The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Senate.


HARRISBURG, March 22.-The following bills
were considered:-
House bill compelling the removal of the side
walk markets was opposed by Messrs. Linder-
man and Nagle, and favored by Messrs. Hens
zey, Brooke, and Connell. Passed to third
reading and laid over.
Messrs. Connell, Watt, and Henszey voted in
favor of the bill and Mr.. Nagle against it.
House bill authorizing the people of Philadel-
phia to vote in October to fix the site of public
buildings was postponed for the present by
UiUd UOce vote, on motion of Mr.. Nagle.
House bill preventing the erection of any
public buildings on Independence Square was
opposed by Mr.. Nagle, who said that the State
had no Jurisdiction over the ground, but that
the same had been sold to the city for $4,000,
in 1916 1t had even authorized q commission
to cut the square into lots, or run streets
through it.
Mr. Henszey said that the commission referred
to had never acted, and that the city merely
held the ground in trust, subject to an express
stipulation in the act of 1916 that no public build
ings should ever be erected thereon. Councils in
1851 had passed an ordinance dedicating the
square to the erection of a monument to the
heroes of 1776. This. Ordinance had been ratified
by act of Assembly, and the spot had been ac-
cepted by the convention of delegates from the
thirteen States for the monumental purpose.
Mr.. Nagle cited the act of 1S47 to show that a
courthouse had been erected by authority of
the Legislature upon the square, thereby imply
ing the abrogation of the original contract. The
new buildings to be constructed would not affect
Independence Hall in any way
Mr.. Lowry urged that the square be kept
sacred for the whole people.
The bill was finally postponed for the present,
on motion of Mr.. Connel.
House.
The following bills were objected to and post
poned for one week.
House bill authorizing retail dealers in refined
petroleum to purchase the same by the barrel
was objected to by Mr.. Davis.
Joint resolution remitting certain penalties
imposed upon the city of Philadelphia for delay
in payment of taxes due the State was objected
to by Mr.. Brown.
Senate bill requiring persons who practise
medicine, surgery, and midwifery in Philadel-
phia to be licensed Objected to by Mr.. Elliott.
House supplement to the act incorporating
the Brownsburg Delaware Bridge Company was
objected to by Mr.. McKinstry.
House bill allowing members of Councils also
to hold offices under the State Government was
objected to by Mr.. Daley.
The Border Raid bill, which appropriates the
entire revenue now received by the Common
wealth from the counties of Adams, Cumberland
Franklin, Bedford, Fulton, Perry, and York tc
the payment of the claims for border damages
amounting to over two million dollars, was OBJ
| jected to by Mr.. Reinoehl.
House bill, making it unlawful after January
| /, 1871, to erect any new steam boiler within
two hundred feet of any public school building
was objected to by Mr. Elliott.
House bill requiring engineers of steam boiler
| to undergo an examination, and to be licensed
was opposed by Messrs. Davis and Miller ant
| favored by Mr.. Adaire, and defeated.