The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-04-22
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passed finally were. Providing for the
election Of township treasurers, enabling
Towns, boroughs and municipalities here
lofore chartered by special act Of assembly
10 surrender their charters and become
subject TO the provisions Of the general
borough laws; providing for the appoint
ment of game commissioners and empow-
ering them to appoint game wardens; en-
powering electric street railway companies
to employ police force.
HARRIsBURG, April IS. In the house
yesterday resolutisn was agreed to fixing
a special order for tine bill providing that
voters shall cast their ballots at polling
places within the election district in which
they are domiciled. The governor notified
the house that he had signed the follow
ing bills; A supplement to the act regu-
lating central railroads; rendering women
eligible to the Office Of notary public; I'm
creasing the maximum punishment for
murder in the second degree to twenty
years. appropriating s3I5, 900 for the cree
tion Of a library building and improve
ment of the capitol; to provide for the
better protection of female patients in
transit; the appropriation for the salaries
and expenses of the banking department
for the past two years Along with this
communication came the first veto Of the
| session. The governor disapproves the act
relative to the uniformity of proxies.
HARRIsBURG, April 1s.-The senate met
at O'Clock last night Forty-two bills
passed first reading and seven passed sec
Ond reading Among the bills introduced
were; Appropriating $4,000 for the cree
/ tion of a protection wall and filling the
washout caused by the erection of a dam
on the Beaver division Of the Pennsyl
vania canal at Bridgewater, Beaver
county; authorizing the superintendent of
| public instruction to employ lecturers OF
/ instructors to attend the summer assem-
| blies Of associations incorporated for the
| promotion of education and popular cul-
/ ture; empowering cities Of the third class
to assess admitting property and appropri-
ate money for the expenses of sprinlling
/ the streets The names OF the first female
notaries nominated by the governor and
| sent into the senate are: Katherine Den.
nison, Of Washington county; l. r. i.
/ Hills, Dauphin county; &. G. Green
| Chester county; Mary h. Hail and Phoebe
| A. Read of Philadelphia. The house as
/ sembled at S p. m. The bill providing
/ that voters shall cast their ballots at poll
| ing places inside the election district in
which they are domiciled passed second
reading
HARRsBURG, April 19-ln the senate
! yesterday walter Lyon was sworn in as
! successor to John NJ. Neeb. Among the
bills passed finally were: Providing for the
recovery of damages TO trees along public
| highways by telegraph, telephone and
electric light companies; preventing county
or city supeHntendents of common schools
from teaching in other schools during
their terms of office; authorizing councils
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ary of the board of assessors; for prevent
ing the spread of tuberculosis among do
nestle animals; preventing the adultera-
tiou of honey; making dying declarations
in cases of abortion where death results,
admissible i'm evidence in criminal cases;
Furnishing the loan, gift or distribution Of
indecent and immoral writings and pho
tographs, and of all articles drugs or re-
! cipes intended to prevent conception or
produce abortion The governor sent in
the name of Nathan G. Schaeiier, of Kutz-
town, Berks county, to be superintendent
of public instruction for the term Of four
years from April T., 1898 In the house the
Democrats presented a minority report in
the Taggart- Baker election contest, claim
ing that the votes Of the students in the
seminary at North ArdmOre were legal,
and that Baker was elected by majority
Of twenty votes. The majority report
seating Taggart was adopted A number
/ of new bills were introduced, among them
one appropriating S25, 900 to take the legis-
lature to the Worlds fair. The senate
bill constituting Lawrence county as a
separate judicial district was substituted
for the house bill and passed. Among other
bills passed finally were: Relating to cor
porations organized for religious, educa
] oh nit al, L.
purposes; providing compensation for sur
geons and physicians who may be called
in to attend to paupeTs in emergency cases;
to protect the revenue of the state by pre-
venting fire insurance companies, firms
and associations Incorporated by another
state ora foreign government or organ
lied under tine laws thereof, from taking
risks, issuing policies or placing insurance
except hy agents or officers residing within
this state. The bin prohibiting the exhi
bition of human deformites was defeated
on third reading,
HARRISBURG April 90.-m the senate
yesterday bill was introduced author
izing the governor to appoint a commits
zion of nine TO examine into and make re
port to the next legislature upon the causes
of the pollution of the water supply in the
chief cities Of the state and appropriating
IS 600 to pay for the same Among bills
passed finally were Requiring baking
powder cans tc have printed on the labe
the ingredients of which the powder {.
composed; providing FOR the licensing OF
houses for the boarding of infants; author
izing school directors TO establish and
maintain public school libraries and pay
for the same out of the school funds of the
districts; preventing persons officially con
nected with the common school system
from becoming agents for the sale O
school books, maps or stationery, In IN,
house Austin H. Taggart, the successful
contestant for the seat of Charles ]. Baker
was sworn in, The bill limiting to twenty
five cents per light per night the charges
for arc electric lights was reported with
negative recommendation, as was also tht
bill requiring formulas of patent medi
cines to be printed ia English ON a labe
attached TO the box or bottle in which it q
contained. The bill permitting the licens
ing of wholesale liquor dealers by the
county treasurer instead of the court wa
reported fayorably from the ways and
means committee, The calendar Of senate
bills on second reading was considered
The bill authorizing the board of agri
culture to enforce the provisions of thl
anti-oleomargarne law by appointing
dairy and food commission, and the bill
prohibiting the use Of oleomargarine il
, penal or charitable institutions, passe,
second reading At $3.50 last night thr
house rejected a modification of powe
amendment 10 the Penrose bill abolishius
the Philadelnhia building commission
and passed the bill on second reading.