Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-12-04
Selecting the Voting Booths.

The County Commissioners Of the coun-
ties Of the state were largely represented
at Harrisburg last Wednesday at the public
exhibition in the Supreme Court room ot
election booths and other parsphernslia
which will be required under the operations
Of the Baker Ballot Reform law. The Com
missioners were present on the invitation
of the board authorized to select pattern
for tho shelves or compartments in which
the voters will mark the ballots and to de-
termine upon uniform style of guard rail
to be used in the voting room and to do
eide upon such other furniture and apps-
ratus as may be necessary, and to fix limit
Of cost for same per shelf or compartment,
and per linear foot of rail.
This board consists Of William +. Har-
rity, Secretary of the Commonwealth;
Thomas MoCamsnt Auditor General and
Thomas ]. Stewart, Secretary of Internal
Affairs, ell Of whom inspected the various
designs displayed, with apparent great in
terest. A miniature voting house was among
the contrivauces exhibited. Eight samples
of booths were on exhibition. representing
manufacturers in New York, Pennsylvania
and Missouri. A st. Louis firm exhibited
steel booths which can be purchased at from
81 to IS apiece. If given the contract 1t
proposes to manufacture the booths In
Pittsburg. A unique but necessarily compli-
Gated ballot box was on exhibition and at
tracted considerable attention. 1t is the
official Federal ballot box used in Msssa
chusetts and numbers the ballots, registers
the tickets and then cancels them. During
the day the inventors, or agents OF booths
and other necessary election appliances
under the Baker law, explained their merits
to the State Board. The County Commits
sioners were also permitted to express
theirviews as to the most desirable con-
trivances, and a. the State will assume the
expenses of the first instalment of booths,
and guard rails, the Commissioners are in
terested in having them constructed of dur
able material.
The State Board will make q thorough
examination into those on exhibition before
it makes its decision.
MR. HERMAN y. SCHUBTsIs one of the
special commissioners sent abroad by the
Treasury Department to investigate the i'm
migration question, comes home to tell q
very startling story. Gifted with both i'm
sgination and love for his work, he has been
able by means Of detective Investigations,
neeessitsting the assumptions of all sorts Of
disguises and the endurance ofa great
many hsrdships, to discover that assisted
emigrants are still pouring in upon us;
that aid societies are covertly supplying
funds to ship psupers to America; that
England means to transfer the Russian
Jews across the Atlantic as fast as possible
and that stserage passengers life is not
happy one. 1t is only fair to give Mr..
Schulteis all due credit for those achieve
ments. 1t was certainly neat stroke of
his to'persuade the London Society for As
sisting Friendless Foreigners to contribute
toward his passage money to New York in
the face OF the fact that Council General
New declined to put any faith on him. 1t
was also an excellent bit Of work to catch
a steamship company holding over its
pauper immigrants for steamer that did
not convey officials of the United States
Government-except Mr.. Schulteis in
disguise. 1t has been widely suspected aud
charged that in spite Of recent laws, the
dumping" Of immigrants sill continues
and if it does we want to know it. such
testimony as Mr.. Schulteis affords is pref
ty direct and iorcible.-Er.
1T il said that the farmers of three
Northwestern States will receive before