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Plain Facts.
FIGURES THAT DO NOT 1.1E —TAXPAYERS CAN
UNDERSTAND THIS ARGUMENT.
The Republican party caine into
power in this State in 1861, and the
cost to the State government then was
$947,911.83, exclusive of interest and
reduction of debt.
The Republican administration of
Governor Curtin, even with all the
enormously increased expenditures of
war and the highest inflation of values
known in this age, increased the State
expenditures to only $1,531,486.67 in
1867.
In 1866 the Cameron machine en
trenched itself in the Republican cita
del and for fifteen years it has been
supreme in every channol of Republican
power in the State. With it came reck
less profligacy; the creation of offices
for favorites ; the lavish waste of public
money to reward partisan henchmen,
and the absolute subordination of in
tegrity and manhood to the cohesive
power of public plunder.
In 1870, after three years of machine
rule in the State, the annual expendi
tures in time of peace, had grown to
$2,228,870.27, being an increase of sl,-
281,058.44 ever the expenses when the
party assumed power, and an increase
of $797,436.60 over the expenditures
under Gov. Curtin, with the extraor
dinary demands of war to meet.
Rut the profligacy of boss government
was not content with Jhe expenditures
of IS7O. The Auditor General's report,
shows that the cost of the State govern- 1
ment for 1880, including its share for
the Legislature, foots up to the enor
mous amount of 4,962,105.59 millions,
being more than the entire cost of the
government in 1860, when the Repub
lican party first attained power.
This expenditure does not embrace
either interest or principal of public
debt. It is simply the regular annual
expenditure of the State government.
There is a legitimate increase in
schools and judiciary, made by the con
stitution, but that is little more than
half a million, and the other expendi
tures are mainly or wholly the creation
of machine legislation.
The people of Pennsylvania have
lately been carefully reading and con
sidering the record made by Controller
Pattison in Philadelphia, and they have'
learned that his entry into the control
ler's office dated the beginning of the
practical reform that has changed the
city from a $2.25 tax rate and three
millions annual increase of debt, with
little or no improvements, to a $1.95
tax rate, and annual surplus of a mil
lion, and substantial improvements in
every department, and that is just the
sort of an administration they want in
Pennsylvania.
Figures Won't Lie.
The office of controller of the city of
Philadelphia sayß the Lancaster Intetli
yeneer, is the most important in the or
ganization of that municipality. The
salary Attaching to it is double that
of mayor; its responsibilities are greater
and accordingly as the incumbent of it
is faithful, intelligent and honest, or
careless, ignorant and dishonest, the
expenses, the debt and the tax rale of
Philadelphia will be diminished or in
creased. The duties of the place are
very much more than clerical, as the
ringsters have been made to feel since
Mr' Pattison has been its incumbent.
The controller is the checkaipon unlaw
ful expenditures and exorbitant bills.
During the past twenty years nearly
every city in the country has suffered
from the license which its authorities
have indulged in to contract floating
and bonded debts for corrupt and ex
travagant purposes. Obligations have
been piled upon each other until, de
' spite a constantly increasing tax rate,
•upon an iuoreased valuation of oity
property, each year found the munioi
.polities deeper in debf, their interest
account heavier and the taxes more
burdensome. The whole country was
shocked some years ago by the expo
sure of the New York methods of mu
nicipal spoliation, but few cities of any
considerable size in the country have
been exempt from similar operations,
and as a consequence the total munici
pal and local indebtedness of tho coun
try, largely resulting from shiftlessness
and peculation in the administration of
city government, fur outruns the aggre
gate of the national debt.
That Philadelphia was a notable illus
tration of this tendency may b readily
seen from the following figmes, showing
the total funded and floating debt at
the hegining of each year, and the cost
of the departments for the entire year:
Total futiili'il Oust of Tax
Your. ami floating 1> pnrtmoiits. Ilato.
