Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1874 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, MAY 5m 1874. u , : i , . 1

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SCHOOL HINTS AND HELPS. FREE EDUCATION.

MAY MEETING OF COUNTY , BOARD, XKMASE OF TUB SCFEBI2TSJDE5T ADOP XIO OF- TXT BOOKS AKD OTHKR IMPORTANT ACTIOS. The count j board of education met at the Office of tbe superintendent, as required by law, at 9 o'clock yesterday. By a decision t the attorney general, the city board of school commissioners of Indianapolis are entitled to scats in the county board. But as the interests considered lie almost wholly outside the citv, only a few members attended from the ciiy, very properly leaving the control of the board in the hands of the township trustees. There were present W. S.Smith, superintendent, Wm. Hunter, of Warren township, L- llardlnpr, Wayne, J. II. Smith, Washington, E. F. Norwood, Perry, J. Coble, Pike, Charles Johns, Center, ' Jacob Ilornex, Decatur, S. M. Houston, Irvington. Dr ouan, A. ti. urown, Mr, Barnard, C. Vonnegut add W. A. BelL The superintendent, Mr. Smith, read a careful MESflAOB TO THE BOARD. Uictlzx KM or tu Board: In obedience to the law of our state you are assembled In this second meeting for the consideration and the determination of Important matters. Oar functions are too well denned W the law to need recalculation here at this time. We are much better prepared for action than we were sight moiths ago; since we bare all learned something of a county plan, and we better understand tbe inconvenience and expenslveness of proceeding wltaout a .plan. In our meeting In September, we adopted two text books Wnd agreed upon a cole of rule. Hut weald nothing towards harmonizing tbe ma.ter of wages or agreeing upon a uniform sesion for tbe schools. These are fit things for a corporate board to consider; and great good can be done oy attending to them to-day. it Is not likely that perfect harmony can be established, since in the many years of the past.bsrmony has not been sought. Dot it will be profitable to not some of the unnecessary differences, and polat oat the possibilities for their cure. Some townships have beautiful new school-houses will the latest and most acceptable funiture I others have old and rickety pens, with nothing decent about them. Rome have a few schools densely packed with pupils; others are overstocked wln plentlf is houses snd small and lifeless schools. One towfrisblp had a session of Ave months, one of nvqaod a half; thi of six; two of seveu and twnofelsht month". It is too late to prevent thlibywlM legislation, as It might have been prerented by an organization of this character Aftten years ago. But the problem for us, is how can we improve It? The fault lies in the want of care in locating the school house. Franklin township needs at least our more teachers; while Wayne has six too many. There are two schools in Center townshi). two in Pike, one In Washington and two In ferry that ought to be disbanded and absorbed in the schools adjoining them. It is better to have one building with two departments th.li Of the same material to make three small Ktuol and keep up three houses. Teachers shcnld not have charge of more than forty puills each, nor be engaged for a lews number th-il twenty-live. carefully examining the avenges yon .will find the best attenlance ,ln the middle ied schools. on Kuch school reports 14 pupils w?o have not been tardy during the year, another 16, one 17, on 19 and one 21. These are better results than ha'e been achieved In the fuller schools. Tbe pb losopby ol it Is In a school of thirty or forty EuiiU. the teacher has enough to excl.e a eilthy emulation, and yet not too many for iirec. and personal influence. Bo If you will diVidb your aggregate school enrollment by 40, yot may determine about the number of teachcrsyou ought to have. II we could get the en tlr 6.WW pupils of the county into the sclcols, we should need 100 teacher. Bone townships have no clocks; and others art furnished with some cheap and unreliable irises which are little better than nons. Every wdl regalated school should have a rood clock, wfcich will mark, the accurate time, and by wLich the program of the teacher can be made a thing ol au bority. Several Äce'lent teachers have been compelled to forfeit their most valuable plans of work, simply through the WCTthlessness or me oiacK-ooaras. inese can be repaired or made over during the summr, at an inconsiderable expense. The past year Is perhaps the first in the history oi the schools wherein the houes have not been sratlv abused. There are desks in Pike and Viyne townships, the tables of which have been m.rA than half whittled awav. with pocket kcives. But In our September meeting we adopted among the rules one forbidding te teacher to leave the house during the noon retess. The effect has proved better than we expected, Scarcely any furniture