. k T.rnii SI. AO per Annumin Ailvnnce, Thursday Mornine, September 27,1883. STATE TICKET. TOR AUDITOR OKNKRAI., Capt. ROBERT TAGOAUT, of Warren County. FOR STATK TBKASriIKK, Hon. JOSEPH POWELL, of Bradford County. COUNTY TICKET, roil ASSOCIATK JUDOK I>r. J. It. SMITH, of Ferguson Township. FOB PISTHICT ATToIIS"BY. W. C. HEINLE, of Ilellefonte. MB COUNTY SURVEYOR ELLIS L. I'HtVIS, of Bellefonte. Thk stalwarts of New York, it i* said, had the late convention pretty much to themselves, and that the gen eral absence of the Independents, or half-breeds, has a signitieauce that is udt born of harmony or the success of the nominations made. THE Cameron mules are still kick ing the constitution tiro hour- a week in the Pennsylvania senate chamiwT. Boss Cooper is the leading trick mule, but Stewart and Lee are apt in learn ing and always useful. They get 8 !•> each for the two hours acting in the ring- It is rumored that Senator-elect Uiddlebcrg has determined to revolt against the Federal patronage in Vir ginia being all given to Mahone — that he will claim his full share of the plunder, or play the devil generally with the nice little arrangements of Arthur ami his midgit boss. Whitelaw Kr.tr>, editor of the New York Tribune, is said to be a candidate lor United States Senator. It is more than probable that there may be a slight impediment to Mr. I Reid's advancement. The Republi cans have not, nor are they likely to have a majority iu the New York leg islature. PROP. Doih.K, the statistician of the agricultural department, expresses himself hopeful of the corn crop. He thinks the late frosts have not very seriously damaged it, and the acreage is much greater than in former years, which he estimates at 2,o00,0(M) more than in 1882, leaving considerable margin for any damage the crop may I sustain. THE government spent the summer fishing in the mountains of the west, while the cabinet junkettcd all around j the coast in government vessels. The government has now changed the base of operations, and foreign embassies | who may lie seeking interviews will | find the government on the eastern I fishing grounds during the fall months, probably about Newport. V The Philadelphia Record compares " "Mr. Senator .John Stewart to a loco . motive built for independent work on I a narrow guage line, that has been I pushed on a broad guftgo track. He has derailed himself and has been I thumping over the ties ever since lie T went ofr on the ultimatum switch. IN I his present plight he is of no use to 1 anybody.'' And it might be added is despised in his helplessness as a useless L wreck. Gen. Orkhham, of the Postoffice I Department, is getting into hot water ft in his fight with the Louisiana lottery W management. He has issued an order that no registered letter addressed to M. A. Donaphin, or the New Orleans National Bank, nor any money order 1 payable to either shall be delivered through the post ofiice. This looks very much as if the Postmaster Gen eral ia constituting himself a national oensor. He may have the right to close bis department agaiust a business authorised and legalised by fhe laws pf Jjoqitintni, for it seems increditahle THAT to distinguished an official would issue such an order uolcss he had a strong legal base to sustain him. Tho Grungo and the State Collogo. We take it for granted, that our farmers, are in earnest, when they for mulate a platform, they are not theor ists hut men of practice —and in their platform we see much that bears this out. When they cry out against the revolutionists in the Legislature, and demand that the work for which tho Governor has called it together— should he done, they show that they have uo respect for nonsense —and in deed most parts of their public decla ration of principles show this same strong sense of right—and if we differ from them in any particular, it is not because we do not have full recogni tion of and respect for the honesty of their intention. But in one respect we . must take i.-.-ue with tho State (range. They demand, that the character of the management of the State College I should be radically changed and that it should become an institution entire ly devoted to the public instruction ° | of agriculture and the mechanic arts and that all other courses of studies - -t be eliminated from its curriculum. are not going to argue on the pro priety of this pnpo.