HEE FE0GEE33IVE FAEEIEB; MARCH 7. 1899
i i i
W PROGRESSIVE FABHER.
URS. L. L. POLK, .
J, L. RALISBY. .
CLARENCE H. POB,
I. W. DENMARK,
, Proprietor.
Editor
. Asso. Editor'.
Business M'g'r.
Raleigh, N. 0.
SUBSCRIPTION
Ragle SnbterUMT. One Yer S J-00
" Six Month...... 60
'Oueccpy cm yx fr. tc any oaetsndlrg c'.uo
Crt Inrorioftlw in Aitctn4.
N. R. P. A.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS RE
INSTATED. Few matters that engaged the at
tention of the presant legislature at
tracted the interest which was csn
tured upon the legislative investiga
tion of the case of the two railroad
Commissioners, Messrs. J. W. and S
O. Wilson. It seems that a majority
of the members were fcr acquital all
the time, but failed to bring it to a con
elusion for soma time. Tne investiga
ting committee reported in favor of the
Wilsons some time ago, but not until
last Friday morning at 3:30 did the
two houses finally settle the matter.
The vote stood: to reinstate Majir
Wilson, 82; against reinstating him,
56. For reinstating Mr. 8. O. Wilson,
74; against reinstating him, 58
The commissioners were put out of
effice nearly eighteen months ago by
the Governor on the charge that they
were more or less, directly, or indi
rectly, interested in certain hotel prop
erty at Round Knob, N. C, which was
made an eating house, and that Col.
A. B. Andrews. Vice President of the
Southern Railway system, was a joint
owner in the prcpercy and wa3 favor
ing the Wilsons to influence them to
keep passenger and freight rates
higher than they might b?, and that,
under the railroad cemmieeioa la
they were disqualified for their posi
tionS. Major Wilson did not deny
that he was jointly interested with
Vice President Andrews in the hotel
property, but denied that his official
actions were icfliencad thereby. Mr.
8. O Wilson claims that he
was not interested in the pa
tronage of the hotel, nor in the re
ceipts of same; that the hotel was
leased and conducted by his mother,
a widow, and that the only connec
tion he had with it was that he took
his wife there to spend the summer
months in in the mountains,
upon the advice of his family
phyeician, his wife being in delicate
health. It seems that much of the
proof that was supposed to be in exis
tence derogatory to the Wilsons failed
to materializj during the investiga
tion. THE CHARLOTTE DISPENSARY.
The bill to establish a dispensary at
Charlotte having passed the II -use of
Representatives, was recently taken
up by the Senate.
"For more than three ani a half
houie," says Col. O.ds, 4the largest
crowd that ever assembled in the Sn
ate hall surged closo to the Pesident's
desk, swayed with an ever recurrent
wave of interest." Interaat in all
other legislation was for the time gone
and one thought that agitated the
mind o! one of the mo?t representa
tive bodies thai ever gathered in North
Carolina was: 'Will the voice of
the majority of Mecklenburg's white
voters he heard, will Charlotte get the
dispensary ; or ill the Senate sustain
the Senator from Mecklenburg, who
during the last campaign, made
pledges to the liquor men?" In the
course of hia speech one of the Senators
said the Democratic party instructed
its candidates "to promise the coun
try people free silver, tell the negro
his name was mud, and promise every
body else everything they wanted."
Senators E ;ves, Jonos, and Hairston
spoke against tha dispensary. Then
came Senator Mclntyre who said he
loved Mr. Ojborno, but could not fol
low him agaio.35 God and conscience
Ho had made no promises to the li
quor men during tho lass campaign,
nor would he consider himself bound
by promises mid by another. Tne
great, glorious voica of the peoplo
must b2 heard. M ire than 3 000 peo
plo representing 99 per cant, of the
intelligence, weal to. and integrity of
Mecklenburg warned the di.p ods iry.