has b?en hnur, darin the year : and it is very probable that the houses will never be outraged again as they have been in tu e past. Ho 1 Id Ink It grill pay to put them all in first claw order. A fev cae of violence have been noted.In several townships the best of the houses have been fn-rihlv oraned and some riillaeln? has been dene. "This might be prevented by putting on stutters without binges, nailing them tust on both sides, and theu srcurlnz the door as carefully . as we secure our home doors. It does not pay to build a school house or to furnish it on the cheaps, A eood house wiih good appointments will out wear a half dozen cheap shanties, and in the long run COST HOT HALF THR MONET. A broken window causes increased expense in fuel. A bad roof causes the ruin of Uie plaster lng. Poor seats weaken the efforts of the teacher to maintain order. Ureen fuel or broken stove endangers the health and Impairs the temper of both teacher and pnplls In fine, the school premises and ac com mod at Ions la first-class condition are cheaper than the same In a defective state. There is one noun In Warren township vbom wood-finish within is beautifully grained and varnished, and whose seats and tabled are as comfortable as the sofas In our parlors. That house will stand a great many years without in Jury from a pupil. Children love beautiful things too well to mutilate them. So, too, the better pride of the teacher is warmed to life by tne presence or renning thing; and a new desire springs up to keep the good nouae in order, Perhaps the most important thing the trustee has to do Is, to select and hire the teachers, we are sadly behind our neighbors in this partlou lar. One trustee pays prices all tbe way from Tl to 51 per day, and another pays from 12 to 12 ii. o.ner pay au aus:; ana uo two trustees r mow the same method. Hide by side we have bad teackers: A managing Go pupils, and B ml managing 0; A holding 24 months llcen-e. B one for s montbs: A having ltf years experience, B butchering his first job; A receives S46 a month, and B ditto. There ought to be some method agreed upon by which 'earners could be engaged at rales e r responding with their intrinsic value. A carpenter of ten yean' experience Is worth more than the raw beginner. In carpentry, he who Is Industrious, conscientious, ana devoted to his trade at a life work, U worth more I han one who drives a few nulla while preparing fo tbe law or the medical profession, and in hiring teachers as In engaging carpenters tlie points should be observed. - How long has the applicant bee-i teaching? What la bU scliolarSliip. as 'Indicated-by the- leogtta of lieenee? How long has he taught In the county T How many pupils doe he enroll and keep In attendance? JIow faithful la he to the eounty and township institute t How promo aod indnttrkHH is he In the discharge of hi duties la tbe selmol room? How free is be from nauseous and dlKgnsting hablis? Tliex 1 tenia, or aoinetiling similar, might be tabulated by a committee and so arranged as to settle tae question of oneqoal worth, paying most for that which is ki valuable. Many ft - our- teacher have this year been - wortU - - twle - aa muert Ii - they have received; while a few im ve been paid more than they have earned. In order to make this or any other concerted plan auecemful the board should pay attention to-day to the form of contract- In Its wording, tneeo.itraei should bind the teacher to rigidly obaerve tbe rules and reollionsadopted by the board : to keep a caref u aud accural record of the school details, for all necessary reports, both to the trustee and the superintendent; to keep In view aa the chief object, the proper balancing ox the mi nda of the children la bis charge, and to study his profession for the children's sake. Then, en the arrival of pay day. the qualification administered or the Trustee to the teacher shonld embrace his fidelity to his contract. Home teachers bave been untrue to the regulations of tne September meeting, who would not have done violence to a solemn oath. In this connection I wish to offer a thought or twoconcernlng the teachers wage, lhave been a teacher, and constantly associated with teachers for several years. There are many things about the teacher's work which cause him to yearn for its associations. Teachers do not like to leave it. Yet some of its ablest adherents feel compelled to forsake it In the time o their greatest usefulness. Here one leaves it for the Taw; there one takes an agency. By interrogating these gentlemen or ladles you will obtain tha frank confession

