The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-02-09
LEGISLATURE.

the order of the day.
AT halfpast eleven the Senate met
the House and counted the returns of
the late election for auditor general,
and surveyor general, and on the con-
stitutional convention. The figures
stood:
For Auditor Geueral-Stanton 2Si,-
097, McCandless, 269,5l2; Spangler,
1882.
For Surveyor General-Beath, 2S7,-
045 Cooper, 266, 1856; Wheeler, 1853.
Constitutional Convention-For, &c.,
097; against, 69,7l5.
In the Senate, on Thursday of last
week, the following bills were reported.
With negative recommendation, an
act to provide offices for County Super.
intendents.
| With amendments, an act fixing the
salaries Of County Superintendents.
With amendments, supplement to
an act providing for the due training Of
common school teachers.
The f flowing bills were introduced; /;
Mr.. Dill read au act relative to execu-
tors and administrators, extending the
act of 1884 to lunatics and habitual
drunkards. Also, an act for the relief of
certain Judges ofthe Courts Of Common
Pleas and District Courts.
An act relating to legal advertising in
the several counties in this Common
wealth, was called up by Mr.. Petriken,
considered in Committee of the Whole,
after which Mr.. White moved to post
pone indefinitely.
Mr.. Buckalew hoped the bill would
receive proper treatment, as it had been
presented in proper manner at the
instance of the printers of the Common
wealth. He was in favor of the bill, be-
cause it gave the minority the benefit
of public information. There ought to
be a uniform rule governing official
advertising; and this plan Of giving it
to the paper of each party having the
highest circulation, seemed the best
that could be adopted. The bill will
prevent abuses that now exist, and the
only disadvantage vii be to small news
papers.
The motion was modified to postpone
for the present.
Mr.. Evans said this patronage was
generally in the hands of competent
| officers, and he did not think the bill
would work to the advantage of either
the newspapers or the public. After
further discussion the bill was postpon-
ed for the present. Yeas 16. nays u.
The first bill passed allows boroughs
to lay out streets fifty feet wide.
The act increasing the number of
Judges of the Supreme Court to seven,
was discussed and postponed.
The bill allowing the Governor to APP
point three members on the Board of
Trustees for each Normal School, was
amended to two, and to apply only to
those districts which accept its provis-
ions. Passed.
Just before i've o'clock, the Secretary
| of the Commonwealth presented the
return of the election in the Fourth
| lIlolliSts uhu SCISihCdtc vi
Harry W. Gray. The new Senator ap-
peared, and was at once sworn in, just
in time to record his vote in favor of
the indefinite postponement of the
Druggists bill
In the House a bill authorizing
assignees of insurance policies to sue in
their own name passed.
House supplement relating to the
State Treasurer and Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund, providing that the
Sinking Fund Commissioners shall,
annually, commencing 1873, notify by
| circulars State and National banks that
on the second Monday of April they
will receive and open, in the presence
of the Governor, proposals for becom-
ing depositors of State funds, the
deposits to be given to those Offering
the greatest interest, they to pay on
demand, no bank to have on hand
more than half the amount of its bonds
to the State. They shall make monthly
reports to the Auditor General, verified
| by the State Treasurer, or on oath of
the President or Cashier, the State
Treasurer to report monthly to the Au-
ditOr.General. The bill passed yeas 62,
nays 80.
Mr.. Brockway reported as committed
an act to relieve workingmen from the
operation of the conspiracy laws.
Also, he read in place a bill to pre-
vent swine from running at large in
Benton and Fishingcreek Townships,
and in Light tStreet.
In the Senate on Friday last, the
following bills were reported from COM
mittees as committed: An act relative
to libel, allowing the truth to be given
in evidence.
Mr.. Davis, of Philadelphia, reported
from the Committee on Railroads an
actrequiring corporations appropriating
property for corporate purposes to pay
for the same, and providing the mode
of assessment thereon.
In the House among the bills report
ed were Senate bill authorizing the re-
form system Of voting in the election of
School Directors, as committed
Mr.. Berkholder-Fo the better pro.
lection of the wages of mechanics,
miners and laborers, giving employees
accompanies, &c. "a preferred lien of not
more than 5000 of wages due at insol-
veney of employers.
Nothing Of importance took place in
the Senate on Monday.
In the House petition from Luzerne
county for prohibitory liquor law was
presented.
Mr.. White offered the following:
Resolved, That the committee on vice
and immortality be discharged from the
consideration of bill, entitled an act to
prohibit the granting of any license to
sell intoxicating liquors in any city,
borough or township, unless a majority
of the voters in said city, borough or
township shall vote In favor of said