a THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOB} ‘wy “IN 14, 1807. The Centre Democvat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, -- EDITOR & PROP CIRCULATION, OVER 1800. Telephone Call n83. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Regular Price If paid In ADVANCE $1.00 Special Club Rate Ine Cexrrg DEMOCRAT will be sent one vear with any one of the below named papers, at the following low rate: With Pittsburg Weekly Post Cineinnatti Weekly Enquirer New York Stimes-a-week World The Democratic State Ticket. For State Treasurer, MICHAEL E. BROWN, of Indiana county, $1.50 per year. collection of certain money that is re- turned to the counties, the table of re. ceipts and expenditures is deceptive, Takingsthe sinking fund transfer and personal property taxes returned to the counties in 18g6, for instance, the net | revenue last year is shown to have been $10,226,820. This shrinkage and the ex- traordinary extravigance credited to the legislature of 1895, caused the big defici- ency, according to the Harrisburg Dis- patch to the Associated Press, and rend. ered the several revenue laws of the last session necessary. In brief the expenses of the state have grown from §30,069,- 155,47 for pattison's first term--1883-86- to $£31,106,338.73 in Beaver's term and have now jumped to the starting figure of $48,000,000. This is an interesting con- dition of affairs, over which the voter and tax payer may well stop and think. esteem DINGLEY S FAILURE. didacy For the Governorship. EXTRAVAGANCE IN LEGISLATION The Philadelphia Record Publishes a Statistical Article Which Is Causing tho Politl- clans at the State Capital. (Bpecial Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Oct, 13. Congressman W. A. Stone, of Pittsburg, the leading can- didate in the western section of the state for the Republican nomination for governor next year, was in Phlladel- phia Baturday. Although Colonel Btone called on State Chairman Elkin and met other prominent politicians, his visit to Philadelphia had no political significance. He was there on legal business, and after transacting it left Much Comment Among HARRISBURG LETTER. | | sergeant-at-arms, | sistants, $500 each; doorkeeper, $600, and Congressman W, A, Stone's Can~ | i §2.000; 1 : Jour nal clerk, $1,500; 1» “i clerk, $1,000, Two transcribing clerks, $500 each: $500, and four as- three assistants, $600 each, with ag ad- ditional doorkeeper for the rotunda; message clerk, $600, and three assist- ants, $600 each. Postmaster, $800, and one assistant, $600; superintendent folding rooms, $600; ten padters and folders, $600 each; watchman, $3 a day; two janitors of basement, $600 each; two firemen, $600 each; two janitors for committe rooms, $600 each; janitor of wash room, $600; | 16 pages, each $2 a day, Total, 67, Another authorized employe, an engl- neer, to be named by the clerks of both houses, made the total number of legis. lative employes legally provided for 86, not counting scrub women, In 1885 the legislature voted (itself the following 13 additional regular em- ployes: In the senate, one executive clerk, two transcribing clerks and two Janitors; in the house, two transcribing clerks, one bill book clerk, two assist. ant doorkeepers, two janitors of com Garman's Opera House, season of "yy The following attractions have booked by Manager Garman for season There is no mystery about of 1897-68, % Oct. 26--Stowe’s “Uncle Tom's Cabin’ Co. Nov, 12—""A Turkish Bath 15-Opera-Comedy, 3all.’’ eC. “rattle Trixie, 11—-Jouls Morrison in Dec. 17—Frank Jones. Jan, 22--"'A Breezy Time Feb, 12-Guy Brother Mar. 8—Byme Bros., ‘'} it is mmmply a clear, pure, honest soap for laundry and household use, made by the most approved rocesses, and being the bes t, it pe the largest sale in the world . It is made in a twin bar for con Everyone desires } venience sake, Yukon, the Klondyke and J This shows fields. The Twin Bar Do You Want Gold 7 Send 10¢ Hamilton Pub, Co., Indianapolis, During the Minsgtre Jght Bell to keep informed on . for large Compend of vast information and big color map to ANTED-TRUSTWORTHY rentier For Auditor General, AND ACTIVE WALTER E. RITTER, of Williamsport ¥ esta 5 for Pittsburg. When Mr. Stone was