180 821,360,'750.80 $2,082,518.1 II $2.00
180 21,271.7:12.115 2,507,820.10 2.25
180 22,610,200.15 2.881,1 111.39 2.0il
180 21,750,056.16 5 -182.21 .1.112 2.30
1864 25,713,010.10 3,017,321 ill 230
1865 32,703,898.110 -1,150.-00 81 2.80
180 30,727,120.00 1,101,700,11 4DO
1807 37,310,187.87 4,1-12.301.72 1.1,n
1868 38,119,018.02 1.421,8.11.03 1.40
1800 10,188,310.90 5,822,054.13 1.811
187 45,di11,-247.34 5,080,011.88 1.80
1.H71 48,701,804.04 6,408,416.27 1.80
1872 51,552,136.53 5,001,414.53 2.08
187 51,208,0181.40 8,162.751.62 2.25
187 60,630,871.00 0,070 811.72 2.20
1875 64,290,483 65 10.105,019.80 2,15
187 00,716,524.17 0,806,010.01 1.15
1877 73,571,1-10.02 8 181,001.20 2.25
These figures sliow a regular and
steady increase of the city debt, averag
ing $3,022,400 per year for ten years
preceding 1878. At the same time the
tax rate had leaped up alarmingly, and
the cost of the department had advanced
from $4,442,361.72 in 1807 t0510,10.1,919.
"80 in 1875. It is true there was a slight
reduction in the department expenses
from 1875 to 1877, but it will he noticed
that there was an enormously greater
increase of the city debt of $9,283,710.17
within that period, so that tiie munici
pal authorities were only saving at the
spiggot to let out at the bung.
In 1877 Mr. Pattison was elected enn
troller, defeating the regular Republi
can nominee by a majority of 1,902,
though the Republicans carried the city
on the state ticket by an average ma
jority of 5,871. Mr. Pattison was at that
time a young and comparatively untried
man with only a reputation for honesty
and intelligence. But the public had
confidence in him, and how well he jus
tified it may be inferred from the fact
that when his party renominated him
in 1880 he was elected over a Republi
can of blameless private character and
record, by a majority of 13,593, though
| on the very same election day the Dem
ocratic national ticket was in a minori
ty of 20,883 in Pniladelpbia. It must
be remembered, too, that at tins time
there was no Committee of One Hun
fired, nor any organized lndepenpentor
Reform movement supporting Patti
son.
Now let ns examine the lesuits of his
administration which have had this
high approval. The year 1878 was tfie
first which tested his methods of ad
ministration. inclusive ot that, and
since then, the record runs thus:
187 s7.',G|.'visl.7*.i $7,101,791.18 -215
187 71.835,191.35 7,|1K1.1;U 5.3 2 II
188 72,2'.l 605.76 6,376,578 31 2.00
188 70,032 1311.47 6,88 ~3.i:.'.i2 1.95
1802 68,62'.',40.3.72 1.'.0
Against the former average yearly
increase of $3,022,-100. Mr. I'aiti-on's ad
ministration shows an average <lecrea.se
ot $1,246.737 —a difference in lavor of
the Pattison system, and to the advan
tage of the tax p iyers, ol $1,809,143 per
annum, nearly $5 a year in the uo.ikets
of every man, woman and child in the
citv of Philadelphia, for j,iieclly and
indirectly every class of people feel the
burden of increased city debt! and ex
penses.
But not only is the superior
of Pattison's admiuislralion itlUa>t(&P ed
by the decrease of thfj, ein# de'd, .- The
j department expenses have gftne down
j from $8,184,961.20 to $6,883 320.92, a
| reduction per annum ol $1,301,034.28;
and the tax levy is reduced from $2 25
to $1.90, a reduction <>! 'he annual bur
den on property of 35 <a-.:i; on every
SIOO of valuation, a benefit to owner
and renter, making teal estate more
valuable while at the same time it
lightens the burdens of the poor and
diminishes the expenses of the business
man. Prior to Pattison's term one fifth
of the city taxes were uncollected and
went into the hands of the delinquent
collector, where enormous expenses
were added for the profit of speculating
politicians, who at the same tune allow
ed political friends entirely to escflpe
their municipal obligations. The poor
and unfortunate were plundered for the
enrichment of rapacious partisans. Last
year only 8 percent, of the city taxes
were uncollected, a gtjn of 72 p-r cent,
over tlie days of ring rule.
it was their reforms which .enabled
the controller to say in his last annuel
report: "The burdens of the tax pay
ers are being lightened, increased en
couragement is given lor the employ
ment of capital within its limits, and
an auspicious beginning has been made
in freeing the second city of the Union
in population, and the first in industrial
enterprise, hum taxation for indebted
ness."
