The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-07-26
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Additional Proof.

out against the democratic Office holders on
public works, and charging them with dishon.
esty and corruption in the discharge of their
official duties, because they have not been able
to pay off the laboring men along the line of
We certainly never saw a
more false or malicious faschood como from
the lips of lying whiggery, or ono that had less
foundation in truth. But the truth is, they are
endeavorins to shield Mr.. Ball, their whg
State Treasurer, who has dared TO withhold the
money appropriated by the last Legislature to
the payment of these debts, and who refuses to
honor the drafts drawn him by this Board of
Canal Commissioners. The wings know very
we'll that it Will require moro than tho whole
amount appropriated to liquidate the claims of
the State, and that it is not in the power of
the disbursing officers to pay out tho money
unless they can draw it from the Treasury.
They have. been able thus far to draw only
thirty-scve and half per cent, or little more
than one third of the appropriation, and yet
these conscientious wings are accusing the
officers with neglect of duty in not liquidating
the claims of the laborer on the public works.
In consequence of this gross outrage on tic
part of Mr.. Ball, the laboring men are virtually
cheated out of their honest dues, and are sub
jccted to every inconvenience and hardship, by
thus withhold ng the money which was appro-
priatcd expressly for the purpose of saving the
honor and credit of the State. However, this
is whiggery.
In order to furnish additional proof of the
corrcc tness Of the position we took in our last
on this subject we give the following state
ment of Col. English, Superintendent on the
Columbia and Philadelphia Railrord, which is
q triumphant refutati on of the charges brought
against kim, and shows that although more
than seven months of the fiscal year has expired
over one ha If of the appropriation remains in
the Treasury.
harrisburg, June 81, 1910.
To the Editors of the Republican and
Democrat:
Gentlemen-My attention has been
called to an article in the Register and
Examiner of yesterday, relative to the
debts due to the laborers and others on the
public improvements. That paper copies
an article from the Lancaster Union in
which it is alledged that the loco-foco office
holders have drawn their pay in some in
stances three months IN ddUance," and
adds that the officers on the railroad ''draw
largely upon the State Treasurer, pocket
their own pay of three dollars a dag, and
then leave the day laborcr to go without
his hard earned pittancc.
When attacks upon public officers are
made in general terms it is perhaps the
best policy to let them pass unnoticed; but
tbo Of off, &c
wantonly assailed, his best course, in my
opinion, is to meet the charge at once and
refute it by a reference to facts. ssAs the
allegations above quoted are untrue in
every particular, the facts which prove
them so need only to be stated to be fully
understood. There is no officer on the
railroad Except one,) either in the Motive
Power or Repair Departments, that dra,cs
upon the Treasury. There is no officer
on the railroad that receives 'sthree dollars
q day." and only one who receives more
than two dollars. There is no officer in
the Motive Power or Repair Departments
to whom the Commonwealth does no,
owe as many months wages as she does
to the engineers, mechanics and laborers,
nor can any officer on the road draac his
pay IN adUaace.
The last Legislature made appropria-
tions for the Philadelphia and Columbia
Railway for the year commencing Decem-
Der lst, 1913, and for the payment ol
debts due prior to that period, as follows
to witt
For the support OF Motive
Power for the payment
of the debts due prior to
December lst, 1913, and
for the purchase of two
new locomotives, 1922 900 Ot
OF which there has been
drawn and disbursed in
seven months, l07.947 s.
Leaving to be drawn the
next five months, $ll4,O52 Il
For repairs of Railway,
| from December 1st 1913,
to Nov. 30,.l849, $73,095 OF
OF which there has been
drawn and disbursed in
seven months, 9,4O0 OF
Leaving to be drawn the
next five months, S63,695 OF
| For tho pavment of debts