-cd change—that is a matter of opinion merely—but upon its practicability. Can the Col. ; lege comply with the wishes of the Grange ami survive? We say not. A very superficial view of theact of Con gress will corroborate our position. Notwithstanding all the talk concern ing the monies given the institution by the state, the State College depends almost entirely upon the land nrri]>t fund, which depends upon the faithful carrying out of the provision of the •jo ct of congrtM and that net donates j the f ">OO,iMM) which the college now ! enjoys, 011 this condition : that she give* j instructions in the classics and all I other branches ofn liberal education as well as agriculture. We can't afford to forfeit this sum now. But as soon as ; the Grange will rai*e another half a million and donate it to the Pennsyl vania Htate College their proposition i may receive a fair and careful dis cussion. But we will go one step further, and say that the college gives every opportunity to the student of agriculture t<> study hi- art and science —that far more money is appropria ted to this branch of the curriculum than to any of the others—and that nowhere in the I nited States are their i better opportunities for the farmer's sons, and yet they of all classes in the commonwealth avail themselves least of its advantage*. IT sectns to worry the Philadelphia /Yes* to think that the politicians and leaders of the Democratic party com mit a dnnocratir error in depending upon the independent Republicans for votes to elect their ticket. To allay the anxiety of the I'reiw, Chairman Hensel of the Lancaster Intelligencer, very properly remarks: "It is an i error on the part of the /Ves to ns sume that the Democrats arc depend ing upon any such thing. At the last State election there were nearly ns many votes polled for Mr. Pattison as the combined vote for Stewart and Beaver ; an analysis has proved that nearly all the votes cast for Pattison were Democratic votes. Nobody seems to expect that either party will poll as full a vote this year a last, so that it becomes a contest as to which party will poll the larger percentage of the vote it cast last fall. For many rea sous the chances favor the Democrats. They have remained united, aggrrs j sive, hopeful and organized. The pro cesses of Republican reunion have ' been painfully slow. In the regular session of the Legislature the most notable antagonisms were those of the Stalwarts and Regulars of the Senate; and when, upon the main issue of the campaign, tho reform of the treasury management, the Republican policy is found to be a continuance of the pres ; cnt regime the I'rem will find that In dependent Republicans will mostly ait ou the fence and watcb the processiop.' 1 1 —— THE ultimatum Senators wero in session 17 minutes on Tuesday. "RQUAL AND XX ACT JVBTICK TO AI.I. MEN, or WIIATRVKU STATK OR I'KKHUASION, KKMOIOU* OH POLITICAL."—JrfTerson. iiki.lkiontk, IW., Thursday, si;i>tkmi;kj{ 7, ihkl Coul and Railroads. Relow i* the return of coal cent over the Tyrone Division of the Ponn sy I van in railroad lor the week ending Sept. If), lxx:i. TO** ; K"f the vu-rll 17,''*7 Baiiio iinis* Imtt v u • -til !M-r ••!%*• '• K'| Pnvlotialjf daring lliiyHu I,® 2 #l3 .Sump title lu-1 v u , t *T •I♦ lrrn>M. 4 • .. . . i T..UI 111 I**! 1 • I*l j ."giiiic time Untw.ti • >7 Dwmii OTHER ri.EIGHTS i Lam!*! 73 can I MldCflUliaotll Irrigate 1 • •• Forty-seven thousand and eighty | seven tons is every pound of coal that | went out front ihis region for the week ■ ending Saturday la-t, again-! filly-six j thoUMind nine hundred and eleven tons the same time one year ago. This i* indeed discouraging to all who take j an interest in the advancement of this ' great coal field. Why the management of the IVuti r-y 1 vim iu company will, by the with-! holding of ears from, our shippers, I give to its enemies *urh convincing I proof that it- facilities are inadequate to the necessities of the region, is some thing wo cannot fathom : and, if it were not that we know In-iter front their own lip-, w- would sup|M>*e that the small amount that has gone for ward was from the want of orders by our shippers; hut we have been us- I -tired that it' the ears could have bet u supplied nearly double this amount would have been shipped. With the large increase in the num ber of colleries, the extension of all its branch' and a greater demand than ever for our coal, the company thus tacitly admits that it is not m ar ly n- well prepared t > facilitate the interests of our shipper- as it wu- the same time one year ago. when it-ent forward nine thousand • ight hundred and twenty-four tons more than it did the past wck. It causes its best! friend* t . tie-pair of In r, and silences all argument in op|x -itioti to the build ing of another road into our region— whether competitive or co-operative— something to help out tie ••• who have their money invested in our region ami who are sustaining daily In—-- from this compulsory inactivity ; and, n w>- have said before, the great wonder with its friends i- that it would begin t - weaken in this way at this particu lar time, in the face of the extra-.r dinary efforts the Vanderhilt road is making towards completion that may take hold of this freight the l'ennsyl vania i rejecting.