Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-11
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HARRISBURG, May 10.-GovernorB Beaver
is rapidly dispatching the bills which do
not involve constitutional points or are not
of doubtful propriety- To-day he had filed
in the State Department about 80 acts
signed by him. Among them is the bill
providing for the incorporation and regula-
tion of Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions, which caused considerable discussion
in the Senate and House, owing to its al
legged sectarian character. Another bill
approved provides for the punishment of
bankers who accept deposits while cognizant
of the insolvency OF the institution with
which they are connected.
The Governor also signed bill contem-
plating the forwarding to the Department of
Internal Affairs complete returns of the
various taxes levied in wards, boroughs and
townships. These returns are to be secured
by the commissioners of the several counties
and by the Board of Revision of Philadel-
phia
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE.
The purpose is to ascertain how much
money is appropriated for the support of the
poor, construction and repair of bridges,
what is the amount of the tax on personal
property, occu cupations and for licenses, the
amount Of tax on real estate OF corporations
and real estate of other corporations. The
bill was introduced by Senator Brown, State
Lecturer of the Pennsylvania Grange, and
is intended to show more fully than any re-
ports of taxable property have yet shown
the inequality of taxation and the discrim-
ination against owners of real estate. Re-
ports must be made by the 1st of June in
each year.
One of the bills approved by the Governor
authorizes insurance, fire and marine insur-
ance companies to insure against loss by
lightning, tornadoes and cyclones. Another
supplies an omission in the act for the Gov
ernment of the National Guard of the State,
which fails to provide per diem pay and
expenses for cavalry. Another puts definite
value on insurance policies. Another pro-
vides means to prevent the spread of con-
tagious diseases among domestic animals.
CAUSED BY A MINE DISASTER.
The Nanticoke mine disaster, which in
volved the death and burial of q persons,
whose bodies have not been recovered, sug-
gusted the drafting of bill by Senator
Hines providing for the recovery by coal
mining corporations of buried coal miners
if the courts decide from evidence submitted
that they are recoverable This measure
the Governor to-day approved, as well as the
following bills:
To punish bribery at Constitutional amend
ment and other elections, providing a fine not
one year for each offense; providing that no
disposition of property made for any religious
or Charitable use shall fail for want of a trus.
tee. McFarlane,s bill providing additional
means of escape from fire in buildings; Pen
roses bill providing that there shall be no ex-
ceptions in favor of any person from
the acts of Assembly limiting the time
within which writs of errors or appeals must
be sued out; to confer additional chancery
powers on the Courts of Common Pleas;. ari.
thorizing the issuing of executions obtained
before justice of the peace to the amount of
500 and upward without issuing an execution:
empowering president judges of Courts of
Common Pleas of counties not forming sepa-
rate judicial districts to hold Courts of Quarter
Session in the absence of associate Judges: pro.
Viding for the
APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY CoRoNERs
to act In the absence of coroners; to provide
for the laying out and opening of roads to in
closed lands kept for driving parks, county
fairs, grand army and soldiers encampments,
reunions or places appointed by court for
the holding of elections. Rutan's pill on be.
ing rendered the legal fees therefor to credit
at least once in every three years on the record
the amounts of interest and principal paid there
on. and providing penalty for failure to meet
the requirement of the act Cooper's bill author.
zing water companies to increase their capital
stock from 81, 900 900 to S2.000,O00; to provide
punishment for the injuring or defacing of
statues or monuments; mpowering chief clerks
of County Controllers to administer oaths and
affirmations; authorizing the Governor to ap-
point a commission to revise and codify the
laws relative to the relief of the poor of the |
State, suggested by the Governor in his last
message; to prevent the employment of lncom-
petent miners in the anthracite regions
by requiring their examination by
board of practical miners; to provide for
the election of assessors in cities of the third
class every three years; to protect county
buildings from DETACHMENT: to enlarge the !
Jurisdiction of Orphans Courts in cases of |
testacy; empowering boards of prison in. |
spectors to fix the salaries of deputy wardens,
keepers and other persons employed in and |
about jails; authorizing the appointment of |
deputy constables in townships on petition of |
citizens: authorizing county commissioners to |
exonerate county treasurers, whose term ex- |
pired prior TO the passage of this act from the |
payment of interest on money lost by the fail |
ure of banks in which the funds of the county |
were deposited.