Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-10
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prevent any life insurance company or agent
| thereof doing business in PENNSYLVANIA from
making or permitting any distinction or dis
surants of the same class and equal expectations
| OF life in the amount of payment of
premiums or rates charged for policies
| of life or endowment insurance, and provid-
| ing penalty for the violation thereof; passed
| the House and Senate, and is in the hands of
the Governor. Making an appropriation for
Pennsylvania institution for the instruction
of the deaf and dumb; approved by the Gov
ernor. To authorize the Auditor General to
settle the claim of Barbara Gibson for the use
OF building in the borough of McKeesport
used by Company X, of the Eighteenth Regi-
ment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania,
to the dsbandment of said company; passed
both Houses. An act to empower Prothonota-
ries to take acknowledgements failed for the
lack of time. To amend the fifth section of an
act relating to the organization and jurisdic-
tion of the Orphans Court in and for the coun-
ties having more than 10000 inhabitants, as to
the appointment of assistant clerks of said
court and fixing the salaries of same; failed on
the second reading calendar in the House.
To provide for the registration of Aldermen,
Justices of the Peace, and Notaries Public;
failed on second reading calendar 1.-THE House.
Not to be Sneezed at.
The following is MIR. MarshalI's record for
the session: A supplement to an act entitled
"An act to provide at the public expense free
evening schools for the education of the chill
dren of this Commonwealth who, from any
cause, are unable to attend the public schools
passed finally and signed by the Governor. An
act authorizing the Governor to appoint
commission to revise and codify the law reiat-
ing to the relief, care and maintenance of the
poor in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; in
the hands OF the Governor An act making an
appropriation to the Children's Aid Society of
Western Pennsylvania; signed by the Governor.
An act to provide for the relief of INDECENT SOL
lAr0 and
wives, widows and minor children of INDECENT
or deceased Union soldiers, sailors and marines;
it provided for tax not exceeding mill and
failed when the second reading calendar was
abandoned. An act to carry out the provisions
Of an act relating to the care and treatment of
the INDECENT insane, approved the 18th day of
June, lSSS and making an appropriation there
Tor OF $SOOOOO; in the hands of the Governor.
DIR. McCullough's Record.
DR.. McCuIlough's record for the session is as
follows: An act authorizing and empowering
the commissioners of the sinking fund, Auditor
General and State Treasurer to omit from the
annual reports the unfunded debt and debt
upon which interest has ceased, and providing
for the disposal Of the same. After this bill
had passed the House and gone to the Senate,
the sinking fund commissioners discovered
that it had been the law for some years, and it
was permitted to drop. The Governor had rec
ommended such measure in his annual mes
u.
some of the features of the postponed Fletcher
bill added to 1t, particularly those relating to
the furnishing of heat and power by electricity
and other means, and validating the charters Of
existing companies. An act to repeal an act
relating to road supervisors in West Deer town.
ship, in the county Of Allegheny, postponed on
third reading in the House, The bill was not
pressed, as the township was divided upon the
repeal. A supplementto to an act giving borough
councils the right by ordinance TO impose a IL
cense tax upon vehicles for hire. This bill was
held in committee and negatived.
What the Senators Were Doing.
Senator Newmyer's bills were as follows:
The municipal lien bill, which is now a law.
A bill making it embezzlement tor bank
officer to receive deposits knowing his bank to
be insolvent passed both Houses. To provide
location, opening, vacation, construction and
maintenance of highways, roads and bridges
in the several counties of the Commonwealth;
left on the calendar at Adjournment Per
mitting the lease OF property and franchises of
city passenger railway companies to motor
companies passed the Senate and negatived In
the House Com mittee. The effort to place it
on the calendar led to the famous fight in
which Messrs. Delamater and Andrews showed
their lack of love for Mr.. Magee by refusing to
permit Mr.. Lafferty to withdraw the resOlu.
tion. and then voting It down with an over
pointment by the Governor of commission to
prepare rules Of practice for the sew.
eral courts Of original jurisdiction; de.
feated in the House. To authorize
actions for mesne profits to be commenced in
certain cases before recovery in ejectment; ap-
proved by the Governor. To validate private
sales of real estate of decedents, heretofore
made under authority Of orphans courts upon
petition of executors or administrators for |
payment of debts not of record; passed both |
Houses To repeal sections 4 8 and Of IAN |
act providing for the abolition of the distinc- |
tions heretofore existing between actions ex
contractu and ex delectu, so far as relates to !
procedure, and providing for two forms Of ac- |
tions and regulating the pleading Hereunder
defeated in the house.
Senator Steel introduced a public morgue |
bill which was killed in the House, and o bill |
to extend the time in which railroads might be- |
gin work after being chartered was also killed. |
His bill to regulate natural gas charges also |
died.
Senator Rutan placed number of bills in |
the hands of Others because of his ill health. |
Just what these were cannot now be told. His |
Senatorial apportionment bill was negatived |
by the Senate Committee, and a similar bill |
which he had offered in the House never came |
out of the committee. His bill to provide for |
the Identification of habitual criminals has be- |
come o law.