— /in- He. < hir brother Rrishin, of the linnl!?, in the foregoing article gives Init a faint glimmering of the truth. Why 1 this scarcity of ran? I- it I>ocausr the F. R. R. Co. have no cars which could he sent into the region'' C r tainlv not. For the corresponding j week of la-t year they furnished nearly -">00 more cars then they did la-t week. Surely they have no less cars this year than last. I- it Irccause they arc short of motive power to ! move the cars they have. They surely have as much motive power as they ever had at any previous date. What then is the reason ? Simply this, the managers of the railroad are not tli*- looted to furnish a sufficient number of cars to accommodate the region-, Why? Ik-cause the scarcity of cars hurts the small operators the worse- i A large percentage of the cars daily received arc marked "special assign ment," and are all delivered to a few large operators, and are not charge! iu the general distribution. The same favorites then receive their full pro rn'o of the enrs for general diatrihu* tion. This haves the small operators who taumt get into the "special as signment" ring, with less than half the numix rof cars in proportion to the capacity of their mines, which the large operators receive. The result is the business of these small operators is interfered with, they are prevented from fihii g the orders they have and (hey dure not bid for large orders be cause they well know they cannot get the cars to fill them. The undoubted policy of the present management of the l'enna. R. R. Co. is to mi*A out the small operators in our coal regions Is this to the interest of the stock holders of the road? Certainly not. Rut if the wholo bituminous coal bußinesa in this region of the state ran bo con centrated into a few bands it will bo so much easier for the fbw gentlemen composing the ring of managers, to • ! arrange to rtceive their large divi dends from the coal monopolists. As long as there ure fifty or more inde pendent collieries this is impracticable. Rut the scarcity of cars is hut one of the evils the operators are now suf f'erit-g. The rates of freight are fixed so high us to take all the profits of the ! business. ()n the above 17,0*7 tons the railroad company received an average of one dollar per ton over and above the actual cost of transporta tion, while there was left to the opera tor no more than an average of five rent* per ton profit. Among indivi | duals this would he called robbery. | Surely we need another railroad into our coal fields--and that a competition road— not one that will co-operate with , the F. It. It. in robbing our people. '1 hi: \\ illiamsport Sun and J!inner , "agrees with the cxprt-d oj tin ion of a cotemporary that there .-ecru.- now 1 * nothing for the Democratic legislator to do hut to remain at their posts waiting for wisdom and respect for the laws to seize the Republicans and eoinjcl them to the performance .f their solemn duty. '.Justice travels with a leaden heel' but it is sure to catch up sometime." "Wisdom and respect for the laws" departed with Cameron's instructions to his slaves in the senate, and can probably only he restored when the honest men of the party can have an ' opportunity to deal with the revolu tionists who so recklessly betray their confidence. In the mean time the Democracy can only stand firm to I duty and their constitutional obliga tion*. fur. chief w..rk of the (rirl mule* iu the senate is to demonstrate that under - tir republican form of govern ment, 2-1.000 Republicans must have the same power in the selection of members of congress of II.RQO Demo crats, and in the State senate that Id,* 'MMi Republicans inut equal '2l.into Democrats. To secure this inequality >f representation, CoojM-r, Stewart V ; Co. proclaim their ultimatum and ; block legi-laliou. I r is published in the stalwart jour nals that pertect harmony prevails in both faction* of the N w York Re publicans—stalwarts and half-breeds. It is probably the calm which precedes ihe storm, as it i* known that a great gulph passes between them—that the bridges are flown, nnd it is doubtful whether the vitality of the g. o. p. now j in delicate health, can endure a suffi l eicnt time to nllow repairs. Let It Not bo Forgotten. In all the blather and fuss of Re publican journals alwmt the legislature remaining in session there is one thing tßat the people must not for an instant forget. The Democrats in the legislature are. standing tip manfully and boldly and determinedly for the people's right of Kqual Representation ami are not governed hy partisan spirit or motive. The twenty-six Republican senators under the lead of Ross Cooper say that the people shall not ho accorded their right of Kqual Representation. They now flatly refuse to pass any appor tionment hills at all. They will do nothing hut stay in session a half-hour two days in the week and expect thirty-five dollars a day for doing so- This is a fact that cannot be men tioned too often and that no fairmind cd man in either party should permit himself to lose sight of.