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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1873
Page
2
The piece reports party caucus nominations for Speaker and other posts, President’s Message timing, and Spain's Virginia issue. It discusses a proposed Constitution with term limits, pardons, judiciary expansion, general laws, railroad regulation, taxation, and election reforms, with supportive and opposing editorials.
The piece argues many papers back the new Constitution to target large corporations but the author sees it as harming the people. It notes real estate taxation and corporate influence, predicts higher state costs, and suggests the convention favored corporations over citizens. It also reports Judge Davis’s actions against Tweed associates and sentences for Ingersoll and Farrington, with Congress meeting in December.
Samuel C Cobb is named as mayoral candidate on the Citizens ticket. The report notes that if Cobb campaigns he will need funds and if elected he may address the issue of corn, reflecting candidate’s stance and campaign finance mentions.
The story frames a Swiss girl trekking from Chicago to Kansas to join her lover. The lover proposes meeting halfway as the practical solution, reflecting a theme of compromise and romance across travel.
An Erie printing office was struck by a sharp flash of lightning that shattered shafting and felled the so called devil in the cellar. The line ends with a quip that the devil swore by thunder in a nod to Judge Chamberlain.
Thomas Struthers published additional volumes of the Debates of the Constitutional Convention. The works include a memorial for the late William M. Meredith, who died while serving as President of the Convention.
The passage argues that voiding real estate taxes to fund a larger state budget requires restoring the tax on property. It states voters who approve the constitution must accept the accompanying burden, since houses and farms will bear the added cost. The saying dance must pay the fiddler emphasizes the inevitable tax impact.
The Pennsylvania School System, created by the 1834 act signed by George Wolfe, grew from 461 schools and 471 teachers to 16,505 schools and 19,089 teachers. The system now oversees nearly 900,000 children, 300,000 orphans, and about $9 million annual expenditures. Citizens expanded schoolhouses with about $17 million of private funds, while $4 million supported seven thousand five hundred soldiers’ orphans. Clews & Co. to resume. Dick Yates dies in St Louis. alarm over Prohibition-era tone echoed with “Drink, drink.”
New York reports Wall Street gains after England lowers bank rate to six percent, signaling recovery. Union Banking Company resumes with capital up to $700,000. Boston mills plan eight hours five days, seven hours Saturday. optimism grows for full-time operation by January. Attorney General to appeal Credit Mobilier case to Supreme Court. Chester mills expected to run this week, many on full time.
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