Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-24
Letter from Harrisburg.

ate over the VetO WAS lldSScu III Vic oeiii0 ii"h
ner by the House, but thirteen members voting
to uphold the veto. There can be no better
illustration than this of the power of the Bank
combination in the Legislature. bill pass
ing over the Governors veto is an occurrence
which has not happened for years. Every
Bank triumph like this increases the force IN
favor of all applications, by creating obliga-
tions which must be reciprocated Thus far
no such application has met with dlsfavor.-
The City Bank of Philadelphia is the only one
that has met with the slightest obstacle, an
opposition which will in all probability be re-
moved or conquered. There is little room for
faith in the steadfastness of this opposition
Besides passing this vetoed bill, the House
passed the Mauch Chunk Bank Bill.
The Committee on Education, in the Senate,
reported, with negative recommendation, the
bill to abolish the Office of County Superinten-
dents in certain counties. The Committee are
decidedly of the opinion that it would be inn
polite at this time to repeal the law of last
session, creating the Office of County Supcrln-
tendent, particularly as the system has not been
fairly tried and that it would be still worse
to exempt certain counties from its operation !;
uniformity being essential to a good common
school system. No doubt the bill will be call
ed up for consideration, and voted for by Sen
atorS who feel themselves bound by local feel
ing to take this course; but the general senti-
ment seems to be in favor of giving the new
law a fair trial
The Committee appointed to investigate
whether money had been used to effect the cleo
ton of L. S. Senator have almost been lost
sight of since the poStponement of the election
for Senator, and the partial report that no dis
coveries had been made The laborS of the
Committee did not cease after making this re-
port, Ga minority dissenting but have continu-
ed since that time. They are expected to make
a final report before long, but no surprising
disclosures are anticipated. Had the time for
the election of Senator not been changed from
the second Tuesday of January to the second
Tuesday Oh February, there is little doubt that
choice would have been made at this Session.
| The evils of so long period after the meeting
of the Legislature, and the manner in which
business is retarded by Senatorial excitement,
were obvious at this session.
Mr. LEWIS some time ago introduced bill
repeating the law fixing so long time after
meeting, and restoring the original time for an
elcction-the second Tuesday of January.
The House has passed the bill introduced by
Mr. CUMMINGS to repeal the tavern license
laws The bill provides from and after its
passage, it shall be unlawful to keep or main
tain any house, room or place where vinous,
spirituous, malt, or brewed liquors, or any adj
mixtures thereof, are sold and drank and all
laws or parts of laws, inconsistent with the pro-
visions of the act, are repealed.
The bill also provides for attempted evasions
of the law of the "striped pig character, un-
der very severe neutrality-suspicious. from
three to twelve months and fine of 800.
1t is also the duty of every constable at eve
ry term of the Quarter Sessions to make re-
turn, under oath, whether, within his knowl-
ed, there is any place within his bailwick, kept
and maintained in violation of this law; and it
is the duty of the Court to see that this return
is faithfully made. And if any responsible ci-
tizen of any county shall make known to such
constable the name or names of such person or
persons who shall have violated this act, with
the names of witnesses who can prove the fact,
it shall be his duty to make return thereof to
to the Court: and upon his failure to do so, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon indictment and conviction, shall be SEN
fenced to Imprisonment in the jail of the coun-
ty for period not less than one, nor more
than three months, and to pay fine not ex-
ceedng $50.
1t will be agreed, by the friends of Temper
ance Reform, that this is a most excellent bill,
and goes as far as the Legislature would be
justified in going after the vote of the people
adverse to total prohibition This bill contains
no search clause, no prohibition upon the manu-
facture of liquors, no interdict upon the social
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at the most fragrant evils of the liquor traffic
the retail trade in bar-rooms, groggeries and
groceries, where liquors are drank on the pre-
misses. These sources of evil once suppressed,
there will be an end to the largest proportion
of evil results flowing from temptations to drink
liquor at every corner.
| COMMON SCHOOL STATE COMMEMORATE
Superintendent of Common Schools of this
State has issued call for State Convention
of County superintendent at Harrisburg on
Wednesday the 1lth day of April next, for
mutual consultation, and the discussion and