The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-03-15

cure to married women their separate
earnings, which after long discussion
and several amendments went over on
third reading.
As it now reads, the bill gives q mar
ried woman sole control of her earnings,
whether wages of labor, salary, proper.
ty, business or otherwise, so as not to be
subject to any claim of her husband or
his creditors provided, that she shall
first prove her separate title and owner
ship.
Mr.. Davis, of Berks, called up.a public
bill, which passed, making leases of
dwelling houses by married women liv :
ing separate, leases to be liable to all
remedies for recovery of rent, as if they
were Jen,mes sole.
In the House numerous reports of
Committees were heard and bills read in
place. Among the bills passed was one
to enable Danville borough to establish
water works.
In the Senate on Thursday of last
week the following bill were introduced;
BY Mr.. Purman, supplement to act al
lowing partiesin in interest to be witnesses.
BY Mr.. Buckalew, further supple.
ment to act of 1910, regulating railroad
companies.
By Mr.. White, act to regulate sale of
drugs and poisons in Pennsylvania.
The following bills were passed; Act
relating to school directors of Conyng.
ham township, Columbia county.
Incorporating the Danville iron com.
pany.
Mr.. Wallace offered the following
joint resolution, which was passed:
Joint resolution authorizing the state
treasurer to collect certain moneys here.
tofore improperly paid.
This resolution is one looking to the
recovery from the Federal Government
of the moneys paid to George o. Evans
and embezzIed by him; the said pay.
ments having been paid to Eyans
contrary to law.
The bill securing to married women
their separate earnings came up on third
reading and passed-yeas IL, nays, 13.
Mr.. Dechert, called up bill extend
ing the competency of persons to be
witnesses in certain criminal cases.
The bill provides that parties accused
of misdemeanors, except perjury and
forgery, may at their own request be
witnesses on their own behalf.
Messrs. Wallace, Strang and others op-
posed the bill. Messrs. Buckalew and
Dechert spoke in its favor, and it passed
yeas Is, nays II.
An act to prevent the sale of intoxi-
eating liquor on election day was passed
1t allows no spirituous or malt liquors
to be sold, furnished or given away, to
be drank on election day, during the
hours of voting, Violation of this law is
punished by one hundred days impris
onment and five hundred dollars fine.
Constables are to enforce the law under
the same penalty.
An act passed providing that in case
of nonsuit or verdict for defendant in
an action of ejectment, the defendant
may enter rule requiring the plaintiff
to sue out writ of error to the Supreme
Court within one year, or be forever
debarred from so doing.
Mr.. Buckalew offered a concurrent
resolution, resembling the resolr On fix.
ing the date of final adjournmen N the
28th day Of April, which was pa,-ed by
vote of IS to II.
Agreeably to order, the House proceed
ed to the consideration of bill M. 55,
entitled an act for the reorganiz ltion,
regulation and discipline Of the Nation.
al Guard of Pennsylvania and to pro-
vide for the enrolment of the militia.
The house resolved itself into COM
mittee of the whole, Mr.. Rogers, OF
M'Kean, in the chair.
Mr.. Cooper moved to amend by strik
ing out all after the enacting clause and
inserting the following:
That all militia taxss imposed by the
commonwealth Of Pennsylvania be and
the same are hereby repealed.
Mr.. Brockway did not believe in any
system of standing army in time of
peace. as such forces generally constitute
the back bone of tyranny. A we'll regu-
lated militia is probably necessity
the enrolment of all citizens liable TO
perform military duty. But, under the
bill twenty thousand men are to be
specially sot apart to be drilled and
sworn to execute the will of the com.
mander. in chief. lie also objected to
the title of the bill. AS it was to be n
Pennsylvania system, the word ina.
tionaP Should be stricken out and state
inserted. Another objection is the non
exemption from tax on account of SER
vice during the late war. And another
objected Is the almost unlimited power
1t confers upon the governor, who is to
be the sole judge as to the necessity to
increase the force of twenty thousand
men to hundred thousand, or an in.
definite number. The three hundred
thousand dollars which would be need
ed to keep up the proposed military
force had better be expended for educa
tlonal purposes. Further consideration
was postponed until March Goth.
In the Senate on Friday last Mr..
White, from the Committee on Consti.
tutional Reform, reported House bill
for Constitutional Convention, with
amendment providing for one hundred
and swenty-one delegates to be elected
on the cumulative plan.