That is exactly the sort of relief that
is needed at Harrisburg. The state ex
perinea are increasing all the time. Plun
deriog goes on incensantlv. There is
jobbery jn every department. The
enormous revenues of the common
wealth which should have wiped out
the i-tate debt years ago are the prey; of
petty spoilsmen. From ifra purchase
of stationery up to the budding ol
asylums and penitentiaries there if
universal corruption. What is wanted
at lfarrisburg is exactly the kind of ad
ministration which Controller Pattison
hw given Philadelphia.
Interesting Ourmc i'/jefs.
To Any one who knows how to dig
tluuu nut the census reports present
facts that are curious and interesting as
well as instructive, Jn these respects
the census of 1880 egcorvj* any of its
predecessors.
The assessed value of the property of
the people of the United States in 18b0
was $12,084,500,003, or half the calcu
lated value. The assessed value in 1870
was $14,178,980,732, or half the calcu
lated value. The assessed value in 1880
was $16,902,755,893, or hfclf the calcu
lated value. These figures show the
property of the people of the United
Stales to have increased in value during
/twenty years nearly ten billion dollars,
or pt the ,raio of nearly five hundred
million dollars a year, $1,320,000 a day,
$55,000 an hour, and $9lO a minute.
The present increase is estimated at
$1,200 a minute and S2O a second.
The total working force of the Xlni
ted States is estimated at 15,000,000, of
whom 7,050,000 ure engaged in agricul
ture, 3,300,000 in professional ami per
sonal service, 3,300,000 in manufactur
ing. mining and mechanical work, and
1,350,000 in trade and transportation.
The great diversity of our country is
shown in tho various levels at which
our people live: 15,053 live between
7.000 and 8,000 feet abbve sea level, 24,-
947 live between 3.000 and 9,000 feet,
20,400 live over 10,000 feet, 20.840 live
between 9,oooand 10,000 feet,4,939 live
between 0,000 and 7,000 feet, 123,348
live between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, 100,-
545 live between 4 000 and 5,000 fept,
271,321 live between 5,000 and 0,000
teet, 094,357 live between 2,000 and
3,000 teet, 1,876,835 live between 1,5C0
and 2 000 feel, 7,903,811 live between
1,000 and 1,500 feet, 9,152,003 live 1000
feet above the level of the sea, and 10,-
775,250 live between 100 and SUO feet,
and 19,025,017 live between 500 and !,-
000 feet above the level of the sea. The
average height of all is 700 feet above
sea level. Nearly hall a million of our
people live a mile high and over.
The average rainfall of the United
States is 29 inches, or 25,000 barrels to
the acre. Over 46,000,000 ot our popu
lation have more than the average of
rain, 22,000.000 having between 40 and
50 inches. In the regions having ibis
large average rainfall the average copu
lation to the square mile is largest,
while but few live where the average
annual rainfall is less than 20 inches.
The Electoral Fraud of 1S7(-7. —The
Lute (m ii. Garfield Said to Have
Bitterly Repented of It.
A strange story comes to rae trom the
deathbed of the late President Garfield.
It is to the effect that while yet in his
full senses, hut convinced that he could
not recover, lie expressed not only re
gret, but deep contrition, for the part
which he had borne in depriving Presi
dent Tilden of the oflice to which lie
was elected in IhTO. It will he remem
bered that Mr. Garfield was one of the
"visiting statesmen" who thrust them
selves into the canvass of the vote ol
Louisiana in that year, bringing out
"evidence" of "hull dozing" in some ol
the rural parishes, and 111 particular
that of the old colored woman whom
Mr. Garfield examined, "not," ho said
"us a,judge but as a lawyer."
It is now related that, feeling that ho
could not recover, that his death must
take place within a lew days, he talked
with his attendants aoout his public
career as well as lii personal affairs, it
is said, upon authority that 1 have no
reason to doubt, that he showed him
self sincerely penitent for the part w hioii
he took in the great fraud of 1870. lie
regarded that as the one great slain
upon his public caieer, and he made
some reference to documents which lie
felt sure would serve to mitigate the
judgment of posterity upon him. He
expressed the greatest t.j prehension
that at no d.slant period an avenging
Nemesis would visij. upon his party and
friends a terrible revenge for that
wrong. Those who listened to him
were his personal and political friends;
they regarded the words and emotions
of Garfield as tlie effect ol physical
weakness and long suffering, and agreed
to be silent regarding them. Put in
the quarrels that have arisen between
J the .Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds they
have beep repeated, and are at length
the subject of discussion in private
circles. At no distant day some au
thorized publication on the subject may
he expected.
