The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-24
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

HARRISBURG, March A.-Among the bills re-
ported favoraby were the following
House supplement to the Lincoln Market
Company.
House supplement to the Protection Fire In
surance Company.
House bill Incorporating the Franklin and
Holmesburg Passenger Railway.
House bill vacating portion of Elwood lane.
Senate supplement- to the Philadelphia and
West Chester Railroad Company.
Mr.. Graham announced that there were thirty
defaulting witnesses in the Watt-Diamond cleo
tion case, and moved that attachments be issued
compelling their attendance. Agreed to.
House.
Mr.. Daley introduced an act setting forththat
no machinemade bricks of any species, kind
or character shall hereafter be employed in
erecting any dwelling or building in Philadel-
phia until such bricks shall have been inspected
by commissioner appointed by the Governor
for that purpose, or by his deputies. The price
for inspection shall be one and half dollars per
thousand for pressed bricks; one dollar for back
stretchers and paving; seyenty-fve cents for
hard and sammon bricks.
Mr.. McCleary introduced bill authorizing
the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad to dispose of
common stock. Passed.
Mr.. Adaire, an act requiring the removal Of
the tolls gate on the Fraukford and Germantown
turnpike opposite the Knights of Pythias Gene
terry. Passed.
House bill authorizing the International Iron
Steamship Company to erect yards on the banks
of the Delaware.
This is very lengthy and extraordinary bill,
and seeks to make the Commonwealth trustee
to take the management of the bonds of pri-
vate corporation. IL also declares that the COM
pany shall have the same powers in this State
which were given to it in New Jersey, but there
is no person in the Legislature who knows the
extent of such powers.
The House Committee inserted a provision
that the State should not be liable for either
principal or interest of the bonds: but the con-
n n ic IN max n
the Commonwealth party to the operations of
the company, the capital OF which is fixed at
$5,000 600.
House bill authorizing turnpike, plank road,
and canal companies to issue bonds and to aban-
don portion of their lines Passsd.
An effort was made by Mr.. Elliot to amend
the House bill which passed yesterday, increas-
ing the number of Supreme Court Judges, 10y
providing that no Judge who entered Judgment
on a case in Nisi Prius should have the right to
sit upon the same case when the Court was in
Banc. The amendment was lost, and the
original bill goes to the Senate.
House bill authorizing the tender of legal
| tender notes of The United States in payment OF
debts in this Commonwealth, and providing for
stay of execution in cases where Judgment was
obtained for gold, was Indefinitely postponed.
Senate bill authorizing canal companies to
| build to lateral railroads. Passed.
Senate bill, defining charitable organizations
| to be those in which the corporators receive no
| profit, was passed.
rest in the real estate of her husband which the
wdower would have had in the real estate of
his wife, was indefinitely postponed by GO ayes
to 26 noes.
The joint resolution urging Congress to re-
peal the present oppressive income tax was
postponed.
The House bill to continue the Military State
Agency at Washington for one year was post
poned. ..
The House bill authorizing the completion of
the history of the Pennsylvania volunteers and
providing for the distribution of the books by
the Superintendent of Public Schools among the
libraries of the common school districts was
considered.
Mr. White offered a substitute distributing the
books among the Senators, members, and clerks
of this and the next Legislature; the cost of the
book not to exceed five dollars per volume,
and each set to contain five volumes; the Sena-
tors to receive twenty sets of each. This sub
stitute was agreed to under call of the previous
questiOn.