The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-02-22

A Bill to Provide "a state II ONE for Con-
sumptives-For a County of Quay.
HARRISBURG, Feb. 1S-The legislature
has taken u recess for ten days in order
TINT the lawmakers may attend the muni-
cipal elections and spend Washingtons
birthday at home. Both bodies will re-
convene next Monday evening, and 1t Is
thought will buckle down to business in
earnest. Beginning Tuesday the house
will hold two sessions on Tuesdays, We'd
nesday and Thursdays, from 10 a. IN. to
/ p. m, and from 8 to o'clock In tho
afternoon.
The house two years ago did not begin
TO hold two sessions until the middle of
March. The senate is ahead of the house
with its work and will continue TO hold
one session day for at least month yet.
Old members say they have never seen in
their Legislative experience so many bills
on the house calendar AZ ut present. These
will nearly all be given careful considera-
tion, with the result that the session will
probably be extended far into May.
The governor has signed the resolution
introduced by Mr.. Focht, of Union, pro-
viding for an investigation of the state in
stitutions to ascertain how many of their
vides that the inquiry shall be mae by
committee FROM the house and senate and
two disinterested persons to be appointed
by the governor. The committee is to
make its report to the next legislature.
The comittees to investigate the man
agement of the insane hospitals at Wcr-
nersville and Norristown have been APP
pointed and will go to work next Thurs
day. Senator Goblin, of Lebanon, will
conduct the investigation.
The governor has not yet acted upon the
bill providing for an additional law Judge
for Westmoreland county. The ten days
limit expires next Friday. 1t is believed,
though, that he will sign the measure he.
fore that time
Colonel Gilkeson's Appointment.
Colonel Gilkeson, chairman of tho state
Republican committee, has been rewarded
for the admirable manner in 'Ahich he
conducted the campaign which resulted in
the election OF Governor Hastings with the
appointment of commissioner OF banking,
at salary Of $1,000 a year. The colonel
has qualified and announced the appoint
ment of Colonel L. Asbury Awl, of this
city, as deputy commissioner Colonel
Awl was appointed by Colonel Gilkeson's
predecessor. He is Democrat and pro.
tege of Ex-Governor Pattison.
Governor and Mrs. Hastings have issued
invitations for reception ut the executive
mansion on next Tuesday evening, the
26th, on the occasion Of the ffty-sixth an.
niversary of the governors birth. The re-
ception will be the most brilliant social
affair ever given at the old fashioned man
sion, and will be attended by the United
States senators from Pennsylvania, the
Judiciary, Major General Snowden and
staff, the governors staff, the three briga-
dier generals and their respective staffs
and other state dignitarles. The mansion
will be brilliantly decorated and illumi-
mated. An addition Is being built TO the
dining room for the occasion. Mrs. Has
tings will be assisted in receiving by the
wife of Lieutenant Governor Lyon and
the ladies of the cabinet. This will be the
third and final reception at the mansion
this season.
Senator Kaufman, of Lancaster, the
leader of the anti Cameron senators, star
tied the senate last Thursday with q yigor-
GUS protest against the creation Of new
Offices in general and against the bill al
lowing the superintendent Of public in
struction "a stenographer in particular
The bill originally provided for a salary Of
l,50O year, but the amount was reduced
to $1,000, and then the measure passed
finally. The extravaganza of the legisla-
ture has alarmed the governor, and he has
concluded to call a halt The members
have shown a disposition to create new
offices galore and pass all manner of ap-
propriations and throw the responsibility
of disposing of them upon the governor.
General Hastings doesn't propose to stand
this, and after the recess he will send a
message to the legislature calling atten
tion to the fact that the hard times have
impaired the state revenues and that
greater econoLly must be practiced with
the peoples money.
To Investigate Philadeli ,hia Politics.
When the senate reconvenes rosolu-
tion will be offered for committee to in.
vestigate the municipal affairs of Phila.
delphia Senator Quay is credited with
being behind the proposed investi gation,
his purpose being to crush his former
lieutenants, Senator Porter and David
Martin. 1t has not yet been determined
who Will be chairman of the COMMITTEES
but 1t is thought the honor will go to Sen.
ator Kennedy, of Allegheny, warm per
sonai friend of Senator Quay. There is q
unanimous sentiment among the QUAY
b. COnuuct
the investigation, but he has declined. He
will be member of the committee.
Chairman Niles, of the house general
judiciary committee, has introduced a
local taxation bill similar to the New York
law, which he will press in preference to
the new revenue bill drafted by the state
tax conference, of which he Is a member
Mr.. Niles bill provides that all lands and
personal estate, except property used for
public purposes, actual places of religious
worship, places for burial not used for pri
vate or corporate profit, and institutions
Of purely public charity, whether owned
by corporations or individuals, shall bt
liable to taxation, and that all laws ex
empting property from taxation other thar
that enumerated shall be void. The WORD
'land' is defined to mean everything
within the common parlance that may b,
30 designated The bill puts a construc
tion on the words personal estate" tt
include furniture, money, goods, debit
due from solvent debtors whether O.