®ht tftntrt gewectat. B ill LLEFO NT U , PA. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT in nub- 1 lisliod ovory Thur • Auypsreon procuring us toneash auhsrrihors will e soul a copy free of charge. Onrsitoniifs circulation make* this paper an un *uudly reliable and profitable medium brativertilng. We hare the moat ample facilities tor J . i< k -r. i.. •. advertisement nsl I•|•I1 II• : r Iti nrtios,ixospl on irly intra t l©ti hAlfjrasfl) pmoots . i ad van r • quired Politic a ' VOTI* r I i . **ai h insertion N ithlng ins< rt< d for'rss than • 'tits. trsif*f Von !• dltoria columns, lAcents per line, each Insertion. The Treasury King. THE INDEPENDENTS DEi I.ABE A(. V! AST THE JOIIIJERS. It is evident that the Independents will not fall into lino in behalf of the old Treasury King, The following from a recent issue of the Delaware county llecord a Republican newspaper, of ability and wide circulation, published in Chairman Cooper's own county tell* the story : Tlio Humes net was passed at the re gular session of the legislature, and ap proved by (iovernor l'attison on June Oth, ISS3. This act requires the State Treasurer to tile a statement with the Sinking Fund Commissioners on the first business days of January, April' July and October of each year, showing the balance remaining in the Sinking Fund in excess of the amount required to pay the interest on the public debt: the commissioners then being author ized to purchase state or federal bonds, at their discretion, ill interest to ■■•■■r to the benefit of the State Treisury, The tenth section of the act of May 1871, provides that whenever it shall appear on the first business day of January, April, July and October, the balauce in the hands of the Treasurer from sources of general revenue apart from amounts payable to the Sinking Fund shall ex ceed ssoo,o>>, such sum shall be carried to the account of the Sinking Fund. "The report of State Treasury Raily shows that on August 31, 1883, exclu sive of moneys appropriated to the Sinking Fund, $2,018,5f>,5.12 was distri kuted among twenty banks throughout the state; and further that no part of the surplus over the contingent fund of $300,000 was carried to the Account of the Sinking Fund, but this surplus, amounting to $1,518,8(58.12. was loaned to certain bankers throughout the state, on such terms as the State Treasurer could advantageously make; not i M'ar of interest money accruing to the state, whilst on the other h i net, the thrpvjers of the Mate are paying interest on the outstanding state loans, which this surplus ought to c n tribute to wipe out. "Nor is this all. The last quarterly report also shows that the sum of $2, 709.tt90.51, belonging to the Sinking Fund, was distributed among 57 banks in the state, thus aggregating the enor mous sum of $(,788,858.03, in the hands of private banks and bankers, without security and yielding no interest to the state, and this, too, despite the plain provisions of the above mentioned Humes act. At the last meeting of the Sinking Fund Commissioners, compris ing Secretary of the State Stenger, Au ditor General Lemon and Treasurer ltaily, Mr. Slenger made a proposition that this large surplus should be invest ed in pursuance of the provisions of the Hnmes act. Roth Messrs. Lemon and Raily opposed the offer, Mr. Raily a-r signing as a reason for his opposition that to withdraw these state deposit# from some of the county banks would cause semi stagnation, if not a financial panic, thus virtually confessing that these de posits were interest bearing, ami as such, could not be withdrawn without due notice. Where and to whom this interest goes no man knows save those of the Treasury ring i one thing is certain, the state does not reap a dollar of it. At the low rate of I per cent, per annum upon $4,788,858, the interest alone would amount to $l9l, 552; a sum certainly large enough to constitute an inference for the reasons of opposition to the application of the provisions of the Humes act. This is a plain statement of the present status of the Treasury department, and certainly furnishes to the average Pennsylvania taxpayer sufficient of issue upon which to base his judgment and cast his ballot. The jobbers who opposed the enactment of the Humes act are well known ; their opposition is spread upon the official records of the stato, and theso samo jobbers, failing in their efforts to defeat the Humes bill, are now shame lessly and unscrupulously endeavoring to thwart and circumvent the provisions of this most wise and beneficent mens, ure. This, then, wo repeat is the issue; the only rallying cry of sturdy, honest citizens must be : Defeat the candidate of the jobbers." A Protest of Senators. THE I'I.TIM ATI.'MITES ANI> THE I'ERTI KENT MANNER IN WHICH TIIEIR OII.ATKI < TION PoM' tT IS TREATED. Most of tlio ultimatum senators were behind their desks yesterday morning when the gavel descended and the semi weekly session began. The magnates of the caucus looked refreshed and after tlio indulgence ola clean shave at the state's expense, quite chipper and rosy lor anything that might ho com municated from the house culling for the customary display of obstruction tactics. Rertie Adams occupied his familiar place and had on a new cut away. There was