VOL.. XVI1.—NO. 24. . CENTRE DEMOCRAT. BELL EFONTE, PA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 24, 18935. A Disgraced AX UNBRIDLED E THE PEOPLE'S MONEY NEEDLESSLY SQUANDERED. | A Few Lessons Learned from the Late Legislature which Furnish Striking | Legislature. UNPARALLELED RECORD, OF PARTISAN PATRONAGE AND XTRAVAGANCE. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. J Harrisburg June 22, 15g3 I herewith file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with my objections thereto, House bill No, 361, entitled “* An Act to repeal an act entitled ‘ An Act to prevent the consoli dation of competing pipe lines for the transportation of oil or to hold the con. trolling interest in the stock or bonds of competing pipelines or the acquisition or control either directly or indirectly by purchase or otherwise, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof,’ ap- proved the thirteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.” he act of June 13, 1883, which met Contrasts Between Republican Profligacy and Democratic Economy—Wanton | the approval of the present Executive Waste of the Public Funds so that Republican Politicians may be Held Fast in the Party Fold—A Republican Legislature that had Nothing in Common time to prevent a monopoly of the oil- with the Will of the People. The legislative session of 1895 in Penn- sylvania will ever be remembered as the | most profligate and grossly incompetent in the history of the State. It was essen: | tially a Republican legislature. That] party had a majority of 36 in the Senate, | and 146 in the House, or a majority of 182 on joint ballot. So palpably corrupt | and shameless were the transactions of | that legislative body that the Philadel- | phia Ledger (Republican), of June ro, | 1895, said the members composing it ‘‘ re- turn to their homes with a record which | should ensure the defeat of the greater! number of them whenever they may | come up for re-election, for they have not been faithful servants of the people, but mere henchmen of Senator Quay and the corporations.” AN INCREASE OF 150 PER CENT. in Two Years Salaries of State Officers Have Been Run Up at a Reckless Rate. An examination of the general appro priation bill shows some startling figures as a result of the reckless increase of salaries and offices. The increase in the total amount of the appropriation carried is, in round numbers, $1,140 000, and as the appropriation to the public schools is the same as two years ago, it can be seen where the money isgoing. In three sections of the bill alone the expenses of the State Department, Judiciary and the Legislature, the increase reaches the stupendous sum of $1,010,000. he very fist item in the general appropriation bill is an appropriation of $1.369,816.48 to pay the ‘ salaries of the State officers, the clerks in the several departments of the State government | and for incidental expenses of said de- partments.”’ In 1893 the Legislature appropriated to thisitem £552 659.26 or $817,157.22 less than is appropriated this year, In other words, the new officers and the new departments created nearly 150 per cent, | of the amount appropriated two years ago to pay the expenses of the State officials and their departments for the next two years. This is somewhat start- ling, in view of the fact that there had | been a great outcry for ecomomy, and worthy objects of State aid were refused help because the State Treasury was in danger of being depleted NEW OFFICES AND HIGHER SALARIES, Cases in Which an Extravagant Legisia- ture Gave Itself Full Rein. The cost of the Judiciary was increased $145,400, and the cost of the Legislature 57.512. : Nor does the latter item include the expenses of a number of nice little legis- lative junkets which are provided for in separate items, and the sum of $32,000 which was to go to the Senate Elections Committee for the farcical contest by Dr. Heller for Senator Laubach's seat, This charge the Governor vetoed only because it was not itemized. It will be itemized at the next session and the members of the committee will then be given the au- thority to rob the State Treasury of the greater portion of this monstrous charge. The third bill approved by the Gov- ernor was solely for the purpose of pro- viding a fat berth for Republican State Chairman Gilkeson, and the people of the State wi'l be sh rt about g100,0.0 for the privilege of seeing Col. Gilkeson in the office of Commissioner of Banking for two years, as that is in round num- bers the increased cost of maintaining the department under the new law. In the same way an office was created for Major John C. Delaney by increasing the salary of the Superintendent of Pub- lic Grounds and Buildings, from $1,500 to $3,000, and providing a lot of new places in the department. The creation of a Department of Agri- culture was intended as a sop to the professional farmer politician, for which the people will have to pay the good round sum of $98,000, that sum being appropriated to