Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-09
The Governors Approval Makes the
New Tax Measure a Law.
sMOKE-CONSUMING BILL VETOED.
Cities Already Have the Power to Suppress
the Nuisance.
FOUR OTHER VETO MESSAGES RECORDED
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH ]

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tax on the capital stock of corporations, not
raising the tax on personal property from
to mills, and providing that three-fourths
of the amount realized from this species OF
taxation be allowed the counties according
to the amount of their personal property
tax. 1t also increases the bank stock tax
from or mills to or s, and provides for an
| increase of the tax on loans and the valua-
ton of corporation stock (having no mar.
ket value) on met earnings" basis.
A State Banking Department
! AnotherI bill approved by the Governor
| provides for the creation of State banking
department. As introduced, the bill author
lied the Governor to appoint Superintend-
| ent of Banking under It, but when partisan
| ship reached It's zenith in the Legislature,
| the provision was changed, so as to lodge
the power of the appointment of that
| official in the Auditor General Toward
/ the close of the session the bill was
Governor willappoint the Superintendent of
| Banking, provided any person wishes to fill
that position in the absence ofany appropria-
tion, which the Legislature failed to make in
the hurry that characterized the last days of
| the session. The annual salary OF the
| Superintendent is $1,000.
| Among the other bills signed was one per-
mitting any person having contingent in
terest in or q mortgage or judgment lien
upon any real estate, and not being in pos
| session of the same, to prosecute a suit at
| law or equity to prevent waste upon the
real estate and to recover damages for waste
committed on such rea! estate and another
making an appropriation of ,8S7 for bal
ance due for witness fees and other expenses
of the Osbourn- Devlih contest, whose total
cost aggregated over $4,000.
Jefferson Township Is Wet.
The following bills were also signed: To
repeal the prohibitory law in jefferson
township Allegheny county. To authorize
Councils of all Incorporated boroughs to
widen and deepen streams and water courses,
and to erect dykes and embankments and to
empower Councils to enter on private prop
erty along such streams and water courses
for the purpose of procuring material for
such work, provided payment is guaranteed
for damages. Authorizing corporations to
take, have and hold real estate heretofore
given or devised or hereafter given or de-
vised, to such corporations, to be used for
any religious or charitable purpose, pro-
vidcd the real estate is taxed and sold within
fiveyears from the time the right of possess
sion shall accrue to the corporation, reQuir-
ing permit to be secured from the proper
board of health to cremate human bodies.
Providing for monthly returns and pay:
poor taxes. To prevent fraud in the sale of
lard, imposing fine of $50 for the first
offense and 500 for any subsequent offense.
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soldiers for enlisting in the service of the
late war. To authorize the Huntingdon
Refor1natory managers to sell and convey
real estate in the vicinity of the institution.
The Increase of Capital Stock.
Providing that any corporation shall, not
withstanding any limitation upon the
amount of its capital stock by special or
general law, have authority, with the con-
sent of the persons holding the larger
amount in value of its stock, to accomplish
and enlarge the objects and purposes of
900 in the aggregate. -Appropriating $50
to pay the expenses of the commissioners to
the American Forestry Convention in 1889.
Appropriating 10000 to complete the publ
cations of the geological survey.
Appropriating $500 for rei1nbursing the
Board of Commissioners for the promotion
of uniformity of legislation in in the United
rent expenses of the State Board of Health.
Providing for the formation of a commits
sion to present for Congress the claims of
sustained during the war and appropriating
IS, 500 for expenses.
Extending the Divorce Law.
Extending the Jurisdiction of the courts in
cases of divorce to women who have left
this State and intermarried with citizens of
other States or foreign countries and been
compelled through cruelty or other causes,
to abandon their husbands. Providing that
the capital stock of street railway compan-
les operating other than animal power shall
not exceed 500, 600 per mile of track. Secur-
ing the right of sub-contractors to file me-
chanics' liens and preventing interference
with this right of contracts.
Allowing the State Bureau of Statistics
stenographer. Compelling prothonotaries
to mark satisfaction of Judgment upon salts
faction being entered where a record of such
Judgment appears. Compelling county COM
missioners to furnish office and storage
fOr0 tyyc int tc
H-The Smoke-Consuming Bill Vetoed.
The Governor vetoed five bills, among
them that authorizing and empowering
cities, by ordinance, to regulate and sup
press the production and emission of
smoke from bituminous coal, and to pro-
vide penalties for its violation. The follow
ing reasons are given for the disapproval of
the bill:
"I know of no reason why the particular
vest in the cities of this Commonwealth
should be provided for by legislative enact
ment All the cities of this Commonwealth
to regulate their own internal affairs, and,
by the exercise of their inherent police DOW
ers to prevent practices noxious to public
each community have protection in law and
equity from public nuisances, which they
may enforce and secure by the regular and
ordinary process of law. Iregard the bill as
mHOiIy Supolhuouo lOI dly SduitdFy dHu
needful purposes, and if it is intended to
effect any other it oughtnot be allowed
to become a law."@'
An act to make provision for the preven-
tion of mental disorders was also vetoed.
and the following reasons are given:
No Need for the Bill.
sThe title of this bill in no manner indf-
Gates its contents. So far as they are in
tended to permit the management of State
institutions to extend their cooperation to
all meritorious cases, there is no occasion
for this legislation; so far as they are
intended to interfere with and disturb the
orderly management of these institutions
the bill is without Justification. In no event
should the State hospitals, exclusively under
the control of the State, be subject to anv
uses inconsistent with the purposes of their
establishment"
The Governor also disapproved the bill
words surviving members" and Hassess-
ment plan," whenever they appear in the
laws OF Pennsylvania relating to insurinp
lives on the plan of assessments and upon
surviving members, or to life insurance on
the asses sment plan. The following reasons
are given by the Governor:
$50 much of this bfll as declares what the
laws of Pennsylv vania mean relates to a SUBJ
ject that is exclusively for the courts of the
to construe and interpret the statutes.
So far as the provisions Of
the act are consistent with the
decisions of the court, legislation is un-
necessary.
The other bills vetoed related to Philadel- |
phia diminishing the number of Common
Couhcilmen and authorizing the Board Of |