They petitioned foe it according to
their coastituUoaal riht ani KG .ula
have it " j
.Senator Jorcm, of Uion th i j
spoke. II?, too, nai oppos-M t'w di ,
penaory waea i: vt h nraz miK-u o.
but e.fter trying i: a: Mo'-roo, u cwxe
convinced thrt it w.4? a ?ooi thi
Tne barkeeper, s?.id he, trie? to eel!
whiskey to boy a ani trios to protnoe
intempranc?, bctiuo tho m:.re he
sells, the mora appetite he creates, the
the dispensary keeper. He U paid h
regular salary, must close at euneefc, ,
and it is not to hi9 interest to create an
appetite for the stufC or to make
drunkards of boys, as he gets hia sal
ary whether he sells much or little
Senators Hicks, Cocke and Jeckson
opposed the dispensary. They were
followed by Smator Glenn, who made
one of the most eloquent speeches we
have over heard. "This bill has unan
imou8ly passed the House," he said
"It is an appeal from old Mecklenburg,
the home of a free race. Her citizens
ask u 3 to remove the 18 bar rooms
pitfalls of sin that may ruin their
young manhood. The bar room men
send mo word that never again shall
I have a place of honor in North Caro
lina. Thoy send word to the Demo
cratic party, pa33 this and we will de
feat ycur constitutional amendment.
"Let them threaten me all they will;
I shall stand for the right of the reo
pie to petition and I shall vote my
conscience. G.d knows that I vish
not to mount any pinnacle of gr 'at
nes. at the cost of an immortal soul.
When tho vote was announced as to
the Guilford dispensary you all
cheered, but while I now raise the
white flag of Mecklenburg, with its
enrollment of 3,000 names, you are
silent. Why! It represents three
fourths of the business interests, three -fourths
of the intelligence, three
fourths of the white people, and nine
tenths of the morality of Mecklenburg,
and I appeal to you by all that is noble
and just to vote, to vote aye. For the
sake of my boy and your boy, Sena
tor Osborne, 1 must vote for the dis
pensary."
Senator Cooley contended that the
dispensary was as bad as a bar room
or worse. The difference merely meant
a distinction between straight liqu-
in quantities and mixed drinke. Ha
agreed with other Senators that Sena
f or Osborne's position was unassailable
as a point or honor and ehculd receive
the endorsement of the Senate. Then
turning to tne galleries, packed with
ladies, he said:
"Talk about your broken hearts"
But just tere his voico was drowned
in an cc an of hisses. The speaker
rupped for order, but the hissing con
tinued. When it finally subsided,
this Senator who doubtless prated
much about '"the fair womanhood of
North Carolina," when on the stump
last fall turned to the ladies and
said: "Ah, you can hiss, but you can't
vote!"
Senator Ojborne then spoke, and by
a vote of 31 to 12 the Senate killed the
dispensary. The vote was as follows:
Ayes Black, Brown, Fields, Fuller,
Glenn, Goodwin, Hill, Jerome, Lind
say, Mclntyre, Satteifi.ld, Stan
back 12
Noes Bryan, Butler, Campbell,
Cheek, Cocke, Collie, Cooley, Cowper,
Crisp, Daniels, Divis, E tves, Franks,
Hairston, Harris, Hicus, Jackson,
James, Jones of Johnston, Justice,
Lambert, Lowe, Miller, Murray, O
borne, Skinner, 8mitb, Travis. Ward,
VVhitaker, Williams. Wilson 31
THE LhGibi-Al USE.
We wi-h to give a full and complete
account o! the acis of toe L-gis
lature and in cur efforts to ao eo
this week we fail to bring the proceed
inga up to date. Hit.ce, this brief
summary of acts, regarding which
more will be said next week.
Oa Wednesday the Senate passed
the Jim Crow Car bill. Te Hjuse
passed the bill to appoint five commis
sioners for Forsyth county, the ooini
bus pension bill, and abolished the Rail
road Commission. A commission to
be known as the Commission of Corpo
rations succeed to its powers and al
so controls in a measure the banking
and building and loan business of the
State.
