Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-02-26

The harrisburg People on the fhlka0elphi
II Centennial Celebration Local and Spe
clal Legislation yet the Chief Business q
the legislature -McCInre's Reform Mea
sures-Gov. Hartranft and the p. C. X. II
co.-A Mechanical School.
Z. [HARRrsBURG, Feb. 81, 1878
El'tor Sentinel = Our people her
outside of the Legislature seem to hav
an anti centennial fever, that keeps then
all the time in handsome glow. The.
New York, it is known, slways oppose
Philadelphis enterprises because of com
tmercial jealousy: Harrisburg is oppo
sing Philadelphia, because of State
House jealousy. 1t is that which move
this people against the Centennial Exhi
bition being held at Philadelphia. They
would rather sec it go to New York
Chica go, anywhere, rather than to phila
delphia aef~ -.a
/ Local and special legislation seem t.
be the chief business that engages tn
attention Of the Legislature. Philadel
phia being the greatest business center o
the Commonwealth, of course she mus
have great deal of business of tha
character attended too. Senator McClur,
has been championing jury reform bill
and fee bill for the Office holders O
that city. The Senate sustains him i,
his reform measures, but the House will
have none of them His measures have
merit. "a J.s=- % s'f7 ~ .--
The Governor has signed the bill per
hitting the Union Passenger Railroad
Company to lay and make use of addi.
tional tracks on market street from Fron,
to Ninth. The opposition that ct FIRST
seemed strong as',ins. this railroad en-
terprise, when sifteI was reduced almost
entirely to that manufactured by a rival
street railroad company.
Forney's Iress let eff gun or two a,
the Governor for signing the bill. The
Press in regard to local special and state
legislation see ms to be penny wise and
pound foolish In this it denounces the
Legislature for passing and the governor
fol signing bill giving to city street
railroad company the privileges, simply
given to another company of the same
character, but when the Pennsylvania
G. 4. r Co. goes to the Legislature aud
asks i, to pass bill allowing it to issue
an unlimited amount of stock it is as
silent as an Egyptian mummy. You
recollect that in former letter l stated
that supplement to the charter of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company
had pass ed the Legislature, granting the
privilege to issue an unlimited amount OF
stock and bonds. Your correspondent. is
a friend Of the P. C. L. R Co., and ia al
ways ready to advocate its interests so
far as that they do not effect the general
welfare of the Commonwealth.
That such privileges should be asked
and that whole Legislature should
grant them is almost beyond belief Il;
is presumed that the magnificent scale
in which the demand was made and re-
ceived by the Solons stunned the Press
into silence Had it been some little
street railway corporation, how majestic
would have been its wrath Z The bill
went to the Governor. Do you recollect
that after it had been in the hands of his
e1cellency but short time, Senator
moved that it be recalled for the purpose
of amendment !
1t was recalled from the executive
chamber. and amended, limiting in
amount the stock and bonds to be issued
The reason of its recall was, the Gov
ernor would not sign it, but would have
returned it with his veto. In that act
the Governor exhibited more of the in
ate qualities of his nature and disposi-
tion to stand by the interests of the peo-
pie who elected him than could have
been exhibited in many fine speeches
Who is the other public man who would
thus have resisted the approaches of the
most powerful railroad corporation on
the American Continent. There are U.s.
600 miles of railroad III this country of
that number the Pennsylvania Central
owns or controls Is 900 miles. .r'.@-o
There is general bill slumbering in
committee relative to the establishment
of State Mechanical College in which
boys shall be taught the trades and me-
chanical industry that is developing this
country so rapidly. The apprentice sys-
tenn seems almost to have gone out of
existence. 1t is a great mistake to allow
such state Of affairsto overtake. US
Boys should have trades; they are the
avenues to respectable living, wealth
and honor. Our great manufacturing
have now mostly to send
to Europe for the skilled workmen and
managers of their works. How far a
State School for the training Of young
men in mechanical industrial pursuits
would 60 to remedy the evil that is upon
us in that particular, your readers may
solve. .. a-l .5 -s ~
STRANGER.
A HARTFORD, Conn despatch Of the