Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
grants as the one which is the subject of this

grants as the one which is the subject of this
bill.
In vetoing Representative MCCULLOUGH s
bill, granting to street railway companies
power to cross streams, the Governor saws:
This bill conferS upon street railway COM
panies the right Of eminent domain to the
extent that it may be necessary for them to
exercise the same in the erection of bridges
to cross streams. Thus far it has been the
policy of the Common wealth to restrict the
rights of street railway companies to streets
already laid out and open for public travel.
To extend their powers so as to permit them
to erect and construct bridges across any
stream in the Commonwealth; to take and
appropriate private property for the ap-
proaches thereto, and to restrict the use of
such bridges to their own purposes, seems
to be a dangerous extension of their powers.
The act confers upon them privileges which
are not necessary TO the ordinary purposes
of their incorporation.
Extra Pay for the Constables.
The following reasons are set forth for the
veto of the constables liquor fee bill:
The effect of this bill is to increase the cost
ofexecuting laws of this Common W ealth by
allowing to constables the sum of so cents
per month for a monthly visit to each place
within their respective Jurisdictions where
liquors are sold or kept. This would amount
to an allowance of St per year to the consta-
bles for every licensed place for selling
liquors in the Commonwealth. 1t would in
volve a cost to the public of many thousands
of dollars. The duty of visiting and report
ing the conditions under which liquor is sold
has been imposed upon the constables
of the various districts of the State
by the existing liquor laws of the Common
wealth, and know of no Just ground for
public complaint that there is any failure to
perform this duty by reason of the fact that
no provision is made for payment therefor.
l know of no district in which there is a
vacancy in the office of constable, or where
persons are found unwilling to take it, by
reason of the omission of any such allow
ance this bill makes. The cOnstables are
under control of the various courts and are
subject to removal for misconduct or neglect
of duty. While therefore, no complaint of
such inattention to duty as can be remedied
by this bill exists, do not feel justified in
approving a measure that will entail a
public expense reaching the enormous sum
which the costs contemplated by this bill
would aggregate.
The other bills vetoed were as follows:
S25, 600 for the preservation
and maintenance of Memorial Hall, Phila-
delphia; amending the Nation,1 Guard act
to increase the annual allowance for armory
rent, for the reason that similar bill has
already been approved; appropriating 8, 900
for fish hatchery in Lackawanna or Mon
roe county, because there is no immediate
necessity for it.
The Governor to-day appointed Robert
E. Monaghan, of Chester county, a member
Of the commission to prepare uniform laws
in the different States on marriage, di-
vorce. etc.
The Governor has also appointed James
B. Scott, of Pittsburg, and W. B. Gill, of
members of the State Board
Of Charities