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FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 11, 1898
SWALLOW'S CHANCES.
Absurd Claims of Ills Managers--Can
Do No More Than Help Quayism.
The chairman of the Prohibition state
committee is a gentleman by the name
of Jones, and he is rapidly attaining
celebrity as the most extraordinary
political counter In the business. Last j
year he had the Rev. Swallow elected j
state treasurer by a considerable ma- \
jority. And, notwithstanding the fact j
that Swallow polled less than half as
many votes, or more than 124.000 fewer |
than Brown, the Democratic candi
date for the same office, and 150.000 less
than Hitter, the Democratic candidate
for auditor general. Jones is as jubilant
as ever, and certain that Swallow will
beat Jenks, and all but certain that
he will be elected governor. Here are j
the exact figures from the record:
Brown, D., for state treasurer. .212,731 j
Swallow, P., for state treaurer ..118,960
Brown over Swallow 123,7C2 |
The difference between the Brown
and the Rltter vote, 25,010, probably
represents, approximately, the num
ber of Democrats ihat voted for Swal
low last year. But the Democratic
party was then very much demoralized
and disheartened and, besides this 1033
of 25,000 to Swallow suffered to far
larger extent from stay-at-home voters.
This year all the divisions of the party
are united and the Democratic ticket
is one that enlists the estei m and in
spires the confidence of every Demo
cratic voter, to say nothing of the great
number of independent Republicans
who have already pledged Mr. Jenks
their support. Under these circum
stances not a tithe of the Democrats
who voted for Swallow last year can
be expected to do so this year, and.
instead of beating Jenks, there Is as
much chance of the overflowing lava
of Vesuvius extending to and making
a second Pompeii of New York, as of
his coming as close to Jenks as he did
to Brown last year.
No great astuteness or skill in
calculation is needed to understand the
clearness of all this. It is plain as the
sun at high noon. The most the highly
impractical head of the Prohibition
forces can do is to help Quayism by
enlisting independent Republican sup
port that would otherwise come to
Jenks. The few Democrats who have
been, up to now, talking about voting
for Swallow will be brought to com
prehend this long before election day
comes around. So will many of that
class of independent Republicans who
are sincerely anxious to rid the state
of Quayism.
Jenks is a growing candidate. Every
where he goes, or his friends go, his
support is increased. Swallow is far
stronger today than he will be a month
hence, though he is not now, and never
was, strong enough to come within
many thousands of the lowest vote
ever cast by the Democrats in the
state.
MULTIPLYING OFFICES.
How the Political Rounders Have Been Pro
vided With Snug Berths and
Fat Salaries.
The following carefully prepared
table shows how the Republican ma
chine has provided for political work
ers and their friends by securing sal
aried offices for them at the expense
of the taxpayers.
If there were not enough offices to
go around, more were created with an
offhandedness which implied that the
machine, not the people, were the only
stockholders and directors in the man
agement of the affairs of state.
Comparative number of employes In
the several state departments in 18S3
and In 1898, respectively:
18S3. 1898.
Executive 4 7
State 7 17
Auditor general's 13 23
Attorney general's 2 3
Adjutant general's 5 15
Treasurer's C 10
Internal affairs 19 27
Insurance 4 6
Public instruction 5 7
Bank commissioner's 0 17
Factory inspector's 0 24
Mine inspector's 11 18
Agriculture 2 12
Buildings and grounds 6 15
Senate employes 22 48
Library 2 7
House employes 32 67
Game commissioner's 0 7
Judiciary 104 120
Total 244 450
Increase 200
Omitting contingent expenses, and
counting the salaries at $l,lOO per an
num, the average paid to clerks, the
cost per annum to the people for these
unnecessary expenses exceeds $300,000.
Mr. Jenks is a forger. He is forging
ahead at a pace that smacks very
strongly of getting first at the win
ning post.
The Philadelphia Press calls Swal
low the "fire alarm candidate." The
Press is not ardently for Stone, but
evidently prefers Stone to Swallow.
The Democratic press of the state
lias never been more unitedly for a
Democratic ticket. Th • Republican
press has never been more shakv In
its allegiance to a Republican ticket.
CA.STOTIIA..
Bears the si Kind You Have Always Bought
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THE WAY TO RFFORIVI.
'or the Full Measure Both Democratic
State Officials and a Democratic Legis
lature Should Be Chosen—But Even With
an Unfriendly Legislature to Hamper
Them, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor
and Secretary of Internal Affairs Could
Estop Much Waste and Many Steals.
