Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-03-01
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srsestigatea-At Albany and Trenton.
i RaIsnrRG, Pa, March. The special
ere. n bli has passed the house and has been
tar 10 the senate.
"a joint COMMITTEES Of the senate and house
apr lted to Investigate the soldiers orphans
SC Us have decided on the abandonment Of
tbs chools, beginning with the one at Meal
lislerville
The subcommittee Of the appropriations
committee on state insane hospitals made it,
report today. The five hospitals asked for ap-
preparations for new buildings and improve
ments aggregating 81, l3l 200. The sub-com-
mittee cut this amount down to $4S5 500,
making reduction Of S697, 100
Current rumors Of a scandalous nature In
connection with the defeat OF the bin known
as the anti-lressed beef bill, prohibiting the
sale of dressed beef in the state unless it has
been inspected on the hoof by state iuspec-
tor, we're called to the attention of the house
by Mr. Andrews, of Crawford county this
morning. Mr. Andrews sent up to the desk
to be read an article from a Pittsburc paper
stating rumors prevailed that Mr. Andrews
had taken $4,000 to defeat the bill, but had
only distributed $4,000 of il.
Mr.. Andrews followed the reading of this
dispatch with a resolution providing for the
appointment of a committee OF seven to fully
investigate the statements made with power
to send for persons and papers and to report
TO the house soon as possible The resolu-
ton was adopted without opposition, and the
speaker announced the following committee
10 investigate the charges: Messrs Billings
ley, Brooks, Taggart, HeDrich, Fruit, Skin
ner and Smiley
TRENTON. n. j., Feb Ex-senator McPher.
son, Ex-Governor Albeit and Gottfried
Kruger spent much time here yesterday in
consultation with the Democratic leaders Of
the senate aud house touching the best course
topursue with the Werts local option repeater
Ii report be true it was agreed to allow
Senators Baker of Cumberland and Smith
of Sussex 10 amend the bill on second reading
III such way as TO meet the wishes of their
constituents and enable them to vote for il
on final passage. One OF the amendments
that these gentlemen propo,e to offer gives
townships the right to vote once in every
three years on the amount of the license fee
to be imposed, the maximum fees to be fixed
by the voters at the polls, who are to be at
liberty to make the figure as high as they
please. Another of the proposed amendments
will require bonds TO be given by excise COM
missioners to revoke the licenses of dealers
convicted second time Of violation of the
law.
A bill has been prepared, and viii no doubt
soon be introduced, after its details have been
fully settled upon in the Democratic caucus,
to gerrymander the congress districts of the
state. As it now stands the plan proposes to
make the First district Overwhelmingly Re
publican and the other six probably Demo
cratic
In executive session the senate confirmed
the following nominations: Edwin o. Chap
man, state superintendent of public instruc-
ton; Elevin w. Crane, prosecutor of the
pleas of Essex county; Carl Buttner, Law
judge Of Essex county; Richard s. Kuhl,
law judge of Hunterdon county, and Peter
Ii. Daily, harbor master of Hudson county.
Governor Green has come to the rescue of
the men who have been trying to get the Aus
halian system of voting adopted by the state
1t has been in the committee on judiciary for
some time. The governor sat several hours
with the committee and offered a number of
amendments, which they accepted The bin
is now to be pushed to final passage. The
changes made do not in any way change the
secret features of voting.
The senate has passed bill No. 100, giving
the control of the state house over to the gov
ernor, and confirmed the nomination of T. O.
Chapman as superintendent of instruction.
The bill introduced by Representative John
T. Feeny, which, it is alleged, is intended to
shut out Camden as the modern Gretna Green.
will not do anything of the sort, according to
City Clerk ID. Cooper Carman, of Camden.
The ten lines or so of the bill, which has
pas, ed second reading, provide only that the
fee and responsibility for marriages in New
Jersey shall be taken away from the preach
ers and placed respectively in the pockets and
on the shoulders of the county clerks
ALBANY, Feb. 26.--Part of the report of
the appropriations committee has been ac-
copied by the assembly, while part of it has
been struck out. The ceiling inquiry has
been turned over to the following committee
of seven, who have instructions to thoroughly
investigates: Bauer, Davidson. Edwards Fits,
Lewis, Little, Maynard Mccain, McLaugh-
lin, Peck, Tefft, Tovne, Epson and Yates.
A feature of Wednesdays debate was the
following somewhat remarkable remark made
by Mr.. Ainsworth:
I'VE did wrong when we let politics enter
into the matter at all. SO we had to have
Mr. Andrews, and without him Harrison
would not have been elected If Commits
sioner Perry had been in charge Mr. Cleveland
would have been elected"