a noticeable absence of the buttonhole bouquet. Freed Irnra the pressing demands ol the Towanda bar and with a ready fund of story rela live to partridge shooting expeditions in the lat three weeks over the wilds and on the mountain sides of Sullivan, Senator Davies found time to give the senate of Pennsylvania the weight of his presence once more. It is but justice to say that the calm expression of the eye and peaceful, sleepy curves of the mouth were not injured by the hunting trip over Sullivan. And the Mcl'racken with the trained smile of an African missionary beamed placidly upon the galleries from his perch, but bis crook edly arranged necktie spoiled the ell'ect of an otherwi-e well proportioned chromo. Mr. McKnight was not pros exit. IDs silvery voice, heard only on occasions of an aye and nay call, has been missed for weeks. Immediately after the reading of the journal Senator Wallace roge to a question of privilege and offered the annexed protest which was placed upon record. \ rROTEST Ol DEMOS RATI* -t\ UOK. A quorum of the senate being pres ent, Tuesday, October 2, 18" ..the inmo rity thereof were in their seats and de "irous of proceeding with the public business for which this extra session was called, when the majority in obedi ence to orders of a party caucus ad journed the senate, refused to allow us to be heard and forbate any action to lie taken. Against this proceeding and again-t similar adjournments from Tuesi Jay until Friday and from Friday until Tuesday without the transaction of any business, we do solemnly protest as a violation as well of the rights of sena tors as of their constituents, and in dig regard of th" comity of intercourse that should exist between the senate ! and the houe of representatives. We do most solemnly protest such j action is revolutionary, for it defeats the ! orderly processes of government. It is a flagrant neglect of our duty to transact the public business for which wo were convened. It closes the mouth of those < hrisen to seats in the senate and denies repre sentation to those who selected them. It refuses to permit discus#ion of the grave question at issue, and substitutes caucus dictation for the forum of free speech. It forbids comparison of view* be tween senators upon measure* looking < to apportionments, prevents comprom 1 ise and insists upon the iron rule of party discipline. It shuts the door of the senate eham ber against committees of conference and other parliamentary modes of com munication between the senate and its co-equal body, the house of representa lives. It reverses the precedents of more than one hundred and fifty years. It jeopardizes the entire delegation | from the stato in the next congress. It tends to multiply the relations of the state to the federal government, and if carried to its logical sequence by a majority ol the states would paralyze if not destroy the government. It ignores the sworn duty made man datory by the stato constitution and to try to perform that duty. It retains in full force partisan appor tinnment* based upon the population of 1870, and denies just representation to the changed condition of many populous localities. It violates the letter of at least one provision of the state constitution and the meaning and spirit of many others. It is subversive of that distribution of tko powers of government which the constitution baa ordained and estab lished, for it accumulate in the senate an undue share of power, and Its adoption places the other depart ments of the government under sena torial dictation and removes all ques lions out of the domain of argument and roanon. i For these reasons we do most earnest i ly protest against the action of the > senate and axle that this, onr protest, may ho placed upon its journal. ! 'J'ho foregoing wassigned by W. Henry i Sutton, W. M. Nelson, Alexander Pat • ton, Jeremiah S. Hess, Kekley 15. (!o*e, ; 11. .1. Hume*, Wm. A. Wallace, N. C. t Wagner, John l>. Itiddi*, J, 11. Roh*' > Kdwnrd 11. Shearer, C. A. Vandegrift, jr., Win. W. Hurt, John O. Hull, Jamu (iay tiordon, S. I'. Wolverton, Charles F. King.— Patriot. ('andldnlc \iles' speech. M r. Niles in the course of bis remark* : Hays : "Why not accept the enerituLlc ' i and adjourn, and let the people pass ' upon the difference* existing between j the two houHoa?" Mr. Nile* does him 1 i self no ciedit by uttering such silly stuff '| a* this. Ho ought to know that the I people cannot pa* * upon the matter on ' j til the fall of next year; and ho ought tojknow,{further, that ho condemns him sell and hi* fellow obstructionists when he undertakes to say : "Has the House any right to insist upon tno Senate ac cepting its view*of the situation?" The I obvious reply to this i* the counter query : Has the Senate any right to in *>i ■ hate them refused with contumely, and no one i* better aware of this fart than R<-pr<"-et>tative 1 Nile*, who bus done himself no credit an 1 hi* party no service by hi* deliver unco on Monday. Philadelphia : i) , Ind. Rej übli. an, Mr. Pendleton * Strength. A I>[ üblican j dit.i in, who ha* taken considerable interest in the fight made by the Mi Lean ftookwaltrr < >ra hi nation against Senator Pendleton,' and who has been over the greater pur lion of the Slate, ha- made a