Chairman Garman, of the Democratic
Rate committee, has given out the fol
lowing statement to show that with
a machine governor and a reform leg
islature most of the abuses that have
nourished at Harrisburg could still be
continued as heretofore, and that an
anti-machine governor is absolutely
necessary for any important reforms:
"If the voters of Pennsylvania desire
a full measure of reform they should
elect not only the entire Democratic
state ticket, but a Democratic legisla
ture as well. That they will do so
seems at this time more than probable,
although the Republican machine will
undoubtedly resort to every means to
prevent It, and the assistant machine
organs may try to prevent It by divert
ing independent Republican votes to
Swallow, who has no chance of elec
tion, and by deceiving the voters with
the false pretense that reform execu
tive officials will be wholly useless for
purposes of reform unless backed by a
reform legislature. Some of them even
go 6o far as to contend that a reform
legislature with a machine governor ;
would he preferable to a reform gov- .
ernor with a machine legislature.
"This is manifestly untrue, and if we
i can have only one it is far better that i
I the executive offices be filled by the j
| Democratic reform nominees than that j
I a legislature composed of a majority j
1 of more or less discordant elements i
united upon nothing save opposition to
Quayism should be elected. With a ;
Quayite in the gubernatorial chair,
Quayites presiding in the senate and
a Quayite controlling that asylum for
the support of political lncapables
known as the Department of Internal
Affairs, a reform legislature could do
little or nothing in the way of reform
that would not in some way or other bo
rendered nugatory and void. The veto
would await all genuine reform bills,
and the scandalous methods now pre
vailing in the score or more of bureaus,
departments and commissions by which
the state is, after all, really governed,
would continue for four years longer
without the least chance of reforming
them.
GOVERNOR'S IMPORTANT AP
POINTMENTS.
"On the other hand, even the worst
machine legislature would not be likely,
; with a reform governor in office, to at
tempt a repetition of thp had work of
the sessions of 1895 and 1897, and should
it do so, would unquestionably be
I'heekmated and most severely rebuked.
Meanwhile the governor, lieutenant
governor, secretary of Internal affairs
and their appointees would, by the'.r
own unaided efforts and under the laws
as they stand, bad as many of those
laws are, effect many very material
reforms In the way of shutting off ex
travagance and preventing steals.
| "As convoying some idea of what the
governor, lieutenant governor and sec
retary of internal affairs can do, even
if they are to be hampered by the pres
-1 once of an unfriendly legislature, the
, following facts are given. The gov
: ernor appoints, among others, the sec
retary of the commonwealth, attorney
! general, adjutant general, eommission
; er of banking, secretary of agriculture,
state librarian, superintendent of pub
lic buildings and grounds and superin
tendent of public printing.
EXTRAVAGANCE IN DEPART
MENTS.
! "In every one of the bureaus or de
partments headed by these officials
there h.as been reckless extravagance.
In some there have been outrageous
j steals. The former secretary of the
1 commonwealth and the attorney gen
i oral's deputy were signers of the fa
-1 mous 'lndemnity bond.' The adjutant
1 general draws a salary increased dur-
I ing his term, which the constitution
| forbids. The banking department is
i one of the most expensive of all the
useless appendages to our state gov
ernmental system. Its regiment of
I subordinates do practically nothing f..r
their salaries, and there have been
more and worse bank failures since it
1 was lifted to Its present dimensions
than ever before. The state librarian
pockets large incident compensation
for needless work that is at least of
doubtful constitutionality. In the
public grounds and buildings dopart
! ment there has been a perfect revel of
waste and swindling, and the public
printing scandals are a stench in the
nostrils of every Pennsylvanian, be
sides being a heavy and inexcusable
burden upon the taxpayers. This item
of expense was $387,292 in 1897. The
state treasurer estimates the cost for
1898 at $669,000. During the entire term
of Governor Pattlson, 1883-86, the total
cost under this head was $64,000 less
than the treasurer's estimate for this
one year, 1898. Even without a legis
lature to help them Messrs. Jenks, Sow
don and DeLacy could and would put
into operation a radical reform all
along these lines.
A BROAD FIELD FOR REFORM.