thU. pecuniary necessity drove. them to the change, i it tkes more study to- make a successful teacher than to become qualified for almost any- other calling. It costs a thousand dollars to obtain the scholarship. It costs, besides thl. ten or twelve years of laborious toil coupled with the consumption of all the youthful time. It costs money to take educational papers, to supply the Bscessary books, and to attend Institutes. It costs many a heavy sigh of sadness to humor the whims and fancies of an easily oil snd -ed neighborhood. Many good people know nothing at all about the cos tot true eßideney la tn teacher s profession. A trustee of mnsn reading la Hush county, four or Ave yeara ago was heard to make this remark : -r'orty dollars a month Is big pay for teaching a school. I can hire a man, who has a fsmliy, to work for me at a dollar a day. lis will work a whole day too, and I never hear him complain of his wages. The teacher works only from nine o'clock till four, and; r stays indoors and does a light kind of work at that." Now this seems conclusive on tbe surface;: and some teachers have made the same mistake; wbeni they have decided to leave the Held of mwosl labor tor the field of pedagogyJ; prtj dollars a month Is "big pay" for a patttlme teacher who teaches only to secure himself against labor. Such a teacher is not worth ten dollars a month. Bat tbe figures of qualification above refer entirety to pbe-trtie teacber. Tbe gentleman In Kalb. County bad never stopped, to think of the

total lack of parallelism In the two cases. L .it cost his man nothing to prepare for hl work. - 2. His man couid put In all the days in the week and all the weeks In the year; while the teacnerworgs o mtuj m week and at most only forty weeks In the year. At a dollar a dav a half-wilted man who never pent a day in study,and who need not even boy oil for an evening light ean earn three hundred and twelvedoiiars in a year. At iwq,uuii . the teacher who has spent a. thousand dollars in cash and a dozen years in labor tn preparlag for teaching as a life work, can make, in our county, where the average length of the school year Is one hundred add thirty uays two hundred and sixty dollars. The teacher's board bill, which the dollar man never has to pay is 1113 75. Other ex penses, such as for doming ana oouaa, wiu take the rest of his money, ana, u n cllned to extravagance his year's work will . ' Bftia him otrrn dkbt. "Well," says the eomplalner, "the teacher has 132 days left, and he Is welcome to maze as much as be can at any other employment. But notel Seventy-six of these days are his school Saturday V,and he Is employing these In making out reports and attending tbe township Institu tutes, for all which be receives no pay, Twenty-five of them, or more, are required for th.af.t Mil monlr Institutes. SuDnoee then that be bestows the one nunarea ana uuny-one remaining days upon sncn employment, as may chan e to fall in his way, what will it amount to? Tbe work be attempts will be but h. If done, and will so as far as it can toward mating mm a poorer teacher. Some time a man attempts u veacn scnooi inn raie m wuiiij iu hiu time.. It Is painful to think of the results of the experiment. Bare floors, cheap and scant furniture, shabby clothing and coarse diet are the shades In the picture of hi foolish attempt. I do not like to speak of it; but I have noted tnn peculiarity wnen i nave visited the villages: the school teacher lives in the littlest bouse in tne place; nis woapue is the smallest: his ax is the dullest; bis gardenia he weediest, and bis spir.M are too o ten ine lowest. He has less Urne for reif neip man tne preacher has. His wife cannot take in washing and sewing because she must sopi ort the dignity of tne te'aool teacher's bette- half, for In the Village, 11 must DC reimriuurioj, iu Kuwi teacher is somebody. . And many a gooa neighbor wonders why the master remains poor. The good larmer of ItiO acre? of rich soil ay. I never received II a day in my life, and 1 can't understand how that school teacher Stars so poor and bandies so much money. . The farmer who plies his vocation properly on loo acres of land makes more dolUis in a day than the vlllAge teacher makes in a weea. lie re ceives it in bis growing bread snd but'er and meat. The difference is, the teacher'a alt is his dally pay In dollais, whilst the farmer's all comes to mm rerQf.r aQa better than when bought With monev. But,,' sayt one, "if he cannot aake a living at (it, why does he teacnr lecanse, I answer, he loves Ui? cauing; u.u ne nopes anu prays ana looks through, his Dunum tears lor tne people to, some day, appreciate me suuai'ou aua pay him for his work. Ho be has looked and hoped through all the years gone by; but the gray balreu veteran leacner is an poor as me regin-n-r; and when the fierce winds of wintry age shall fan him to sleep, tne nauurui or earth under which his mortality molders, will be all he can call his own. Now possioiy mis txxiy is reaay to asa. "WHAT CAN BE DONK the circumstances?" it is .not aimcnit to r,t.ess what will be done, we shall go on hiring a few true teachers whose souls are in the work, and who cling to it because they love It too well to leave, and a great many boys and girls who teach while they await the laln ior