The Naval Hill.
CUTTING DOWN Tllfi AI'PROI'RI ATIOX FOR
MONITORS FROM $1,000,000 to $400,000.
WASHINGTON, July 29. —The Senate
to day gave the naval bill a pair of black
eyes by reducing from one million to
four hundred thousand dollars the esti
mate of the, committee for finishing the
monitors, and rejecting a proposition
advocated by the committee to abolish
the grade of commodore. In the first
instance Messrs. Halo and Ingalls in
dulged in a sharp controversy regarding
the completion of the monitors, the
latter claiming that they had been
found unfit for service, and grave doubts
were entertained thai they w-mid float
after being put in the water. It was
shown in the debate that tiiu< far about
nine millions of dollars had been ex
pended on these vessels, and Mr. Hale
stated that three millions more would
he required to complete them.
It was evident trom the tone of the
dcbgte that ensued that the proposi
tion was fayorably considered by cer
tain Republican,,, and when a vote was
reached the ayes were thirty-three aud
the noes nineteen, Messrs. Cameron, of
Wisconsin; (Jbilcott, of Colorado ; Davis,
of Illinois; Ilawley, of Connecticut;
ingalls, of Kansas; McDill, of lowa,
and Sherman, of Ohio, were recorded
with the Democratic phalanx in the
affirmative.
The next amendment which pro
voked discussion was the ope providing
for the abolition of the grade of com
modore. Senator Logan and Cerro
(fordo Williams locked horns at once,
the latter pleading eloquently for the
retention of the "name so dear to every
citizen of the United States." Mr.
Logan attempted to prevent such action
by pooh-poohing contemptuously the
assertion? made by the Kentucky states
man, but his ehortp y/ere* futile, as the
result showed. There was n decided
majority against the ameudmeiU fc#.d
the commodores are safe.
The action of the senate was very
distasteful to Secretary Chandler and
bis chum, Robeson, both of whom have
worked a?sulp|ously to prevail upon the
senators to retain the legislative and
monitor appropriation features pf the
bill. Their solicitation militated against
the bill. •
If lack on Jefferson.
AN Am.l LETTER FROM THE DEV.OCRATIO
. CANDIDATE FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
TO THE JEFFERSON ASSOCIATION OF THIS
citv;
The following letter fr m Hon
Chauncey F. Black, Democra io candi
date for 1 ieutenant Govtrnor to B. M
Nead, I'a>, corresponding seo.efary o.
the Jefferson Association of this city,
speaks for itself and will ho read with
delight by all who hope for tho restora
tion of Jeffersonian principles:
YORK, July 20.— My Dear Sir : Noth
ing could have given ino greater pleas
ure than tho receipt of your kind com
munication of the 12th inst., informing
me of my unanimous election to hon
orary membership in the Jifferson As
sociation of llarrisburg. I accept the
compliment with a lively and grateful
sense of its true value, and I shall en
deavor to make my name worthy of its
piace on your roll by continuance in
those humble hut earnest efforts in the
great causa you aro organized to pro
mote which have doubtless procured
i.ic this unexpected honor.
When the federalists in the closing
years of tho last century had well nigh
revolutionized the government estab
lished by the constitution, transcend
ing its most important limitations and
invading many of the fields ol power
expressly reserved from its operation,
their dislodgeinent became necessary to
the preservation of the Republic. That,
like the present, was a most unequal
struggle between power, patronage,
money and monopoly on the one side
and the masses of working people on
the other. The latter must have gone
down and all that they contended for
must have been lost in one prodigious
disaster but for the character of their
organization and leadership. These
were wisely adapted to the nature of
the conflict. Jefferson, Madison, our
own Gallatin, and their devoted com
patriots were not content with merely
sounding the alarm. They called the
people together in their primary capa
city, and urged them to organize in
close and permanent associations like
| the popular committees of the revolu
! lion, where they might take council
| one with another respecting the public
i dangers and the means of defence.
| These were the "Democratic Societies'"
| which filled the federalists with terror
| by their hold agitations, and which it
| was once actually proposed to put down
j by the strong hand under a statute to
Ibe passed for the purpose. The first
one established in Pennsylvania was
i loriued in Philadelphia iu 1793, with
I David Rittenhouse president and a list
of other officers, some of whose names
! are only less illustrious than his. The
j Democratic societies were, as Mr. JefH-r
--! -on said, the "nurseries of the Rcpubli
j can principles of the constitution." and
j to them, with the widespread influence
! of their discussions arid publications,
; and the "rousing of the people" by
j trequent meetings in small bodies, where
; every man harl a voice, was due, in no
j small degree, the great deliverance of
I 13(10 and the defeat of the infamous
-oheme to exclude Mr. Jefferson from
the office to which he had been elected,
is Mr. Tilden was excluded in 1877.