On Thursday the Senate passed the
election law. At 4 p. m. the House
and Senate in j oint session began the
consideration of the case of the two
Wilsons, and the seseion continued
with but an hours intermission till
af:er 3 o'clock Friday morning. Else
where more is said regarding this case.
On Friday the Senate adopted the
House bill repealing the Railroad Com
mission act (to go into effect March
20 :b) and appropriated f 5 000 for a
monument to Z B Vance to be erected
ii capitol rqiare.
On 3aturdiy the Legislature reached
it3 60 day limit and tne pay of the
membere c aeed. Much imnrrtant
work, however, is yet to be dene r.nd
t ie flu-l ad j urnmcnt will probably is
cur not before Wednctd -y. The 8eo
ate ptssed a bi'l appropriating $5 000
f ji tb Soldiers' Hmt-, one1, th? House
pid bill, appropriates,! $".000 for
improvements f.s the. N'crm il ar.d In-da-ici-Kl
College at.d f 16,000 for the
Sihts G i.' d
Cape. H S. i -n - j ic, a popular and
weilihy joaac tu -icie - m of Cnar
lr,i: committed eubUo t Boalon last
t ek.
Ju-Jg-i Saopherd tins ben elected
Profeeaor of Law at the U dversty.
J 8 Carr haa given the University
f 5 000 more.
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.
We learn from the Washington cor
respondent of the Raleigh Post that the
Senate has included in the Sundry
Civil bill, the original bill offered by
flpnator Butler to construct by the
government, as adjunct to the Post
tffice DDartment. submarine cables
from 8an Francisco to Honolulu, and
thence to Manila, if the island is per
manentlv annexed. The cost will be
about $3 .000,000, and is said to be con
siderably less than the subsidy agreed
upon fcr a private company, as re
ported to the Senata in the Sundry
Civil bill, and later struck out and
Senator Butler's plan substituted. This
marks a new era in governmental
ownership of cables in conjunction
with the postal service, and we con
irrntul&ta Senator Bitler upon hia
victory.
Jcrrv SimDson still knows how to
.
strike home. Recently ho severely at
tacked the President's policy of im
perialism. Tte next day Mr. Cannon,
R nublican of Illinois cot the floor. "If
the speeches made here yesterday by
Mr. Simpson andother3 had been made
yesterday in Manila, he said, they
wculd have been arrested, tried by
drumhead court-martial and shot. The
United States have and will continue
to exercise sovereignty in the Philip-
Dines. It they are obstructed the
power of the whole people as repre
sented by the army and navy will see
to it that our authority is maintained
and the rocks and mountains will fall
upoa any individual, or any party
which seeks to obstruct us ! '
Mr. Simpson then rose to a question
of personal privilege to answer the
statement of Mr. Cannon that if he
(Simpsor) had made hii speech at
Manila he would havo been court
martialed and shot. Perhaps this
might bj so, said Mr. Simpson, adding:
"Bat to be ehct at Mumla is better
thau to be ehot here by an old muzzle
loading smooth boro brass Cannon."
The Philippine question h still para
mount in Congress and w tho burden
of most Congressional speeches. Mr.
Cox (D jm.,) of Tennessee epeaking on
thisEubject last week said: "I will
never vote a cent to put a bullet m a
gun to shoot do n those people over
there (the FJipinos), who are trying to
establish their home government."
II? could not understand why we had
started out to free the Cubans and
should end by shooting the Filipinos.
"What a remarkable notification," he
declared, "was that of General O.is,
that we had killed and wounded 4 000
of those people, part of them naked na
tives armed with bows and arrows."
