Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-02-27
Harrisburg Notes.


Thnrsday last was a field day on the
Burdick BILL The Corporation committees
ofthe House and Senate held joint session
in the Supreme Court room, and were ad-
dressed against the bill BY several members
of the Standard Oil Co. and for it by ex-
Senators Lee and Emery.
Senator Neeb's bill providing for private
executions in penitentiaries was defeated
Representative williams has introduced
q bill which provides that any person per-
forming labor of any kind of furnishing
materials for, upon or about any drilling,
pumping or producing oil or gas well shall
have the right to bring suit in sssumpsit
against any joint owner, joint tenant or
tenant in common holding an interest in
and operating such well to recover the
pro rata share due for any labor done or
materials furnished, and that the interest
of such joint owner, etc.. shall be subject
to levy and sale upon any execution issued
to enforce collection of any claim under
this act after Judgment obtained by due
process of law The same right Of action
is prescribed for one joint owner against
another whose pro rata expense he may
have borne. The bill is approved of by
oil producers.
Senator Showalters little son Joe died at
the Lochiel Hotel last Friday, of spinal
disease, and the family came home with
the remains on Saturday.
After hearing the arguments on the
Bur1ick pipeline bill, last week, the Cor
porations Committee agreed to report it
with negative recommendation.
The Burdick bill got another black eye
Wednesday, when the Senate Committee
reported agains. it. 1t is probably "kiil-
ed.D
The Ship Canal Commission has an nm
expended balance of 81, 500 which will
likely be spent in printing the reports
Secretary Eben Brewer says that When the
canal is completed more tonnage will pass
through it than through the Suez canal.
Private capital is ready to build the canal,
but If it is to be q benefit to the country it
must not be a private affair. The State or
Uucle Sam should own it.
The medical profession of the whole
State is much interested in the medical
examiners bill and the medical education
bill which are under consideration by the
Judiciary General Committee. at Harris
burg. The old school physicians, or Gallo
paths,o as they are generally called, favor
the examiners bill, while the homeopaths
and "eclectics" are united on the educa-
tional bill.
On Monday, the members from the oil
country were the recipients of many tele-
grams and petitions regarding the pipeline
Bill, and it was reported that the majority
of the communications were against the
bill. The petitions from Butler county
showed divided sentiment with the ma
jority in favor of the bill.
The decision of attorney General Hensel
that married women are yet under legal
disability TO avail themselves of the gener
al corporation act of 1874 calls for legisla-
tive relief Tho issue was raised by the
application of members Of the New Century
Club Philadelphia for a corporate charter,
and the Attorney General has decided that
the married womans' act of 1887 does not
confer such rights upon women under cover
ture.
1uefuby WAS u Dusy onJ ioA ehC WIN
mittees. The House Judiciary Committee
heard arguments on the anti-discrimina-
ton bill and reported it, and it also report
ed the Medical examiners bill favorablyi
the Ways and Means com. amended
the liquor bill to the effect that one hall
the fees go to the county and one hall 70
the district, the Educational Com. negatived
the educational convention bills; the ap-
propriations Com. heard arguments on the
state charities and the House Committee
on Counties and Townships had the road
bill under discussion to-day and amended
il in several ways. The road master pro-
vision was stricken out and the supervisors
provided for in the bill are to do their
work at $3.50 day. The term ''road
engineer" was changed to county survey
Or" The Secretary of Internal Affairs
will not have to furnish draft OF roads as
was in the first bill. Aliens may be
employed ii they are taxpayers. The age
limit ID stricken ont and surveyors will
not get mileage.
The committee to investigate the Book
Trust will meet in Philadelphia to day
and the leading educational officers in at
tendance there at the National Educational
Convention will likely meet the Sergeant
at Arms, who will kindly request them to
appear before the committee and tell what
they know of a trust This will apply TO
officials from other States. Mr.. Euwood, a
member of the committee, said that their
investigation 30 far had brought odt the
opinion that the State should not publish
the text books, but that each district
should supply them ont Of its school fund.
Considerable furry was created in the
House when it was noised abroad that
Fow, of Philadelphia, had returned from
Pittsburg armed with an array Of figures
against giving an appropriation Of 500, 600
to the Western Pennsylvania Institution
for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
at Edgewood He had figures to show
that the institution had in 1889 invested in
mortgages $35, 200, and in 1890 $40, 500,
These figures, he thought, were all out of
place.