it for two years. The Secretary is given a roving commis- sion and can employ at his discretion experts for special examinaticns and investigations, the expenses to be paid out of the State 1 roasarys “as like expenses are now paid.” The head of | the department is given the salary of | $3.500, with a deputy at $3000, an| Economic Zoologist, whose main occu- pation, outside of drawing his salary, is the hiring of small boys to shoot spar: rows and chipmunks, which he is sup- posed to stuff and to gaze upon with | satisfaction, The general appropriation act also allows him a $1,000 for mounting and repairing specimens, and in order that his laborious duties may not set too | hard upon him, he is given a clerk at $1.500 a year in addition. Then there is a Commissioner of For- | estry, a Dairy and Food Commissioner | and a State Veterinarian, each at a salary of $2,500, - besides numerous clerks and a | r contingent fund for traveling and other | expenses of these various officers of $50,000. PARTISAN LEGISLATION. Measures Intended to Provide Places for Republican Henchmen, One of the most outrageous bills passed during the session provides for the app rintment of inspectors of scales, weights and measures, and under its terms the people of Philadelphia, Pitts- burg and Allegheny are at the mercy of a few politicians. The old law, pro- viding for sealers of weights and meas- ures which was one of the first things to fall before the reform wave of 1882, was respectable compared to th measure. The new law power in the hands of the County Com- missioner which combined with a fac- tional Governor, can be utilized to create a powerful political lever. The bill pro- vides that the governor shall appoint such number of inspectors as may be | General | creased. $601,871, an increase of $57,512.10 this the Senate gets $153 370 against | $134,862 last session. competition “unfimired designated by the County Commissioners in cities of the first and second class, who shall be paid moathly out of the County Treasury, any salary that the Commissioners may fix. The Commis- sioners have the absolute say as to the number of inspectors and the size of the salary. A bill of almost equal possibilities in the way of politics at the expense of the taxpayers is the Farr Compulsory Education Bill, which authorizes the employment of an unlimited number of truant officers at a salary of two dollars a day, a bonanza for political heelers in a hot campaign. Two similar bills had been handled without gloves by Governor Pattison in riaging veto messages. Governor Hastings signed the bill, not, however, without an apology for doing SO Positions most sought after by the re- presentatives of labor organizations are those of Factory Inspector and deputy inspectors. In order to better keep the labor orgauizations in the field, eight additional deputies were created at salaries of $1,200 a year, with $500 a year added to each for expenses. : STEWART'S ILLEGAL INCREASE. |during his former term, was a wise | measure intended and necessary at the carrying interests. for legislation which would authorize the incorporation of oil pipe lines and invest { them with the rights and powers neces- | sary to their successful construction, | eventuated in what was known as the ‘“ Free Pipe Line Bill” To protect and preserve the rights it secured, the Act of june 13, 1883, was an essential supple- mentary measure, else all the advantages of the Free Pipe Line Bill would have been lost, by permitting monopolies to consolidate and to acquire controlling interest in the competing pipe lines to be created under the salutary legislation of that session. It is now proposed to re The inevitable effect woul competing lines into consolidation or to put the shippers of this important pro duct at the mercy of the great monopo- lies which might be able to secure and hold the controlling interest in the stock or bonds of competing lines. When the Commonwealth conferred upon these companies its high prerogative of emi- nent domain, enabling them totake private property for what, in the contemplation of the law, were pablic uses, it was upon the implied contract that the public Peo this act. An Instance Where the Constitution of the State was Clearly Violated — The Superior Court Job. In increasing the salary of Adjuant | General Stewart the Constitution of the State was openly defied. Section 13 of | Article 3 states clearly ** No law shall extend the term of any | public officer or increase or diminish his | salary or emoluments after his election or appointment.” Col. Stewart was appointed Adjutant immediately after Governor Hastings’ inauguration in January. On increasing the salary of the Adjutant General from $2 3500 to $4000 and it passed both Houses and was signed by the Governor on May 30. As evidence that the increased salary was to be claimed by the present incumbent the appropriation for the next two years salary is $5,000. The number of clerks in the various department's was very generously in- c