CP)r Centre A Democrat. S. T. SHUUKIIT A. K. I. OH VIS, tutors. vol. r>. triic Centre democrat. Term* $1.50 par Annum in Advance, I Thursilay Moraine, December 13, 1883. ( H The deputy commissioner f internal 1 revenue give# the internal taxes al- 1 V ready collected for the present fiscal ' B year at the rate of 8123,000,000, and ' estimates the amount to he collected ' lor the entire year at 8130,000,000. THE Democratic National com | 1 mittee are to meet in Washington on , ■ the 22d of February, to agree upon j the time and place of the meeting of the National convention to nominate the uext President of the 1 uit*d States. THE difficulty of obtaining a jury in Fayette couuty, to try young Nutt for the murder of Dukes, has necessi tated a postponement ami a change ol venue. The case has been certified to the courts of Allegheny county for trial, hut the time of trial is not yet announced. THE caucus of Democratic repre sentatives at Washington on motion of Gen. Blocum, of New York, sec Glided by Gen. Kosecraos, ol Califor nia, resolved unanimously that the fourteen crippled soldiers now on the roll ol employes under the er of the house, shall remain undisturbed iu their positions. A PARTY of American capitalists have purchased a Mexican volcano with a view of mining sulpher from the crater, and have made arrange ments for the transportation of 30,000 tons a year. What next? Will Yankee enterprise rest here, or invade another sulphurous region we read of to extraet wealth and fame as a tri bute to Yankee grit. WE publish on our fourth page the Governor's message vetoing the salary grab bill. Although both houses passed the hill over the veto, the rea sons of the Governor remains, and I will commend themselves to the |>eo pie to the Confusion of the grabbers when they present themselves for re election. SENATOR HI TLER has introduced A bill in the senate to abolish the inter nal revenue system. It provides thai "all laws and parts of laws and all rules and regulations of the depart ments now in force for the collection of the internal revenue tax he anu the same arc hereby repealed." The act not to take effect until twelve months after its passage A Li. efforts of the Republicans to create distrust and division in the LK Democratic ranks in the organization of congress, proved an entire failure. The highest satisfaction is expressed everywhere with the election of Mr. Carlisle, and by none more sincerely than by those who desiied the election of Mr. Randall ami Mr. Coxe, who were the prominent competitors. The rumors now sent out that these dis tinguished representatives are deeply chagrined and bent upon giving trou ible, is all bosh. They are not that d kind of statesmen. It will not pay \ the Republicans to build large hopes upon Democratic dissensions this year. Senator* GORDON, Coxe and Emery each turned over 81,800, their entire pay for the extra session to the Treasury. Lee, of Venango, refused to take $970 of his total, Kennedy, of Philadelphia, covered in 8310, King of Schuylkill, 8330, Longcoecker, of Bedford, $3lO, Vnudegrift, of Bucks, $l6O, Biddis, of Pike, $l3O, and Anil, of Allegheny, Cooper, of Delaware, fci Davie*, of Bradford, Greer, of Butler, B Grady, Hughes, Smith, lteyhurn and H , MacFarlaue, of Philadelphia, and BT Hess, Humes, Hart, Harlan, Kecfer, Laotz, My!in, Shearer and Wagner turned in 8110- each. Walres covered Ein $123. Crawford of the house turned in bit entire pay, $1,870. ThoLuat Proposition of the P. R. It | z\fter coquetting with the I'enns- i valley committee, making appoint- j meats and postponing the meeting week after week, President Roberts finally invited our Centre county gen tlemen to meet the board. They went to be overcome by the generosity (?) of that great and peculiar institution of our state. Our people were led to believe that, this time, the railroad was honest, that its officers felt hurt because our people expressed a slight distrust in their fairness and good in. tention. Yes, our people are easily gulled. As well expect a hungry wolf to change his nature, as this robbing, j tyrannical and rapacious monopoly to do one honest act of reparation to our community. The committee was met by the insulting proposition to raise $23,090 to complete the road. If we did give them the money they would not finish the road, the officers have too often deceived our |>eople for us to 1 believe that. It is only another at tempt to bleed us again. There is not one man in the w hole county of Centre that will give this blood sucking vampire a cent. Welcome the time when we may be free from the chains of a monopoly. PORTER, the Republican Governor of Indiana, does not take kindly to the proposition of Mr. lilaiue to divide among the states the revenue* collected from whisky and tobacco. He savs of this amendment of Blaine to the Barker-Penusylvania scheme of rais ing revenue for distribution among the states, that if it should be adopted the state governments would s.mn practically cease to exist. Lrcal self government would soon disappear and centralization would have limitless sway. All taxes, in whatever