. What do you
think of it, friends? Can anyone,
alter bo comes to himself, go on in this
downward course? Who would not
say, "1 will arise !',' Arise from where ?
Tho (.ntier? Yes; Irom all that is
low and unbecoming a gentleman. I
will arise to a higher life, and 1 will go
to my Father, and present myself pui
and nntieliled.and then receive forgive
ness and mako all tbo household glad
lor thero is moro joy over one siunor
that rcpuntcth than over ninety and
nine just persona that need no repent
ance This is what the Temperance
people are working for to reclaim.
May they labor long and earnestly,
until tho tide rolls over and echoes
back-: "All is well!"
SOLO.
We're nothing for temperance, we're doing our
be.l i
We're a bend of true workers up In tha weal ;
Tha time it i. pealing, 'til precious ao know,
And we'll work for Ibo eoooo wbererer we go
Till the we to pee.ee over that doe. aot real,
sna tne ecno come, naca: -no reaomgour oeai.
We will add to onr 1 Biona and .how forth oar
might
Till all aball come in and acknowledge the right,
And the wave peatel over the tela to tell.
And the echo some, back : "All la wall !"
EDUCATIONAL. '
RY M. L. McQUOWN.
Every school teacher should keep
an ''Educational Scrap-book "
Prof. Youngiuan's school opened ou
Monday last with good prospects.
Let every teacher in tbo county re
view their work and strive to over
come all thoir weak places before the
opening of another term.
James M. Porter, of Pike township,
and Merlie E. Muines.of Bradford, are
the latest arrivals at the Lock Haven
State Normal School from Clearfield
porinlendents will meet at the State
Convention in tbe Capitol building at
Uarrisburg next Tuesday. Clearfield
will be represented.
The Tonnvillo school undoubtedly
caps tho climax in number of visits
during the term. Mr. Liirbtnor, the
teacher, reports 162 visits Irom parents
and 10 from dirvctors. Next I
From reports received we learn that
104 visits Irom parents and 10 Irom
directors were recorded on the report
of Fairviow acbool, in Penn township,
and 75 from parents on tho Coal Hill
school report.
Tbe pupils ol Harmony school, in
Burnsid township, presented their
teacher, Miss Ida Neff, with a valuable
gift on the last day of their school.
Miss NclfBtands high in the confidence
and esteem of her pupils.
John C. Barclay, teacher of tbo Now
Washington school, under the bead of
remarks, says : "Tho ed uentional meet
ing on the evening of tbo last day was
well attended. At tbe close of the
exorcises prltes wero awarded to Cora
Mahaffuy, JossieMcMurruy, Delia Mc
Murray and Ash D. Bennett, jr. The
nrc.entation prieecbes Were made bv
Hov.'s Hull ami Ague, and J.ll. Kelly,
Kq. jrivo directors ana twelve patrons
visited tbo school during tbo term."
M iss Clara Barrett, teacher of Spruce
Flat school, in Gulicb township, re
ports tor the month ending Janu
ary oTb,18H0: Whole number enrolled,
ao ; por cent, ol attendance, :i ; aver-
ago attendance, 40 ; visits receiveu
from directors, I ; pupils missing no
time, 16. Fourth month ending Feb-.
ruary 19th, 18S0: Whole number en
rolled, 67 ; per cent, of attendance, 90 ;
average attendance, 49; visits from
tliroctors, 1 ; pupils missing no time,
17. A number were absent only on
day. Filth month ending March 22d,
1880: Wholo number enrolled, 55;
average attendance, 48 ; per cent, of
attendance, 90 ; visits from directors,
2; visits from cilieens, 8.' Fifteen
missed no time. Several were detained
by sickness. Interest still good.
kot.L or HONOR.
Tbe following is the list of names of
pupils received for the "Roll of Honor"
tor the woek ending April 8th. Tbe
names appearing in this roll indicate
that the pupil attended every day nf
the term :
Pennville school, io Pens township
Gilbert Durnel, Harry Walker, War
ren Rowles, Mary Pifer, Padie Dough
man. Radakor school, in Brady township
Emma Marewine, J. C. Harman, H.
PoallelhwaiL. - , ,
Aurand school, in Brady township
Lcwia II. Hchoch, Milton Aurand,
Katie Schorh.
Osaeols Primary School Mamie
Logigsn, Willie MoCully, Patsey Fo
ley. . ,:
I isceola Intermediate School Carrie
Askey, Alice Adams.
Bradford Independent Bchool Clar
ence Lansberry, Alios Lansberry, Roy
Harger, Ralph Lansberry,
Salt Liek School, in Karthatia town
ship Frank , White, Willi , White,
Mary White, Callie Fisher, Bertba
lleckendorn tnd Sophia Fisher.
Troatville School, in Brady township
Daniel Hi. hell, Epbraim Schocb,
Ooorgie Weber and Lltisie Bonsai.
Iiocktnn Indopondenl Rchool VTm.
Laborde, Charles Beer, Maggie Bra
buker and Jerusb-l)rubaker.
Curry School, in Pike township
Chiloe Starr snd Davis Bloom.
Clover Hill School, in Lawrence
township Anna Wrigley.
Stony Point School, ia Ferguson
township Master Blake N orris.
' West Libertv School, in Sandy
township Hsrbert W. Lindsey.
FrenchvilleSchoel, Covington town
shipCharles Wanchet, John Wan
cbet, Jerrwne Piearrl. "
- East In Jlois School A oca Rep
sher, Fhoebt Zierdon, James Setrle,
Boy Osborne, Ret F.leederi, Bennie
Loring, Leroy Pearl, tjeerga Beard,
Sarah iliger and Henry Pearl. ,
New Washington School Sue GsJ
laher, Ada Gallaher ' and Hylen
Mitchell.. Firs other ra rated but one
Jr . . .