7 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, 7 ied wis I Bul, THE RECORD STEAL. | IMow the Publication of the Legisla- tive Proceedings 1s Made to Do Duty for Machine Proteges--The Fright. ful Padding, Enormous Indices and the Costly, Confusing and Exaspera- ting Results-=When the Contract Price Falls the Cost to the Taxpayers An Honest and Intelligent and Useful Pers formance of the Work Would Save, Increases -- What More waste of the public not include fully reckless money, and, if it does a to above as the aliens’ report is the report of a committee appointed by au thority of the legislature of 1808 to ascertain the number of aliens quarters ed upon the commonwealth in the var- | i fous public Institutions thereof, printed public document it more value than would be a second tall to a cat. The 565 pages covered by it contain nothing but the names, sex, nativity, ete, of the individual aliens found to be In the various prisons, hos- pitals, almshouves and other like in- stitutions of the state, each case being made to consume eight lines, or about { one Inch in the length of a column, as i follows: The printing and distribution of the | Legislative Record involves a shame- | straight steal, the facts which the fig- | ghow mighty close ap- Its d a istribution, by issues, ures divulge proach to it. during the sessions, which was intended | to keep the people thelr servants at Harrisburg are doing with their time and opportunities, was for years a scandal, owing to the dila- toriness on the part of the publishers, | but even more specifically of the pas- | ters’ and folders’ departments of the senate and house. The men appointed to service in these departments are the working politicians in the districts of those senators and members who have the strongest pull during the sessions They receive cl to 31,000 per sessior as salary, | large proportion them never do any of the work, They are content to pocket the pay and per- quisites and appear ords as pasters and fol becau they or because the) to employ advers« Re to regard ft are hey re ubstitutes nd (nes | 4 Ie i that ever reasonably unconscis and folding roo stacks of the before have 1 ever, be cently 1 in this reg ent an zens a copies of old and lost all interes The t distribut "Rs set fi eral's re; ally nam: pr nabl as has » figure for 1897 is ding the $8 and the the sum required to « ment in 1888, A prepond is the | Xx. The reg ceedings and the ord is pald for, much per pags the award mde maximum price the comps off that genate ar the each for it. while 500 pald state on treasurer rating ele nde award an the : The « Nvas $3.96 Ye stood, is ing, $300 lowed for the Now, the gain the Rive sessic 6.772 pages, Proceedings Report allens’ ¢ } Report penitentiary | gating committee . Sens 231 p Index Blank distribute pages Total . 6.772 pages Here are almost two-thirds as many pages of Index as there are In the re port proper. Add to these the t pages of reports and blank pages, and we have a total of 3.040 pages, or not far from half of the which the state paid been stenographlically a8 printed, whereas not a line of them was rep« the difference be porting and printing and printing alone is, as to these sheer robbery. The volumes are pad. ded by reports ete to the tent of over per cent the rayment, and this exe constant repetitions and 03 whole for as reported, as well in any Whatever the ! rted twee at that of ree of the index, ox £0 fm less, but confusing superfly proceedings ia safe to thirds of padding pendently of proper, Index vn Aliens’ report Penitentiary report Blank pages in the themselves, gay, co te the total bulk costs at $3.06 that in in as follows: What per page, the inde proceedings | apprised of what pages | pages | number | having | in} 1.040 pages, | | moneys, bed “| he $12,028.40 | | rule by ascribing It to a greater liber. | ality to the schools, the hospitals and and sal- the sessions’ pro heen compressed Isfactory record of ceedings could have into about 1,000 to 1,200 pages without | sacrificing a word of the “eloquence” of | the senators and members which, it is needless to say, Is, as a rule, far more effusive than edifying. An index that would be really useful for reference purposes could be put Into 200 pages, and this is making a liberal allow- Smith, male, Nativity-~Kamscha Number of days Cost per day one cents, Total cost ty-one cents Any sane private individual having such a thing to print would put it in this way: Jno. Smith, Kamschatka: treated days at $1.31 per day: total, $6151. Jut that would have consumed only two lines, and would have lessened the grab of the Legislative Record con- tractor 33 out of every $4 It is safe to say that a far more in- telligible record of the proceedings of the legislature could be re ported and printed, with a comprehensive index ut 310.000, or ¢ cost of the present st exasperating & 10 consult it 1 other John Sex Ka, treated-—Thirteen, One dollar and thirty- Sixty-one dollars and nf- 13 less bee ANess an th A MACHINE INFAMY. | Exploiting the Schools, Prisons, Hos Res | pltals and Charities, Ete , for Base Partisan to the Purposes Full Detalls as Methods of Achleving This Great Outrage--Senstor Penrose's Attempt to Decelve the State as to the School and Charity Appropria- tions Fully Refuted From the Reo ords, At t} nvention regs