ctreful calculation of the strength of e*c.b. He | state* that in the event of a Democrat- i ic Legislature, Pendleton would have over forty members if the legislature, ' and would, therefore, seeure a majority of the raucu*, which would, therefore, renominate him to the -mate, and hi* election woul I follow a* a matter of course. Cin v 'i I' mwr' tf, Si it.i c Congress, re-marks the Pbila. /•'■ • • had increased the ratio of j opu lation f'-r a Representative a* was first proposed, and thus had reduced the | number of member* from Pennsylvania from twenty *even to twenty six, instead of increasing it to twenty eight. How, ! then, could there have been Repreaeo I Utivr* in Congress from Pennsylvania i without a new apportionment. Could ! twenty six member* have taken their | seat*, and in that rase what one would I have retired ? Could this hate been ! determined by drawing lots, pulling I straws, or any like method of elimina ! tion? It i* plain that tho whole dele j gation would have been made illegal ; and invalid for want of an apportion ment in accordance with tho Constitui j tion of Pennsylvania and the law of Congress. If, then, tbi* lesser delega tion could not have leen admitted to ! seats for want of an apportionment, the ' question arise* whether a larger delega i tion can be admitted to seats without j the apportionment which the Conatitu- j tion and law* make necessary. Penn ■ylvaniaha* representation in Gongrc** on the condition that the State complies with tho laws which are designed to give the people equal representation. There cannot Ire equal and lawful rep resentation when a State deliberately refusea to make an apportionment every ten years, and therefore tho delegation from Pennsylvania that preaenta ilaelf in Congres* upon the election in 1884 through an apportionment that haa ex pired by limitation of the Conatitution and laws i* liable to rejection as fraudu lent and invalid. If Pennsylvania, through party spirit or any other equal ly bad reason, (ail* to send a delegation to Congress In accordance with the le g*l and constitutional requirements, i that is the fault of the State. This is a government founded on the principle of the equal representation of the peo pie, and when representation la not made equal by the apportionments i which the law enjoins the principle falla to the ground. A delegation sent t Congress from Pennsylvania upon a i fraudulent apportionment that bus ex , pired, arid upon a deliberate violation of the Constitution of tho State ami tho law* of tho United States, must itself be fraudulent. The Legislature of Penn sylvania is imperilling the litis* of the State to representation in Congress by its foolish and revolutionary course- Yet Governor I'uttison is denounced by angry and nui row-minded partisans for , calling au extra session of tho Legisla tore to aecuro to tho people arid tho State of Pennsylvania the equal representa tion to which both tiro entitled. The Trnlli of the Held deduction. , A musty campaign document has been dragged out from a mass of similar par ti*'iii rubbish ami put once more into f requisition, in order to show tho great merit of tlie Republican party of Penn , sylvania, in reducing tho Slate debt (roin thirty seven million dollars in 1807 to leas than twenty million dollar* in ln this familiar document the usual care i* taken to make no mention : of the fact that the sinking fund to pro 1 vide for the redemption of t lie debt and . | other methods to prevent its increase w.-re chiefly duo to Mr. Puckalcw and his Hetnocratic lusociates in tho Login • | lature. Nor is mention made of the j other lact that the work of debt .iqui dalion in the State n .i* actually begun before the Republican* oldained controj of its administration. As to the amount of the State debt liquidation since IS6I it would not be hard to show that with wi.er anil more economical administra tion tho reduction would have been far greater. If there is anything in the government of Pennsylvania over which j either party can boast it i*certainly not ;in the management of the Stnte finance*. Philadelphia It-mrd, About Proroguelng the l-egMatore. Whenever the two House* formally , declare that they cannot sgreo on a lime for adjournment, or fix different days for adjournment, it will be the province of the Governor to prorogue the legislature for a period not exceed ing four month*. The question of ad ournment, then has heen before the i Governor, and he could, of course, tin nothing to i !oe i r porta* I the session. Put some unscrupulous partisan* have , endeavored to create the impression that the Governor i- responsible for the u-elec* length of th * extra session. When the (i .verr.or < .tiled the extra • ■ m >n he | aid the Legislature the com phment of a'*um:rig that it *a> a* an ; xi -ii* s- hirnelf that the right* of r-p resentation should t<• maintained and tli** the mandates of the < 1.