— Hnrridturo I\ilriot. THE Democratic outlook in Vir ginia is most encouraging. Reports from committees in all parts of the state are highly satisfactory, and in dicate that great changes have taken place in portions of the state hereto fore* overwhelmingly under the infill, ence of Mahotie. The Democrats are jubilant and sanguina of success in re storing the state to iu old Democratic bearing*- * $ ' M utosi;, lias made the urnial forced ansmments upon the Virginia clerks ■ in the Kxecutive departments in sup port of the state election, without in terference on the part of President Arthur, Hi* bargain with the little bos repudiator overtop* any respon sibility the civil service law places upon hi in and also raises the presump tion that the Federal Kxecutive is not a very enthusiastic friend of that law. HON*. I'EO. I). Koiiinhon is chosen by the Massachusetts Republicans to lead the fight against Jb-n !•'. Ruth-r 1 for the governorship of that state Adams, Fierce and other candidate* "pokei) of having declined. This con* test, judging from the acrimony that runs through the proceedings of the convention when referting to the gov ernor, will be one of exceeding bitter ness, in which old Ren, if he has not lost his wonted vim, will be equal to the emergency, striking back from the shoulder. Tin: colored voters in New York and Ohio are bolting in large num bers from the Republican party. | Having demanded political equality, and reasonable recognition in the die tributiou of |xlilical favors in vain, they now declare their independence and firm deterraiuatin "not to Ik dragged behind the republican cart auy longer," merely to swell the tri umph of a party whose majorities are made by their adherence, and whose appreciation cease- at the jkills. The boternor's \eto. The Governor with held his approval of the concurrent resolution instruct Ing the appropriation committee of both houses to report an apppropriation bill for senators and members, up to and : including Sept. lbtb , to report no other appropriation bill except for officers and | employe*. Ha objects to the resolution on the ground of unconstitutionality ami calls attention to the fact that the law provides that the members shall j , receive $lO per diem at each adjourned or [>ecial session, and that it is not in the legislature to diminish that com [-en*tion. The reason for the dissent of the Governor are clearly stated in the following extracts taken from the message; ' VIOLATION' (II TIIE COXSTITI TION. It is in violation of the constitutional provision requiring a separate organira lion of the two house* of the 1/egisla tore, t'nder the Constitution of 177'. the General Assembly consisted of but one body. The Constitution of 171X1 divided the General Assembly into two houses, each having an independent ; organization. This separation has been i continued until the present time under the amended Constitutions, and the existing Constitution, in the 2d section of the third article, recognize* the com mittee of the respective bodies a* esen tial and necessary in perfecting legist* tion. The Senate has no j-ower or control over the House Committee, and the House has none over the Senate Committee*. The concurrent re*o!ution presented to me i* not only futile, and void of any conclusive effect upon either House, but violates the oonstitu tional principleof separate orgsmzation, and is a clear and distinct departure from former precedent*. H the inno vation here attempted should obtain currency of a practice, it would result in the entire obliteration of the tunc tion* intended to be exerci*ed by the Committee* of the two Hou*e in the consider*tion of legislation and destruc tion ot their independent and *eparate | character contemplated by the Consti union. This reason alone would be sufficient to withhold my approval of the resolution, but there are other ob jection- to it equally cogent and conciu sive. Wlir IT WAS l NCON*TITt TIOSAU The resolution contain* two distinct provision*. < ne is an in*trurtion to the committee* to report a hill of a eer 'ain character and for a definite amount. I have already stated my objection* to thi* branch of the resolution, The other pruviaion is an instruction to the committee* to report no other appro prtalion for the pay to Senator* and member* after September 10th. In thi* instruction lam a*ked to join. If this branch of the resolution is intended to affect the compensation of member* a* fixed by the act of Assembly, it suggest* several legal inquiries to me, called upon, as I am, to give it validity by my signature. The act of Assembly of May 11th, A. D„ 1874, provide* that the 1 "eompen*atinn"of member* of the