The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-28

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HARRiSBu EG, Janunry 2IJ 1912
The Senate met at twelve o'clocl
to-day.
There was general expectation
that the Election bill would frs
come up for consideration, but bust
ness Of n routine character first en-
) gagged attention.
The nomination of Fred j. Garro'
of Allegheny, as Notary Public wa
oniirmed.
The annual report ofthe Fish Com
missioners was read and filed. L
will be printed.
A supplement to the act of 1860 ii
reference to taxing corporations
bankers and brokers. The supplement
provides that corporations &c, shal
not be required to pay n tax on thell
dividends when in the same year
they have paid tax on their capita
stock
Mr.. Wbte-An act to prevent
fishermen and sportsmen from fishing
for black bass, except from April Isl
to July l5
Mr.. Whites substitute for Me
Clure's election law was then called
up.
Senate went into Committee Of the
Whole to consider it.
Mr.. Anderson, of Allegheny, was
called to the chair.
Mr.. Wallace offered an amendment
to section %, providing for triplicate
returns of the election, one of which
shonld he given to the inspector for
the party in the minority CThe de-
sign of this was to enable the defeat
ed ones to more closely scrutinize the
elcction). 1t was agreed to.
Also an amendment to section =,
providing that Assessors shall sit for
five consecutive days-prcceding the
time for making their returns
from nine o'clock in the morning un-
i'll nine o'clock in the evening, for the
purpose of correcting the Registry list.
Also. an amendment to section 10,
requiring that the Registry lists shall
be opened for inspection while in the
custody Of the assessors during the
time o. the sittings.
Mr.. Mcclure offered an amend
ment to section %, making some ad-
ditional safeguards around the ballot
lex and papers, by requiring that
some suitable place be designated for
keeping them, and for depositing
also the returns from the Judges and
Inspectors.
These amendments were ali agreed
to by Republicans. They were de-
signed more especially to prevent
fraud in Philadelphia, and were not
opposed on the Republican side be
cause they could be Incorporated in
to the bill without changing its main
features or making it, in any great
degree, more cumbersome.
The yeas and nays We're called up
on its final passage. when 26 Sena-
tors voted for it and against it.
The gcntlman who thus achieved i'm
mortality, was Senator George ii.
Rowland, of Pike.
The Senate adjourned
HOUSE.
The House met this afternoon Mt
two O'Clock.
The speaker took from his table
report of the Auditor General in
regard to banks, and it WAS received
and filed and ordered to be printed.
The House, then, in accordance
with the new rules, resolved itself in
to Committees of the Whole.
Mr.. zimmerman, of Montour, was
called to the chair,
Thc>frst business disposed Of was
the Act in relation TO vacancies in
Offices of Protlronotary, Clerks of
Courts, and Registers, which passed
its first reading without amendment.
Mr.. Ncwmyer called up the pro-
posed act presented by him in refer
ence 20 the establishment of separate
Orphans Courts. 1t will be remem-
bcred that this bill provides for
three Judges for a separate Orphans
Court in Allegheny five in Phlladel-
phia, and two in Luzernc.
Mr.. Oliver of Erie, raised the point
of order that the bill was a local one
and was not Legitimate under the
rules.
The Speaker ruled this point not
well taken. In support Of this de-
cision he had the clerk read, as his
authority for allowing such a bill to
be considered, the following clause
from Section % OF the new Constitu-
tiOn.
"In every county wherein the pop
ulaiion shall exceed l50, 600, the Gen
eral Assembly, shall, and in any 9TH
er county may, establish a separate
Orphans Court, to consist of one or
more Judges who shall be learned in
the law, which Court shall exercise
all the jurisdiction and powers now
vested in or which may hereafter be
conferred upon the Orphans Courts,
and Courts Of Common Pleas within
such county, in Orphans Courts pro-
cecdings, shall cease and deterElin."
Mr.. Oliver succumbed, and the bill
without amendment passed its first
reading.
The billregulating fees Of Coroner's
was next called.
Mr.. Webb, of Bradford opposed
the bill, and Messrs. Brockway, Me-
Creery, of Vcnango, and Mitchell
supported it. The bill without amend
ment passed its first reading
The House at last was grati6ed at
the reception from the Senate of the
election law, as it had passed that
body.
1t came up in regular order but
was not put under direct considera
tion as it went over for day.
The House then adjourned
SENATE.
HARRISBURG January 81, 1874.
Business ~, n,i in the Senate this
morning hl t.r reception of num-
ber of h VI iiich had been before
the coi. ces and were reported
fay ira They went over under