Early in the session the State Treasurer was given an Assistant Cashier at a salary of $2,200. Following came the bill crea'ing the office of Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs at a salary of $3,000, and providing for two additional draughtsmen at salaries of $1,400 each. The Auditor General was also given a Deputy at £31,000 and the | Superintendent of Public Instruction stenographer at $1,000, The appropriation of the Legislature Is Of The item of salary | of the officers and the employes of the Senate except Librarian, watchmen and pages is given at £41,668, an increase of $10,848 over the amount appropriated for the same items three years ago. The appropriation to the House is $448,501.06, an increase of $18 479.16 over the amount appropriated last session, Most of this increase probably goes to pay useless employees who were forced | upon the House by the demand for places. The Judiciary of the State was worked for all the nice political plums possible at an increased cost to the taxpayer of £145,400 for the two years. The most conspicuous figure in this increase whas, of course, the new Superior Court of seven judges at $7,500 a year. : The provision in this bill that only one | of the seven judges may be a Democrat | brands it as a most partisan measure, | and it is the first deliberate attempt of | the Pennsylvania Legislature to create a | partisan Judiciary. The argument made to defend the creation of this Court upon the plea of relieving the overworked Judges of the Supreme Court, cannot be sustained, THE STANDARD OIL MONOPOLY. | } Governor Hastings Signs the Marshall Bill—Governor Pattison’s Stand for | the Interests of the People. : The effects of the iniquitous Marshall Pipe Line Bill, which was passed to ea. ble the Standard Oil Company to gobble up all competing lines have already be- come too ap ence, The Governor signed the bill with an explanation and an apology. The | people, however, are now paying the | piper in the greatly increased price of | oil, Before it passed and was signed refined oil could be bought fir five cents per gallon; it is now fifteen cents a gallon and likely to go higher, When Governor Hastings says that | under the act of 1883 the sale of a pipe | competent, which political a line which com would prevent non-payin, Pipi companies or individuals from selling their stocks, their bonds, or their corporate franchises to any persons, or any corporation that may willing to buy them, he evidently does not want | to remember that Section 1 of the Act says distinctly that compeling lines can- not buy each other out, but it does not prohibit the sale to parties not competi- tive. The act refers only to any corpora- tion, association, partnership or individual and prohibits such from acquiring, pur- line or operating such ¢ ting line, or controlling the stock ig of such ¢ e act lies only where there is gn the ernor and his advisers knew it. In order that the the difference betw: yutved them aiid one who sefves tie Sut. ations and t most gigantic monop- Bly known, we quote Governor Pattison veto of this same pipe line bill : rent to need further refer. | chasing, or leasing a competing pipe | fi The long agitation | be to drive | of the Board of Pardons for which he re. ceives #500 a year and shares in various other items of the contingent fund. The salary of the cagrporation clerk has been raised since thal time from $1,600 to $2,200 and there is alo allowed for enforcing the laws relative to foreign corporations the sum of $1,po0 which is part of the work which sdme one of the supernu- merary clerks ih the office is already paid $1,400 a year fa performing. ' For classifying! arranging and tabula- ting old papersstored in the loft of the building formejly occupied by the Exe- cutive Departnjent on. storing same in proper shelves| &c , $2,000. These pa- pers consist of 41d bonds of notaries long since dead or oft of office, and old worth- less letters, which for sanitary reasons, if for no other, had all better been con- signed to the rubbish heap. ‘or expensesincurred under the ballot law $3,000. THis is another steal as the clerks in the office can do this work in a few days withogt the least difficulty, and the extra amoust necessary for postage could readily bq obtained from the funds for contingent expenses. { ments to do th AUDITOR GEFERAL'S DEPARTMENT ~— For the paymegt of the execution of the corporation laws, $2,000. Yet this de- partment has a Peputy Auditor General who is about § much use as the fifth wheel to a wagdh. The act appropriates $49,000 for clerl hire, and it will be re- membered thaff this is the department where the corp@ration laws are supposed to be enforced #nd where the clerks are supposed underghe heads of the depart- nforcing. sum of $10,000 is ap ble the Auditor General to collect inforghtion relative to taxation of persons and Pgoperty, and to classify and tabulate the@ame, in order that he may simply makg a report to the begis lature as to he he thinks a tax