Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-01
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a RIG BATCH OF VETOES.


Hospital >and Other Bi,Is DO Not Meet
the Governors Approval.
Governor Beaver was in yctiong mood
Friday. The factory insurance bill (Seuate
1861, which was favored by prominent
Philadelphia manufacturers and others,
and opposed by the insurance commits
sioner, fell with the rest. In vetoing the
bill he says that II seeks to exempt from
the operation of the provisions of the law
of doing April %, 1887, a class of
persons doing business with u certain
class of insurance companies, which is
plainly repugnant to that clause of
the constitution which provides that the
general assembly shall not pass any local
or special law granting tn any corporation
association or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity. The
policy of tho commonwealth in relation to
foreign insurance companies is well de-
fined, there are but seventeen such insur-
ance companies outside the state and there
Is no reason why their business should es-
cape taxation, and Ii there were no consti-
tutional objections to this bill il is clearly
against public policy
House bill No. 33i, authorizing the COM
missioners of Paramount park to lay out
and build a drive whercon horses may be
speedcd at u faster rate than seven mile,
ner hour, or permit sucl iij0,.S POI; Sc,,1is ~ NAV
hereafter voi,itTUi' 10 build, lay out and
use the same, with free access To he public
was also vetoed. This hill, he saws, IL
clearly in conflict with the constitutional
provision against local or special legisla-
ton.
House bill No. Gs3, max ing an appropria-
ton for the maintenance of the Wills eve
hospital, OF Philadclp phia, also goes down.
Governor Beaver says: This is an ad-
nirable institution, admirably managed.
II does good work, much of it charitable
work. II may bc fairly questioned how
"a hat n IA Mt # 4 Ia,
finances of the commonwealth il should
receive state aid. The institution can
safely stand alone and has reached the
point when IL no longer requires state aid :"
House bill No. 100, creating the office of
recorder and defining the duties and pow
orS of the same in cities other than those of
the first and second classes, also failed to
receive executive approval
House bill ds2, la provide for the erection
of independent poor districts and the reg
ula'ion of the same in certain counties, be-
cause II is unconstitutional.
House bills Nos. 63l 62G and y5O, mabin
appropriations for the erection of Hospitals
nj New Castle, Lawrence county,. .2i,d i'm
Beaver county, and 1" ",ot,oipiiisi,h Hos
Pitai assocation, .;", ,Sn. Mi,is are not needed
ne tnlnas, IN the localities mentioned.
House bills 35I and 35j, granting annui-
tics To A, ID. Knox and David costicy, rri-
Yates in company q, rhrtytith regiment,
Pennsylvania militia Tho governor
thinks the disability complained of is not
AN incurable one, and therefore a pension
for life should not be granted.
House bill No. 2il, 10 prohibit deception
in the manufacture, importation or sale of
oil. " There is fatal omission in the bill
as presented To me, occurring in the tran
S"rihing-room or clsew here, which makes
1t incomplete"
House hill No. $50. making an appro
priation for tho relief of Mrs. T.. r.. Small
widow of a private in Go r., Sixteenth
Regiment, \. q. T., for constitutional OBJ
ieciious.
House hill i27 changing the name and
lines of poor district in luzcrne county
Objection is that il is purely local legisla-
ton.