Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
RIVER MEN REJOICE,
Flooding the Governors Office
With kilograms About
the Wharf Bill.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS
Another Lot of Eetoes Which Make Up
a Total of Seventy-Three. 4.
HIS PREVIOUS RECORD BROKEN.
Judicial, Congressional and Representative
Bills in Danger.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS
HIS PREVIOUS RECORD BROKEN.
THE REASONS FOR MORE DISAPPROvALS
rsrEc1AL TELEGRAM TO EIE pIspArcH.l

TSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO HE DIsPATCH.l
HARRISBURG, June Ex-Governor Patti
sou vetoed another batch of bills to-day,
and was made happy by the receipt of many
congratulatory kilograms from Pittshurg
relative to the veto of the wharf bill. Fol
lowing is list of those received before the
close of the executive department tonight
From the Advance Coal Company: "Your
wisdom in vetoing wharf bill gives general
satisfaction TO all steamboat men here.
From the Pacific Coal Company: 1--WE
desire TO thank you for vetoing the wharf
bill"
From James A. Henderson "The Pitts
burg and Cincinnati Packet Line extend
cordial congratulations for vetoing wharf
bill"
From the Pittsburg Coal Exchange:
'Please accept our earnest congratulations.
You have in your veto of Flinns wharf bill
done a heroic act to protect great city,
whose prosperity has been largely enhanced
bv the advantages of water transportation.
To-day flags on the masts of $500, 900 worth
of steamboats, are flying in your honor"
From Steamer Nellie Hudson: MANY
thanks for your just veto of wharf bill" ="
of Allegheny river men extend thanks for
vetoing wharf bill"
From Reese Brothers: "Your veto of
wharf bill has given satisfaction to merch-
ants and rivermen, who are giving praise
TO a Governor who knows their rights and
has the courage 20 protect them against un-
just legislation"
From Wilson. Barclay & Co.: 'Your
veto of the wharf bill meets with appro-
baton of all river men,
From Steamer Mayfiower: "At meeting
of the Mayflower Company vote of thanks
was rendered to you for your veto of the
wharf bill
From William r. Rogers: "Navigators and
shippers are delighted that you have pro-
tected their wharf rights. Flags flying on
all the boats in harbor. -
Appropriation Bills Approved.
The Governor to-day signed IL bills, max
ing an aggregate appropriation of S119, 700.
This amount included $4,000 70 the Pitts
burg Newsboys Home; $4,000 for a home
for the training in speech of deaf children
before arriving at school age; s., 700 for
home for colored children, Allegheny; S.
600 for Adrian Hospital, Jefferson county;
5000 for Oil City Hospital and S45,O for
the propagation and protection of fish. The
appropriation bills before the Governor call
for 81, As, ,260, of which the chronic insane,
INDECENT insane, Western Pennsylvania
Anthracite Miners Hospital bills in
volve 81, ,2ll 400
Governor Pattison promises to largely
eclipse the record he made during the first |
two years of his previous term as the slayer
Of bills passed by the Legislature. He has
already disapprOved 73 acts, and number
of additional vetoes have been prepared
and Will be given Monday. Although the
Governor did not disapprove the item in
the general appropriation bill providing for
the payment of additional Judges. of the
courts the judicial apportionment bill au-
thorized, it is believed he will veto the lat
ter because of the unnecessarily increased
expense it would add to the Judiciary. The
Congressional apportionment bill will prob
ably be vetoed because no attempt has been
made TO change the districts outside of
Philadelphia and Allegheny. The repre-
sentative appOrtionment bill will be disap-
proved for constitutional reasons and be-
cause of its palpable partisan character.
The Tax Upon Foreigners.
The Governor to-day vetoed seven bills,
among them that on which Senator Meek
set his heart, and which he claimed would
partly compensate the taxpayers of this and
other industrial centers for the support they
had to extend to Hungarians and other for
eigners. The bill proposed to impose a per
capita tax of s. upon all unnaturalized
male citizens of the State who own no real
estate or other taxable property valued for
taxable purposes at or above 5000 and stu-
ated in the county in which he may reside
or is employed. The Governor says of this
and other provisions of the bill:
This discrimination would in all proba-
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tiOn of the constitutional principle that
taxes shall be uniform upon the same class
of subjects within the territorial limits of
the authority leVying the tax ana shall be
this tax is to be levied and collected under
the general law Of the commonwealth it is
very much to be doubted whether that is Il
uniform" law which eNempts from a per
capita tax subject who owns land in one
comfy and imposes it upon the same class
OF persons whose real estate may be situated
in another county. Such classification is |
not tOlelahle; but the method which is pro-
Vided for the collection OF this tax is highly |
Objectionable and wholly impncticable |
All employers Of labor must make inquiry |
employees and must ascertain whether !
or not they have been natu- |
rallied if over the age of 81 years. They must |
make monthly reports to tine poor authori- |
ties OF their districts and deduct from the |
wages of such employees, on each monthly |
pay day, the sum OF p cents, thus making at
once an assessor and tax collector out of !
every corporation, firm or individual in the
Commonwealth employing, perchance, a
foreign born workman who is not natuI-tI-
lied. 1t is practicallya "a delegation of the |
commonwealth taN-levying and tax-col- |
lecting power to host of private persons.
and in default of their performing this duty
they are to be subjected to a penalty Of |
double the amount of the tax imposed upon |
the unnatuIaliZed employees, which penalty |
the bill vaguely prescriDes "shall be collect |
ed as other taxes are collected" Inasmuch |
as ''other taxes are collected in MANY diff |
ferent ways, the uncertainty of this pro- |
vision would render it wholly nugatory, so |
that even if the bill were based on sound |
principles, either of public policy or of po- !
litical economy, its provisions are so i'm |
as to render any attempt to en- |
force il futile.
Appropriations for Education.
The Governor adopted the bill of Repre-
sentative Fruit, of Mercer, appropriatinC
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