The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-05-06
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
Thursday, May 6, 1897.
More Fraud Towards the State.
PENNSYLVANIA Methodist.

Nearly all the evidence presented
at the libel suit bearing on extrava
gence and neglect, so glaring as tc
be criminal when INDUCED by the
officers of the State, was objected tC
by the prosecution and ruled out by
the court. Hence the necessity for
presenting it in our columns from
week to week in justification of the
now famous editorial of February
%, 1897.
Well, the evidence multiplies,
There should be an impartial investi-
CATION. If this cannot be had, then
there should be prosecution OF the
wrong-doers before court that will
hold even, the scales of justice.
Last week we showed the amount
of furniture Governor Hastings
thought necessary in the miust Of
the hard times for his Louis the
XVI parlor.
He wanted further for his third
floor bed rooms, already we'll fur
nished, anywhere from Sl,3SO. 70
worth to as much more as they chose
to buy, as indicated in each case by
the word each. 1t was nearly all
high priced mahogany furniture.
Cherry furniture for dining room,
including the repairing of an extern
sion table at cost of SlOO-not less
than $57O. THIS also included o
China closet, about five feet by four
feet, at 5000; mahogany table, for
$3.50; window seat, $3.50 pillows for
same, each $40; for smoking room,
mahogany and other furnishings to
cost, maximum, 1900, this includes
wainscoating at So per foot oak for
Governors private study, $3.50; wal
nut for sitting room, if you count
four arm and two side chairs amount
to $3.50; books for the Governor +
house, 81, 1885.
The number of American flags
needed for 1896 was only eight at a
maximum of Sl24.
We have not exhausted the infor-
nation concerning the extravaganza
in the Governors house, but feal
we will exhaust the patience of our
readers, so We simply quit with the
statement that the maximum for
electric fixtures for the G pvernor's 5
house for 1897 was only $5,3OS.S6.
In considering repairs On the old
Capitol building, it should be re-
membered that talks of a new build.
ing have been rife for ten years, and
that any expense on the old build,
ing was looked upon as only make.
shift till the new one could be erect
ed, and yet in the last three years
more than half enough expense has
been placed on the old to build II
new one, such as Governor Hast
ings now advocates, and most of
this expense was incurred during
the last two years, and while the ad-
ministration was shutting the peo-
pies eyes with the cry of economy.
Let US look at more figures. Erect
ing passage way between Senate and
Senate reception room, maximum,
81, 400 Several mechanics would
have been glad to do the Job at $500.
The similar passage for the House is
not in the schedule. 1t is said to
have cost much more.
Placing an extra sash in all the
windows of the Senate at S39 each
about 1890, proper estimate about
800.
Storm vestibule at East entrance
of Capitol Sl75, worth about $40.
Replacing with new windows the
eight old ones in upper dome S39
each, total S3l3, worth S75.
Replacing sixteen wooden columns
on exterior of upper dom e
with sixteen wrought iron col
umns, at $40 each, total Sl,76O.
These took the place of sixteen
wooden posts that with little re-
pairing would have lasted as long
as the wood work above and be
meath them.
Wrought iron railing between the
posts at $40 per foot about $1,000
more. All the rest of the dome was
wood. This was foolishly matching
iron to wood in an old building.
A low upper story added to the
Governors stable, 300.