The Democratic societies of our day
i are called Jefferson Association), not
I merely in veneration of the personal
I character of the great apostle of Auieii
j can liberty, hut to indicate our devo
j lion to the body of political principles
j which is justly known by the name ot
j him who formulated them in matchless
| simplicity and illustrated them practi-
I rally and personally in those two ad
i ministrations of the government which
! ail men agree ushered in the "Golden
| age of the Republic," The name of
Jefferson stands, not for a man only,
but for a faith, not merely for the le
vered shade of the leader, whose lame is
concecrated wherever the language of
freedom is known, hut for doctrine a
eertianly and us absolutely essential to
| political salvation <ts any lor which men
j ever fought or died.
But it is said that "Jefferson is dead."
; I think this is a mistake. Jefferson
! died in the body some hours helote his
j great friend and antagonist, John
! Adams, hut the last words of the latter
were : "Jefferson still lives," and they
were true, lie lives in his deathless
work in his teachings and in his in
fluence, and when he ceases to live, the
republic itself will have ceased to he.
When Mr. Adams died the failure ol
feuera istn and the triumph of Demoo
racy seemed both complete. But if
any man imagined t hat these conditions
have been reversed, and tlint the
"strong government," lor which the
federalists have contended from Hamil-
I ton ami Adams to Grant and Arthur,
has finally displaced the Republican
government ol enumerated and limited
powers, let him remember the federalist
exultation which went before the mighty
fall of 1880. The principles of Jeffer
son are dear to every honest Republican
heart; there never was a moment since
the adoption ot the constitution, when,
it put fairly at issue, they would not
have received the unreserved approba
tion of a vast majority of the people.
Jefferson is not dead. He will he dead
only when we ourselves or our less for
tunate children are dead in political
slavery, that is to say, when the inde
pendent Commonwealths which took
their places among the nations ot the
earth upon Jefferson's immortal decla
ration, and were again rescued by him
from a worse peril in 18,Q0, shall have
been crushed in the coils of a corrupt
centralization, aud the last vestige of
local sell-government shall have been
swept away. But until then let no
honest Democrat listen to the shallow
and pitiful taunt that Thomas Jefferson
is dead. The words can have no mean
ing, unless it be implied that tl;e princi
ples of home rule and pure government,
which he so nobly maintained in life
were entombed with the dust ot the
good right hand which traced the De
claration of Independence and the
golden truths of his first inaugural.
And if that be true, or seemingly
true in the eyes of the complacent
federalist gloating over needless mil
lions snatched from jJl.p hands of
patient labor and aiswibuted among
favored classes enjoying undue privi
leges, or lavished on objects not dis
tinctly defined by the Constitution,
then it is high time for the resurrection.
Tbp sober judgment of the people is
again invoked upon a situation far
graver than that of 1800, when Jeffer
son fought in the flesh. Can any rea
sonable man doubi the result? The
huge aggregation of special interests,
artificially fostered by our later legisla
tion, combined under the name ot the
republican party, and administering the
goverumentfor the benefit of the few
in utter disregard of the rights and
needs of the cruelly plundered and
heavily Lurdened many, is visibly rot
ting asunder and fulling away into help
less fragments. The hour of our second
deliverance from the Bourbon federalist
the boee. the spoils system, the monop
olist and the corrupt ring, with the
centralization in which all have their
beginning and their being, draws near.
To this most desirable end nothing can
contribute more directly or more pow
erfully than the establishment of .Jef
ferson associations in every quarter. It
is the method of Jefferson himself, and
I hope to see the great party of the
common people, del'rau< led in 1876,
make itrell ready for the final conflict
before it, by the formation within its
ranks of thousands of these democratic
societies or Jefferson associations, which
being closely affiliated and in intimate
correspondence with each other, would
keep the democratic party democratic
and put it in a posture to meet another
electoral conspiracy like that of 1870-7
as our forefathers met that of 1800-1.