"The board of public charities, the
port warden's department in Philadel
phia, the state fishery commission, the
state live stock board, the dairy and
food commissioners' work and that of
the whole department of agriculture
would be rigidly examined and con
scientiously supervised, and many of
the existing abuses discontinued. Ail
these bureaus and departments would,
as far as possible, be made of real use
to the people by putting honest and in
telligent men. instead of Republican
machine heelers, in charge of them.
Th governor, lieutenant governor and
secretary of internal affairs can of them
selves do much and far reaching reform
work, without other statutes than those
already existing to help them. Mr.
Sowden, the secretary of the common
wealth. the attorney general and Cap
tain DeLacy would constitute the par
; don board, and that body could no
longer be manipulated to set thieving
officials free and be used generally for
the purposes of the machine,
j "Mr. Jenks would be chairman of the
new public buildings commission, and,
| fearlessly following its proceedings,
} that body would be compelled to re
spect the will of the people and deal
honestly and economically with the
i people's moneys. He would occupy the
I same position in the board of public
founds and buildings. A like Infiu
nce would be felt there, and the waste
ould In great part stop, as well as the
riclous exploiting of state supply con
tracts for the purposes of the machine.
He would head the soldiers' orphans'
Bchools commission, and whatever Is
wrong there would be corrected.
NO NATIONAL GUARD SCANDALS.
"His adjutant general, taking his
place ex-offlcio as a member of the
state military board, could exert some
power toward putting an end to the
National Guard scandals, and regulat
ing the use of the Guard in times of
strike, so that it should he much less
than heretofore like an instrumentality
provided by the state to aid selfish cor
porations In keeping wages down to
the lowest limit. His secretary of the
commonwealth would be chairman of
the sinking fund commission and a
member of the board of revenue com
missioners, and there would be some
chance of getting at the books of the
treasury.
"The mine and factory inspection de
partments would be wholly divorced
from politics. The voice of the work
ingmen, for whose especial benefit and
protection these departments were cre
ated, would be far more potent In the
selection of men to head them. The
laws on these subjects would he exe
cuted wlth greater care and more Im
partially and humanely. The board of
charities would be so looked after that
the officers and employes and state in
stitutions and others receiving aid from
the state would not have to play
1 servitors to the machine in order to
secure proper appropriations.
' GOVERNOR COULD EFFECT MUCH.
"There Is law enough, if honestly and
diligently administered, to authorize
a very effective cleaning day on Cap
itol Hill, and Messrs. Jenks, Sowden
and DeLacy would take their brooms
in hand promptly and sweep thorough
ly. A very large part of the wrong
! done in the legislature is prompted by
' machine state employes, and those of
ficials would be replaced under Gov
ernor Jenks by men pledged to reform,
I and devotion to the Interests of the
people and the good name of the state.
We want both a Democratic legislature
' and Democratic stale officials, but if
! we can have only one of these boons
the latter is plainly calculated to mete
out to us the largest share of relief."
LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYES.
How Tliotr Number and Cost Have
Grown Since the Democrats Had a
Voice In the Mutter—A Dead Swindle
In the Tiling—Extra Clerks and Em
ployes Paid for Twice—The Chief
Clerks Defy the Law's Limitations
I as to Contingent Expenses, Etc.
i The number and cost of the officers
, and employes of the two houses of the
legislature are justly objects of much
criticism. If the public business were
expedited by the constant increase of
i the number of this class of hangers
on, with the attendant large expense
involved, there would be no complaint.
But it is plain that so large a force is
not needed. Many of them do nothing
at all, practically, to earn the money
they draw from the treasury. Some
of them spend but little more than as
much time in Harrisburg as will suf
fice to sign the requisite vouchers and
draw their pay. Those that are at hand
are so numerous that they crowd each
■ other and are in each other's way.
' There are certain periods of the
i session at which some of the
j clerks, notably those in the transcrib
! ing rooms, are required to work hard,
and even excessively, but this is com
pensated for by the far more numer
ous other times, when they have little
or nothing to do. Outside of two or
three in each house, none of tjiem put
in as much time, or render as much
service, as would be exacted from
them in private or corporate employ
, for much less remuneration.
! Up to and including 1883 the force
was large enough in all conscience. It
is not easy to dig out of the records
—they are generally In so unsatisfac
tory a state as to details, and change
their form so frequently from year to
year—with absolute accuracy, just the
Information of which one is in search.
