The Princeton union., 1897-02-18

UARY Is, 1897 Ten Pages.
an official, and by the Populists and
Democrats because they are in a
and did not want to provoke
,he majority. just before it was made
public that this property contained the
most valuable iron mine on earth the
then auditor of State relinquished the
land back to the government. Very
soon thereafter the property was
taken up as mineral land and passed
into the hands Of the Merritts, and
from them to Rockefeller, who now
holds the title. The only point to be
settled is whether or not State Of
fetal can relinquish without consider
alton any property, real or personal,
of the State. The only thing the leg
islature can do is TO furnish funds with
which the State may employ counsel
and properly present the case to.
the government. Then it remains to
be seen whether the. State or John D.
Rockefeller has the greatest 'spull''.
me STATE expert printer was very
much l11.lle exercised when hen called upon to
submit the cost of the printing of the
ohclal ballots, tearing ei that the net
-.
price q So5o7 per Thousand -lN1 would be
taken as a1Preceden1t and serve to keep
down the price Tor the same kind Of
WORK 1or ene country printers. printer of this l
So.o1 per Thousand S3 per thousand was
printer got $2,100 for printing two
sides of 700, 900 tickets. These tickets
were printed IA at a time, and after
wards cut to size. So instead of get
ting 1.50 per thousand impressions the
Iprinter got just fourteen times that
much, or $21 per thousand. Give a
country printer chance to take in S21
Ia thousand for press work and see his
! eyes bug out. The proprietor of one
of the largest printing establishments
in the city told me the day the bill was
presented that he would then and
there enter into contract to do the
whole job, furnish the paper, print it.
count and bind the tickets, paysthe ex-
press to their destination and give a
/ bond for the satisfactory performance
of the work for So, ,000-just half what
| it cost this time. Don't worry about
the country printers, Messrs. Legisla
tors. Keep your eye on the contrac.
tors.
Inc Dill 70 make the railroad m ano
warehouse commission an elective body
II has passed. he. house with practically
no opposltlon ana rs at this writing W u
4 aWaltlng a.9Illlg tne actlon OF the senate
u IS oelleveds the senate will amend i
| IN one partlcular before taking ina ina;
actlon upon u, out II IS by no mean!
assured tnat u viii pass, even then
Inc original Dill provides that three
members OF the commission shall b.
elected every two years. The senat,
will try to amend it so that at the mex
general election one member shall b.
chosen who shall hold Office for 81,
years, and that at each subsequen
election one member shall be s.
elected, the commission to be filed il
the meantime by the governors ap
appointment. It is argued by the sun
porters of this idea that commission
composed of entirely new men woul,
not be as we'll equipped for the worl
as one of which at least two are ex
perienced in the work. It is furthe
urged that commission elected ever
two years could not maintain a uniform
and reliable system of grades, and tha
the inspection service would suffer b
!, the change. Personally 7 am incline,