The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-03-29

four only. This will give the Democracy
one representative on the bench The
court snail sit once n year at Phladel-
phia Pittsburg, HARRISBURG Williams
port and Scranton, and shall have jurisdis-
diotion In less than $1,000.
Journalists on Hastings' staff
Governor Hastings has three nowspa-
per men in his military family A month
ago the governor appointed Henry Hall,
the bright and versatile legislative cor
respondent Of the PittsburR Times, and
James Elvorson, Jr., publisher OF tho
Philadelphia Inquirer aides on his staff
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Last
| week the governor announced the appoint
ment of George n. Mccain, legislative cor.
respondent of the Philadelphia Press, as
an aide on his staff with the rank Of lieu.
tenant colonel. C6lonels Hall and Nc
Cain are two of the brightest and most
popular newspaper men In the state, and
their appointment is u credit to the gov
ernor. Colonel Hall is president Of the
Harrisburg Newspaper Correspondents
association and member of the Wash
ington and Pittsburg Press clubs.
Mr.. Schwarz, OF Monroe, has introduced
bill In the house to make lawyers of pro-
thonotaries who have served three full
terms. Mr. Schwarz's friends are having
lots OF fun out of the bill by forwarding
him number Of amendments to be Of
fered on second reading. Among the pro-
posed changes suggested is one creating
| physicians out of doctors hostlers An
other makes court house janitors full
hedged lawyers. A third compels county
superintendents to grant certificates to
school house janitors and compels boards
nj afNN Too. a
creates Changers out of railway employees
who handle fertilizers
At the request of the coored people
Of the state bill has been introduced by
Representative Haywood, OF Fayette, max.
ing February H. the anniversary Of the
birth of Lincoln, legal holiday. Mr..
Page has bill to provide for the inspcc-
tion of all private or public hospitals, re-
formatory houses, converts, asylums, ,secta-
rian seminaries, schools or institutions by
the commissioners of the county in which
said institution is situated, by the grand
| jury thereof or by any person appointed
by the court Of record upon petition
signed by twenty persons.
The bill creating the office of state Gus
todian is in the hands of the governor. 1t
passed the final stage in the house last week
and was amended by changing the name
of the Office from custodian" to super
intendent" The senate concurred in the
amendments. The governor will sign the
bill during the week and nominate Cap
tain John G. Delaney, of this city, to the
Office created by it.
The Governors Presidential Boom.
Governor Hastings friends are making
an energetic canvass in behalf of his can
didacy for the presidential nomination in
1896. Since Senator Quay has declared for
the governor his friends have received
pledges Of support from many of the most
active political leaders in the state. A. NJ.
| High, of Reading, has already announced
| his candidacy for delegate to the next ma
tional Republican convention, with the un-
derstanding that If elected he will support
Governor Hastings. Nine years ago Mr..
High was the first delegate elected to the
national convention from Pennsylvania.
He was for Blaine and supported the man
from Maine until the finish. AS the Berks
count primaries will be the first in the
state for national delegate the result will
be watched with interest, as 1t will indicate
to degree of certainty the strength OF
the Hastings sentiment.
The house has shown disposition to
kill the bill allowing justices of the peace
to try certain petty cases by jury of six.
The bill was up last Wednesday, and after
much debate it was postponed for the
present to prevent its defeat. Under the
bill the defendant asks for the trial and
valves all right of appeal, but the testi-
mony and verdict can be reviewed by the
court. The cases which come under the
provisions of the bill arc as follows: AS
sault and battery, blasphemy, larceny,
where the amount does nor exceed $40;
disturbing public meetings, cruelty to an
imals, selling unwholesome provisions,
revealing telegraphic dispatches, cheating
innkeeT.rs, firing woods and malicious
mischief, trespass and cutting down tim
ber The country members want the bill,
but the city members are against it.
In the Interest OF Retailers.
A bill which is intended to largely in
crease the revenues of the retail liquor
dealers is now pending on the second
reading calendar of the house 1t was in
troduced by Representative Mackrell of
Allegheny, and is being backed by the
recently organized State League of Retail
Liquor Dealers On its face it seems to be
very ordinary bill, in that it merely
amends the wholesale liquor law so as to
prevent wholesale dealers and grocers
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in less quantities than a gallon, instead of
a quart, as at present. When the great
quantity Of wines and liquors purchased
by the quart from grocers and certain
wholesale dealers for family use is taken
into consideration the Importance of the
measure can be readily seen. Should the
NJ ackrell bill become a law it would prac-
tically force grocers out of the business, as
most of their sales are by quart bottles,
and then the entire traffic would go into
the hands of the retail saloon keepers.
Every person desiring quart of liquor for
household purposes would, under the pro-
posed law, have to go to saloon to get it.
A mild sensation was created in the
senate Saturday by the introduction of
the Baker rapid transit bill. The new
measure is very general in character and
Is to remedy the defect in the present law
which prevents the construction of elevated
roads. 1t applies only to such corpora
tions which have been or may be organ
lied under the general railroad act of 1868,
or have accepted its provisions The bill
will probably be vigorously antagonized
by the street railway interests, but from
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