As an American, he asked, whero was
the glory of this .achievement? Who
had declared war on these people that
had done us no harmf"
The Compromise Army Bill has
passed both Houses of Congress. It
provides for a regular army, of 65,000,
and authorizes the President to raiae
an additional force of 35.000 volunteers,
if it be found necessary. Senator Gor
man offered the following amendment
which was unanimously adopted:
"That each and every provision of
this act Phall continue in force until
July 1, 1901, and on and after tat date
all the general Etaff and lino officers
apportioned to army under this act
snail bo discharged end the members
restored in each grade to those exist
ing at tho passage of this act, and the
enlisted force of the line of the army j
shall bo reduced to the number a3 pro
vided for oy law prior to April 1 1S98,
exclusive of such additions as have
been or may be made under this act,
to the artillery, and except tho cadets
provided for by this act who may be
appointed prior to J ily 1, 1901; and,
provided, further, that no officer who
has been or may be, promoted under
existing law or under the rules of
seniority, shall be disturbed in his
rank "
Mr. Biccn, of Georgia, said the
adoption cf the German amendment
simplified the situation materially.
rhis bill would place an annual expen
diture of $S5,000,000 upon the country,
but notwithstanding the fact that war
in the Philippines was an unholy war,
he felt it his duty to support tho bill,
and would do sc.
In the Senate the bill paesrd ayes
55, noes 13. Sonator Pritchard voted
aye but B jtlsr was one of tne thirteen
ncos. In the Hcuso the voto was-
ave? 203, noes 2
B ils have passed both H.-insoa r.t
OoLgres appropriating $50 000 for
public buildiri ai Wics:rm :;r.n 50 000
for pub; c building at Etiz ilmh City.
Tne "faac man fcuus.dy" hittierco re?
ferrea to by Tixe Progressive Farmer
ur5 a ie.ua m mo li ,uo, tfcrn re
i .3Ttf d by the 3 n;.te c mo up befo-e '
the Hou3d .in hl55 veek. M-v.sis
latchmgj, I) n:c;Mu, of M;s?i3ippi;
al on. Don.iC.or&t, ol Tennesson; Bitk
head, D .crsccrat, of Missouri and othere
enpporied tho iimorsd joent, and Messrs.
Bromweli, R ?pulieau, of Onio; Green,
Populist, of Nebraska, and others op
posed it as a "subsidy." The motion,
to concur in the Ssnate amendment
was then agreed to, 116 to 34, on a
standing vote, and the yeas and nays
were taken. The vote resulted 142 to
86, thus finally adopting the special
mail amendments of the Sanate and
also making a complete agreement on
the posteffica appropriation bill. The
amendments added by the 8 mate and
concurred in, provide "for necessary
and special facilities on the trunk lines
from New York and Washington to
Atlanta and New O leans, $171,233,"
at the discretion of the Postmaster
Gsneral; for eimiliar facilities from
Kansas City, Mo., to Nswton, K msas,
125.000. We have hitherto expressed
our opinion of this measure. It is
greatly to the credit of the North Caro
lina delegation that only one of their
number, L'nney, voted for the meas
ure. Fowler, Slufcrd, Slrowd, and
Skinner voted nay. Tne other R ?pre
sentatives from this Ssate were absent.
The bribery charges against Mark
Hanna have been withdrawn.
The Naval appropriation bill has
passad both Houses of Congress. It
carries an appropriation of something
over $45,000,000. In the Sanate, the
bill was amended by reducing price of
armor plate from $445 to $300 per ton.
Tnis was Mr. Tillman's (9 C.,) amend
ment. He declared that millions of
dollars were boing squandered by the
Government in feathering the nests of
the armor trust and he felt that the
Senate and country ought to know
"what kind of a steal was going on."
The amendment was adopted by a
vote of 34 to 26. Bitler voted aye and
then offered an amendment which
was adopted by a vote of 39 to 27
providing that if the companies re
fused to accept $300 a tontheSocre
tary of the Navy should proceed to
erect an armor factory at a cost of
$1 500.000 and appropriating $2 000 000
for operating the plant.
This is another victory for the Sena
tor from North Carolina.
The Senate has passed without de
bate the bill giving Spain $20,000,000
for the Philippines.