other fields. We shall hire young men who desire a little cash for the enlarg ing of law libraries and the defraying or exnenses in medical conezes; anu laaies who are wearied wltn ouu waning ior tne wheel of fate which nss seemed to revolve tnoslowlv. This is what we must do for a time: because reasonable salaries in learning nave never yet been dreamed of by the dear people. There looms uo. however, the star of hope. In the remote distance we Denoiu ongm ana prom ising indications. Already the people are clamorinic ior good teachers in a hundred districts. In some localities they prefer to add from their private resources to the means of the trustees, and thus secure the material they th Ink they need. In only a very few districts are they saMsficd with cheap teachers. This the trustees can do. They ean so carefully manage this matter, that the excellences of the good teachers will shine over the dsrk and be nighted regions, and in a few months tbe cry will go up for skilled labor. In no other business is there so little difference made between com mot labor and skilled labor. There is grievous mistake abroad which it Is time to cease making. It is the idea that in the city a better talent is necemary to the teacher than In the country. This impression that second sod third-rale teachers will do la the country is fall of harmful fallacy. The country is the field for genuine talent. There is more to man age, more to know, and more to teach in the country. Teachers in the city bave but single grades to manage, while in the country each teacher has charge of a whole school. And by the way, several of our best teachers prefer to work in tne country ;inaeea. tne cases oi long ing for the city work are rew, ana gnawing con stantly fewer, in proportion to the lengthen lng of our school terms, aud the growth of our respectability, will this foolish fancy give way. lüttes of boarding are lower; dress and caste are less expensive; and the schools are more easily controlled. Besides, a teacher iu the e mntry fills a larger sphere than she can in the city, where Independence of thought is so greatly below par. The difficulty is. in the pres ent condition of things, the country teacher, who is assured or only nve monins employment, cannot afford to ne professional in an our neighboring states, except Kentucky and Ar ksnias, the people are iu advance of ns. In Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin the seflons iu the country schools rsne from eight -to ten month', and even tn far away California, the ntt thing towsrus eoionising a piace wtin lamtiies is to build a school house. And by school li.iuse they mean an edifice to teach school in. Our Indiana Ideas might be startled by a hint of five thou sand dollars for a country school house, snd six hundred a year for a country teacher. Bat that thst Is the way they talk some of our sister states where the school fund lacks iwo million dollars or tbe size of oars.' But that ls-a thing of the future With us. And let us hope that throui the Instrumentality of this Board the future may not ne too rar away. . Bai I would not weary yonr patience or take your time iu unduly premlng what is now au imposslDlllty. 1 win lay before you, briefly, the WORK Of THI PAST TEAR, and conclude. I ana ander many obligations to yon, gentlemen, for the free and gentlemanly wy in which you. bave assisted my efforts la she severe struggles of this first year of the county nperiütendenejY You know not, liow ever, l,w much this belp has bt-en worth to me and to the cause.' Iff con Id obtain its mach help from another official sourc as I have ob tatned from you the superin tendency in Mat ion eonnty wouia not languish n doubtful quivering uncertainty throughout all the months oi anotner year, lue lai-K of visitln the schools has been one of numereus bel meats. You have four hundred square mile ior me to 'travel over. Kalny -n! iioimv weather has prevailed. The mud has bveusoit. and ceep and pientnui. jne schools an de rasnded atUntlou at once, aud wm-j of them snnt-red tor it. It was more than three month before t bad been once over the county: and then many were ready to chide me for making my visits too short. I reached most of the schools twice during tbe year.; and some, of easier access, three or four times. But it was early apparen inat meopjects oi ine supennienaency cannot oe achieved oy visiting, indeed, it was not looked upon at the first as tbe principal thing. A course of study was created on the llth or September and circulated to tne fclools whose objects were: First, to aid unskillful teachers in their efforts to classify: second, to harmonize the county work; third, to constitute