bill The enormo propriated to e should be drawr This item is only a| a cent, and then Rot be occupied all their flowers are needed for the Governor's receptions they have to be bought. Then comes the Secretary of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings at a salary of $300, which duties the clerk and bookkeeper should assume without extra pay. Then we have $1,000 for renovating specimens for the museum of Natural history, which the Economic Zoologist at $2500 a year will get, and so on Ls the fist. At every point the | effort is plain that the State is to be robbed at all hazards. DEFEAT OF APPORTIONMENT. CORRUPT AND SORDID. THE LAST LEGISLATURE CONDEMNED BY A REPUBLICAN AUTHORITY. MONOFPOLIST JOBS PREVAILED A TREASURY SCANDAL REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS ARRAIGNED BY REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPERS B. ¥. MEYERS’ HONEST STAND WHILE LEGITIMATE LEGISLATION WAS ALTOGETHER ICGNORED—~THE PHILADREIL, FHIA LEDGER TELLS SOME GALLING With a Stupendous Majority the Republi: | cans Failed to Comply with the Pro- visions of the Constitution. Amid so many flagrant acts of omis- | sion of which the last Legislature was | ~A SCATHING TRUTHS REGARDING THE " TRICKS AND DEVICES’ OF REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS CRITICISM. | That the late State Legislature merited WHILE REPUBLICAN ARE PIHLIORIED STATE TREASURERS FOR HE 4 HEYWOOD FARMING OU PUBLIC Fi DECLARES THAT BRIOKGC TO THF ON THE US ALL INCREMEN PROFLE SILENT SUBJECT. As between the Democratic and Re- guilty, none will stand out more clearly, | the condemnation of honest Republican | publican candidates for State Treasurer or bring more disgrace on the Republican | OPinion as well as of Democratic senti- | the voters of Pennsylvania should have party than its failure to obey the clear | mandate of the Constitution, and pass | Congressional, Senatorial and Legisla- | tive apportionment bills, For almost two decades, this duty has rested heavily upon the Legislature of this State, but never has it performed it as the Consti- tution directs. During Governor Patti- son's terms he returned bills without his approval giving constitutional and con- | vincing reasons for his vetoes. At the | last session with the phenomenal majority | of 146 votes in the House and 36 majority | in the Senate and an Executive elected by a tremendous plurality and of the same political faith, the Republicans | were t tally unable to perform this duty. The bills as presented were of the most partisan character, disfranchising Demo- crats on every hand, gerrymandering the State, and failing to make the districts compact and contiguous as the law re- quires, and were for these and many other good reasons strenuously opposed great big steal. Whe clerks could get all | this information Rishon costing the State time, Then it costs the people $800 to store should have all the advantages of the ! away the old papers of this department | Harman Yerkes for Superior Judge by the Democrats, who had the Coastitu tion back of them and whose love of fair play would not permit them to support allie UC DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. F9%AVAVL VIVAL VAY competition thus created and promoted. To deprive them of this advantage by such legislation as is herein proposed would, in my judgment, be unfair, unwise and against sound public policy, and | am especially unwilling to approve it in the face of the earnest protest which has | reached me from great numbers of citi- zens directly affected, Ror E. Parrison. LOOTING THE TRZASURY. — A Convincing Array of Facts which Prove thet the Public Money is Being Needlessly Squandered, | While every official at the State Capi- | required by the tol is paid about twice as much money | | for his services as he really earns, and | while the work could be far better done at less cost and by employees thoroughly intees, as es with another is ab- | a general thing are not, and while every | solutely forbidden, and that said act | and useless | department could easily dispense with at | least one-third of its present force, it | being remembered that the departments | had a great many unnecessary employees even before the present acts increasin the number were passed, yet the genera appropriation act is full of items for extra compensation for work in the various departments for which the employees are more than well Jad by their salaries. Following are a few sample bricks of the way in which unnecessary offices have been created for needy Joiticians; and money drained from the Treasury on ctitlous pretexts: . people may ju of | tution people may Julges was from §t to $2,200 a year and he is also the ¢ from the basement of the executive | building, which is $1,200 less than it cost the State Department for similar ser-| vices. Both items are entirely unnces sary. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, ~The clerks in the Treasury Department get $25,500, and yet $2, 000 additional is appropriated for transterring and re-indexing accounts of corporations, $300 for moving papers, books, &c., and $500 for electric fixtures and fans,. DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, «Here we have $5,000 for contingent ex- ses, $12,000 for traveling and other ] i J dustrial Statistic ineidental expenses of the Bureau of In- istics, and the sum of $10,000 of the tax statistics as 157. the pum paid the clerical | force of this d ent is remembered | to be $63,000, the enormity of the above items is apparent. Then it was discovered that the bound. | ary line monuments between Pennsyl- | vania and other States were out of re- | pair, and $2,000 was a riated for ex- | amining them and repairing them, DerarTMENT OF PusLic GROUNDS AND BuiLpiscs—~Major Ji C. Delaney gets $3,000 a year for acting as Superip- tendent of Capitol Grounds, etc. His | bookkeeper gets $1,500 a year, but he has a hard time occupying his time. for a mechanic, 5 £3 2 Es zi 2 = H : it such unjust measures. The Democrats, with a membership of only 29 in the House, while the Republicans had 175 are now charged by the latter with be- ing r sible for the Republican failure to do their sworn duty in this matter and pass the bill through the House of Rep- resentatives. Their logical position is, that they cannot legislate or obey the Constitution, which they are sworn to support, unless they have every member in both branches cf the Legislature. The people will say, however : ** Since vou Republicans had 182 majority on joint ballot, you ought to have been able to legislate without the assistance or even against the opposition of the Democrats, and failure to do so can only be properly NEEDED CHARITIES NEBLECTED. Jobs and lobbers Had to be Provided for and Humanitarian Efforts were Therefore Ignored. THY 999999999090 0TH RAVI AL DVI VVYVEN An examination of the laws of 18¢s, and a comparison of them with those passed at the session of 1893, will show E 1 iis i : ; ment is amply evidenced by the adverse | criticism of the intelligent Republi an | press. Every vote at the approaching election that is cast for the Republican candidates will be an endorsement of that reckless and disgraceful Legislature Every vote cast for the Democratic ticket will be a rebuke, and a demand for honest State government The Philadelphia Public Ledger, Republican, had this to say about the essentially Republican Legislative body in whicn the interests of the people of Pennsylvania were recently misplaced Whatever t} Pennsyivania S100 OF OMiss the General such a profou the last There has beet Bo 1 Commonwealth of wi members of morally 5 » 1} ins Of omission but for its sins o * indendedioy e my, because of th r Ha te thal © LL) and Govern lLegisiatu exiravagance Sate Treasurer 1 in various banks more than § 000 State's money. all of which was iyi idle 80 far as Lhe State was conorrned. Ath» sigh the plea for economy thus Jost some of ite force it was used effectively 19 cut off som» Rppropris tions that should have been made. On the other (hand the Lrealest exiravagance was exhibited Tim other directions, and auless Governor Hast ings should again use his veto power much of the money of the State will be squandered on un worthy of The Legislature increased the appropriations to the Executive Department of the Government more than $Boo oo This crease amounted to more than 19 per cent . bed tu in and » - priation ¢ withstand given by 1h delphia School was defeated thro tricks and devices of small ticians On the other hand these same influences passed the Superior Cot 11 in such form as t give the minority par only one out of seven Judges which is manifest Iv unfair But it was by sins of commission that *his Legislature registered its character, It passed and the Governor signed a Pipe Line bill which enabled the Standard OH monopoly to tighten 1s bold and make millions of dollars in a few THE BOODLE BRIG. Some of the Reasons why the Republican | Party has a Grip on the State. There were in the last House of Rep- | resentatives a number of members who | were known as the “Boodle Crowd.” No bill could get their support unless the question, ‘How much is there in it?” was satisfactorily answered. Boss Ma. gee, of Pittsburg, did as he pleased ; got all the legislation he wanted and got the Governor to sign every bill he was inter- ested in. Certain representatives had their pock- ets stuffed with railroad passes all the time, and an office was opened at Har- risburg for the confessed purpose of ad- vancing legislation desired by the Stand- ard Oil Company Paid agents of railroad companies sat in the Senate and furnished to members in that and the adjoining House free passes as occasion required. If the voter would stop for a moment | to think, he would discover in these fac | will \DE. | some of the main reasons why the Re- publican party has such a grip on this | ate. ‘ids because of the Cubiesive pow- er er. e corporations recog nize that the return of the Democratic | party to pewer in