Leg ialature "shall be ten dollars per diem at each adjourned or special saaaion." The act was the law at tba lime of the election of all the member* of the pre* ent Legislature. The I.lth 'section of the 3d article of the Constitution pro vide* that "no law shall extend the term of any public officer, or increase or diminish hi* salary or emolument*, after bis election or appointment." It i* true the resolution before ma is not TKK.MN: $lJiO per Annum,in Advance. in the forrn of a law, but if it ha* any purpose, or can have any possible effect, in it concluding provisions, it is that there shall not be any law passed mak mg provision for the payment of the compensation of Senator* or members after September Kith. If the members of the Assembly shall lie entitled to any pay for this session, it is not competent for the Legislature to deprive them of it in whole or in part. In other words, if a public officer has a b-gal claim to compensation lor any period of time, it n not within the power of the Lr-gisla lure, by the passage of a law or reaolu lion, to diminish that compensation by the refusal of renumeration for a part of that time. SOT iiir. won * lOK wiu< a TIIE SESSION .■- < ALI.EH, This session of the Legislature was convened by me solely for the purpose of having a clear and most vital com mand ol the fConstitution executed by the lieneral Assembly. In my procla mation convening the two houses, I designated the sutjects for legislative action, and cited the mandate of the fundamental law imposing upon the Legislature the imperative obligation for the paasage of Apportionment laws. Three months and more have expired since then, and instead of the passage of the laws commanded by the people in their eyance any dis cussion of the question of pay while such a duty, so solemnly enjoined, re mains unperformed. AN sri-lAI. lOR Jt TICE AMI SICIIT. If the Legislature, from any reason, should again fail to comply with the command of the fundamental law, the people cannot be fairly and justly rep resented in the legislative councils of the state and I'nion before the year 18k". Neither bouse ha the right to assume an attitude calculated to bring about so deplorable a condition of affairs. I must, therefore, in the effort to carry out the injunction of the constitution that 1 "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," urge upon the Legislature the ini;>ortance of the obli gation under which it rest# to perform a plain constitutional duty. A spirit of fairness, candor and non-partisansbip should actuate the members of both branches of the Assembly in the per formance of that duty. Killigencc • hould characterise them as well. For either House to resolve to meet only at frequent intervals, and then but for a short time, is likely, even if net intend ed, to prevent the requirements of the law from being fulfilled. 1 trust, for the sake of the fair fame of our Com monwealth, for the respect we hold among our sister states, and to save us from the reproach of being unable to execute our constitutional form of gov ernment. that the Legislature will soon discharge its duties with fairness and justness, and thus bring to a speedy conclusion this session, already too long. IT ia not likely that there will be aa full a vole jKilled this year in Pennsyl vania a there was last fall. There i* neither the incentive nor the disposi tion to the same political excitement as there was then, bach party has in the meantime had its natural increase of voters, and the struggle between them this year will be to poll the largest j-o sible proportion of their respective votes. From the results of such exer tion the democrats have nothing to fesr. The total vote which they mustered last year was in the aggregate substantially as many at the combined vote of the two Republican candidates and the run ning majorities of the opposition in thia Sute for the past ten years havo not been more than about twenty thousand, which it really only one in forty, and to reverse it scarcely needs the change of an average of two persons in each elee tion district in the State. F.very person familiar with politics knows ttisl there are always more than that whose votes are uncertain. Now there is no reason this year to apprehend any IVtuncratic defection ; there is no valid reason to expect perfect Republican union ; all tha signs point to greater apathy in the opposition ranks than in the I>etnoc racy; in fact, many of the majority Democralie counties report unusual ac tmty and interest, and the secession oi people who believe that eight month*, of Democratic administration h#v vin dicated the wisdom of a change and are resolved to extend it to othet depart roents of the stale government The duty of Ibis year is to get out the vote —the vote tbet was polled for and elec t'd the state ticket last year % NO. :*B.