-Million *hould be enforced. Ho had alio rea , ton to believe thnt the solemn duly en- I joined upon the Legislature would be promptly performed, with a* small an ' expense a* possible to the public trea ury 15ut if the Governor erred in his ! favorable estimate of the tharacler of the Legislature he made no mniake in regard to the j erformanco of h.s own duty. When he convoked the I.fgis lature in • xtra session he could not an tioipale that it would deliberately d; obey the it unction of the Conslituti >n ; and not know when to adjourn /'' '/. ! ft. t. Cooper Repudiated. The independent Republican execu tive committee of Pelnware county re : organised at Media on Wednesday. Chairman William Rhoads presided. The following resolution, offered by ! Thoma* M. Sj eakni.an. was unanimously I adopted ; "That, knowing thoroughly a* we do from hi* long residence among us* Thoma* A". Cooper and the mean* ac customed to be resorted to by him io "upport of hi* own candidacy for oflice, as well as hi* course in the legislature in persistent misrepresentation of his constituent* on all reformatory que* tions, we feel bound to declare to our fellow republican* throughout the com monwealth that his selection a* chair man of the slate central committee alter the profession* of reform that have been made and notwithstanding thedefeat of last year under hia leadership, wa* an inexcusable blunder, a shame to the party and a direct insult to the inde pendent* who are seeking to restore it to public confidence, and discourage the ho|>e of harmony which we had begun to cherish."' Trie New York Time*, accepted a* the leading organ of the Republican party in the North, is a little heavy on Harry White of tbi* Sute. It says: "Much protection has mode some of our Pennsylvania brethren mad. Gen. Harry White ha* been at Washington collecting a 'mass of statistics', which he will digest into a speech favoring taxation for protection and the Whar ton Paker plan of public robbery for private gain. He will urge that this plan be sanctioned in the Republican platform next year. If General White wants to make Republican defeat cer tain this is a good wsy to go to work." j One of the Kotten Borough Senatorial • Districts. Take another case of the gross in -1 equality of the present apportionment, B made under the census of 1870. Dcla- B ware (this) county, as shown by the • last census, had a population of 57,- B i 102; Luzerne county by tho same > authority, had l.'lß.OfJfi of h populn i- tion within its borders. Now Dela y ware county possesses one senator, and r Luzerne, with a constituency of 70,001 more than Delaware, lias hut one sena tor; so that our senator, Mr. Cooper, with a r/mitl itwiH-y of over 2'1,000 jn r '' until //>• I hit II one half of Mr. Con'*, yet jinnieAn a tin- name rh/hl*, jrrivi/eyr* und preroyutive* with Mr. ('on. That is a gross inequality, and it is hut one of the many gro* inequalities of the apportionment of 1874. We have purposely cited our own ' country because it has been claimed j 1 that if our so-called Representative ! are mnurt enough to secure such great 1 | advantages, Delaware fountains have 7| no reason to complain. Rut the thing j i is a cheat nevertheless, and when it L , was consummated it was known to he , such, and was done designedly for a specific purpose. Delaware county does not j Kisses* a full quota entitling her to a separate senator, but she was ; given one by the powers that then ex i istcd, ntul it remains a significant fact ; worth porch-ring over that the same powers who made t lii- county a sepa rate senatorial di-trict, hare ear rim' j 1 token r/ooil rnrr thnt we nhoutd, n* fur ( | *is they rouhl jirerent, ho• no other I 1 n/ir- an' itn • than Mr. t onner. And 1 j in return for these and similar favors 1 I our senator ha* served his masters we!) i 1 and truly, and verily he hath hi* re | ward.— Uelnuarr Co. Itecord, Ind. /.'n the j subject of congressional and legislative apportionments, in order that the peo pie may he secured in their conatitu tional rights. After discusion. in which Mr. Me ! Namara appealed in vain to the Repub- j I lican# to make it unanimous, the reso j lution wa* adopted by a vote of 80 to ,XY Mr. Hasson read in place a bill for , the partial payment of the employes of the legislature for service* during the - extra session. There were seventy four absentee* The bouae adjourned until Monday. Ir the .MV.K'J Republican* who voted for James A. Jlearer, and the 4,1,743 Republican* who voted for John Stewart making 1.Y,,.'}32 in all, are entitled to , seventeen representatives, surely the j 3&5.791 Hemoerat# who voted for Robert ; F.. Pattison ought to be entitled to : eleven representatives. So John Stewart thought when he offered a bill to give the Democrat* 11 district*, and in sup port of it on May 2tUh, he said, "I te lieve it i* not only the true policy of the Republican party, but I believe it i* our { duty as senator* to fashion an appor ' lionment which wilt be acceptable to ' both branches of the legislature and will become a law # e e j^ r ■ President, whatever the vote, the re sponsibility will not re at with me. 1 believe it to be fair, I am willing to ac oept it and do what 1 can to aecure iu ultimate passage, and \f nv pohtinxl atm dale* rtjeri it, lH ih ntpontilMty rut upen tkrm. Io metl the jmbtie in txpUnaUor. qf it." The HemocraU offered to take the Stewart bill. Stewart's "political omo ciatra" rejected it. In his own language j let them take the responsibility and i "meet the public in explanation of it" j I.fst af Juror*. 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