a standard according to which official criticisms and township institute work could be shsped. Most of the teachers received this before they commenced their work; and a circular which attended It explained Its Intentions and our expectations. This gave rise to- numerous inqnlrtea, which suggested the necessity of a regular printed correspondence, by which every teacher baa been reached each month. I had a thousand blanks printed, on which the teacher have furnisfaed me monthly re potts, enrolling all the pupils, - and giving their ages, grades, standing In the several branches, times tardy, times absent and times puntoned. This has given me a better Idea of the work than I could hare obtained by any system of visiting, and I have, as yoo shall see to-day, a fair knowledge of tbe inside workings of the schools. ,

I also created o,uuu duplicate wanxB ana sent to the teachers, that each pupil could have his report to carry home and show to his parents. : Lilxe every movement which has enterprise In It, this plan, met with some opposition. A few teachers, whose places can be filled next Tear . with better ma-1 terial. otyected- te IV. and carried their objection so far as to refuse to fill them out. A 1 hair dozen men in tne aaraer regions vi m , coanty refused to sign tbe reports when the, children presented them at home. But the true teachers and the intelligent parents receivea the plan kindly, and gave It a very fair trial. The consequence Is, as several trustees have told met verT remarkable Improvement la ' the . average -1 attendance and the mildness of the teachers' discipline. Tbe expenses of the System have been considerable, but tn coanty commissioners have generally paid all the printing bills. And I am certain the p'an has saved more to the people than iu entire cost. If it has increased the average attendance ten per cent., it has ntllleed three thousand seven hundred dollais which would otherwise gone to waste. But in a Jnne report which I shall be able to make I think I shall report an increase in this matter of more than ten per cent. The following questions "were than offered for answers and discussion: 1. lias tbe au tendence been increased? 2. lias it been more regular? 3. lias the instruction been more effective? Have the effects reported been due to tbe working ol the new school law under the direction of the connty Super intendent? After full discussion all these auestiens were decided In the affirmative. The discussion developed tbe fact that the prevailing sentiment of tbe community as largely in tavorof the new order of thing? The consideration of the ereat bene fit of " the county - sop rintendency to the schools, in carrying out the new law, and in consideration or tne necessary ex penses of carrying; on this system, which ought not to come out ol tbe superintendent's pocket, the following resolution, of fered by Mr. Houston, was adopted without a dissenting voice; Resolved, That this board recommend to the county eommirstoners to allow the county su perl n lend ent a reasonable amount for Inciden tal expenses, such aa office rent, such as use of none anu buggy, tons, juei ana stationery. The secretary was requested to present this action . to tbe commisioners in person Tbe question of uniform length of schools throughout the county was discussed, and the following resolution, offered by Mr. Smith, was adopted. Resolved, that the trustees of the township be recommended to levy a tax sufficient to run the schools tor a uniiorm term of not less than seV en months. TREASURY TRICKS. THOSE CONTRACTS. KEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. RICH A HDSON, SAWYER AND BAN FI ELD CATCH IT BOUTWELL NOT PAS&KD OVBR I SILESCE LOOSE MANAGEMENT OK TUB TREASURY CONTRADICTIONS AND DISAGREEMENTS or man officials precautions to be TAKEN. Washington, May 4. In the House of Repre sentatives to-day, Charles Foster, of Ohio, from theeommlttee on ways and meang, submitted a report in the matter of the Sanborn contracts. Tbe committee, in the first place, state that they have examined, so far as they know, all the parties in any way connected with the ex ecution of tbe law nnder which the Sanborn contracts were made, and that they annex to the report a statement of the testimony. They then proceed a follows: Ihe Forty-second Congress, at Its second session, rerxaled all the laws hlch provided for Ute Payment of moieties to Informers, so far as related to internal revenue taxes, - Dut in tne last nouse or tne same session,' by means of a committee of conference, there was engrafted on the legislative, executive and judicial sappropria.ion bins a provision of security of so slight significance as to bave been added as the last half of a sentence in one of the nsual paragraphs relating to the Internal revenue oureau, whtrein provisions bave been annually made for the support of said bureau. The provision is here quoted. Under the pro visions of tnis law contracts were made with w. H. Kelser, Malcolm Campbell, J. Nicbol son Albert, John ciark, and John l). Nauborn, The commissioner gives a history of the Sanborn contract and shows that be had added to it a large number of names of persons auegea