its in an ment the nomy him and re of the ive them, eelers for and Mr but fuse ful- gnored the ublished Can the ssible evidences ma- chine's theft vaste { public for him or anybody else to fairly meet and successfully refute them. Dut sweeping h a wave of the hand, account f aus A mp ALR : is img them aside, as wit ik to increasing undert stantily wr the con- cost of machine elemosynary institutions of the state, | leaving it to be Inferred that Mr. Quay and the machine were being criticized and abused, not for any real wrongdoing, but for their enlarged Hberality in caring for the helpless wards of the state, Even If {t were true that the differ- ences in the gross annual outlay of the ance. The 2,237 page Index to the 1897 | state were accounted for solely by the volumes is, In fact, no Index at all, | Jarger appropriations to the schools, the It is full of errors It has countless | hospitals, etc., these appropriations are repetitions. And these are #0 embar. | themselves made to dishonestly and rassing that on the rare occasions when | Unlawfully contribute to the main- the Record must be referred to, the tenance of the machine, whose astute secker after Information js likely to be driven haif frantic by the difienl. ties he will encounter In obtaining ft, i chiet and ever watchful leutenants would consider themselves grossly derelict In permitting such large sums For Instance, “An act to regulate suits to pass through heir hands without brought by and against foreign eor. gathering on It some profit on the Way. porstions doing business in this com. | monwealth, to which certificates have been or may bo issued, ete.” is In. dexed under the word “Issued.” Was thers ever a padding for robbery so bold or a methnd of Indexing more com. But the excess of the cost of main taining the state government as bee tween 1883 and 3807 was almost three ond three-quarter millions of dollars greater, leaving wholly out of the con sideration the cost of the schools, the pletely tmbectie? And. this is but a penitentiaries, the insane and the sample of hundreds of similar in. charities, as the following figures will stances of the fraud. What Is referred show: As a | is of no! | selentiously Payments 1807, less Interest, ete, (sec, Rep, treas,, p. 23)..812,768,618 Payments 1883, less loans re- deemed, Interest, premiums and U, B. bonds purchased (see aud, gen. rep, p. 161 .. 4,336,097 Excess of currcat for 1887 ...... Cost of schools, charities, sane, penitentiaries, ete, Bame, 1883 payments In- ‘97 § 7.172.315 2,440,840 Excess Tor 1807......000004..3 4.731.470 Excess of total payments in 1597 Aha drs nn nnn Excess for schoools, ete, In I8UT sseisisisansrnrnrnassanensd $ 5.431.538 4,731,476 Excess for ordinary expenses dass senrusrssnnasnsnsed 3,700,083 in 1867 And this nothing of the fact that the treasurer in making up his estimates of expenses for the vear ending Nov 1888 (which reach a total of $17,346 823, against an an- ticipated $11,561,000), in- cludes, the following tems: State tax due ¢ School app'n 1887 Due UU, of P. on Due W, UU. on app'n Appropriation for new expected to have been 1887 and ag | year says state a0 un revenue of among others, OUNnties. cove. 3,439,008 75.000 dune... ..... app'n 1585 1806 .e a 45,000 large w and state. A pony ug either by mi vice or repressing and feel and would to do this any as threatening the that direction these places, es Ary or perquisites WArm ox ith the refo me of ner or ls the mn, what they o tell must machine Hp ser. kn Refusal regarded appropriations for For many of neither sale h iz al- i in some Way t ney niribull ww ike t in direction is next due en where at in such regard- ways cases the machine of the jena i equities wr pl There m are ald mod and Juma ganized or managed and receiving state, rations h ap- me the last The ! rxciusive of the the propriati legislature deaf inst} ne we and dumi ! blir choos ’ aining of feel th tutions _ nas of such chosen to rep expected to ins mi EEN, | ’ many ition ket] imporiar } the y such localities institut} ui nen ali Are gure of the appr at whats two resent make them their managers, depending priati Urged by officers, wes and the ver sacrifice or thourand re and empl the machine three direct upon an | sole arbiter in the appropriation com- mittees, these poor legisiators are often furced to choose between voting econ and losing the appropria« tions or voting with the machine and getting them Thus even the chari- ties of the state, the sick and the crip- pled are made, unconsciously, to con- | tribute to the maintengnce of a ras. | enlly gang at the head of the state's wifairs and their conscienccless robbery of the taxpayers. Mr. Wanamaker sald in his speech at Prnoenixville, May 27: “Politics con- trols the appointment of trustees of state institutions; politics controls the management of state institutions. The needs of overcrowdod asylums and un- healthy hospitals count against the request of the man with the political pull and who can deliver state delegates.” And he might have added that the controllers and officers ol the institutions not under control of the state, but receiving state ald, for the most part are but In a degrese less the pervitors of the machine, ‘The appropriations are notoriously inadequate for the support of the state institutions, notably the Insane