But, In EO far as can be gathered
from the reports of the auditor gen
eral and the general appropriation acts,
the senate in that year had 41 officers
and employes and the house, which was
Democratic, 37. The very next legis
lative year (1885), however, the number
in the house was increased to 58 regu
lars and two extras, making 60 in all.
There was no need or reasonable ex
cuse for the Jump. The 7 clerks of
1883 did as much work as the 10 of
1885, the 6 pasters and folders of 1883
put up and sent out the documents as
promptly ns the 11 of 1885, and the i"
pages of 1883 served the personal needs
of the members as faithfully and fully
as the 15 of 1885. But there was de
mand for more sinecures to compen
i sate the "workers," who had repaired
in 1885 the damage the machine had
suffered at the hands of the Demo
! crats and Independents in 1882, and
j they had to he provided.
There were no apparent increases of
the force in either body for the ensuing
10 years, the 41 sufficing in the senate
and the 58 In the house. But in 1895
came an enormous jump, the number
in the senate being increased to 47 and
i that in the house to 69. In fact, ex
cepting the "extra employes," which
gave rise to the indemnity bond scan
dal, there were no more in 1897 than
in 1895. It was the legislature of the
i last named year that was the primary
offender in this regard, notwithstanding
the fact that it was scarcely noticed
by the gentlemen who were so indig
nant and outraged by the perform
ances of 1897. And in connection with
the 1895 employes in the senate, there
is something singular. An act of March
5 of that year authorizes the chief
clerk to appoint an executive clerk
at $1,500, two additional transcrib
ing clerks at $7 per day and two
additional janitors at the compensa
tion usually allowed that class of em
j ployes. These appointments were made,
and the auditor general's report shows
that the salaries stipulated were paid
i to the appointees direct from the state
treasury. But it shows also that $3,700
was paid to the chief clerk for the "sal
aries of additional officers and em
ployes under the act of 1895." Who did
t-at $3,700 KO to? Not to the exer.u
tive clerk and the others lawfully,
though needlessly authorized, for they
pot their money from the treasury on
the regular pay rolls. Who, then, got
it? Are we not right in saying thai
it is difficult to determine from the rec
ords how many officers and employes
there are?
There is a very loose and entirely
unconstitutional process resorted to
in both houses to provide for extra
employes and for their compensation.
Section 10 of Article 111 of the consti
tution. which article covers the sub
ject of legislation, says:
"The general assembly shall provide
by law the number, duties and compen
sation 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, ex
cept to an acting officer or employe
elected or appointed in pursuance of
law."
Section 16 of the same article is to
the following effect: "No money shall
be paid out of the treasury except
upon appropriations made by law and
on warrant drawn by the proper offi
cers in pursuance therof."
Yet. on the last day of the session
of the house of 1897, Mr. Keyser of
fered and the house passed the follow
ing resolution:
"Resolved. That the payment for ex
tra labor in the house of representa
tives for session of 1897, Including com
mittee and transcribing clerks, not pro
vided for by special items in the appro
priation act, be paid by the chief clerk,
on vouchers approved by the speaker
and attested by the chief clerk, war
rant to be issued by the auditor gen
eral to the chief clerk or the state
treasurer therefor."
The house has no constitutional right
to vote money in that way. The state
treasurer has no right to issue his war
rant upon any such authorization. The
auditor general has no right to pass
such an account. The question of law
ful right or constituionality will never,
however, amount to a deterrent when
Ihe machine has a purpose to fulfill,
so long as the machine remains domi
nant in the legislature. There Is but
one cure. The Democrats must cap
ture the body named. The Democratic
house of 1883 was as well, if not better,
served by the 37 lawfully authorized
clerks and employes as was the Re
publican house of 1897 by 69, nearly, if
not twice, the number. The $27,886 paid
during the regular session of ISB3 for
:he service was sufficiently extrava
gant. The $74,197 paid in 1897 for no
better service, if as good, was more
than half of it thrown away. And yet,
if Hastings had permitted it, the ap
propriation would have been $12,500
more, that being, in round figures, the
sum of the governor's vetoes in this
line. The increase in the cost of the
senate clerks, etc., has been just about
as great. The appropriation for 1883
was $23,700. The appropriation for
1887-88 was $47,710, and was $54,976 be
fore being trimmed by the vetoes. And
if William A. Stone should be elected
governor and a majority of machine
legislators returned, every item vetoed
7y Hastings will be reinserted in the
general appropriation bill to cover "a
deficiencies in salaries, etc.," passed and
approved.