Meanwhile 1 am, very truly yours, etc.,
G'IIAUNCEV F. BI.ACK.
BKNI. M. NKAD, ESQ,
Cor. Sec'y Jefferson Association.
A Disappointing Session.
The record of the present Congress is
relied on by the Republican managers
to insure their party a majority in the
next House. Already the organs are
tuning up to sound the praises of the
forty-seventh Congress, and many of
them are raising such notes of exulta
tion as ought to he uttered only when
every public duty has been fearlessly
and honestly performed.
It is not our purpose to deny to the
majority any praise that it may fairly
claim. We are disposed to make due
allowance for all short comings, to duly
consider all palliating circumstances,
and to render charitable judgment. It
is so much easier to promise than to
perform that we never expect any coi
led ive body of wisdom to meet ail the
hopes that have been raised by tho ut
terances of its members or spokesmen.
This Congress was billed, so to speak,
to do certain great and important
things which it has signally failed to do,
and which there will be no chance to
do during the short session that will
precede its dissolution on the 4th of
March next. Among these weighty
matters which had been discussed for
years and which every member of Con
gress, was supposed to understand when
he came here eight months ago, was the
utter prostration of our ocean carrying
trade and our almost total lack of any
means of prosecuting even a defensive
warfare. We are now in these respects
very little, if any. better oil than we
should have been if Congress had never
met. Not a single new ship of any kind
has been authorized, not a single gun
for our defenseless harbors, not a dol
lar's worth of foreign trade has been
secured, either absolutely or prospect
ively. These 'great duties have been
shirked, and we still face the world as
a hopelessly impotent and contemptible
military and naval power, except in our
great numbers of patriotic citizens ami
our vast undeveloped resources.
This Congress was pledged to reduce
taxation. Such reduction was demand
ed on all hands, and its necessity was
conceded. It has shamefully failed to
fulfill that pledge. It has obeyed the
behests of its masters, the monopolists,
and (armed out its work to a commis
sion that even a Republican .Senator
deems a fit theme for ridicule. The
enormous excess of receipts is continu
ed under a system that no statesman
has dared to defend. A tarill' that con
fessedly and undeniably hears with
cruel injustice on the toiling poor is leit
unreformed to carry on its grinding op
pression while Republican Congressmen
will be going about asking the victims
of this wrong to send them hack again.
The anti-polygamy law, on which the
high moral element of the Republican
party is pluming itself, is likely to prove
an utter failure. It was carelessly
drawn and is now finding its most ar
dent admirers among those who were
expected to feel the lor#e of its fangs.
.Some of the appropriations made in
the hills just passed are eminently ju
dicious, but there has been a wild
break-neck race in the matter of pub
lic buildings that will entail a heavy
waste of public funds. The revenues
should have been reduced so that there
would be r.o margin (or extravagant en
terprises.
As a whole the session has been a
disappointing one. Those things that
ought to have been done are left un
done, while much that has been accom
plished is of more than doubtful utility.
Ignorant indeed must be the constitu
ency that can be induced to approve the
record ol the fimt session of the Forty
seventh Congress.— Wathingion l'ott.
Ne well's Charges.
IION ns ANI> MONEY GIVEN TO FOIR SENS
TORS AND THIRTY MEMBERS.
Special ditii)aU:li to The Time*.
WASHINGTON, July 27-
A member of the House, to whom
the documentary evidence in Newell's
possession relating to the alleged stu
pendous corruption fund used in pro
curing the passage of the bill through
Congress making the land grant to the
Texas Pacific Railroad Company has
been submitted for inspection, makes
some interesting statements. He says
that among these papers is a transcript
from the books of the railroad company
showing that one million of their bonds
were paid to thirty members of the
House and two hundred thousand dol
lars of their bonda and sixty-two thous
and dollars in money to four members
of the Senate. He says that this tran
script gives the names of the four Sen
ators and thirty Representatives and
the umoqnt paid each; that three of
these four Senators and four only of the
thirty Representatives are still in Con
gress.
