The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15
RECORD OF THE DAY.
Measures Introduced in House and Sen
ate-Bills Passed Finally.
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BY the United Press.
Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 1.-THE house
met at 10 o'clock. Speaker Walton an
nounced the following committee on the
part of the house to investigate the
affairs of the Wernersville asylum:
Messrs. Cochran. of Armstrong; Gould,
of Erie; Pomeroy, Of Franklin; Pritch-
ard, of Blair, and PARCELS, of Mifiiin.
Among the bills reported favorably
were the following: Prohibiting any
one from holding both bottler's and
brewers licenses; preventing railroads
from crossing streets at grade in cities
of the gand second class.
Bills were read in place as follows:
BY Mr.. Gould, of Erie. appropriatlng
s243, 900 to the soldiers home at Erie:
by Mr.. Harvey, of Luzerne, requiring
county commissioners to appoint fire
inspector in each county; by Mr.. Coch-
rane, of Armstrong, to prevent the
exhibition of physical or mental de-
formlties in public places; by Mr.. Lit
tley, Of Philadelphia, giving to each
senator and member two free scholar
ships in the State college, and to the
state at large ten.
When the compulsory education bill
was reached on the calendar it was not
called up.
Senate Proceedings.
The senate met at II o'clock. The
following bills We're introduced: BY
Mr.. Saylor. for the publication of the
Pennsylvania archives, also changing
Labor Day to the first Monday of Sep
tember; by Mr.. Goblin, to pay funeral
expenses and expenses during the i'll
ness Of members of the Ninth regiment
who contracted typhoid fever during
the last encampment at Gettysburg.
The governor sent in the following
nominations, which were confirmed:
Alderman, j. NJ. Lehman, Johnstown;
justice of the peace, s. C. Zerfass, Lam
caster; notaries public, X. II. Lloyd,
York; C. f. Dahlen, S. +. Gardner, w.
+. Stoll, C. w. Miller c. p. Blight and
]. W. Martin, Lycoming.
Mr.. Kaufman took occasion. when
the bill authorizing the superintendent
Of public instruction to employ a skilled
stenographer and typewriter at a
salary of $1,000 came up, to denounce
the indiscriminate passage of measures
increasing salaries and the clerical
force of different departments.
Mr.. Snyder thought it unfair to dis
criminate between the different depart
ments, his argument being that ex-
travagance in one department author
lied 1t in another.
The salary was cut down to 81, 200 and
the bill laid over for printing.
Bills Passed Finally.
The following bills were among those
that passed finally: Extending the pro-
visions Of the act authorizing boards
of education In cities of the second
class to establish schools for instruction
In the mechanic arts to cities of the
third class; providing for an additional
law judge In the Potter district; pro-
viding for the licensing of buildings In
which theatrical, operatic and circus
performances are held.
The senate accepted an Invitation
from Captain Pratt, of the Carlisle In.
dian Training school. to attend the com.
mencement exercises In a body on the
afternoon of Feb. 2S.
Judicial Apportionmcnt.
The judicial apportionment commit
tee Of the house has finished its labors
and made some changes In the districts
as now constituted The re-apportion
ment reduces the number of district,
from fifty-two to fifty. The following
are the changes: Clarion Is attached
to Jefferson and given an additiona
law Judge until next election, when 4
will go back to one Judge again. TIL,
object Is to make jefferson the presld
ing county.
Cameron is taken from Clinton ant
Elk and placed with Mexican and Pot
ter. Washington gets an additiona
law Judge Montour is added to North
cumberland. Wayne is attached to Sus
quehanna and Center Is made separat,
district. Wyoming and Sullivan ar,
added to Columbia. Westmoreland Il
made the Tenth district and given an