P. S. Congress adjourned Saturday.
8enatcr Batler's plan for a govean
ment armor plant did not meet with
approval in the House and so failed.
The General Deficiency bill passed, the
members of the House sang patriotic
songs and so ended the last session of
the Fifty F.fth Congress.
THE LATEST NEWS.
The Army Canteen is not qiite abol
ished after all. The House of R spre
sentatives put it out of the army and
the navy bill, but the Senate Commit
tee has put it back, at least, or rather
has put malt liquors back, and malt
only. B it the soldiers will be much
better off without beer, especially in
hot countries.
Toe Q my trial has again been post
poned. It is now billed for April 10th.
The district attorney thought he dis
covered some crookedness in the j iry
panel, and tho case wa3 postponed at
his rcq iest. The new date fixed for
trial is eleven days before the date set
fcr the ad j lurnment of the legislature,
whih is now balloting for the election
of iay s successor to the S inate.
Saturday's dailies state that three
membors of the Legislature who have
hitherto voted for Q iay now vote for
other candidates.
The people of the Siate of Maryland
have presented a magnificent gold and
diamond medal to Rear Admiral W. S
S ;hley. He is a native of that Siate.
The Spanish government had a nar
row escape from defeat in the Spanish
Sanate last wefik on the bill authoriz
mg cession of the Philippines to the
U iited States. Tne measure was passed,
bat the government had a maj jrity of
ooly two, the vote being 120 to 118.
D jwey is a full admiral and henco
toe highest American naval officer in
rank.
Kipling and Pope Loo XIII have
b.en seriously sick but are recovering.
Meningitis is epidemic in Texas.
Many deaths.
A new national party has been or
ganized at Ciacinnatti. It is to be
called tne U oion R :form party, and ic
will seek to amalgamate the Silver R 3
publicans, the Populists, the Social
Labor party, and the Liberal party, in
fact all the minor parties excepc the
Prohibitionists.
.D iti't forget to readcarefudy the full
proceedings of the Lv.ilature as given
tf'j The Progressive Farmer. L'sarn
r.ov your zepreaaojuivd stood upon
tho great q lestions that cju fronted
tr.at oody. Se, tar instance, wnetner
t.e advee ted iho cause of the peoplo us 1
strongly and unhe-uatiogly when the
question of taxing raiiroadj came up
aaa the railroad attorneys stood in tne
lobuy acd took notes for their bosses,
as ho did when on tae stump laso tall.
Tne moat important work of every
legislative body is dene during the last
ten days of the session and the proceed,
ings given by The Progressive Farmer
this week and nexs week snouid have
your undivided attention.
THE OYSTER LAWS AND HOW
THEY HAVE WORKED.
While the much tangled and misun
derstood oyster question is before the
General Assembly and the people, per
hap) it might be wise to consider, just
about this stage of the discussion, a
few figures showing the financial out
coma of the various and sundry oy
ster law tinkerings. Henco, this con
densed statement.
As Ch. 119 Laws of 1887, was de
signed to provide the means necessary
to pay the expenses of its operation.
and so provided, the State Treasurer
opened two accounts on his ledger for
this purpose, one the "Shell Fish Sur
vey" account, and the other, the
"Oster Patrol Service" account. The
recaipts, 253. per acre for oyster bads
enterad and granted under the la-
and the expenses properly bolonging
to that account were to ba kept in
"Shell Fish Survey" Account, while
the recaipts and expenditures attending
the policing, pro3ecating, and fines
and penalties, etc., were to ba kept in
the "Oyster Patrol" acoount.
The "Shell Fish Survey" account
opened Dacembsr 11, 1888 The first
credit entry is "J. 8. Churchill, Trus
tee, Assignee, Hyde Co , No. 1, $2 50."
The number of these entries to the
close, Nov. 1889, was 261 Qaite a large
majority of them, in face, nearly all
were from Hyde county and by J. S
Churchill, Trustee, Assignee.