form are a tax on the people. Let them be customs taxes or any other form of taxes that the people will long tolerate they are taxes that come fron) the people. When they arc not felt by the people, but are taken from them seductively ami secretly, the govern ment runs inevitably into extrava gance and corrupt expenditure. When the fieople feel the taxes they enforce economical and pure administration. I should look up in the adoption of the scheme of supporting the state gov ernments by indirect taxes collect"! by the general government as tlm first step towards the downfall of the re public The best government is a simple government, frugally adminis tered, and the further you remove thnt government from the people the less there is of simplicity and frugality." THE latest novelty is the attempt of the Philadelphia Pre** to hoi.l Senator Wallace responsible for the failure of the apportionment bills, out of revenge for some fancied grievance against the Governor. Senator Wallace's official course is always open and manly, and is never prompted by unworthy mo lives, like his livilers, in performance of duty to his constituents or tliestnte. I lis speeches and acts during the ses sion give the lie direct and emphatic to the Prett' insinuation. He had no motive for antagonism with the ad ministration, and we venture to assert that none existed—certainly none that would influence him in the manner charged. This attempt on the part of the Prett to cover up the revolutionary and dastardly conduct of its party representatives in the senate, is un worthy as it is mean, will prove a failure. The people of the state are thoroughly posted on this subject, and can have no difficulty in fixing the re sponsibility where it belongs. A PERTINENT INQUIRY. Not less, says the Washington Pott, than a bil lion dollars have been expended on the army and navy since the war, and yet we have not a fort, a ship or a gun that would he better than toys in case of aetual need. Where. hat all the money gone f "KODAL ANI) KXACT JUSTICK TO ALL MKN, OK WIIATXVKK STATU OH I'KRHC ASION, KKLIOIOLH OH POLITICAL.JOroii. BKLLKKONTIC, I'A., THURSDAY, DI-X'KMI/.KK 13, 1883. A Short SoHaion of CougrenH There is a popular belief, says the Ilarisburg Pot riot as well as u uniform hopo that the present Mission ol Con gress will he brief. Kx-Spcaker Ran dall, in an interview before the inci t ing. gave voice to this idea, and Spea ker Carlisle, about the same time, in dicate that his judgment was running in the same direction. A* these two distinguished gentleman fairly repres ent the majority party it is not un likely that a policy of which they agrce will become the prevailing sen timent. In the matter of legislation there is really nothing of importance jto protract the s ssion. There are cer tain incongruities and inequalities iu the tariff'hill passed at the last se-*ion which might and probably will he cor rected, hut any legislation of this char acter attempted ut all will be so uui- ; fnrtnly supported that little delay <>r difficulty will he experienced iu
  • the lat 1 shilling possible to drag out of the Treasury, including the ten day-' re re-- and mile-age. There were a f.-w honorable exceptions, and these only ! will compose the roll <>l honor of a 1 legislature famous for inefficiency and | dis) yalty to tlx ir oaths and the rights of the people of the Commonwealth. It*is but just, however, to -ay that tlx majority of the members of tlx II u-- endeavored to per'- rm tlx ir dutxs, and made .ill tlx sacrifices that could be* ex|>e teil o( tliem to affect the i object lor which tlx v were .ailed, but they spoiled a fair record by their par simony, wlx-n they accepted the t n days' grab and mileage. With the Senate, there i- no extenuating cir cumstance in the cno. The. conduct of that laxly, controlled by a radical ■ machine majority, acting under the in i struction of the abse nt hows, from the inception to the close, wa- lawless and | revoldtionary, exhibiting a disregard of their sworn obligations to the j supreme law of the State. Besides abdicating its legislative functions and refusing to act with the House' four or five days of each week, these Senator*' with an unparalleled meanness, nnw come forward to claim ten dollars n day for the whole tim# they were ab sent from their post of duty, at home, attending to their private affairs. It is nothing hut a downright dastardly tteal from the Treasury of the State and no guilding or explanation can make anything else of it. The end is not yet, whether as to tho larger or lesser steal. Cot- QUAY, Bon Cameron's *ub ( having run the machine in ifnrris burg satisfactorily and defcateel the apportionment bill, has now been transferred to Washington to repre sent his superior in the Federal patron age mill. It is said he has opened stately quarters at Willnrds, which are constantly thronged by the party scavengers of Pennsylvania in pur suit of plunder and place. RUMOR is again rife that Secretary Folger i to retire from the Treasury department, to be succeeded by J. C. New. Taking Whialcy for Stat© It.