The contingent funds of the senate
and house indicate a like degree of
fraud and extravagance, even if we
admit that the money is actually ex
pended as professed. In 1883 an appro
priation of $4,000 for the senate and
$5,000 for the house, to be paid out by
the chief clerks, was considered ade
quate to cover all contingencies. In
addition, the librarian of the senate
got $1,200 for recess postage, etc., and
the resident clerk of the house got
$1,050 for the same purpose. In 1897
the appropriation for the senate for
contingencies was limited to $8,925, and
for the house to $13,580. In 1895 the limi
tations were $7,700 for the senate and
SIO,BOO for the house. Notwithstanding
this, however, the actual expenditures
by the chief clerks for contingencies
in that year were $8,500 in the senate
and $14,741 in the house. In the senate
the limitation was exceeded by SBOO
and in the house by nearly $3,900. It Is
not so much the amounts thus expend
ed that is to be deplored as the impu
dent and daring disregard of constitu
tion and statute law that characterized
them, and the evidence it affords that,
under Republican sway, all the depart
ments of the state government are in
constant collusion to loot the treasury
and swindle the people.
DELANEY'S PARADISE.
What It Costs to Keep One Man in Official
Splendor.
In 1895 Daniel H. Hastings approved a
bill wihch had, for its first object, the
placing of one John C. Delaney in a snug
berth with a large salary and larger
perquisites. This gentleman was ap
pointed superintendent of public prop
erty, with a salary of $6,000, ap
propriated for his sole benefit for
every two years he would remain
in office, and to this was added a gen
oral contingent fund of $6,000, and an
other sum of $25,000 to meet the ex
penses of keeping the grounds and
buildings in order. To the five watch
men at $9,000 for each two years were
added one night watchman, at $1,800;
one mechanic, $1,800; one bookkeeper,
$3,000; one gardener, $2,000; one assist
ant gardener, $1,800; one sergeant of
police, $2,000; two elevator men, $3,600;
one secretary to the board of public
buildings and grounds, $600; one extra
clerk, $500; extra salary of auditor gen
oral as a member of the board of pub
lic buildings and grounds, $1,200; extra
salary of the statv treasurer as a mem
ber of the same board, $1,200, making
in all a list of 18 salary absorbers, an
i increase of 12 over 1883, and a biennial
! salary account of $34,500, an Increase
in salaries over 1883 and 1884 of $22,-
. 700, and an increase in contingent and
repairs expenses of $17,000, or a total
increase, of $39,700. In return for all
this have lost a capitol
building, in broad daylight, by fire, the
grounds are littered with debris, and
haunted by a capitol building commis
sion intent upon a scheme that will
tax the people heavily for many years;
a scheme for the erection of a capitol
building, the cost of which shall out
rival that one at Albany, N. Y., or that
of the famous never to be completed
Philadelphia City Hall.
r Dr.Bavid Kennedy's
{Favorite Remedy
ALL KIDNEY. STOMACH **
' —'———-•AND LIVER TROUBLES.
Watch the date on your paper.
DEPARTMENT EXPENSES
How They Have Swelled In Fifteen
Years and Since the Democrats
Wore Last in at Roast Partial Con
trol—A Steady and Constant Increase
In Every Item Extravagance and
Spoliation at Republican Machine
Dictation, as Gathered From the Of
ficial Records.
The enormous increase in the cost of
running the executive departments of
the state government has been the sub
ject of much comment in the news
papers and otherwise. The extent of
the increase is not yet, however, un
derstood. It is not generally com
prehended how unceasing has been the
upward trend of the figures. It is
not realized that each legislature under
the sway of Republican Bosses has
not only "seen" its predecessor, to use
the language of the card playing fra
ternity, but managed to "go" consider
ably "better." The protests of the
people and such of the newspapers as
were not under the control of the ma
chine have gone unheeded. Governor
Pattlson's vetoes in 1891-93 fell in for
no greater consideration. And even
the warnings of Governor Hastings,
their own man, that the time had come
to go slow, were ignored. The appe
tite of the cormorants grew with what
It fed upon like all other appetites, and
may be regarded today as in a state
of utter unappeasability.
All this, be it borne in mind, is in
addition to the steals in the way of
legislative junkets, contested election
charges, fraudulent Investigations, etc.
What is here considered fell in for no
executive vetoes or injunctions either
in 1895 or In 1897, during which years,
as will further appear, the greatest
enormities were perpetrated.
