The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-25
Good WORK At HARRISBURG
DOingS at State Institutions Are to
BE Investigated.
THE WARREN ASYLUM SCORED
Mr.. Cochran States That Three Armstrong
County Patients Have Been Returned
Home Dead with Marks of Vic.
lcncc Upon Their Bodies.
BY the United Press.

BY the United Press.
Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 24-The house
met at II o'clock. The judiciary gen
eral committee reported negatively the
bill prohibiting the employment of any
but citizens Of the United States to
work in or about any building con-
structed or other work being done for
the state
The committee reported as committed
the bill establishing courts of appeal.
Bills were read in place as follows:
By Mr.. Rhoades, of Northumberland -
Providing that venue shall be changed
where son. brother. father or near rela-
tive of a judge shall be Interested as coun-
sci in ay cause, unless another Judge
not interested shall be called by such case.
BY Mr.. wyatt, of notwithstanding
safety automatic controllers on hosting
engines as protection to life and prop
erty.
BY Mr.. Lawrence, of Washington-Ap-
prOpriating $4,000 to the state normal
schools of the commonwealth.
BY Mr.. Cochran, of Armstrong-FOr the
taxation of malt liquors.
Mr.. Focht, of Union again called up
his resolution calling for a committee
of the Legislature to inquire into the
number of unnaturalized persons now
in the asylums and institutions of the
state, and to suggest means for their re-
turn to their respective countries. The
resolution does not apply to honorably
discharged soldiers of the Union or
National Guard of Pennsylvania.
On motion of Mr. Mattox, of Venango,
the resolution was adopted.
Bills Pass Second Reading.
The bill repeating the act preventing
the consolidating of competing pipe
lines was called UP and passed second
reading after some opposition, and on
motion of MIR. Marshall, of Alle-
gheny, the bill was recommitted to the
committee on corporations.
Other bills passed second reading as
| follows:
Dispensing with kissing the Bible in ad-
minstering oaths; requiring jurors or
viewers to complete their duties and file
a report within one year from the date of
their appointment; regulating the stand
ard weight of Il bushel of onions at fifty
pounds.
The senate resolution calling for a
committee to investigate charges made
]
| Vile asylums was presented to the
| house.
| Mr.. FOw opposed the resolution. He
said an investigation would be a need
less expense to the state. for no charges
| properly backed by afiidavits have been
| presented, and until something tangi-
BILE is before the house no step should
be taken.
The Warren Asylum.
Mr.. Armstrong offered an amendment
| including the asylum at Warren.
Mr.. Niles. of Tioga, said the senate
resolution should not be loaded down
with amendments that would kill it or
that will load the committee with worl;
ii cannot do. If there are abuses an
| Warren separate resolution for in
/ vCstigatlon should be adopted.
Mr.. Bliss, of Delaware, said that the
senate resolution was an unjust one and
directed against one of the best man.
aged institutions of the state, while
! year after year complaints have poured
in against the Warren asylum, and in
vestigations have been refused.
Mr.. Dambley, of Montgomery, said
the president of the Norristown asy-
lum trustees demanded an investiga-
tion and should have it.
Mr.. Lawrence, of Washington, de-
Tended the Warren hospital and said
there is no authentic charge against it.
Mr.. Cochran, of Armstrong, referred
to charges against the Warren asylum
made in 1893. He said that three Arm
strong county patients had been
brought home from Warren dead, with
unmistakable marks of violent usage
upon them.
The resolution was finally referred to
the committee on vice and immortality