The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-17
MR.. QUINNAN UNSEATEI
The House Settles Another
Election Contest.
Mr.. o'KELL DECLARED rHewlNNsR

A Vote OF 1875 Yeas to 81 Nays Docidel
the Question as to which should Occup,
the Seat The Anti-PinlSerton Bin Goe,
Through the Senate on Final Passag,
without "A Dissenting vote.
HARRTsBURG May 17.-There was not ,
great deal of time lost in getting SETTLED
down to business in the senate and hous,
yesterday and there was considerable in
terest manifested in the proceedings Of
both houses, especially during the early
hours of the session. The galleries vert
well filled with spectators and nearly every
seatin the legislative halls were occupied
When the banking department bill was
under consideration Senator McCarrelI had
an amendment added to the fourth section
providing that ''those trust companies
which are now by law subject to examina
tiOn by examiners appointed by the courts
shall, in so far as their departments and
the trust estates and investments of trust
funds held by such companies be concern
ed, be exempted from the jurisdiction of an
examination by the hesuperiuteudento Of bank,
ing"
The anti Pinkerton bill went through OF
final passage without a dissenting vote
When the house concurs in the amend.
ments it will 20 to the governor.
Senator Mcdonald made u speech in sup.
port of his bill changing the punishment
for murder of the first degree from death
by hanging by the neck to imprisonment,
by separate and solitary confinement at
hard labor for the period Of natural life.
He argued TO prove that the present system
OF hanging was brutalizing in its effect,
and that solitary confinement would ac.
cOmplish all that is desired He contended
that hanging was legalized murder If the
spectacle was to do any good il ought then
to be public and not private
Senator Brewer made speech against
the bill and Senator Lloyd followed in an
argument for the measure. Senator Nc
Donald also made another speech in sup
port of his bill. He quoted from the Bible
TO show that there is no warrant in divine
law for taking a mans life, because the
Lord hath said Vengeance is mine, =" and
"who 50 sheddeth mans blood by man
shall his blood be shed" Senstor McCRr-
rell made an eloquent and convincing
speech against the bill. He quoted from
the Bible to prove his assertion that there
is warrant in the divine law fcr,the inflic-
civil code was the taking Of lite justified
when it was provided that killing in self-
defense is no crime. He discussed the
phases of murder, and for half an hour
held the rapt attention of the senators by
his argument in defense of the present sys-
TEN. Senator Baker was in fuWor of the
bill, and spoke Of the brutalizi1g effects Of
hanging on the public mind. After some
further discussion the bill was, defeated
yeas 20, nays %.
The senate concurred in. the house
amendments to the Broadhead Water com.
pany BILL providing that owners Of land
suall have free ingress and egress to. such
streams at all times
The house resolutions recalling the Wer-
theimer liquor bill was read, when Sena-
tor Lyon raised the point of order that it
had reached that stage in ths senate-sec-
ond reading-when it became the property
of this body and could not be recalled. The
chair sustained the point.
The afternoon session was. rather short
there being little business transacted, out
side Of the passage of appropriation bills.