asy- ums. The payments for the insane were $788,290 in 1896 and $587,544 In 1897, The appropriations were $820,320 for 1597 and $717,700 for 1808, but of tho former BELLEFONTE, PA, OCTOVER i | $200,900 was for a deficiency in the ap- | propriations for 1805, and $52,960 in 1897, | and a like amount | extension | bulldings for the { ton, in 189% was for an reservoir and new Harrisburg institu. The committee on lunacy of the of the | board of public charities has been for an naught several years insisting that a new asylum for the Indigent insane be built for management under homeo- pathic auspices, that a hospital speci- «lly devoted te the treatment of epilepsy be erected and that the chron- fes “who do not medi. enl treatment, special ¢are” should the hose pitals and put by them- gelves. They mmend that legislation and require nurs be taken in active ing and ! from an a further 1» induce encourags to bull their fixed of the support pure facts ued capit y underst but 14 be, that the does not sup penitentiaries shou state port the reformato- ries. The state prov the buildings and pays the salaries, but the counties pay for maintenance. Of the state ap- opriat} the yitentiaries for , $50,000 $52 the Eastern and in the Western and iden ne to f the } went for sala- $60,000 of the These wel another Dr rags Swallow in porvices charity ims gels that win Joan the clothing BO 4 ar nite a day, the js greater than though they were hoard ed a first hotel This nearly all of the reverend doct statems nt, expenses to piate at Class like r'e nll haphaz the gations i= A demonstrating ter of the man and the depending upon hig yet it is approximately true The weekly per capita o« for main. tenance of patient In the five state hospitals for insane for 1598 is set down in the official report of the committees on lunacy of the board of charities (see report 1806. page 24) as follows Harrisburg Danville Norristown Warren Dixmont chara isdom of stice,” and impractical unw statl " yet Average ‘ It has already been stated that the cost of the Insane to the state of Wis. consin, where they are cared for In the counties, ute, in $1.76, and “the quality of care In excellent,” says our board of public charities, and the Board further says (Bee report 180, page §): "In Pennsylvania there now is some exoel. lent county and municipal care of the insane, at far less per capita cost than that charged In the state hospitals.” J board of charities, whose officiale would give less of their time to moving about the state doing the work of the machine and the party which it cons than | trols, would see to it that naked main. tenance of at least as good a quality as is now furnished, was provided wherever money is specifically appro- printed by the state for maintenance, at considerably less cost, The educational, penal, correctional and charitable institutions of the state, whether supported In whole or only In part by the state, are as will pear from the foregoing res tually all Industriously support of the Hepublican machine ery mi voted to them one way or another or indirect. Vy. pays tribute to it A great nlity is indecently and defi red to assist the bass pirations Thi not nearly so rete £4) fully ap- dollar of ey directly tried and i» bet wes and government, nevertheless successful n the the vernment great sum res chine for and the itn tration wal cruel ROBBERY BY RPPORTIONNENT A Gross Injustice Perpetrated by the Republican Party Upon or the Demo- cratic Citizens Pennsyly How One Republican Has a ania, Greater Representation Than Five Demos erats--lgnoring the Constit ution ta Serve Party 31 ' ate Gobin's Share in the ( 1€ . ay ry ry we ‘ in this regar and a half Democratic As showing the gross injusti rial apportionment cited voles ¢ of the many Let census of present genat epecinic instances ou Moe A 04 Laugerne might Ix ording to had a 201.203, and Lackawana a populati M2108, making total of 343.201. The penatorial districts in these two coun- ties, under the act of 1874, which is still operative, overlap, part of the Lu gerne district extending inte Lacka- wanna, Together, they have two pene ators, or one senator for 171.645 of pop- ulation. The one of 1890 lon n county of Lebanon has but 45.121 population, yet she has a senator | by herself. That senator for the last 12 years was General Gobin, now the Republican candidate for lleutenant governor on the machine ticket; an”? Jeneral Goblin is one of the men who have exercised the most potent Influence In perpetunt- ing this great wrong by openly oppos- ing or pecretly conniving against any new apportionment, Every legislator who has done this, or been In any way an obstructor of apportionment legisiation haf been gullty of perjury, for all take oath to obey the constitution which perempt- orily “»mands It, Are the Democrats not Justified in are ralgning the Republican party for this among ita myriad of other great wrongs and persistent ignoring of the plain letter of the constitution? elations, vir- | exploited for the | Bv- | in | - Hood machine | n of | No More Scrofula Net a Symptom of tho Affliction Since Cured by Hood's, “ When our daughter was two y ehe broke out all over her cars old face on Noth for her seemed to do any nd head th serofula sores, ir that we did good We be. 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