The total receipts from "Shsll Fish
Survey" account were:
From entries $837 01
Disbursement on same acccounc
were
18S9 Jan 26 Paii News
andObs-rver $134 75
(4
Feb 4 Paid E City
Economist 50 00
Mar. 30 Pd. Newbern
Journal . 75 00
Apr 5 PJ. Fisher
man Farmer 155 00
May 31. Pd. Msssen
it
it
ger Pub. Co 59 00
" Au 14 Pd. News
and Ooerver 50 00
189D, Jan 9. Pd. N3ws
and Observer 39 60
" Jan. 13 Pd Mesaen
ger Pub Co 50 00
1892. Oct 20, Pd. News
and O bserver 68 65
1893. Mar. 2 Pd. W. T.
Caho, Mem of Com., 150 00
I
Mar 26. Pd W. J
Griffin. Mem. Com., 150 00
May 28. Pd. I B.
Watson, Mem Com , 150 00
Nov. 3 Pd. W. H
Lucas, Mem. Com., 7149
Total.... $1 203 49
Amount overdrawn $366 52
$450 00 was appropriated by resolu
tion of Ganaral Assembly of 1893 to
cover the three $150.00 items.
As to the "Oysser Patrol 8arvice."
This account was opened in March,
1890. As the receipts were few, we
give them all as they appear.
1890, Mar. 21. Received of H.
Welstead, J P. Currituck
Co., for fines imposed and
collected for violation of
Oyster Law $976 00
" June 12 Same as above, 18 00
1891, Apr. 28 Received from
Adam Warner, for sale of
old platform 3 00
Total receipts $997 00
THK EXPENDITURES.
Dac. 24 Eor all expen
ses and accounts paid
from Apr. 10, 1890. to
tnis date, D.c 24. 1892, $7 765 28
Feb. 1. Paid Baiaoce
1892.
1893.
purchase of Sceamer
"Lillie" 7,087 68
1897, May Paid expenses of
Steamer "Lillie" since
purchase, to date 3 845 18
Total expenditure Oy
ster Patrol Servica . . $18 698 14
Deducting the receipts ($997 00) from
the expenditures ($18 693 14) will show
a net loss on this brancn of the oyster
industry, under the operation of L iws
1887 of $17,701 14, net.
A review of these two accounts will
show as follows
RECEIPTS.
3hell Fish Survey Ac
count $837 01
Oyster Patrol Service 997 00
$ 1 834 01
EXPENDITURES.
8hell Fish Survey
Acouat $ 1.203 49
Oyster Patrol Ser
vice Account. . . 18 698 14 $19 9
1 G3
Expenditures Exceed Ro
ceipta $18,067 62
The amount paid balance purcbas-o
of Sceamer Lillie was aopropaaied by
1 cauiu
navmg given this epuome cf ih- op
era
ations of the oyster law prior to
1895, perhaps it would not be icappro
pnate to take a look into ttieopsracnns
of Caap 160, Lws 0. 1835, a. am -n
ded by Cnap. 13, Laws of 97,
now comprise the operating
laws of the S;ate, wita minor
tions.
whica
oysuei"
excap
Tne first payment into the Treasury
under 160, Laws of 1895, was in May of
that year, and the p ments Bincethen
have been by years as follows:
A HC AI7WT DU'riB'TVB'n IF k nr. . .
(SINCE MAY 1). 5
1895, Nov. 30 $ 578
1895, Nov. 30 5 28Q
1&97. Nov. 30 2 657
1898 Nov. 30 em
1899 Feb. 28 5967 53
Total receipts to date I20.68TJ
EXPENDITURES
'96 Nov. 33 - Paid
sa'aries and ex
penses to date. . $5 060 91
96 Nov. 30 Paid
State Board of
Education 419 23
97, Nov. 30. Ex
peases, salaries,
etc , this vear. . . 2 679 28
'93. Nov 30 Ex
penses, salaries,
etc , tais vear. . . 6 559 80
'99, Feb. 28. Ex
penses, salaries,
ere , sicca Nov.
