Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-07-15
All the Amendments.


Soldiers TO vote. But there is much dan
ger from using that expression. There
are three Amendments, to be voted upon
scparo.cly. A vote "for the Amendment"
is no vote at ALT will be east out, and
not counted. If you wish to aid Soldiers
in the use of the elective franchise, vote
the ticket headed "First Amendment"
and Containing, Vithja it, the words "For
the Amendment" Nor will voting "For
the AmeudmentS" in Il lump, answer
each amendment must be voted for or
against, by itself, to have the vote cast Of
any avail.
The F.st Amendment is for the SOL
diers, TO be voted CD accordingly.
The Sscoaa and Third Amendments
are designed to aid 10 proper Legislation,
t. preven. ambiguity and confusion, aud
check the frauds and trickery practieed
by some men, in aud out of the Legsa-
ture They are therefore very important.
The .Seroam Amendmrnt is as follows:
"No bili shall be passed bv the Legislature
containing more lhan one subisct. trh,ch shaE
be cieariy srDrrssci IN The tile, except appro-
prIatIon bits
The e.ccrfttpn is the only Objectionable
feature in this section-for money is
sometimes voted, in an appropriation bill,
which could not pass in bill by itself.
We believe the Executive, the Judiciary,
the Legislative, and other Departments,
the Charity donations, and all Laws,
should be passed in separate bills, at diff
fereBt times, SO that each ona should
stand upon lis owa merits, AMI not, as
now, be smugglel in, and allowed to pass
upon the spur of necessity, BY log rolling,
at the end Of the session.
To show the decep,ions prac.iced by
bills relating to different subjects, and
under unsatisfactory titles, We notice
few on our last Senate file:
s'An act to authorize the sale of certain
real estate" Where? and whose are
reasonable Inquiries, not answered by this
title, and for all public benefit the bill
might as well have had no title. If the
act was proper, why was not the title full
and fair
"Au act to change the venue in q Ger.
tain case" Whose case what county
Very many, having suits in Courts, would
be alarmed by such a nugatory yet annoy
ing heading Of bill
"Ap act for the promotion of anatomi-
cal science" Was to give certain bodies
for surgical dissection, aud might as we'll
have said so at once.
In the House, Gan act to lay bounty
tax" referred to one township only, but
one would suppose might cover the State.
Why not say what township it concerned,
for the Information of that township, aud
to set all the rest of the State at ease?
A "fur,her supplement to an act rela-
ting to SherifFs," does not refer to Sheriffs
at all, but gives the Commissioners of
Carbon county power to pay S2,25 per
week for boarding prisoners, past as we'll
as prospective. Instead of "relating to
sherlff., the bill should have read IAN
act to confer a special favor upon one
Sheriff by raising the usual compensation
for boarding prisoners, in his case only"
dan act to repen Sec. 4, of an act rel,
alive to certain election districts, approved
April 27, 1855" Why not say what the
bill was for, instead of such roundabout
verbiage to hinder legislators from know
ing what it was-for who wants to hunt
up old law books uselessly2 or who has
lime in the usual hurry of legislation !?
Gan act relating to passenger railways"
-epeals the Law against running them on
The Sabbath.
Another act favorable to public morals,
As one would suppose by the title, had
exactly the opposite meaning 10 the bill,
n our opinion.
There are two bills reported, entitled
San act relating to waste" Waste of
ghat?
dan act relating to Allegany county"
'aises the salary of one officer to 81, 500,
mother to 5000, &c.
"An act relating to a certain alley"
But what about the alley? And is the
Hey in Philadelphia, Reading, Pitts6urg,
harrisburg, Centerville, Lewisburg, Erie,
y where?
There are perhaps dozen bills passed,
acb year, headed "a further supplement
0 the act Incorporating the city of Phil.
delphia," on all imaginable subjects
aising salaries, les;sla,ing men out and in
'tices, making certain Offices compatible
'F incompatible with others, opening and
closing streets, ,alleys,&c. No.ll26,H ,H.R.,
embraces three or four differen, subjects
not one Of which is indicated by the
bill, some Of which may be right and
'tbers wrong, but each of which, Of course
deserves to be considered and decided bv