-vonuo or for Federal Revenue. Mr. Blaine has found a defender for ( his plan of distributing the Federal j whisky tax among the States in Pro- j ( lessor James, of the Pennsylvania , ( I nivvrsity. He discusses the finan-jj eiul aspect of Mr. Blaine's project in - a spirit of ingenious amplification which merits more attention than the project itself. As a means of raising money for carrying on the State Gov ernments the suggested plan of distri- hut ion is already practically laid aside. It has been received and discussed iu a spirit nearly akin to derision. But there is an incidental value in the -ug- ! gxstion* of Professor James that ought not to fall lifeless with the corpse he ) -<. k-t to vivify. It sometimes happens ! that a correct conclusion is reach"! from mistaken premises. Profe-.-or James sustains a whisky tax because indirect taxation is preferable to direct taxation; la-cause it is latter to tax luxuries than necessities ; because ■such a tux falls on the consumer, with uo possibility of shifting it to other -boulders; and because the redundant revenue which might in this way la obtained would enable us to increase both the number of public functions and the efficiency of the public ser vice through enlarged inoa;. of ex penditure. Here is a rare jumble of right r.a -on- and wrong reasons for retaining the whisky tax ! It should neverthe less h. retained, not because it i- better to pick the pockets of taxpayers than to make them stand and deliver open ly, hut because a whisky tax may be - - cheaply collected that money is saved to the taxpayer and his interest subserved. N->t because tlx- whi-ky drinker would pay the whisky tax, or any more than his share of it, for taxes diffuse themselves by the opera tion of well defined economic laws, aixl hence the injustice of tnxing single objects, while other* go free, i mitigated. Not l)ecau*e we are not governed enough, and need to exja-nd more money for more governnx lit To whatever extent the whisky tax would < attribute in multiplying public I unc tions or functionaries it would, indeed, I"- an injury. The reasons, above allude.) to, winch Profesor James gives f--r re taining 'he whisky tax arc largely dc lusive an.) unsatisfactory. Ncvorthe k> the whisky tax should Ire retained. It only costs alx.ut 3} per cent, for collection. Customs revenue, laid for revenue only, is collected at a cost of als nit 3 per cent.; laid for protection the cost attains such huge proportions as to defy accurate statement, 'lie whatever extent, therefore, the tax on whisky may bo made to stand instead of our present method of tariff exnc- Hon, it is a positive gain and blessing. We welcome Professor James' argu ment, much of which is unanswerable, as a shot aimed in the right direction, (hough intende.l to support an inde fensible misuse of the taxing power of the Federal Government.— Philn. /.V- I cord. Protecting Pennsylvania Labor. Among the 1,002 immigrants who were landed at Castle Garden last week, says the New York Telegram, "were 300 miners, who will find cm ployment in the coal fields of Penn sylvania. They came in the steam ship I jessing from Hamburg, their passage tickets in most rases being purchased on the orders of mining companies and superintendents who required their services. Many of the miners came originally from Austro- Hungary. They left here via the Pennsylvania railroad this afternoon t for Philadelphia. When they arrive at the latter city they will lie assigned to different mines in the la-high and Lackawanna regions." Ala time when tho coal markets are declared to be overstocked, and work in consequence is limited fo three .lays each week, it would seem that the importation of foreign labor is not as protecting as it might be to Pennsylvania labor. Among Our Exchangee. The warning from Ohio that fifty thousand Republicans would stay away from the polls if Arthur should be nominated as the party candidate next year has chilled the movement for hirn in these part*, says a letter from \\ ashington.— Gctty*hurj < 'otnpiler. Now we shall get at the true in. wardness of the Dana boom for Hoi man. if the dodge was to kill off* McDonald to make room for an east, eru man that (act will soon appear now that Carlisle ha* been chosen s|K-nker, thus defeating the eastern com hi nat ion. — JlartJord Telegram. It will be time enough to criticise th" Democracy iu congress alter they have placed on record their vote- and speeches. So anxiou-, however, are the Republicans to weaken the action of the majority that they anticipate results, and condemn before & hearing. Is such a course patriotic, honest and becoming men claiming to he repre sentatives of a great party '' — Sun and I}<r it i- to write a message without expressing a definite opinion, than t<< harvest favor, able ..pinions by -owing this negative seed. — Phila. Pr--'. ngr< H mar- tlx opening sew-ion.