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FREELAND, FEBRUARY 10, 1893.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C. Feb. 14, 1893.
An early extra session of the fifty
third congress now appears more certain
than at any time since congress met.
Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, one of the
prominent Democrats who were in
Washington this week, who is believed
to enjoy the confidence of President
elect Cleveland, said while here: "Yes,
I think the chances of an extra session
are good, if not almost certain. The sil
ver law should he repealed, and as it
will not be done at the present session,
Judging from lats week's attempt and
failure, it must be done by an extra ses
sion. The Democratic platform demands
such a repeal; a general sentiment in
this direction prevades the Democratic
party; the silver question was one of the
main issues of the last campaign; the
party stands pledged to its repeal and it
will keep its pledees."
The investigation of the money spent
in the United States by the agents of
the Panama Canal Company, now being
conducted by a house committee, has
just gone far enough to create a general
demand for more information. It has
brought out the fact that a great deal
more mopey was spent in this country
than the public has any idea of, and
that it was largely paid for secret ser
vices of some sort, the receiver giving no
voucher for what he received. It is to
be regretted that this investigation was
not started earlier in the session, as it is
feared that there may not be time be
tween this and the fourth of March,
beyond which date the committee will
have no existence, to ascertain the
names of those who received this money.
Representatives Fithian, of Indiana,
Baker, of Kansas, and Lawson, of Geor
gia, have united in a sharp minority-re
port against the bill providing for a per
manent census bureau, which has been
favorably reported by the house census
committee, of which they are members.
It says, among other things, that the
present census bureau is divided into
twenty-five divisions, all but seven of
which should be eliminated; that many
of the statistics taken under the last cen
sus are merely duplications of reports
made by other bureaus cf the govern
ment; that the census bureau has been
enlarged from time to time more to cre
ate offices and salaries than for legiti
mate purposes; that consequently the
census has become a jumble of figures
and irrelevant inquiries tilling volumes,
which make their appearance so late
that they are only useful for waste
paper; and lastly, that the maintenance j
of a permanent census bureau would he I
at least treble the amount estimated — f
1200,000 a year.
If the amendments to the pension
laws, which have been approved by a
majority of the house appropriation com
mittee, become laws the pension office
will be transferred to the war depart
ment and be under the control of detail
ed army officers, and the payment of
pensions will be stopped to those having
an income of as much as S6OO a year; to
widows who married soldiers since 1870,
and, except in cases of total disability,
to alien non-residents.
A Worthy Candidate.
Flection day is fast approaching and
it is therefore appropriate that the j
Democrats exercise vigilance in the can
vass now on for the poor directorship.
The Democratic candidate, Mr. Joseph
I'. McDonald, is one of the foremost
business men of Freeland. lie is a self
made man, having by his own energies
worked upward from a breaker boy to
the front rank in the business interests
of Freeeland.
Mr. McDonald's Democracy could
never be questioned. He at all timeß
voted his party ticket, and frequently
left his business to advance the interests 1
of the candidates. This was particularly I
true in the canvass last November.
Being an upright, intelligeut citizen,
one who believes that public office is a
public trust, and being honored by a
unanimous nomination, be has a right
to expect and receive the vote of every
Democrat and citizen who believes in !
placing the administration of public af
fairs in honest, capable h&mls.—Jfuzkloi, j
Standard.
Short of absolute nationalization of ]
the coal fields there is but one remedy
for the evils of the monopoly of coal,
and that is taxing all coal lands up to
their full value for use. This will make
it impossible for monopolists to bold the
lands out use, and so render their mon
opolizing schemes impracticable.— K. of
1.. Journal.
When Baby waa atck, we gave her Castorla.'
When she waa a Child, Bhe cried for Castoria.
When ahe became Miss, she clung to Caatoria.
When she bad Children, she gave thorn Caatoria
NAVV VARD LABOR.
tVtint Secretary Tracy Claims for His
New System of Employment.
The circular just issued by Secretary
Tracy in regard to navy yard appoint
ments accords with the general system
established by liira 011 this subject, which
has had results so remarkable.
Mr. Tracy has officially declared that
of all the changes in organization 110 has
made during the last four years the most
important is the one relating to labor in
the navy yards.
The accuracy of adjustment needed in
putting the parts together is of tho high
est importance. Mr. Tracy found that
the only course was to introduce a new
system of labor, and in the spring of last
year he accordingly declared vacant all
foremanships at all the yards. At tho
same time ho appointed a board of offi
cers, three of whom had long experience
in directing shop work, to examino ap
plicants for places. Of course the pre
vious incumbents were welcome to ap
ply for selection with the rest.
One feature was that of refusing to go
into examinations on general school
learning, but to make the test purely
practical, having reference to the man's
knowledge of his own trade and his fit
ness for tho place. Absolutely no gen
eral educational qualification was ex
acted except ability to make tho reports,
estimates and calculations needed for
his particular business. In his recent
review of tho results thus obtained by
appointing in every instance the man
rectfhnnended by the board as best fitted
for tho place, Mr. Tracy shows that the
work has steadily improved at tho yards.