asked how his gubernatorial candidacy was progress ing he replied that so far as he could learn It was moving along in good style. “1 did not come east to push along my mittee rooms, and one janitor in the basement. All these places were filled long before the enactment of the law therefor. The position of clerk to the presi- | dent pro tem. Is of this year's creation boom,” he sald, “but to attend Lo some | phe speaker's clerkship is of longer important matters for a client, Still, I| sranding. These, with a chaplain for | can say that my candidacy for gover- | each house, ‘gives the senate a total of | nor gets the benefit of a full day every | 45 employes authorized by law, and the | day except half holidays, and that I am | house 67 with the same warrant. content with the outlook. 1 am and will The Multiplication of OM oes. be a candidate until the convention de- In line with the multiplication of of- clares its choice, and 1 belleve that | q..4 and raising of salaries throughout | cholee will be myself.” xecutive departments since Mr The advocates of the Pittsburg cus | pattison's first term as governos gre nan's nomination for the succes sion to Governor Hastings claim that of the | ne jes vantage ground in the con- test at present in that he has captured first th . the delesatior he Dingley tariff, i he / 24 he treasury would be bankrupt to-day R : gation to the b ir ned hous The United States treasury is subsist. ing these days, under the failure of the Dingley customs tariff, mainly on whisky : and tobacco, Take one day as an illus. For County Surveyor.—J. BR WETZEL. tration. On Saturday last customs re. J. ROY. ceipts were only $356,684, while the in. ternal revenue receipts, almost entirely sibie } Monthly #500 and expenses Reference. Enclose “il-addre The Dominion The Twin Benefits : Less labor envelop Lever Bros, 144. Greater comfort Chicago The Democratic County Ticket. Hudson & Harrison Sta, New York, The CENTRE DEMOCRAT and cinnati /nguirer for $1.50 a year, For Jury Commissioner.—]. EDITORIAL. from spirits, beer and tobacco, were §1,- The deficiency for the day was That day's operations of the inthe United telis the story of one for the last fryer i? ary, The deficiency States treasury year of the CRaEIng Jun yo, 1 Dingley tanff, CALL ON —= SKCHIIKR & CO Wilson The first question that will face the next 07, 0a Congress will be to tinker up the miser- | ’ ’ ' y : 11 ! figures The deficiency in the Uniled able abortion so that it will provide suffi} Hgures State cient revenues for the support occu Governs Under the Dingley state convention ; om Be and that the old ia re and patriotic organizations are 1d the | disposed to stand solidly by him on a« army recor rks county, year extent of $70,000,000 had it not been for Cleveland's bond issues a: money they accumulated [he le ficiency tA We 4 in the treasury challenge each the Republican papers to deny ment ii ex eded the deficiency mens. ’ ¢ Cad Jor J The pressure of awful facts twelve month zies them. Tug republican wr | u ing most of their 't tay saat arsed ORDO Y vi iar wheat and prosperity hen election day arris visionary topics—to divert attention m | not amount anything h fore Vie whith Takes a Different View, lerk and N 1 nda . FON, CAnGIGAal § ia which for hom pson William R 3 1 Lerer I the extravagance that has been unearth ed at Harrisburg reas - the Ind months the recen evid yY ETOes Ww 3 EressInan | to the recent enti HBAET ti nDEressmal ' sch cas importance does not have a very high opit Sa. ‘ . ’ REPUBLICANS don t rejer | spread of prosperity at this time. ’ orkeepers of the extravagance at arrisburg and the Talking to the voters of Ohio in a letter Fa it Ha do bh o oo " ie movement 1 y brought Mr » corruption in the recent legislature. The Inde- en conferring as to the postimastiers 4 Governor St, 8 to the Columbus ‘‘Press’ mpson 0 think pendent candid with numer methods of conductis iis canvass result of these deliberations will be wit- Independent veadquarters algn come the state } practical begun Mr week In Phila- after the ne in that Joc engineer and fold each. the pages each 32; wate year, and the the cellar, In John shows that the interest on the mort. best pasters The 4a da gage