Pennsylvania would | mean exact justice to all and special fa- | vors to none, and they, therefore, prefer to stick by the party which is for them at | all fines, at A hazards and » the Wr pense, in a large majority of cases, o the rights of the people. A10 PER CENT. INCREASE. ow 1 | the same advantage no difficulty in determining their prefer. ence, The position of the Democracy is set forth with emphatic distinctness in the address of Hon B. F. Meyers in ac- cepting the nomination for State Treas- urer. He strikes the root of the flagrant mismanagement that has char- acterized the office under its Republican incumbents. In his address Mr. Meyers said : Gentlemen of the Committee the nomination for the office of State Ireasurer tendered me by the late Democratic Slate Convention was made contrary to my wishes and hope, 1 feel it to be a public duty to obey the behest of my party. Neither the honor conferred nor the responsibility imposed by ti nomination 18 to be ly regarded. assured that 1 appreciate in full and complete sign It will hardly ceping a nomination the nomines enter upon an exposition of the principles and policies set forth in 1] his party. It will be sufficit say that he gives them | support I will if with sayi the the wi at tl Although 1s Be their i fn the ithe patiorm ol nt for ham to nt nt OT hereiore, Cot 5 En ems and ee approve adopted Convention I'he d . 1 tent m ng that 1 most cordially of Democrati platform principle | ’ alc Sta ie 113606 1es 1 nr na ore f rt { o believe Ui venues * ay re alieviate th i He should pee to it that ti lating the administration of t} of the monweaith i. He should ment of the funds in the Treasury fron whatever source as accruing to the Com monwealth, and not as his personal per quisilte or the spoils of party these views thus | i be permitted to add cially control and direct the levying and disbursement of the revenues of Commonwealth should, in their report to the Governor, call attention to the of abolition of all un- wes and the fictals by fixed are obeye regard as ¢ ! e importance of the necessary and payment of all publ salaries instead of fees abuse the fee system to the people, | the fees now paidto the State and county officials were made a part of the revenues of the Common wealth, and of the several property and labor would be some degree from the bur ation which they are now bear. 1 thank you most kindly for the cour- | esses you have extended, and share with you the hope that a brighter and a better day is about to dawn upon the politics of i our beloved State, useless oi blic p { s if inn counties, f i fen of tax obliged 10 eles Here’. anuwiner Pieters, Compare th declaration oi § and spoiliation that have we ministration of successive Republican State Treasurers for so many wears, So brazen has been the cheat played upon the people that the most partisan of Re publican newspapers have been com- pelled to cry “stop thief” The bare- faced jobbery of the office is no more pro- nounced just now than it has ever been, but special attention is called to it by the failure of State Treasurer Jackson to turn over its share of the school fund to Phila- delphia Read what Republican newspapers say tues § is ue RIGEG wrked the ad- | of the policy and practices of Republican State Ireasurers Philadelphia Press, October 9, THE INTEREST ON PUBLIC MONEYS The refusal or failure of State Treas- urer Jackson to pay to this city the bal ance cf the school fund approp: iation due at the end of last June i» amazing. Nat. urally it is causing much adve:se criti cism of the State Treasurer in the absence of any explanation from that official It has been boldly asserted that the reason the money has been withheld from the city so long after it was due, and io spite of City Treasnry Oellers’ re- peated requests that it be paid, is that it could be kept in favored banks bere and there in the State which were doubtless paying interest to somebody for it Whether this be the reason or not Treas. urer Jackson has certainly, by his delay, forced a renewed discussion of the familiar old question of interest on the State moneys deposited in va:ious banks, It has been talked over and done over many times without resulting in any- thing ; but sooner or later something will be accomplished. Chairman Quay may put it in among his other proposed re- forms and insist upon a change. The city of Philadelphia, which carries a con¥derable balance in the banks all the time, adopted the y some time ago of exacting interest on such i and the interest is paid into the pubic treasury not into the pockets of individ. uals. Why should not the State have from the money which it keeps in different barks? The public has no definite knowledge that interest is now paid by the banks on the State deposits, but when allega?izss ure made that such is the fact they are not denied. What is known, however, is that no interest on such its is paid to he State, while if there is any interest to
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