The captain of the yard and two officers
of technical departments register and
classify all applications for work, and
when men are required the applications
aro taken up in the order of their regis
try.
There is a law relating to priority for
war veterans and also a fixed rule of pri
ority for men who have already had navy
yard experience. But even in these two
, classes the order of registration is fol
lowed, and no man can be taken up out
lof turn for political or other reasons.
When the workman at the top of tho
waiting list is notified and reports, the
head of the department to which he is
assigned is compelled to give him a fair
*yid impartial trial and grade him ac
cording to his skill. If found incompe
tent, the officer must, in rejecting him,
notify the board and state tho reasons for
rejection, which thus become a matter of
record. Then the board supplies the next
name on the list, and 60 on.
Commodore Erben, in reporting on the
working of the system at the Brooklyn
navy yard, finds the only objectionable
point to be that it is sometimes difficult
to reach registered men by postal card
without delays, owing to changes of res
idence. But that is a minor matter, and
the navy yard does not want to encour
age men to hang about, wasting their
time for days, weeks or months till
their turn may come. As to the advan
tages, he testifies that in the first place
there is now no favoritism whatever in
hiring men. If an incompetent man ap
plies, his unfitness will show itself on
trial, and then another man is called for,
and so on until a first class workman is
secured. The foremen aro no longer
bothered by outsiders to give places to
friends, as it is known that they have 110
such power, and hence they are more in
dependent of their men and can main
tain better discipline. As for the men
themselves, when once permanently
passed on their merits they go about
their work without anxiety, knowing
that their places are secure while the
job lasts, and that they have a chance for
advancement. Finally the cost of all
work done in the yard during the year is
said to have been reduced by the system
about 25 per cent.
These new rules have now been in op
eration, it apiwars, for fifteen months,
covering a presidential canvass, "the first
within tho memory of the present gen
eration in which the yards havo not been
used as a political machine." The law
requiring that no extra workmen should
be taken on within Bixty days of the
election was carried out in spirit and in
letter, and not a workman was employed
beyond the normal number. The pres
ent circular continues the principle of
getting good men and holding on to
them when they are secured, by allow
ing good foremen and quartermen to
drop a grade if practicable, rather than
be subjected to full discharge where a
reduction of the working forco has been
ordered.
Mr. Tracy has suggested that the sys
tem should to made permanent by suit
able legislation, but in any case it is
likely enough to be continued by admin
istrative authority on its intrinsic merits.
Man versus Machine.
I For some time there have been Blight
1 differences existing between Welsh
j workers in the American tin plate fac
tory and the company at Elwood, Ind.
Recently a conference was held between
Manager W. B. Leeds and the men.
The result of this conference was that
the men refused to work unless the
company acceded to certain conditions.
It Beems that a certain patent machine
j has been introdued into the tinning de-
I partment which does away with the
! work of one man, and the company want
: to operate this with an unskilled laborer
j and pay him less than a skilled laborer
commands. The Welshmen demand
that skilled labor only shall to employed,
as they fear that otherwise unskilled
j labor will take away their jobs.
The Apprentice Question.
A resolution asking for one apprentice
I for the shop and one apprentice for every
j eight journeymen molders employed in
j tho shop has already been adopted by a
| number of machinery molders' unions,
| and is now being considered by other
j unions in tho trade, on the ground that
i there ure too many poor mechanics that
cannot do justico to tho trade.
j Organized labor in Buffalo is engaged
j in an endeavor to have the city ordinance
| which makes eight hours a day's work
on municipal work enforced. The au
j thorities of Buffalo are famous respect
ers of law—sometimes.
WORKINGMEN PEERS.
Labor's Representative* In the Upper
House of New Zealand.
The government of New Zealand lias
vastly surprised the colony and tho whole
British empire and created consterna
tion among the squatter aristocracy and
the conservative pseudo-patrician and
snob element of tho empire at large by
the remarkable democratic proceeding of
creating four workingmen 4 'peers" of the
colony by calling them direct from their
workshops to seats in the upper chamber
of the legislature, to bo councilors to his
excellency the governor. One of tho new
"peers" is a boiler maker, another a store
keeper in a large warehouse, and the two
others are compositors.
This action marks tho acquisition by
the colonists of a much greater measure
of direct control in their own alfairs of
government, as distinct from govern
ment by tho colonial office in London,
through its direct appointees, and is a
long step on the road to a much larger in -
dependence, which is generally desired.
Tho upper chamber has hitherto been
held sacred primarily to the blue blood
of tho colony. Occasionally, however,
powerful squatters, tho largo land own
ers, or other men of great wealth or large
influence, have been suffered to sit in its
hallowed precincts as a mark of especial
favor and condescension. Its members
were styled "peers," and were doubtless
as much so regarded in colonial society
as are the members of the other upper
house at Westminster. They were ap
pointed or "nominated" by the crown
through the governor.
