The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-04-08
PnNNsYLvAN1A LnoIsLATURn.
What the solons at Harrisburg Are
Doing.


HARRISBURG, March 91.-In the senate
yesterday bills passed finally: Relating to
the bribery of voters at any general nom
mating or delegate election; making every
Saturday after 10 O'Clock a half holiday;
for the better protection Of the health and
morals Of school children; increasing the
maximum punishment for the first con-
Viction Of murder in the second degree to
twenty years; permitting marriage licenses
to be obtained either in the county where
the ceremony is performed or where either
Of the oontr acting parties reside; providing
for keeping public highways from being
blocked by snow. Senate adjourned until
Wednesday next at 0 p. m. In the house
the bill enlarging the provisions Of the act
preventing and Furnishing cruelty to ami
mails was reported favorably. The bill re-
pealing the act of 1891 permitting town
ship voters to cast their ballots in adJoin-
ing boroughs was reported negatively.
Chairman Marshall Of the appropriation
committee, reported the bill appropriAting
eco, 900 additional to the Worlds fair com
mission, and obtained . special day for its
consideration next week. The appeal of
J.. p. O'Kell, Of LackawannA, from the
decision Of the court Affirming the right Of
Mr.. Qulnman, Democrat, to tho seat in the
house now occupied by hiIA, was presented
and referred to the ecommittee on elections.
The Nesbit road bill and other bills passed
second reading without am Sndment
House adjourned until Tuesday morning
next
HARRISBURG, April 5-Among the bills
introduced in the senate were; A supple
ment TO the retail liquor license law, pro
VidinR that license shall be granted for
every hundred votes; appropriatinR q, 500
for the purchase Of a pedagogical library
Bills passed finally; Establishing a medi-
cal council and three state boards Of med
ical examiners; compulsory education
bill, requiring children between the age Of
Q and 12 years to attend school at least six
teen weeks in every year; requiring un-
nRturalized males 2l years Of age or over
to pay an annual tax Of S9; prohibit
ing the employment Of aliens on public
wOrkR- The following house bills also
passed finally; Authorizing and directing
county commissioners to procure, bind and
preserve weekly newspapers published
within their respective counties; relating
to judicial sales and the preservation OF
the lien OF mortgages; preventing deoep-
tiOn and fraud by owners or agents of any
stallion kept for public service by pro
claiming or publishing fraudulent or false
pedigrsss or records; amending the mar
riRge license law 30 as to permit notGrles
public to take dispositions of the contract
ing parties.
HARRISBURG, April e.-Ths Miles tar
bill was reported from the ways and means
committee without amendment Bills in.
TrOduced were: Relating to married
women; enabling them to make and exc
cute certain obligations and making them
liable for the payment thereof the same As
though unmarried; providing for the par
tiAl payment of per diem compensation 70
Monros BaSsett and Frank Williams
members Of the National Guard, during
the time Of their disability produced by ",
phOld fever contracted during service al
Homestead. The bill apprOpriates e1o0fol
Bassett and SsT for Williams. Mr. Lytle
chairman Of the committee on rules, 70
ported ssries Of resolutions TO the effect
that no new bills shall be introduced aftsi
April lewithout unanimous consent, which
was agreed to. The bill prohibiting tha
sale OF liquor on Decoration Day was de
fested. The Fow rapid transit bill wa
taken up for second reading, and AftSI
much discussion was postponed unit
Wednesday next for consideration. Bill
introduced in the senate; Increasing tn,
salary Of the judge In the Erie county dis
triet 70 5000; authorizing cities 70 maxi
appropriation for the establishment and
maintenance Of free libraries and 70 40
quire by co ndemnatioR eligible sites fol
the location thereof Bills passed hrs
readinGi House bill amending the act pro
Viding for the publication in q German
newspaper Of sales OF real estate 50 a. Il
permit the cost Of each abstract 90 pub
hshed TO exceed o.; allowing judges e60
per year for clerical assistance; empower
ing the courts 70 grant transfers Of liquoi
licenses from one place TO another; author
iEing borOughs 10 establish police pension
funds; enabling borouRhR 10 establhl
boards Of health; house bill autherizin1
corporations 70 grant pensions 70 old, In
nrm or disabled employees; preventing per
sons connected ofioiAlly with the CONNER
school system nom becoming agents 10
the sale Of school books, maps or station
eryi creating liquor license cOurt TO per
form the duties now performed by III,
courts Of quarter sessions, Ii was agreeS
that after Tuesday, April ls, no bill
should be introduced