debt of that State at this time, not cach hmen $3 during the engineer and fireman in addition to thelr salaries for the session, $3 a day for the yed during the recess. Such a that of paster therefore, worth last than under the act other empl ality port - - THis year in Pennsylvania good gov. chaplains including railway mortgages, amounts nessed in a woting of leaders at the Thompson this evening, mittee for the will be to $35,000,000 annually, which consumed | erument should be of more importance the entire market value of the great corn eft a balance of to people than the money question, When BUSH HOUSE BLOCK. BELLEFONTE time | we elect new Congressman nd a presi empl akes the same | dent the money question will be duly con. sidered again woth has this to say about wheat - THis week another hotel at as to other; u'tural pro- spend a personally Philips Yes generally burg goes up and the sheriff will dispose great deal about 5 no doilar was, Ohio is hear wheat,’ but and even if there a stra fifties, portation, cople ding largely am ' s . nos 8 " ’ ’ ; . i h ng Js $s 8B. Bea- | ) 1 houses was carried upon the te for state . h "it tal ved a clerk wheat here in - 1 ove Oe " oir at » " g o n him i HE Gee y 5 ing committees bushel, (IVE us the OW We t pe ionate Increases there candida 4 : employe receives of the property. Freesilver was not the a strong probability that employe receives mileage Independent i the early part of the late cause of its failure, truly + Cont : ne con i with the will issue wii 54 oe of the Lh pa ag VN ZR | Ey + Fon od AA AY ™ + Came YIN IN TO HD) ong IEA pr SRC, 200700 Lh "Se No 0S . H . i . ceca \ o No ‘ . Riwtieos it ouhle ed N sixties 1 Wubie stg oe sed oe se “obra he ¢ ° cea bushel lusiv c, 3 present circumstances farmers paign It would | up his taking laugh at $1 a bushel for wheat like $1 that been ¥ By ave we and £3 , with a short | Bae 75 and §a heat growing ( State Department Expenditures, all, unauthori by law ot than the | appropria This year's creators of without auth clerk to each of the f tees of the house instead. money ‘thio are ask- hoarse over S88 a thing had would 1} Fashionab »e ful extra offices fixed also a | lowing commit- Raliroads, corpora- % shou! themselve . R01 1MEMICives taxes and del penditures rity of law w heat 4 flection. sip among ticle says N —— a But while 1as been an advance in wheat owing to famine crops abroad, Governor St. John shows that other products have declined, cing a de- preciation this -3 most mn- portant cr the average for the , $i15t017 it is now down to §7 last forty years t aver. per ton from 1355 10 1506, and $7 so says Governor St. John t's report, just out, shows January 1 to Sep- tember 30, 18g7, which, excepting the years’ ‘gb, 18 the largest number of fai un a period since 188; and I am quite sure it is without a paral lel in our country’s lustory. The third week in September five more failures than occurred the correspond. ing week of the ‘panic year’ of 1893. And still we are told in the face of all these facts that ‘‘geseral prosperity’ has arrived. If it be true, it has been so long since he was here before that the people don't recognize him. The truth is, there is no prosperity except for the money lender, the monopolies and. trusts. from like showed We concede however, that the farmers have been advantaged by the advance in wheat and wool, due to exceptional causes. When they pass the grind of the gold standard will be again in evi. cence. Post . - WHERE IS IT GOING TO STOP? A startling dispatch was sent to the Associated Press from Harrisburg re- cently, It related to inordinate increases of state offices and salaries and showed conclusively that reform is necessary in the of state affairs. It is asserted that the expenses technically set down for the three banches of the management stale government—eéxecutive, legislative and judicial,~although vow amounting to $3,126,495.74 for two years, in reality constitute only about one-seventh of the total outlay for that period. The aggre. gate expenses of these three departments alone, it is said, exceed by about $1,000, ooo the appropriations made for the same purpose in 158g. It is nearly £1,. 