Newell's explanation as to how he
came into possession of this transcript
is thai while he was yet intimately con
nected with the company and held
stock in it, he procured the services of
a clerk in the Company's office to make
(he transcript for him. Newell gays
that the company's attorney and agent
at Washington into whose hands was
pyt the bonda and money referred to,
to be put whore they would do the mos(
good, was Dick Parsons, of Cleveland,
Ohio; that for his services Parsons was
to have been paid ten per cent, of the
amount disbursed to these Senators and
Representatives to procure the land
grant in question; that Newell, who
was himself to have received $75,00 for
services in aiding to procure the
t, 4-' r j y hft *'"g received
su,ooo of the .>,OOO promised him for
his services, and hearing that Parsons
had been served in a like shabby man
tier by the railroad company, wrote him
and Newell exhibits the letter of reply
rom Parsons in which Parsons states
that the railroad company was still de
fault in payment of the amount of his
commission for bonds and money dis
burned and otherfcervicfg rendered and
that the amount still due him'was
$20,000
The member of Congress giving the
foregoing information fays thyt after
an inspection of the papers in Xewell'g
possession he does not wonder that
frantic efforts are being made to prevent
the House judiciary committee from
proceeding with the investigation of the
alleged corruption and briberies in con
nection with tiie procurement of the
land grants of the Texas Pacific.
11 i> evident that Congressman Robe
son s figure head in the House, Speaker
Keifer, is to be left at home in the next
Congressional election in Ohio. A rival
for his seat has sprung up in the person
of Robert P. Kennedy who saw service
during the war, and was made a Brevet
Brigadier General and Collector of In
ternal Bevenue for the Bellefontaine,
0., district afterward. Kennedy is a
shrewd young fellow, and has been fix
ing his cards for a Congressional deal
for a long time. He has just shown his
hand by carrying the entire delegation
of his home county, thirty -two votes,
against the Speaker, and is now openly
committed to the fight. The district
comprises Logan, Clark, Champaign.
I tckaway and Madison counties, and
was represented for many years by Con
gressman William Lawrence, the {.res
ent First Comptroller of the Treasury.
—J'htla. Record.
Down! Down! Down!
I"rom this date and until further nc*
tire, we have resolved to sell out our
entire stock of Clothing, Boots and
Shoes, Hats and Caps. in order to make
room tor our heavy Fall stock which is
already being manufactured for this
branch. Remember the goods must
and shall be closed out at any price
without delay, and he who will not
trade now shall never have another
such an opportunity at the Boston
Clothing House, just opened in Rey
nolds* block opposite Broekerhoff House
Allegheny stieet, Bellefonte, Pa.
nli7-4t
'How are you today?" Not veryi
well. Go (or a bottle oi PERINA and bel
well.
DrtuEoisTs and physicians recommend
and prescribe Lydia K. 1 inkham's Vege
table Compound for all female com
plaints.
PERENA cures every time—get some,
be well-keep it on hand, and sin no
more.
Aew Aif vertinemeut.
( 10URT PROCLAMATION.
It """ ( 'hr!,-. A. Mayer, Presl
iiV'.Vi . " u . rt " "i iiif2itii.iu.iHwi
Pi trn t, <miM.tiii|: <f tli* counties of Centre Clinton
d 1H.41.,1,1,, iimi. J. ...
, •' , K "'Jt'ki-. A.- nate Judges int..micuntv.
Inning las I thfir |.recr|.t, bearing date cth day
ol May, evi, directed, for lioldin K a Court of
Ov.r and lernnmr an.l General Jail Unlivery ar.d
Quarter Sessions of the Peace in Belief, nte, for the
county of tent re, an.) to continence on the iti. Mon
day ol August next, I,ting thee.th of August
, "t'd to con tint. week. Notice w h.r.hv
k'tveii to the Cor •tier, Justices of the lv.ee, A Idem .it
and ( unstable. of auid county of Centre, that tin t he
tli*y and tin re Iti their proper per* n, at lo o'clock
In the forenoon of raid day, with their record- in.nil
s.tiou. examinations, and their out, rein, ~thinnert
o do this* thing* which to their oflic appertain, t.l
ve done, atid thine who ar Ihmiikl in t
liro.crtiteagain.t the prisoners that are or .Iwll he in
tliejail of Centre county, lie then and there to prose,
cute against them a. shall he ju-t.
•liven under my hand, at Hellefonte, the mil dav
of May in the year of our Lord l-J, ami tlie one
hundred and sixth year ot the Independence ~l the
I uited State*. THOMAS J. l)l.'N KML. Sheriff.
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