As probably presenting the case most
comprehensively and so as to enable
the seeker after the facts to gather
them in at a glance, so to speak, the
following table is presented. The fig
ures In the first column, headed 1883,
represent the outlay for the first year
of Governor Pattlson's administration,
when there was a Democratic house
and a strong reform element In the
senate to help keep the looters in check,
Thosd in the other column, headed
1889, 1893 and 1897, respectively, repre
sent the appropriations for the last
year, that is the last legislative year
of the Beaver, Pattison (second) and
Hastings administrations. The figures
are taken from the appropriation bills,
as finally passed and signed, are ex
clusive of the vetoes and are in each
case for two years:
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.
1883. 1889. 1898. 1897.
$42,800. $50,400. $56,058. $57,800.
j SECRETARY OF COMMONWEALTH.
$50,600. $62,000. $69,000. $79,600.
I AUDITOR GENERAL'S DEPART
MENT.
$48.C00. $56,600. $69,800. $94,300.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
$29,050. $40,300. $41,400. $49,200.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPART
MENT.
$15,400. $23,200. $30,900. $29,100.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AF
FAIRS.
$67,200. $81,400. SIOO,OOO. $129,800.
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPART
MENT.
$31,400. $36,700. $44,400. $47,400.
' SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC IN
STRUCTION.
$33,400. $33,400. $33,400. $42,400.
STATE LIBRARY.
$15,400. $34,000. $33,900. $40,100.
PUBLIC PRINTER.
$4,600. $5,400. $5,800. $7,100.
STATE REPGRTER.
$6,000. $12,000. $12,000. $16,000.
BOARD OF PARDONS.
$7,000. $9,450. SB,BOO. $9,600.
HARBOR OFFTCE, PHI LA DELPHI A.
SIO,OOO. $22,000. $81,500. $102,200.
INSPECTORS OF MINES.
$66,000. SIIO,OOO. $1 OS,OOO. $132,000.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
$7,800. $24,600. $33,000. $177,820.
BOARD OF PUBLIC CHARITIES.
$13,800. $24,600. $30,600. $29,400.
SUPERINTENDENT SOLDIERS' OR.
PHANS* SCHOOLS.
$21,800. $20,200. $30,600. $29,200.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
None. SIO,OOO. $12,000. $12,000,
FISH COMMISSIONERS.
None. $34,000. $45,000.
FACTORY INSPECTORS.
None. None. $54,800. SBO,OOO.
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
None. None. $26,600. $124,000.
MEDICAL COUNCIL.
I None. None. None. $3,000.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, SAL-
I ARIES.
SII,BOO. $13,850. $13,900. $22,600.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, EX
PENSE.
$23,900. $16,263. $61,060. $68,400.
The foregoing may without scruple
i be accepted _as reliable, having, as
stated, been taken direct from the sev
eral appropriation acts as they ap
pear in the officially published laws of
the state. A few explanations will not,
however, be out of place. For instance,
in the cost of the "governor's office" is
included only the actual office cost, and
not that of the expensive gubernatorial
mansion, or anything connected with
; it. The "attorney general's depart
ment" does not cover the large sums
he receives as fees. "Superintendent of
public instruction" means the expense
for salaries, etc., of his office, and does
not cover any of the cost of the schools.
The same thing is true of "superintend
j ent of soldiers' orphan schools." "State
library" is independent of the appro
| priations for books and the "public
| printer" of those for printing. "Publjc
| buildings and grounds" excepts the ex
i tra expense (1897) put upon the state
by the capital fire and the occupancy
by the legislature of Grace Church. The
| agricultural department was not or
ganized until 1895, but, In order to be
wholly fair, we have, for the preceding
years given the appropriations to the
board of agriculture, which item is for
1897 included in the costs of the depart
ment. No appropriation was madp for
{ the fish commissioner in 1897. A large
one was in prospect, but the people ap
peared to be somewhat aroused as to
what was going on, the legislators were
made in some degree afraid and the
scheme was abandoned. With these
explanations in mind the figures here
inabove may he looked upon as indi
cating with accuracy how each suc
ceeding legislature may be expected, if
machine control in the legislature is
to continue, to perpetrate fresh out
rages, pile up more expenditure in the
name of the better execution of the
laws, but solely to make places for
party heelers and secure boodle to make
machine campaigns successful.
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