30, 1898 2 421 97 $17 Ml 13
Feb. 28. 1899, balance to
credit of tne ccjount to
day $3 539 21 1
The expers; account of the Steamer'
"Lillie"' has been paid out of this fund)
since she was turned over to Chief Iq. j
specjorof Shell Fish in May, 1897, and
the amount of this expense to date ia
$2 883 32 This expanse has former!?
been paid out of General FundJ
Doubtless she has more than earned s
her expanses, however, since put in I
charge of Chief Inspector. Counting
this a legitimate expense of the oyster
business, the new law has cleared for
the State einc 1895, the balance in I
Treasury, $3.539 21 plus amount paid I
school fund $419 23 Total net gain?
over all expenses $3 956 44. while undarf
the operation of former laws the Stated
is out of pocket $18,067 62. and vpt
many claims unsatisfied.
THE MONEY PO WER IN POLITICS
Senator Chandler, (Rsp.), of New
Hampshire, having been attacked by
the Chairman of the Republican En
co tive Committee, recently putiiiciied
two sensational letters in The Ahn
Chester, N H U.iion. The general
suojeco was the power of money in
politics. Until 1882, it was the custom,
he says, for each candidate to pay bis
own expanses. S.nce that time, how
eyer, railroads have contributed
heavily to the campaign fund, and last i
year a fund was raised amounting to
more than one dollar for every voter
i-
in the State, though there was no
danger whatever of Damocratic vic
tory. Nearly all this moaey, he saye,
was collected from the B jston and
Maine R nldroai and from a few rich
men, who thereby held a mortga
upon every candidate they helped to I
elect. Tne raising of this fund, he)
j a m , ... &
says, an noc nave lor its ODject tne
preservation cf Republican ascendency,
since that was not in danger; its only
obj :ct, he alleges, was to secure the
ascendency in the Ropublfcan party of
tne men and the corporations who con
tributed and handled the funds. Re
garding the outcome he speaks as
follows:
"In the oming Legislature the M.n
Chester and Milford R .ilroad Bill ia to
be defeated ; so are all bills for ekem?
railroads; so is -he bill to disentangle
the Supreme Court from railroad con
tents : any bill tff jctuallv Drohibinaa:
free passes ; the bill for electing R il
road Commissioners by the people and f
making them the people's agenisia-
stead of the agents of the great rail-1
road ; and, moreover, the bill prevent I
ing fraud and bribery in party cau !
cuses. To accomplish these obiscts.
the great railroad has already fur-1
niehfjd it . money and the Chairman
has distributed the funds in order to :
control the Representatives and S-'na
tors."
New Hampshire is not the only State I
whero this condition of affairs exists, j
Tdat it ia an evil and a rapidly grow
ing evil no one denies. Bit wha.is
the remedy ? The money contributed
by those who expect favors from the
Lagislature cannot be considered s
bribe, though it is often as effectual.
As we see it there is but one way to
counteract the evil influences of the
system and that is to select as candi
dates men of unquestioned moral
standing and men who never hesitate
to state just where they stand on any
political question. Another political
evil for which this seems to be the onlf
remedy has been unearthed at Albany, f
New Y rk. Governor Rvosevei; re-1
cently startsd an inves ligation of the f
various 3cate effi ,ars, in the c:uree of (
which some startling discoveries were 1
tnado. F jr instance, take Frederick I
E .,r.on, tne late Scate Supermunjent ;
wJbjhlio Biilding under Governor
B ck, in waose department a defl.
ctea-y of 1200 000 beon diw were
d
II says:
"Too way I was bothered by State
and organization effi iers kept my ds
parimant always handicapped
over expensive. Taere wa nothing B
mv department that could ba d-ne
with anything except a mop, a p''- i
and a broom. Y et often there vould
come to my office a nice young rnaD iD f
a lofty white collar and shiDing b30
bearing a request from some hfe!
x