The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-06-19
The Work Of the Session.
A LIST OF TIE BILLS THAT HAVE BE-
COME LAWS OR AWAIT EXAMINATION.

During the session just closed 32l
bills were passed by the Legislature
and sent to the Governor. Eighteen
of these were vetoed, together with the
resolution relating to the payment of
the printing bills of the Anthracite
Mine Commission. Three of the veto
ed bills became laws Notwithstanding
the Governors objection, to-wit The
soldiers burial bill, the Legislature en-
ployes' pay for 1883 and the general
appropriation bill with respect to GER
tain items. Thirty days are allowed
the Governor for his approval or dis
approval of legislation sent to him
within ten days of the adjournment.
The substantial work of the session is
shown in the accompanying list of bills
approved or vetoed by the Governor,
from which the ordinary appropria-
tions and mere local measures are omit
ted. The vetoes were sustained in
nearly every instance, the only except
IONS in which the bills became laws
over the vetoes being the three already
named:
The Philadelphia Magistrates Court
bill, vetoed; permitting Common Pleas
Judges, at the request Of any of the
other Courts of Common Pleas in the
same county, to perform judicial duties
in such other courts; the Bituminous
and Anthracite Mine Commission bills;
introducing the study of physiology
and hygiene in the public schools and
in educational institutions receiving
State aid; the bills providing Addition.
al Law Judges in the Chester and
Northumberland districts, vetoed; re-
pealing the Office tax on corporations
of other States; empowering the city
of Philadelphia to lease the Third Reg
iment a site for armory purposes; the
reform city charter for Philadelphia
the "Bullit bill); furnishing the
wrongful Withholding of their discharges
from soldiers or sailors of the United
States army or navy; the soldiers bur-
ial bill, requiring counties to expend
$35 for the funeral and SIS for head.
stone of the deceased soldier OF sailor
who had died in destitute circumstances
vetoed, but passed over the veto; to
prevent the acquisition of rights of way
by user across lands belonging to uni
versities, ETC., vetoed admitting to a
county bar attorneys who have been
admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court; the Congressional Senatorial
and Representative apportionment bills,
vetoed; the bill Of the Board OF Agri.
culture prohibiting the manufacture of
oleomargarine, ETC.; to permit prison
keepers in counties of from 100000 to
100000 inhabitants to have a residence
fuel, ETC., in county prisons, vetoed; to
admit to soldiers orphans schools
children of destitute soldiers who have
died from any cause; amending the
Fulton county road laws, vetoed; revis-
ing the Delaware wharf lines; permit
ting defendants to testify in all Grimm
al cases; for the incorporation and regu-
latiOn OF natural gas companies; max.
ing it a misdemeanor for a member of
a partnership to keep fraudulent ac-
counts of the same, ETC.; the anti-baby
farming bill, vetoed; for suppression of
lottery gifts by-store and others to sec.
ure patronage; increasing the allowance
to Sheriffs Tor boarding prisoners,
vetoed; establishing State Board of
Health; prescribing improved methods
of State bookkeeping; establishing a
Soldiers Home at Erie; the fire-escape
bills; increasing the publications of de
parsmsnt reports, pamphlet laws, ETC.,
vetoed; the extra salary bill for officers
of the Legislature of 1888, vetoed, but
bill again passed; authorizing Schools
Boards TO purchase books with district
funds; authorizing Councils of cities
and boroughs to pension disabled fire.
men and policemen; the Philadelphia
Sheriff's fee bill; prohibiting opium
joints or booths providing for the
. filing Of monthly statements with the