Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-03-22
FROM HARRISBURG.
lIARRrssuRa, March. ls, 1860.


a large amount of work-laboring within the
Halls at least ten hours per day, and our
Committees, about two hours more, but by
their fruits shall the value of the labors be
judged Private bills have accumulated rapidly
in the latter portion of the session, but they
do not yet equal last year. Public bills are
few yet of far greater Importance. Their
passage is necessarily slow, as every member is
interested, and must have a haad in amend
ments and debates. A bill fixing the place
of holding elections in Terry township, Brad
ford Co., has been signed by the Gov. An
act relating to the poor of Washington and
other counties, has been extended to Bradford
1t is calculated to guard the public from such
,indiscriminate wholesale pauperage as has
heretofore been thrust upon it, by requiring
every application for support to be made by
at least two reputable citizens, under oath,
" Paupersm made easy" is a public evil. For
the past week the House has been diligently
at work on the General Banking law, and yes
terday passed it by O vote of 81 to SO. The
general features of the bill are these. Every
Bank hereafter chartered shall deposite with
the Auditor General, State or United States
Bonds to the full amount of their issue, and
in addition, thereto shall have at all times in
their vaults twenty per cent Of their issue in
specie, their bills to be issued and counter
signed by the Auditor General, and all bills
of all banks to be uniform except the title of
the Bank. Should said State or U. S. stocks
at any time depreciate to six per cent below
par, the banks are required either to deposite
additional stocks to supply the depreciation,
or return to the Auditor General correspon-
ding percentage of their issue. Thus every
bill issued will at all times be secured to its full
face by State or United States bonds which
are convertible unto specie at moments no.
tice, and twenty per cent over by the specie re-
quired to be in their vaults. Every bill will
be of uniform value whether issued by bank
in Bradford County, or in Philadelphia. We
will see no rate of discount for one bank and
a different rate for another, and the specie
which is being sent to Europe every year to
pay interest on our state bonds, which is now
over million and half a year, will be paid
at home and what is of more value than all,
every bill holder will be fully secured for
every dollar he holds. 1t seems certain that
the bill will pass the Senate-if so, it will not
remain long in the hands of the Governor un-
signed, and this Legislature will have the
honor of passing one of the most useful laws
that has been on our statute books for the
past twenty years.
Immediately upon the passage of this bill
the House was greeted with message from
the Gov. vetoing the Mount Joy Bank bill
The vetoed bill was Immediately taken up and
came within two votes of passing, notwith
standing the objection of the Gov.
A new Military bill has been the order for
every evening during the week. It's consid-
Grafton has been the greatest farce ever wit
messed in the House. At one time it was
thought that the days of muskets and broom
sticks, gingerbread and whiskey, sbam-fghts
and real fights were about to dawn upon mil
itary-ridden Pennsylvania again. Some dem
agogues who were watching the political as
pect of the battle, and nervously waiting to
see which was going to be the strong side,
thought yesterday the tide of war was set
ting in favor OF the bill, and Immediately
favored the House with speeches on the glory
and pomp of wal, and the beauties of militia
musters. They whistled, however, before they
got out of the woods, for last evening the bill
was killed and its generals Succumbed-not
gracefully, but with some low mutteFings and
daggery looks.
The penal code is under consideration in the
Senate 1t is undergoing such amendments
there that its passage this winter is greatly
endangered. The Appropriation bill has not
yet been finally reported to the House This
comes of making Philadephian chairman of
the committee of Ways and Means. The
Senate has passed resolution to adjourn the
Sd of April. The House will concur, but one
branch or the other will be compelled to re-
consider, forit is evident the important bills
now ON hand, cannot be disposed Of by that
day. The Appropriation bill alone will take
till nearly that time. All might have been
accomplished, even before the Sd of April, il
the Appropriation bill had been properly man.
aged. Yours, TRULY.
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In the Senate on the 18th inst an act reIa.
ting to suits in equity in the District Court Of
Philadelphia being up for consideration, the
following remarks were made -