The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-10-25

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"Fearing the members Of the House
and Senate we're not fully informed az
10 the nature, number and character OF
our bills, the follJwing circular was
sent by mail 10 each and every mem.
Der of both houses
"We desire TO call your personal at
tention n the folio wing measures now
lpending in General Assembly, and ask
for your support and influence in se-
curing their enactment:
House Bill No 9l-Collins, amend
ing "Semi- Monthly Pay Law"
House Bill No. 15S-Csffrey, "Dock-
age Bill"
House Bill No. 92-"Store Bill"
Senate Bill No.-Hines, "Regulat-
ing Liability of Employers of Work
men, TO make compensation for in
juries, &c"
Senate No. 13l-"Regula ing En-
ployment Of Women and Children, pro-
viding Inspectors, &C."
House Bill No. 276-"ProvidinR for
Examination of Miners in Anthracite
Regions, &c"
Also Bills which will be introduced
TO amend the "Bituminous Checkweigh.
man and Mine Ventilation laws ITO
regulate licensing of Stationary Eugi-
ncere, &C. An act "To make Election
Days Legal Holidays.' An act to reg
ulate elections according to the Aus.
tralian System. An act giving Lum.
bermen Lien on Cat Timber and
an act against ''Convict Labor"
III. MCGARDEY,
WIN Ii LEWIS,
Q. j. ANDREWS,
Committee.
Then follows history of the illfor-
tunes of these bills, of which the fol.
loving is condensed report:
House Bill No. 81. (Semi-monthly
Pay BILL In the House: first reading
January 25; second reading February
21; third reading April 8, when It
passed the House by vote of 1862 ayes
10 nays.
In the Senate: committed to Judici-
ary General Committee April 4, 1889 /;
reported negatively April 25.
House Bill No. 92. Company Stores.
In the House first reading January
25; second reading February 21, and
third reading April 3, when it passed
the House by vote of l63 ayes to 8
nays.
In the Senate committed to Judici.
ary General Committee April 4, 1889 /;
reported negatively April 25, 1889.
Senate Bll No. l31. House Bill No.
III. (Known as the Factory Inspection
Bill.) In the Senate first reading Feb
ruary 26; second reading February 2S;
final passage in Senate, March l3 by a
unanimous vote.
In the House: first reading March
25; second reading April IS; final
passage in the House, May 7, by
vote of 100 to IS.
No appropriation was made for the
payment of the inspectors, aud, in con-
sequence, no benefits have been de-
rived from the act to date.
House Bill No. 15S. Senate Bill 397.
Dockage Bill) In the House first
reading March 28; third reading
April 20, when bill passed the House
| by unanimous vote.
In the Senate: defeated on third
reading, May 2, 1889.
House Bill No. 275. (An act to pro-
vide for the examination of Miners,
&c) In the House: passed finally
April %, by vote Of I44 to S.
Speaker Boyer absent and not ysting.
In the Senate: passed finally May 2.
Senate Bill No. 237. House Bill
s44. employers Liability Bll) In
the Senate: first reading April q;
second reading April 9: third reading
April 10, when bill passed Senate by q
vote of 28 to 4.
In the House first reading April
80; second reading May 6; third read
ing May 8, aohen bill uas defeated by
a vote of IS ayes to 3S nays, less than
majority having voted in the atfirma-
tive.
Concerning this bill the Committe
say:
'The committee feel the loss of this
bill very much from the fact that it
was with great difficulty we succeeded
in getting it on the Senate calendar,
where it passed third reading and final
passage with creditable vote, and
from the kind manner the members of
the House had SO far treated US, no
serious opposition was expected, but
we were disappointed
NTbia hill mora thon m,
the bills entrusted to the committee,
presented an opportunity to those mem
bers who so often declared their allie
glance and friendship for the working
classes of this State TO place themselves
on record as such by supporting and
voting for the measure, inasmuoh as
the bill was more general and far
reaching in its provisions, than any
other. There was not a shadow of
class or special legisl tion in it's pro-
visions, but was intended as benefit
to all the working classes of the State,
no matter where or how employed"
The report of the Committee con-
cludes as follows:
"The other bills mentioned in the
circular were not endorsed by the con-
vention as special bills, but being in
the interest of labor, we gave them all
the attention possible. The Bill to
Regulate the Licensing of Stationary
Engineers was negatived in committee,
and did not come before the body for
| discussion. AN act to make Election
Days Legal Holidays met the same
fate, a. did also the Convict Labor
Bill The member from Potter county
refused to introduce the bill giving
Iumbermen Lieu on Cut Timber
"The act to regulate elections accord.
ing to the Australian system of voting
came before the Judiciary General
Committee of both House and Senate,
and il was ably supported on both
occasions by a delegation from the
Ballot Reform Association, of Phila.
delphia, who called upon this commit
tee and requested their presence at the