The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-13
MORE APPROPRIATIONS.
The Committee Reports Lots
of Them in the House.
AN AeeREaATEo OF FULLY $1,000, 900.

The Amounts Allotted to the Various In
stitutions in the State The Elections
Committee Asks for So, 900 for Payment
of Expenses in -Four of the Contested
Election Cases.
HARRIsBURG, May 3-Appropriations
seemed to be the order of exercises in the
house yesterday, and before the committee
got through it had reported appropriations
| amounting in the aggregate to 81 ,000, 900
distributed as follows:
German Protestant home Fair Oaks,
So, ,000 ground for Western penitentiary
$50, ,000 new Home for Feeble Minded
Children, Western Pennsylvania, $3.50, 600;
Harrisburg hospital, $4,000; expenses of
committee on centennial affairs, $3.50;
Training Home for Deaf Children, Phila-
delphia, $36, 900; Oral school, Scranton,
$82, 1866; Wills Eye hospital, Philadelphia,
$50, 900; Home for Frendless, Reading,
s., 900: Altoona hospital, S10, 1000; Reselia
Founding asylum and maternity hospital,
Pittsburg, 500 900; German hospital, Phil
Hdelphia, $40 600; Cottage State hospital,
Phillipsburg. S12, 900; Southern Home for
Destitute Children, Philadelphia, 81, 900;
Hahnemann hospital, Philadelphia, $33-
j46; emergency fund for state board Of
health, $50, 600; Huntington reformatoFy,
Sli7, 800; Valley Forge memorial associa-
tiou, 50, 600, expenses senate appropriation
committee, 1898, S2,512; Polytechnic hos
pital, Philadelphia, S70,000 Medico-Chi-
rurgical hospital, Philadelphia, 500, 900;
jefferson medical hospital, Philadelphia,
$4,000 University of Pennsylvania S120,
600; normal schools of state, $24O, 900;
Shppensburg normal school, $50, 600
The senate bills permitting street rail
way companies to change their routes and
validating any such changes heretofore
made; protecting union labels, and to pre-
vent the adulteration of honey were report
ed favorably.
Mr. Talbot from the elections committee
introduced bill appropriating $4,000 for
counsel fees and personal expense in the
contested election cases in the counties of
Crawford, Lackawanna, Lancaster and
Montgomery. Mess"s. Andrews, Highly,
Baker Taggart Franklin, Forrest, O'Kell
and Quinan are each allowed 81 900.
The calendar of senate bills on second
reading was then taken up.
Mr.. Kunkel called up senate bill No 90,
known as the McCarrell bridge bill, and it
passed second reading with amendments
pal amendment is as follows: "That in
case any bridge company shall permit the
laying or construction of any street pas
senger railway tracks upon such bridge the
same shall be so laid and constructed with
one track only and rs close as possible to
one side of said bridge, so as to interfere
with other public travel to the least pos
sible extent
Other amendments provide that the
| bridge shall be free to children attending
private and public schools; the privileges
granted by the act shall not be exercised
unless authorized by the judge of each
county in which the bridge is located.
The Philadelphia wharf bill passed sec
Ond reading after considerable debate be-
tween Stewart Ritter and Wherry, with
| out amendment
There was 10 opposition to the senate
| bill repeating local option in Verona, Allie
gheny county in fact the house was so un-
| concerned regarding it that only q few
voices said ''eyen in agreeing to the bill on
second reading.
The senate bill to provide for the quiet
ing of titles to land was regarded with sus-
| picion by Mr.. Crawford and he wanted To
| know what it meant
Mr.. Fow explained that when railroads
We're first built engineers regarded curves
as necessary, and a great deal more Land
was covered than necessary. The object
OF this bill is to permit the Strengthening
of roads which will necessitate the aban
doning of land, and give the land back to
| the original owner.
| Mr.. Crawford thought the curves ought
to be taken out of the bill, but it passed
and the house adjourned until Monday.