Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-26
Harrisburg Notes.

On Thursday OF last week Gov. Pathson
vetoed the Farr Compulsory Education oill'
the bill requiring Insurance companies not
incorporated by this state to pay a bonus to
associations of firemen, and the bill to
prevent deception in the sale of gilded
ware. He thinks the Educational bill was
incomplete and defective and that the
cilded ware bill is a needless and vexatious
discrimination. and Of the Insurance bill
says that be has convincing proof that 1t
was altered and amended by the transcrib-
ing clerks and really never passed both
branches of the Legislature.
On Friday the Governor approved OF the
bill providing for a Constitutional Con
vention if majority of the voters say
thev want one, next November, and whether
they do or not they must vote for delegates
to the same three from each Senatorial
district, no voter to vote for more than
two. twenty seven at large, no voter to
vote for more than eighteen. He also
approved of the Ballot-reform bill, which
requires the counties to print all the
tickets. erect election booths and which
revolutionizes our election system; also
the bill authorizing applicants for retail
liquor licenses to secure their bondsman
anywhere in the county, and the following
appropriation bills, so, 600 for new build
ings of House Of Refuge at Glen Mills,
Delaware county; $42. 200 to the Harrisburg
State Lunatic Hospital; $149,500 to the
Pennsylvania College; $75, 900 for erection
of additional cell houses for the Hunting
don Reformatory; 0,000 to the Jefferson
Medical College; $13, 900 to the Blossburg
Hospital. ana 50 COO to the Robert Packer
Hospital at Say r..
That Same day he vetoed the Pittsburg
wharf bill; the bill providing for a new
digest Of the state laws; the bill appropriat-
ing $40. 600 to the Philadelphia Geological
Society; the bill regarding the possession
of dead bodies and the bill providing for
the distribution of copies ofthe State laws.
1t is evident that Governor Pattison re-
CARDS Prof. Snyder as Superintendent of
Public Instruction, despite the fact that
Superintendent Waller still holds the office.
Recently Mayor Stuart, of Philadelphia,
asked the Governor to suggest somebody
to help reorganize Philadelphia's dis
organized financial methods. For answer
the Mayor received, through Private
Secretary Tate, the following: Il am
directed By Governor Pattison to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your communication OF
the 18th inst, and in accordance with your
reauest he has referred the same to Pro
fessor T. Y. Snyder, Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, with the request that
he give it his attention. "-Er.
On Monday Gov. Pattison appointed the
the Worlds Fair Commission. A. X. Nc
Clure of Philadelphia is at the head of it,
and the members from the western part Of
the State are Robert Pitcairn, James NJ.
Guffy. A. j. Barr and CHARLES II. Riley of
Allegheny county, Benz. Whitman of Erie,
E. A. Bigler of Clearfeld, r. A. Mercur of
Bradford and W. 3. Clendenen of New
Castle. The same day he vetoed several
items of the appropriation bill, but APPROX
ed of the bill providing for hospital for
the chronic insane and appropriating half
million therefor.
Tuesday afternoon Governor Pattison
vetoed the Legislative and Congressional
Apportionment bills He states at length
his reasons for disappearing these measures
and says he is satisfied to wait until the
people elect a Legislature that will pass
bills of this kind fair to both parties.
The Governor explains the manner in
which the ratio for legislative apportion-
ment is found by dividing the population
of the State, according to the census Of
1889, by 1000, which is 2G, ,290. He says
every intention of the system is to protect
and preserve the rights of the smaller dis
tricts. and the manifest tendency is to-
ward single representative districts. Con-
tinuing, the Governor says:
''The Executive is not disposed to make
partisan advantage the tests of approval of
any apportionment bill, yet when one pre-
sented to him contains such an outrageous
gerrymander as this SO manifestly in the
interest of political organization opposed
to that of which he is a member, he feels
it to be public service as well as a
political duty to protect his fellow citizens
of his faith from the unjust consequences
of it."
The Governor says the Congressional
Apportionment bill is Objectionable for the
reason that it is not an appointment based
on the census of 1890 1t is a re-enact-
ment of the apportionment Of 1887 which
was based on the census of 1880, with the
| modification that of two additional mem
bers allotted to Pennsylvania one is assign
ed to Allegheny county and the other TO
Philadelphia. With this exception and the
excsion from the present district consist
| ing of the counties of Fayette, aShington,
Greene and that portion Of Allegheny now
connected with them; this bill is re
enactment of the act to organize and define
| the congressional duties under the census
of ten years ago The apportionment OF
1887 was highly Objectionable in many
features and abounded in glaring viola
| tions of the spirit of fair assignment of
| representatives. In Philadelphia two OF
| the districts show difference in popula-
tion of n, COG. The Twenty district
in Allegheny county contains 163, ,999 pop
ulatation, being II, ,26S less than ratio,
while the Twenty second district, adjoin-
ing it and extending over four counties
with widely diversified interests, contains
| 245, 746 population.
In consequence Of the Governors action
on these bills, the State Conventions to be
held this year will nominate two Congress
men-at- Large, and Congressmen-atLar
will be elected every two years hereafter
until new apportionmenJ is made.
THE President has appointed VIM. II.
Pronks = IN sucped David Martin as collector