The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-04-20
The Legislature.

since last issue.
In the Seuate
House bills authorizing agricultural
aud horticultural societies to appoint
police for the protection of property.
Senate bill making the term of city
school superintendent three years.
In the House:
The bill making an appropriation OF
Sl56,O00 to the Pennsylvania Institu-
ton for the Deaf and Dumb passed fl
nally,
The bill appropriating $4,000 to the
Lackawanna hospital at Scranton was
read the third time, and passed finally.
On Tuesday Mr.. Furth, of Philadel-
phia, moved to reconsider the vote by
which the House bill making Wyom-
ing and Sullivan a separate judicial
district was ordered TO be transcribed
for third reading was adopted. Mr..
Collins,of Sullivan, opposed reconsider
alton. He had offered the amendmen
in good faith, and because the people
of Wyoming and Sullivan wanted the
district to remain as it was. The mo-
ton for reconsideration was advocated
by Messrs. Furth, Hulings, M'Namara,
Sharpe, Sponsler, who said that the
members should vote conscientiously,
regardless of what the governor would
do. This remark was in reply TO a
statement of Mr.. Hulings that the gov
ernor would veto the bill as amended
Mr. S. N. Mitchell, of Susquehanna,
favored the amendment, because it was
asked for in 1874, and is asked for now
by the people of Wyoming and Sulli'
van Mr. Brown, of Erie, could not see
why this change should be made. He
did not think the legislature should
pass such laws either to suit the gov.
ernor Or attorney general. The people
and members of the bar of Wyoming
and Sullivan counties said that they
needed this district, aud they ought to
know beet what they want
Mr.. zimmerman, of Lackawanna,
said that Wyoming county did not de
sire to he included in separate dis
trict. Mr.. b. b. Mitchell, of Bradford
had read letter from Judge Elwell il
which he did not desire that Sullivan
should be attached to bis district. TIL,
yeas and nays were called upon the mo
ton to reconsider and were yeas SS
nays IS. Agreed to. Mr.. Bryson, O
Columbia, offered an amendment t.
strike out Sullivan from the Columbi;
and Montour district. He thought the
district of Columbia and Montoul
should be permitted to remain as it i
that Judge Elwell, one of the oldes
judges in the state, should have no ad
ditional labor imposed upon him. Upol
this motion the yeas and nays were de
manded, and were, yeas 81, nays "a.
The special order of the day, senat
bill authorizing the fish commissioner
! to sell and purchase real estate, an
authorizing them to advertise u tw
newspapers published in Harrisbur
and two in Lancaster, was passed final
ly.
The supplement to the act for tn
transfer of orphans court proceeding
from an old tc newly created county
was passed finally.
! The supplement to an act providln
I for the manner OF decreasing the cap
9 tai stock of banking corporations wa
e passed finally.
The bill relating to public roads
a Restrain township, Westmoreland coul
= ty, passed finally. Also, the manner
= whica lands shall be surveyed.
! The bill relative to paying the e.
u penses of the support and funeral of
person becoming chargeable upon an
district, payment to be made out of IL
real or personal estate Of any such pc
son, if any there be, was read the thil
+ time, aud passed fually-yeas II
y naysS.
= The bill providing for the licensr
! of bottlers of malt liquors, etc, W
!, read the third time, and defeated ,
= final passage-yeas So, navs 52, not Il
, constitutional majority.
h The bill relating TO the catching
!. fish in the Mononghahela and the Oh
~ river and its tributaries below the eli
/ of Pittsburg was read the third tim
n and passed finally-yeas l07, nays 8
n Senate bill abolishing the Office
v collector of delinquent taxes in citi
i of the first class was passed finally.
8 Senate bill respecting telegraph, Il
r ephone, electric light and other wir
N and cables for electric purposes, "
il read the third time, and passed finally
o yeas, 1877; nays, 0.
g The supplement to the act to preve
( vexatious foreign attachments, ct
le was called mp. 1t provides that a
d attachment, execution or scire facias
r. foreign attachment issued out of a
g, court of record, the garuishee shall
r. found to have in his possession or &C
Y, troll no real or personal property of t
e, defendant, nor to owe him any de
d. the said garnishec shall be entitled
ar recover from the plaintiff in additi
er to the costs already allowed by law
m reasonable counsel fee to be determin
!" by the court and taxed as part OF {
er same. The bill was read the thi
Iy time, and passed finally-yeas 1:
le nays "a.
al The bill to secure greater uniform
le and secrecy of the ballot was called |
10 read the third time and Mr.. Sweeny,
* Luzerne, had sent to the clerks dc
as and read some remarks he had prep