The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16

with six months Imprisonment. on any
organization or persons who shall
threaten to strike or boycott an EN-
ployer of labor If he does not discharge
non-union employees.
Illinois solons are also wrestling with
a bill to abolish capital punishment.
Representative Briquadello has intro
duced bin in the Illinois Legislature to
prohibit the manufacture, sale and CIV
ing away of cigarettes. 1t provided
that cigarettes shall include all prepar-
ations of tobacco wrapped in paper or
any kind of tobacco for such use, and
impregnated with opium, stramonium
belladonna, alcoholic liquor, valerian
tonca bean, or Mellotis, or any other
deleterious matter injurious to the
health. In any prosecution under this
act 1t shall devolve upon the defense to
show that the articles in question are
not cigarettes.
Tribunals OF Cancellation.
Tribunals in which intending litigants
are brought together before judges who
are virtually arbitrators, and their diff
ferences adjusted without the aid of
lawyers. are very popular in Sweden
!
a good effect in diminishing the amount
of litigation and saving costs. Such a
tribunal was established in North Da-
kota two years ago, and Senator The
den, of Minneapolis, has now introduced
a bill to establish such courts In Mime
sofa. 1t provides for the election of six
commissioners of conciliation in each
town Incorporated village or city. A
| justice of the peace and two commits
sioners compose court of concilia-
tion. Parties having differences to
| settle may come before this court; the
| court will hear evidence under such
rules as it may prescribe. and after the
hearing will endeavor to persuade the
they succeed. Judgment is entered in
accordance herewith. If they fail, the
regular courts are still open to the dis
putants. The commissioners receive no
compensation unless a settlement Is
effected, and then they receive the same
mileage and per diem as is now allowed
jurors.
To prevent extortion by sleeping
car companies is the object of the Ellis
worth bill, an Illinois project. Such
! corporations are declared to be common
carriers, and the maximum rates for
| the use of berths, sections and state
rooms for twenty-four hours are fixed
as follows: Lower or upper berth, 81;
one section, comprising lower and
upper birth, 81 stateroom. SO.
New Aid to Easy Divorce.
Senator Morgan, of Minnesota, has
| introduced a bill to add another cause
| to those now sufficient to secure a
divorce in that state. 1t specifies that
the excessive and habitual use of mar
cotic or other drugs to such an extent
as TO render the marital relation intol-
cradle should result in Iyiping out the
| oaths taken before Hymen'S altar.
One of the socialistic, or, more prop
erly, paternalistic schemes under con-
sideration by the Illinois Legislature
proposes to give cities and villages
power Ito regulate the sale of bread in
cities or villages, prescribe the weight
and quantity of bread in the loaf and
| the price at which the same shall be
| sold"
If the Selby bill becomes a law in
Illinois, the fool who didn't know it
was loaded" will have harder legal
shedding than he has now. This bill
| provides that whoever shall inten-
tionally aim or point any gun, revolver,
pistol or other weapon of like character
at any person or persons, except in self
defence, shah be guilty of misdemean-
or and upon conviction shall be fined
in any sum not exceeding 5000"
Stringent Corrupt Practices Act.
One of the most thorough and com
prehensive acts for the suppression OF
corrupt practices In elections ever intro
duced in an American legislative as
sembly is now pending in Minnesota,
and Is known as the Smith bill. 1t not
only makes 1t a crime to accept a brbe
with the understanding that your vote
will be cast for some particular person,
but 1t Is just as bad If you agree to vote
for any particular candidate. The
promise of any office, place or employ
ment, or a promise to endeavor to Sc
cure the same in return for a vote, is
| declared a misdemeanOr. The prOvi-
sions of the act are also made to apply
to the person furnishing the money
with the intent that 1t shall be used for
bribery. IL Is also made unlawful for
any candidate TO make any'wager upon
election results. The payment by en-
ployers of salaries in envelopes upon
which any political notices, advice or
argument. or the exhibition in any
workshop or factory of handbills in
tending to influence the votes of his en-
ployes is declared guilty of misde-
meanor. The measure also contains a
section requiring n candidate to file
complete expense lists no later than five
days after eleGtion. The expenditures
must in no case exceed the following
sums: Candidates for United States
senator, congressman. and state offices,
Except members of the legislature), and
supreme court justices. $500; legislative
I candidates, $3.50: candidates for county
| Offices, except district judges, 5000: city,
village and municipal offices, 800. ANY
infringement Is declared q misdemean-
or, and the violator thereof shall forfeit
his right to the Office for which he was
a candidate.
Stealing Mr.. O'Malley's Thunder.
Representative ,O'Malley, of the
| Fourth district is not alone in his re-
pugnance to the rattle ticket. Assem-
blyman Conkling, of New York. has
been there" too, and smarting under
these experiences has offered the fol-
lowing amendment to the penal code /.
Any person who solicits from a candi-
date for an elective office money or
other property, or who seeks to induce
such candidate to purchase any ticket,
card, or other evidence of admission to
any ball, picnic, fair, or entertainment
of any kind, is guilty Of misdemeanor;
but this section shall not apply to a
demand for contribution of money
from an authorized representative Of
the political party to which such candi-
date belongs.
There Is under consideration at AL