Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-06-09
End of the Legislature.

End of the Legislature.
After an all-night session of wild dis
order. the Legislature of 1893 adjourned
last Thursday noon.
The fight in the House during the night
was over some street railway bills, which
had already passed the Senate. The
friends of these bills resorted to every
known expedient to have them passed BY
the House, but the opposition to these bills
consumed the time by talking, having the
roll called in motions to take recesses, etc,
until they were defeated.
The general appropriation bill was not
taken up until s o'clock in the morning,
and after it was passed and some amend
ments to the new Election law agreed to,
both houses adjourned until near noon,
when the usual presentations OF silver
services and ivory gayels were made, reso-
lutions adopted, and the Legislature ad-
journed with out day.
session, other than the appropriation bills
were the free text books and fee bills and,
both ofwhich appear in full in this paper,
and the changes made in the new Election
law as follows
The size Of the ballot is decreased one
half by omitting the addressesfof candi-
dates;onIy one set Of ballots andsample bal
lots are necessary; reduces the percent age
for party nominations from..3 to 2;increases
the time allowed for printing the ballots;
provides that the printing of the ballots
for spring elections shall be done under
the supervision of the County Commission
ers; certificates Of nominations for mem
bers of the House of Representatives shall
be filed with the County Commissioners in
stead of the Secretary of the Common
wealth; provides that one mark in circle
at the top Of a column of candidates shall
be vote for every one in that column.
Where the circle is not marked,a "a mark tor
every candidate voted for is required. A
screen, or door must be placed on the front
of each booth, thereby better securing
privacy. The bill provides for greater
thickness of paper for ballots and the
corner of the ballot folded over shall be
printed black so the number cannot be
seen through the paper. In case voter
votes for more persons than he is en- titled
to the whole ticket is not
thrown out, but SO much of it as IS proper
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ty clause of the act of 1891 is unchanged,
but penal clause is provided for anyone
who falsely represents his disability.
On Saturday Gov Pattison appoved of
the following bills:
To provide for the punishment of persons
wllfully procuring the publication OF
false statements, relating to the filing by
trustees, etc. of statements showing the
manner of investments; making appropri-
alton to the State College; to regulate the
employment and provide for the. safety Of
women and children in manufacturing and
other establishments; to provide for costs
of trials in Huntingdon county OF those
who violate the law while inmates of Re
formatory; to authorize the retention of
clerks in the Adjutant Generals Depart
ment to copy muster rolls; the Philadel
phia wharf bill; making appropriation to
pay for expenses of compiling and publish
ing of laws of the Province of Pennsylva-
mia; relating to the boundary lines between
cities and boroughs and townships; fixing
compensation Of accounting officers of
boards of charities, to apply the 180th
section Of the penal law Of March 81, 1860,
to all penal laws; making appropri alton
for bronze tablet to represent the soldiers
of the Pennsylvania Continental line on
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Trenton; providing for the incorp Grafton
Of companies toI the manufacture of sill
verware and jewelry.
Gov. Pattlson vetoed the Verona local
option bill Monday night His objections
to the bill are that it was not introduced
by the representative of the district, who
lives at Verona, and petitions, letters, ETC.,
which have been received for and against
the repeal; but the undoubted weight of
evidence in the case is favorable to the ex-
isting law, the operation OF which, he says,
has given general satisfaction and secur-
ity.
The governor attached his signature to
the general appropriation bill, which ap-
propriates about $15, 500, 900 for the ordi-
nary expenses Of the executive, judicial and
legislative departments Of the common
wealth, interest on the public debt and for
next two fiscal years, beginning June l.
These bills were all also approved by the
governor:
Authorizing railroad companies organ
lied under the laws of Pennsylvania and
operating railroads either in whole or part
ly within and partly without the state TO
increase or diminish the par value of the
shares of their capital stock; authorizing
the courts of common pleas to appoint a
competent person to inspect school houses
on complaint Of taxable citizens of any
school district in which boards Of school
directors or controllers have failed to pro-
vide and maintain proper and adequate
school accommodations for the children
who are lawfully entitled to school privi-
leges in the district and prescribing PEN
atty by removal from Office for neglect of
duty on the part of school boards; prohib-
iting the erection Of toll houses and toll
gates within the limits of any borough;
providing for the relief of needy, sick, in
jured and in case Of death burial Of indi-
gent persons whose legal place of settle
ment Is unknown; authorizing the election
of tax collectors for the term Of three years
in boroughs and townships; providing for
and the appointment Of one or more depu-
ty coroners and defining their power and
duties; providing for the consolidation Of
boroughs; authorizing the governor to pur-
chase in the name Of the commonwealth
tor the use of the western state peniten-
tiary piece Of land in the city of ALE
gheny with authority to exercise the right
Of eminent domain in making such pnr-
chase if deemed advisable for the best in
terests of the state and making an appro-
priation Of of $4,000 therefor; abolishing
fees and commissions allowed and received
by the city treasurer of Philadelphia; to
provide for the registration Of births and
deaths in the several counties; authorizing
and regulating the taking, use and occupy
ing.of certain public burial places under
certain circumstances for the purposes Of
common school education; to prevent en-
tering Of trotting or pacing horses out of
their classes; requiring scnool boards to
provide suitable outhouses for pupils; ap-
propriating $126 to the heirs Of the late
Richard Hogan Of Harrisburg for reimburs
ment Of money expended by Mr.. Hogan
for forage, quarters and subsistence of the
men and their horses comprising the Nor
ris cavalry, Pennsylvania militia, during
the year 1862.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND intends to re-