to nave oeen guuty or withholding taxes and legacy and succession taxes. On tne lit of July, Wi J, Sanborn agalu asked to amend his contract and Kicbardson, tuen secretary of the treasury, on the 7ih of July folic Ing, added to bis contract the names of o92 railroad companies al eg d to be Indebted to the government for taxes upon dividends and Interest paid on the bonds. The commissioner finds that the Information furnished ' by psid officer of the government on which the collections were rr auc was placed at tbe disposal of Sanborn who. ava. ling himself of the Information paid for by tbe government, obtained a eeu tract for the collection of the very claims thus brought to ightand found to be due tae government, it further appears from the testimony of Hanborn that when he applied for this railroad contract, be furnished a list of railroads taken from a railroad mannet orgnideomprising tiie names of &rJ rahroad companies, belüg substantially the entire lisiof railroads in the United States. That while he acknowledged he delinquency of only from KM to löü of them, he had no knowledge whatever of a delinquency on the part of the remaining XJ or 4'iU. It also appears that when bo so represented it to the officers of the treasury department, he was there told that "it didn't make any difference," and to "pat them all in." Whereupon he made an affidavit that the entire bin railroad companies were delinquent, aud were Indebted to the government. They were accordingly added to bis contract. Iu this connection it may be proper to add that t he officers of tbe treasury department, including the secretary of the treasury himself, seem to have no recollection of this tact as sworn to before the committee by Ban born in reference to j "TIIE LIST OF RAILROADS Included In his contract.' Here follows a copy of tbe contract made between Secretary - Boutwell and Kelsey. The com m Iltee calls attention to the fact that the law provides for tbe employment of three persons to asist the proper officers in discovering- and collecting, while the contracts provide that the contrac.ors may proceed to collei't, thus totally ignoring the internal revenoeorflcerSi wuHe it sboutd have bten stipulated that thv hould aw-i t the officers. ISecre ary boutwell. on ihesihof Juue, lM7i, by tbe fist order , of the treasury department Issued In relation to the employment of persons under this- act,' directed thai parties applying for contracts should t- his aatisfnctlon, set forth in a written statement under oath to be held in hi office, th character in detail o the ciaim, the name of theptMNon, firm or corporation withholding money, the law by violation of which the money had been withheld, and the evidence by which the claim was to be supported; upon doing which a written contract witi tf ninue upon aueii laws and conditions as he should deem best for the Interns of the United States. The committee believes that this lequlrement of Secretary Koutwell was in ex.c. conformity to the. law, but tbe members are unable W find iu any et that the conditions as set for h by the secretary were e inplhd ih, It is evident that the proper offic rs of the government referred to in the law could only hnve been taken to mean the officers of tue int mal revenue. Tne committee cannot ascertain that, the cornmlsciouer of inUtiijiI revenue. or ni.y r.iierotllcerof hisdepartm lit, was cousiilteu b f -, at the time, or since the cotitr c' were made r ihat he was ad-y1-Hd as to be making o the on tracts, or of the character of the Halm wi-.icli weie intended thereby to be collecttd. in fact. It is snown that the commissioner wrote a letter against the manner of these collections, to the secretary, which has never been answered. Indeed, this very important officer, to whom belongs exclusively the collection of these taxes, appears to have been studiously Ignored by tbe secretary of the treasury and the officers in the office or the secretary, and without the knowl -edge of the commissioner, his subordinates wt re dlrec ed to assist these contractors, and in no ease can the committee find that the contractors assisted this officer. The whole power of the in-

ternal revenue bureau, as well as' the entire macolnery of . tbe , government for . the collection of taxes, was placed at the disposal of Han born, by letteis from Secretary's Boutwell and Richardson .req Besting the supervisors and collectors of tbe Internal Revenue to assist him In the examination of the otHclal records, etc Tbe commissioners finds that some of the agents of Han born who were not employes of the government, were without authority of the law furnistnd by the secretary and assistant secretary of . the treasury with special letters to the aupervisors and collectors throughout the country calling upon tbe said officers to aid and assist him as lie m'gbt require. ' Ja addition to this, the more completely arm him with power, two of these same agents were fornlsned with the secret service