— Weekly Call. Mr. ( arli-le could take the iron clad oath that he had not been en gaged in rebellion against the govern me-nt, while Mahone's contingent to the Republican party had to content itself with the modified swear, con fessing its participation in that little fracas. —.1 Itoonu r.ni". Governor Patti-on vetoed the ap propriation hill, hut the senate an.) house passed it over his veto. It rings | like a cathedral lell. — Clarion Demo '■ ernt. The selection of Mr. Carlisle for I their political leader is the most re s|>ectahle thing the opposition to the government have done in a quarter of a century. — Chicago Time*. The Republican members of the house have not the slightest reason to complain because Mr. Keifer thrusts himself forward a? the leader of the minority. Mr. Keifer would be a fool if he did not look upon the nearly unanimous vote cast for him by the Republicans on Monday as evidence of continued and great esteem, respect, admiraliun and confidence. — Mru York Timet. Senators Coxe, Emory and Gordon, refused to take any salary whatever, on the ground that it had not been earned. It's a pity the state did not 1 have more senators after this pattern Doylettotrn Democrat. The cheek that impels to denuncia tion of Carlisle and the extolling of Keifer would shame a rhinoeerous. — Union Leader. Governor Pattison will feel lonely now that his rebellious and idle school has been dismissed.— Altoona Tribune- TKKMB: £ I ..'l I per Annum, jn Advance. Proceedinga of Mooting of Board of Trade. LULLKROXTK, PA., I>PC. r, t ]K;J. A n>e<-lir,£ of th* Heilefonte Hoard of 'I rade held in itio i (Hi of M'sirt. Heater A; Gephart at 7 -0, i- m. Gen Heaver G*ir c abf any f-• r ((.<■ prop,.ted lailroad Irum Heei h 4.'reek to li. ili fonU) reported that the engineer had r, t completed bit survey A <-t ar.d -k< i '■> he continued. On motion of l> r<-d and unan i irnously adopted WIIEKKAS, A r< | rt tin circulated ■ that the Hnilef„nl<- II 'd of Trade was an iagotiiin to it, A- |r• • | n-d n-w railroad in this Ai< inity. to I i i - rij led in the inter est and under the a . pi - of the Pennsyl vania railroad cotnp iiiv, growing out of the (art that said organization pasted a resolution arid apjo inted a committee to an] in procurring r..-ht of way for the pro |HIHHI new railn ad fr rn Itellefonte to He, ch (.'reek j Wll CRK is, Said rep rt is a it bout found dstion, ar ! the only r>t,-- n any said reao lution pa-s,-d was b ause a written proposit, n rain- b, fore i r Hoard of Trade in referer -i -a. j B<<•< t.Creek road writh art, ,e,t (or rot ri thereon, whilst r i r.<, ~t wiiat"\ r pad he.-n rnade for • rr.ilar action hi it. H lefonte, N Atariy A Isernont rai.r ad a; 1 \\ llir.r: A- \\ . • desirous of correct ing - . err, re i r, . rt ar i manifesting ir hearty .j to pat; A AS h'very enterprise tending l ' level tfr r<*, un I'S of our county therefore i it /I- - Tr at - the sense of this m-'ting i il anyt • g in their power to aid the lia.d lag \ y railroad to ar quire rightf way, sibaa for depots or anv thing the sa. 1 ra. r ad < mpanv may re. |quin to further their ntereUin Lb#ttalld* | ing ol said bra- h I at i I*-esid"ni appoint a I ronitnltt Eof i ; t v th w(. m tile oflirers ' THE HA .J H A.■ I RA ■ ADCOTNT,ANR may ( !,-r t" make kr -n their wishes in the matter and it is firth, r li - •, I :.at ttj• >< -etary shall furn is '" I' n I. \ .AJ.. ai-v, President OL r \ s ra road comjiariy, •nd the 1! ,i .! I>iLarry a oopr of these res, ,1 r,s r. iding the names of I said committee The Pre- . rt fAp; rsl,->i the following •mmitte. ll G I:,. 11 Wrt Valentine, j Prank McC< A. A P. Curlin. Jr., W. P. Jenkins, Jr , Jain, A Hearer. . j Adjourn,-! •I II LtXOLI, Secretary : —Daily -New MON-K.-VOH (\II I. -ny. "There are a pood many Catholic* in this (•oiintry— B,lN ,('! l) T s-imebodv UTS our publi HC-lIIXI] system is inade '|tiaic fur th- m, and th<_\ are going to leave it. Suppose that the Church sends out an authoritative command to the Catholics to start schools in every parish, and support tbim, and send all Catholic children to them. It can be done by the utterance of a word, sharp as the click of a trigger. That command will lie obeyed. New 'schools will spring up everywhere. ' What will le the result of that? A fight! I>o you suppose M, me million* of people are going to pay taxes twice • over—once for their own school*, ami again for Protestant school*, from which they get no benefit ? If it ian't a downright fight, it will lie at least the warlike condition—a million or , two of voting, tax-paying citizens ( hostile to the Government." If Monsignor Cape)'* mission to America is simply one of stirring up the fanaticism of his sect, be had better go home at once. If be can't comprehend that our government is based on civil rights and knows no Protestant, no C-atholic, hi* religious brethren had better *hnt his mouth at once. Such unwie utterances, fo . tunately will do no harm. American Catholic* arc American citizens at well, and hold a* dear a* any of us the great principles of free govern ment, and would fight for the bul warks that defend them. No one objects to any one building schools for themselves, but the people will sternly trample down any interference with the public school. Monsignor, p - haps, has forgotten the example of Italy, France and Belgium. Seasonal for the Ctxrat Dk