500,000 in excess of the ontlay authoriz. ed by the legislature in 15883. Then the appropriations for two years were §1,. 868,169.73 and Governor Pattison vetoed $51,280.75 of this amount. In 1883 the total expenditures of the state were §6,. 708,690, 22, They have now increased so that in 1895 they amotinted to $1 3 681,701.74. It is claimed that owing to the annual * LEMONT D. A. Grove's horse took colic on Sunday, and died The Union L. E. Society following officers for the ensuing term President, F. W. Bathgate, Vice Presi- dent, D. A. Grove, Rec. Sec. Bess B. Thompson, Cor. Sec. Cornelia Dale, Trea. D. M. Tate, Organists Mable Thompson and Mary Dale, Ushers, R. U. Wasson and Johan Bathgate. spasmolic elected the Every hunter is ready for Friday when squirrel season comes in. Some have been patient while others could not wait. They went before season, but they were sharp as not to let any one see them, and it was a good thing, or they would have been dealt with accord: ing to law ——— Good Salt. ter, cheese and table use, of R. F. VoxApa, Coburn, Pa. - TW A—— Strange Cotncidence “Life,” says a college newspaper, "is short—only four letters in it. of itis a ‘lie,’ and half of it is an ‘if.’ A Great Surprise Is In Store For those who will go to-day and get a package of GRAIN-O, food drink, full of healt, and can be given to the children as well as the adult with great benefit. It is made of pure grains and looks and tastes like the fin. | est grades of Mocha or Java coffee, It | satisfies everyone, A cup of Grain. is better for the system than a cause its benefit is permanen’, What coffee breaks down Grain) builds up. Ask your grocer for Grain, 1sc. and 25¢C. HH—— AR — Premium Salt, IeRoy Salt is the Premium Salt of the world. For sale by R. F. VoxAba, Coburn, Pa. WANTED-TRUST WORTHY ANDACTIVE gentiemen or ladies to travel for respon. gible, established house In Pennsylvania, Monthly $5.00 and expenses, Position steady, Reference, Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. The Dominlon Shvelope « ompany, Dept. ¥ Everybody Says So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won. derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to taste, not gently und positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel volds, cure headache, fever, Sabina) constipation ay To, ta Toane: Mom bok SArARIend 10 cure by wil SragEista: Some one | has noted that, curiously, three.quariers | It takes the place | of coffee at about ¥ the cost. It is al | abled Governor Hastings to gain pres. tonic, be | The in year 1887 biennial ugh detalls n : st ti y the litical campaigners than Is obtainable from certain other items In the com- monwealith's outiay f from $11,000,000 to The vetoed items in this year's executive appr priation amount to only 35600. The late legsiaturg was less noted for in. creasing the executive office extrava gance of two years ago than for trying to capture everything in sight for itself While ntinuing In the general addi- tional million dollars required by the offices, other than legisiative, created or reorghinized in 1885, the general as- sembly this year distinguished itoelf specially by extending the list of senate executive annual $12 (We; (Ee) urs i riation bill the | and house employes for whom the only . legal Buy the LeRoy Premium Salt for but. | warrant was the appropriation bil! passed months after they had be. gun to draw pay Not less extraordi- | nary than this way of raiding the treas- grabbing attempted with investigating was the success by ury partial they expected as reward for services in recent hot political battles More than anything else this pad- ding of the legislative payroll, treasury raiding by investigating committees | and big swelling of the “incidental” ex- i penses of both senate and house, gave the "Seventy-six” the desired opportun- ity for their grand stand play during the final hours of the session, and en- tige with his veto ax. It is understood that the Democratic spelibinders, in thelr campaign against machine mis. rule, will not pass lightly over these chapters from the official records To comprehend the recent dispute be. tween state managers at Harrisburg, over ap- propriations for the largely number of legislative thoriged by the act