Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
WON'T BE 0UTWITTED.
A Road Bill That May Elude the Gov.
ernOr's Veto. .
BETTER HIGHWAYS A NECESSITY.
Mr.. Stewart Claims Those Who Pay the
Taxes Are Entitled to Them.
PEOPLE HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ALL HOPE

Representative Stewart, of Verona, ac-
companied by his wife, left for New York
last evening. He was much disappointed
over the veto of the road bill
by the Governor, as they had hard
work to get the necessary 103 votes to carry
the measure through the House. Mr..
Stewart said that at least half-dozen men,
bers had to be begged to stand by the bill
r. when the test came. He blames Captain
Skinner for the defeat of the bill, as the
Fulton county Democrat is a very infuen-
tial man, and probably had much to do in
converting the Governor to his way of
thinking.
Several days ago Mr.. Stewart introduced
another road bill which he hopes to have
passed this session. The objection of the
Governor that the vetoed bill provided for
the unfair distribution of State funds was
carefully avoided
Badly in Need of Road Bill.
Mr.. Stewart applied for special
order to have the new bill put
on the calendar, and he was anxious
TO know last evening if it had been granted.
In discussing the subject he said: 'My
people were greatly disappointed when the
Governor killed the road bill 1t was use
less to try to have it passed over his head,
as it barely got through the House
as ii was. Ny constituents were more in
terested in the road bill than in any other
legislation, and it was tough to lose on a
technicality. The Governor claimed it was
an unfair distribution of State funds to
spend money TO repair the roads in counties
in proportion to the amount of State
I in. hot Inhf
the people who pay the taxes should be en-
titled TO the roads. We want highways in
the thicklv-settled communities, and to
deny them because some mountaineer would
not get the same privilege, which he has not
paid for seems ridiculous However, this
was Captain SINNERS great complaint. He
wanted the money spent according to the
number of miles of roadway in the county.
This would work well enough for Fulton
county, for nothing would suit them better
than to have the State build the highways.
Features of the New Measure.
fIn the new bill all the good features of
the first measure are retained, but no al
fusion is made to how the money shall be
divided. That can be attended to
afterward by a special appropriation.
What the people want is road tax paid in
money and not worked out. This is one of
the grievous evils of the present system.
johnson, of Cambria county, made the
same objection as captain Skinner, but he
was broad enough to vote for the bill, even
if Cambria's share of the taxes is not as
large as Allegheny's.
"Well, great reformers work slowly, and
I suppose we will have to put up with bad
roads for two years more, but the people
won't stand it much longer. The
roads in Western Pennsylvania couldn't
be much worse, and the loss to bust
ness interests annually in consequence must
be large"
Mr.. Stewart took occasion to say that if
Mayor Gourley was sincere in his attack on
the people who helped to elect him that his
action was commendable, but he thought it
didn't look well for man to desert his
friends