Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-06

AND now Register Edgeriey ;ntns up
as to be every literally compensated
young man.
If Mr.. Speaker keifer will take the
floor and tell Mr.. Representative Orth
why he could no: appoint him to the head
of the committee on foreign relations he
will edifv Orth and delight the country.
AFTER a desperate struggle the Phila-
delphia councils jobbers have been again
beaten. and yesterday the bond of Henry
B. Tener, rs collector of delinquent taxes,
was approved after vain effort to take
advantage of the time allowed 10y the court
in it's mandamus order to select council to
do this thing.
A STATEMENT issued from the treasury
department January 3, shows that the
total quantity of petroleum exported
during November, 1881. was $3.50, ,G31
gallons, the value of which was 81, 800, $685.
For November, 1880, the total export
was 90, 7S4. $50 gallons and the value
So, ,63i, ,O62. The total for eleven months
of 1Ss! was 467, e99, s47 gallons, the value
o: which was s44,415,G ,G73.
WE print the salient features o; Supt.
Higbee's annual report, as it deals with
the general aspects of the educational
system of the state. 4 notable feature Of
the report is the vigorous manHcr in
which it sets forth the expansive ideas
which have animated the establishment of
the normal schools, and its very positive
views that the function of these schools
is professional rather than academic
work.
MARK how plain Il tale shall Eel down
the pretense made by and for McMeller
through the Etamtner-local columns
Thursday the special services cor
which he claims that he ineri!c.!, and
could have got $2,3OO-and did get ST.
500 from the county-refuircd tw, extra
clerks, for year presumably. i specific
statement elsewhere shows that the tine
in which the parliamentary office eth
ployel five clerks in the past ycal was less
than three months and a.half. while the
regular force, priul to that was four
clerks and, including MIR F,idy himself,
who is an able clerk there are four .!crC
now engaged in the regular Office work.
I0, III ,nf1 ,ln1
of the registers office are in such control
Of the judges that they can make
orders for thei: le arrangement "r for the
purchase of supplies in such :, manner as
to make the county liable for the cost
The judges are no doubt well qualified to
| make excellent recommendations touching
tho arrangement or re-arraneeni::n; Of the
county records, and their view: >houla
have weight with the county officials.
But in such cases the order for The work
should come from the commissioners
Office if the pay for il is expected to come
from there and when any such work is
to be done, of anything like the pretended
magnitude Of that done by Mcclellan and
Edgerley, the commissioners should invite
proposals for it, or at least should fix Tie
price for it in advance. For judges to
order work of this kind to be done, for the
officials to go ahead and do it, fix their
own price and then procure the approval
of the judges and their recommendations
for every liberal compensation" is i usur-
patton Of the functions of the commission
ers and All imposition upon the county,
which is impertinent and demoraiizing.
tis much more calculated to place '.jua:-
cial dignity in false light than anything
the Examiner can say in defense Of the Job
and jjobbers.