, rrricnYK commissions. of the solicitor of tbe treasury. It Is the opin ion of the committee tbst a very large per centage IX i Ot all of the 1137,000 of Uxes collec ed by Sanborn, were not a proper subject of the con tract under tbe law and these taxes should and would have been collected by the officers of the Internal revenue bureau. In the ordinary discharge of their duty, it Is shown by evidence oeiore me committee that about f I0,uuu were eoilasted by BuperTlsor liawiey and HI ra moos from taxes na posed by schedule C of the Internal revenue laws, for tbe collection of which no contract was - made ' with Hanborn or any one else. Nevertheless Ban born claimed and was allowed ' 60 per cent, thereof. Tbe committee el tea the case of the Delaware, Lckawana A Western K. R. Co., afuUaccoun;ofwhlch has been published and goes on to say that theory of the law. as adminlaierea, is completely reversed, and instead OI uiree persona being employed to assist tbe proper officers of the government, tbe proper offi cers of the government have ben made to assist mem. ii. is oerxain mat tne continuance or this system must work to a greater or less extent to tne demoralization of tbe en tire outside working force engaged un der the Internal revenue bureau in the collection of the revenue. The torn mitt ee, fee lng alarmed at the apparent looseness with which the law bad been administered, was deslrlona of ascertaining where the responsibility rested, it wooid seem to belong somewnere in the treasury department. Tbe committee has had be tors it the secretary. Assistant Secretary Ha wy er and the solicitor of the treasury. The sec retary gave but little information and exhibited an extreme want of knowledge as to the manner of making tbe contracts, administering the law. st or. tne provisions or tne law liseir. His only connection, so far as he could remember, with those transactions ws In affixing his signature to various papers presented to nim ai a mere matter of omee routine, with' on t knowing t heir contents. The assistant sec. relary disclaimed any particular knowledge Of wie iaw or ine contracts, ana ne in like manner affixed bis signature s a matter of office routine The secretary and assistant secretary, by their testimony, show that tbe papers were prepared by the solicitor, thus indicating thst tbe responsibility was noon him. The solicitor, in turn. testified that he was simply the law officer of the treasury department, and the subordinate of the secretary of the treasury, wtibout anypoer In regard to the administration of this law, ercept that expressly given by tbe secretary, t'as t he had been consulted in every instance rv the secretary or assistant secretary of the treasury; that he had In all cases simply obeyed the directions of his superior officers and that the contracts and various orders ot the department were well known to the secretary ana assistant secretary. TUB DISAGBEEMEjrTS AND COSTRADICTIOX given respectlve'y by these gentlemen, as ap pear from their testimony, is a matter greatly deplored by - the thy are unable committee, to fix as upon by it any fine or any where the responsibility for the of thli Jaw, and they look maladministration with serious apprehension upon the apparent efforts of these gentlemen to . transfer tbe re sponsibility, each from himself to tbe other. While the committee, tnereiore, is unable to determine where the responsibility rests, the members could not, in Justice to themselves, iznore the fact that these three persons deserve severe condemnation for the manner in which thev bave permitted this law to he ari ministered. While tbe committee thus severelv criticize the officials of the Mreatury Depart ment directly charged witlt the administration of this law. it finds nothing: impeaching the in tegrity or tecretary couiweu s or rttchardson s action, and the testimony dos not prove that the secretaries, or any of their associates, were influenced by corrupt motives. It Is due to the Treasu y officials to say that as far back as the admlnstration of the Treasury Department by Secretary Guthrie, such contracts were made for' tne collection of moneys due the United States in extraordinary cases, and that this practice was continued up to the time when Mr. Koutwell became secretary of the treasury. When be came into office he found a number of contracts in existence, and his solicitor testified that" after a thorough a id exhastive examination, be found no author1 y iu law permitting them to be made, and the secretary of the treasury at once annulled them, and that nothing of consequence was ever collected from this class of contracts. Under the act of 1870, a number of contracts were made by Secretary Boutwell, and although it was represented to the secretary that large sums were due tbe government and the parlies making the contracts professed to be able to collec t what was due, tbe