of 1874, Ia helpful, Anthorized Legisintive OMelals, These officials were suthorized In the ponate; Chief clerk, 532.000 a year; journal clerk, $1,600; reading clerk, $1,000; mes. sage clerk, $1,000; two transcribing clerks, $800 each; lbrarian, $800, Bergeant-at-arms, $500, and two as. sistants, $800 each; doorkeeper, $600, and two assistants, 3600 each; messenger, $600, and assistant $600; postmacter, $500, Superintendent folding room, $600; six pasters and folders, $600 each; watchman, $3 a day; two firemen, $600 each; janitor of committee rooms, $600; ten pages, each $2 a day. Total, 88, Buy tho same act the following were appointed In the house: Chief clerk, $2,600 a year; resident So ] cCome- i | mittees packed with factional depend. ents who struck out for Klondike which | Governor Hastings and certain | Increased employes, a! glance at the following list of perman- | ent office hnlders and thelr salaries au. | view, there would have been no more | impropriety in his approving all than tions, municipal affairs, city passenger rallways, Judi compare bills, education, mining and insurance. In these ten committee clerks, two extra transcribing all 12 extra house employes The Legislature's Authority, Here is the requirement of section 10, article 3, of the constitution: “The gen- eral assembly shall prescribe by law the number, duties and compensation of the officers and employes of each house, and no payment shall’ be made from the state treasury, or be in any way authorized, to any person, to an acting officer or employe or appointed in pursuance of law.” There ate 04 clerks and other persons more than the number fixed by the sct of 1874; and in the house 78, or 22 more than that law provided for. Of these it is officially admitted that there were at least 21 for whom there was no law except the provision for pay in the general appropriation bill. It is strongly hinted in the official correspondence re- sulting from the recent shakeup in the Hastings cabinet that still other unau- thorized employes were engaged, with the view of taking care of them in the items for “incidentals.” In addition to the 133 clerks, janitors, pages, ete, In both houses, there was the usal large number of women em- ployed in cleansing. The governor in vetoing $7,266 of the §54.976 appropriated for oMcers and employes of the senate, exclusive of librarian, watchman and pages, admitted that he approved the pay for as many of the employes un- provided for by law as he had assented to with the siatemakers, He similar admission in vetoing $12,350 of the 315,404 appropriated for officers gnd employes of the house, exclusive or resident clerk, watchman and pages The governor and Attorney General MeCormick deny State Chalrman El kin's assertion that the assent of the executive was given to the entire slate of 21, but the Quay lieutenants contend that, from the governor's own point of lary local, agriculture mines there were in granting pay for ten committee | elerks, the appointment of whom, Mr. McCormick says, the governor agreed to. The current appropriation for “incl dentals” Is more than two and one- half times the amount granted in Pat. tison's year, and beats the record break- ing session of 1505 Ly $4,000, while be- ing 60 per cent above the amount for Beaver's year. The foregoing figures show that the medal for leading in the race of the ex pense bill grabbers of the last ten years pelongs to the late legislature, whose #itle to equal distinction for expanding the regular and irregular pay rolls is also undisputed. WILKINS, and | addition to | clerks, or in | except ] elected | were employed in the last sen- or 18 | made a | Fal Four Button Suit, ail wool, We have placed the price within the Fifty reach of all, Six Dollars and Cente. An immense stock of Fall and Winter Underwear from 50 cents a suit, up All the lead ing ....otyles in Hats Rufus Waterhouse's famous neck wear In our Merchant Tailoring Depart and ment we will show von the finest best assortment of Woolens we have ever carried. (rive us a eall. MONTGOMERY & C0. ALLEGHENY STREET, BELLEFONTE, PENN’A, eon Ty a % ¥ son o se 7 .e L &. Ad ‘ § N on = % * # ST rr JG ow » con 4
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