Eight of the twelve new "peers" cre
ated by the government are of tho usual
class, and therefore unobjectionable.
Bat the house and the empire stand
aghast at the contemplation of the re
maining four. The Hon. J. E. Jenkin
son, a boiler maker in the government
railway workshops, was inside a boiler
hammering rivets when tho call to the
upper house reached him in the form of
a telegram asking permission for his
name to be sent to tho governor as one
of the new "peers." The messenger boy
poked the telegram through one of the
rivet holes to Mr. Jenkinson. Tho latter
at first regarded tho matter us a hoax,
but was finally induced to send an af
firmative answer to the message. He
did so and then went on hammering riv
ets without another word. The Hon.
John Rigg was sticking typo in the gov
ernment printing office when the call
reached him. Tho Hon. William Bolt,
of Dunedin, was tending the stores in
his employers' warehouse, and the Hon.
W. Jennings was bossing the comps. in
the office of the Auckland Evening Star
But it is pleasing to note that the par
allel with Cincinnatus and Israel Put
nam does not end here. All the four
"labor peers" are said to bo especially
able men, although entirely inexperi
enced in politics. Mr. Jenkinson is
spoken of as a man of real worth and
grit. He has been president of the Du
nedin Boiler Makers' union, the Christ
church Boiler Makers' union and rice
president of the Canterbury Trades and
Labor council. Mr. Rigg was at one
time president of the Wellington Trades
and Labor council. The other two new
' representatives of labor among the pa
tricians are educated, well informed
men of marked ability.
There is said to be a widespread feel
ing that while workingmen would doubt
less perform good work in the house of
representatives a mistake has been made j
in appointing them to the upper house. |
The appointment is for seven years, and
there is an honorarium of £l5O a year 1
for the expenses incurred in attending
parliament.—New York Sim.
Problem of tlie I'ncuiployed.
Economists, statesmen and philan
thropists in England aro wrestling with
the problem of alleviating tho condition
of the unemployed who are swarming
in the large cities of the country. John
Bunts has given considerable attention
to the subject, and his expressions com
mand more than ordinary attention. He
believes that the government in all large
communities should give simple employ
ment in works of public utility to the
class which is mainly influenced by de
pression, the unskilled class, and that in
these ways temporary relief can always
be reached. It is better, in his opinion,
to spend $.">,000,000 on useful labor than
$10,000,000 in charity, and he instances a
great many cases in which judicious ex
penditures for the public relief of the
unemployed have-been made iu this way
with excellent results.
Another important point which he
presses with great force is that in the
present arrangements of labor we need
to deal with this whole question on a dif
ferent basis. He urges the adoptiou of
the eight hour day, and instances a great
many cases whero largo sums of money
are paid for work overtime which might
bo given to relays of men, and thus eu
ablo a great many who ure out of em
ployment to secure a respectable living.
The Other Side of Immigration.
Whenever a serious investigation of
the immigration question is made 1 trust
an effort will be made to find out the re
lationship of certain Italian bankers and
contractors to tho great mass of Italian
immigration. I know that a majority of
the Italian immigrants are brought here
without knowledge on their part of what
their occupation is to be, and little or
no idea as to how or where they are to
live. If they knew before leaving homo
that they would be huddled together in
badly ventilated and ill smelling tene
ment houses, they would prefer to remain
at home living on their own farms. They j
would prefer almost any kind of work in
Italy to being slaves in American mines
or on American railroads, getting no
rnoro to eat than is given a canary bird
in Italy. Stopping immigration for a
stated time will in the end do no good,
but if tho United States government will
carefully investigate the causes of immi
gration, and will cause the truth in re
gurd to tho avenues of employment, '
wages paid to laborers here, etc.. to he
known all over Europe, I believe there
will be a great decline in the volume of
immigration and an improvement in the
character of that which comes.— Joseph j
Pascal Fina in New York World.
TjiLEcttON NOTlCE.—Notice Is hereby given
I J thut at the election to lo held it the third
Tuesday of February, 1892, being the 21st day
of the mouth, th 3 following officers of the inld
dle ooal field poor district are to be'elccted, to
One person for director, to serve three years,
from April 1, IHICi, whose residence must be in
that portion of the district known us the Lu
zerne portion of the district.
One person for poor auditor, to serve three
years from April 1.1893, whose residence must
be in that portion of the district known as the
Weather]y or middle district.
A. S. Monroe, I
A. M. Neumiller, Directors.
Samuel Harleman,)
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SIX COLUMNS OF SPECIAL MATTER •
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"He Refused a Crown"
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Washington's love of America, and how, by his refusal to be
come emperor of the new nation, he made it impossible that a
monarchy could e-ver be established in the United States.
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"On the Banks of the Hudson"
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a rustic beauty in the Empire State, but his suit was refused
with scorn. Had he won her the Colonies might never have been
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