STATE EXPENSES
WERE UP IN 1877
Attorney General Had to Makti
Ruling That State Should
Pay For Mansion Ice
Forty years ago Capitol Hill was nil
atirred up because of a controversy
over what part of the expenses of
maintaining the Executive Mansion
should be borne by the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania and George
Lear, attorney general under Gover
nor John F. Hartranft, invoked the
classics in ruling that coal, ice and
flowers were necessary to the com
fort and enjoyment of the people who
visited the official home of the gov
ernors and should be paid from the
funds of the State. Mr. Lear also rul
ed that the State should pay sls for
sprinkling Front street In front of
the mansion as a proper expense for
the Commonwealth because he reason
ed that the furnishings of the house
might bo damaged by dust from the
then unpaved street.
The questions which vexed the offi
cial mind in the summer days of 1877
were raised by Justus F. Temple, of
Greene county, then auditor general
and one of the last of the Democrats
to hold that office, a place which has
been tho storm center of successive
administrations. It is interesting that
Mr. Temple stood upon the itemization
of the general appropriation bill and
that ho •"bucked" on paying the coal
and ice bills and cavilled at the flow
ers because there was no specific ap
propriation for them.
It was Mr. Lear's legal ruling that
the governor was "the host of the peo
ple" and that the State should enable
him to "dispense a generous hospital
ity." He held that the State should
pay bills for the upkeep of the man
sion, although the Temple idea, which
was Democratic in days of strenuous
politics, did not accord with the
thoughts of the Republicans of the
Hartranft administration.
There is also something interesting
because of the comment of a recent
governor that the State gave him a
big house and seven or eight servants
and required him to feed them when
he did not need them, in the L<ear
opinion of forty years ago. He says
that the State did not provide a build
ing with furniture nor repair and re
plenish it from time to time for the
mere purpose of affording a residence
for the executive of the State. "The
State," he says, "has undertaken to
provide him an abode where he can
meet his guests on true Republican
equality."
The attorney general of that day
quoted Latin and used the homely ex
pression "it is necessary to stick In the
bark in this case" in holding that
"too minute a stress must not be laid
on the strict and precise significance
of words." He says that "to supply"
means "to furnish with anything that
is wanted'' and asserted that definition
"covers the whole ground from the
fuel to the flowers."
Apparently the legislators of that
day were not given to specific appro
priations which became the rigorous
rule immediately after the Capitol
furnishing scandal because he says "It
would be better to appropriate a con
tingent fund for these purposes, but
it has not been the practice, it is im
possible to describe every item in such
cases In a general appropriation bill.
But there may be economy in embraCr
ing all the public buildings in one ap
propriation; for several small appro
priations could be passed by the leg
islature with more facility than one
containing a large gum find yet the
small ones would aggregate much
more than the large one."
Evidently Mr. has his ideas
about ependiture of money because he
adds "and there will be economy in
paying the items referred to out of
the appropriation of SIO,OOO rather
than have it expended, us it will be,
for other purposes if not so applied
and at the next session of the legis
lature the supplies or furnishings of
the executive mansion will be pro
vided by a special appropriation. The
refusal to pay these items out of the
present appropriation would undoubt
edly result in the expenditure of the
SIO,OOO in some other way."
After saying that the items are
proper and should be paid he con
cludes "X will therefore share with
you the responsibility of approving
the bill before you."
The opinion is rich in the legal
phraseology of the day and in addi
tion is filled with florid sentences
which roam from natural history to
tho religious.
150,000 Germans "Are
Armed in Chicago"
Philadelphia, Feb. 2. - One hundred
and fifty thousand armed Germans,
ready for action, are in Chicago, with
.".5.000 English, also armed, watching
them, said William Ellis Scull at the
annual meeting of the Transatlantic
Society at the Bel!evue?Stratford yes
terday. He added that ho had receiv
ed the information from good author
ity.
Plans were made for a dinner in
March to which will he invited Sir Gil
bert Parker and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice.
Dr. Albert Cook Myers, just return
ed from England, where ho collected
relics and data for his biography of
William Penn, said that, although two
members of the Penn family. Captain
William Penn-Stpart and Lieutenant
Esriiee Stuart, had been killed, tho
Penn line is not broken, there being
other descendants.
TOBACCO GROWERS SUED
Test of Contract's Value Being Made
in Lancaster Courts
Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 2. The law
lias been invoked to decide whether a
tobacco grower may sell tobacco at a
higher price after contracting to sell to
another party. The Seed-Leaf Tobac
co Growers Company, of Lancaster,
yesterday secured a temporary injunc
tion against H. H. Moore and his ten
ants, John O. Kieese, Harry, J. Mil
ler, M. O. Gantz, J. F. Markley, Albert
R, Ladls, Ella Moore and J. F. Stoner,
a Lltitz tobacco dealer.
The plaintiff contracted for thirty
six acres of tobacco at stipulated fig
ures, but only six acres were delivered,
thirty acres being sold to Stoner. The
company sues to secure possession of
the entire amount. The case is con
sidered an important one, as it has
become a common practice to contract
to sell to one party and then deliver to
another at a higher figure.
U-BOAT DAMAGES CRt'ISER
British Warship and .Submarine in
Battle lu South Atlantic
Buenos Aires, Feb. 2. Th<- British
cruiser Amethyst, one of the .squad
ron searching for German raiders in
the South Atlantic, was attacked bv a
sumbarlne, according to the Pernam
buco newspaper Jornnl Pequeno, but
repelled the attack. Tho crulaei then
touched at Perpanihuco to repair, al
though the extent of the damage is not
exactly known.
The newspaper declares that the
British consul admitted the attack on
tho Amethyst, although the ship bore
no evidence of having been In an
engagement.
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