amount collected was very small. With the light of this experience of the treasury department in the contract business here referred to is due to the fact that officers, we are told, concluded that tbe parties proposing to take contracts under tbe law of May 8th, 1872, would fall to make collections in any considerable amount, and this fact may account for tbe apparent neglect of this department to care fully and strictly enforce the law, and it is further due to - THK PRESBST TREASURY OFFICIALS to say that not only was this law enacted while tbe predecessor of the present secretary was in office, but that the first contracts were rmde by him and the general policy of tbe administration, subsequently pursued, determined on while Mr. Boutwell was secretary of the treasury. The committee is of the opinion that any system of farming cut the collection of any portion of the revenues of the government is fundamentally wrong, that no necessity for such a law exists for the reason that the secretary of the treasury and the head of the Internal revenue bureau are fully empowered by law to make all collections of taxes, including taxes due on account of repealed laws. The Internal revenue bureau Is possessed i f a full knowledge of tbe laws relating to the collection of the revenue, and it has all tbe machinery for the full and complete enforcement of them, and full authority In extraordinary cases to pay at discretion for Information, . congress making appropriations therefor. Any law that provides for any other method of collecting the taxes, the duty or which collection is Imposed on any department of the government, is, in fact, a reflection on tbe department charged with that duty, The committee, In view of the facts presented, believe the law of May 8, 1872, should be repealed, and that tbe contracts .made t hereunder should be repealed and annulled. It also believe, that for every service rendered by these contractors an exorbitant reward has been made; for every thing in equity which they might claim more than enough has already been paid; for every legal claim settlement has been perfected on the most liberal scale.- in some cases the committee is satisfied that moneys bave been paid to tbe contractor, to which he was not entitled nnder the law. Now when the whole subject has been investigated, In order to end forever ail demsnds against the treasury on this account, and to await the danger that the tax administration nnder earless officers may at some fu ure time afford a new opportunity to asa;l the treasury under the color or these contracts. The statute should In terms exclude tbem from the Jurisdiction of rbewurtof calms and all further claim on toelr part to sceuraplifh the purpose bere indicated. The commit' ee reports to the house a bill embodying the above conclusions. BOLD STROKE FOR BAXTER. " ' J TIE SEIZES TIIE SUPREME COURT JUDGES. St. Lours, May 4. The Democrat's special from Little Reck says Judges Searle and Ecunett.of the Supreme Court, were trreste last night on their arrival by the Memphis train at Argents, opposite Little Rock, by Captain Williams, acting nnder orders ol Governor Baxter. The judges refused to be arrested without proper authority, whereupon Captain Williams made a signal. and a band of armed men with cocked revolvers, Bennett were forcibly entered the and Searle cars and the taken from train, and up to the time the dispatch was was written had not been heard of In Little Rock. The supreme court, was to convene at Little Rock to-day. Judge Stephenson, ol the supreme court, was on the train, but it seems nis presence was not known or he too would bave been arrested. The affair created great excitement in Brooks' camp and serious trouble is apprehended unless Colonel Rose Interferes for the release of the judges.

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Thosgh Mconfirmatlons strong as proofs of Holy Writ" and as numerous aa the sanda on the sea suore, were produced to prove that the proprie tor of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Itemed v Is in earnest and means what he says, when he offers föüU re ward ior any eaae of Catarrh which he ean not core, yet were would be some tk.nUm and fogies who would continue to shout "Humbug!" "flcsBoo." "It cannot be, because Dr. Homespun says Catarrh cannot be cured." Now. this Dr. Homespun is the Identical, good natured old fellow who honestly believes aud persists in aecianngtnattniseartnisnot round or spherical, but as flat as a -slap-jack," and does not tnrn over, otherwise the -water would all be spilled out of Deacon Baecom's mill pond. But astronomical science hss positively demonstrat ed: ana proven thai ur. nomespnn is wrong in Bupposirgwe eartn to ne nst ana stationary. and medical science is daily proving the fact that be is no less mistaken and behind the times in regard to the curability of Catarrh. 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