The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-04-18
respondent among other things said

respondent among other things said
the following: Mr.. speaker, 1 have
no desire to reflect on the judiciary
of this State, but 1 do want to say
that the people of this Common
wealth are, after all, the power, and
when you come to the responsible
position of n representative | have
always thought that the prooer
views to take of it was that we are
here TO vote as the sentiment of the
people. 1t appears to me that no
man here can represent conscien-
tiously his people who does not vote
on all questions as his people desire
him to vote. / am here to vote for
my people aud when 1 do that /
think do my duty as an honest re-
preventative. There seems to be an
idea among some people that the in
telligence of this Commonwealth is
bottled up in the two hundred and
four members of this House; that
may be one view to take of legisla
tive body but it appears to me that
after all there is intelligence outside
of this body to which we ought to
pay some regard. ] stand here to-
day in opposition 10 this bill. II
seems to me that it is establishing II
bad precedent L have no desire 90
assail the integrity or the intelli-
gencc OF the Judiciary of the State.
1t is not necessary TO do that in or
der to take Just grounds against this
measure. No sensible Judge. take
- it, who j. retained in Office the time
n provided for in this bill by the suf-
frages of the people is desirous or
d willing to 20 on pension list. Men
G who receive from $4,000 to $1,000 n
: year for twenty or thirty years
should be able to live comfortably
after the age of seventy the time
specified in this bill when judges
may retire. 1t is all wrong,-the
worst kind of nonserse-to establish
civil pension list. II it were the
proper thing to do l would rather
give my vote to place deserving worn
I, out toilers in field, forest, mine or
{ shop upon such gratuity list than
men who are well paid for their SER
vic 8. 1 trust that the good sense
of this House will prevail and that
the great State of Penns ylvania
, through her Represen tatives will re-
4 main true to the people.
Il Fish Basket Biz.
This bill is still hanging in the
q balance with about equal chances to
pass. The Fish Commi ssioners and
their satellites are resorting to al
most every means to defeat it. Col
j umns have been printed in the Phil
q adelphia dailies in denounciation OF
\ this measure in answer to which
\ DIR. Warren, an eminent authority
y on geological subjects, writes as fol-
lows in the Farmers Friend:
"Some OF the Philadelphia news
papers are opposing the Fish Basket
bill for which Representative Kerr,
of York Focht, of Union, and Her
mann, of Snyder, are making most
determined fight in the House.
There is little doubt but what these
fish baskets or eel wiers do catch
scale fish as well as cells, yet never
theless it seems foolish to oppose
the passage OF the Eel Basket bill as
long as it is impossible to secure
reciprocal legislation in Maryland,
where the people are allowed to en-
ploy all kinds of fish catching de-
vices they have mind to. To any
one who is acquainted with the Sus-
lquehanna river from Sunbury to
Clark 8 Ferry it must be known that
at certain periods of the year the
river is literally full, at certain
places, of these eel and fish catching
devices. Our Fish Commissioners
literally supplied with State aid,
seem to be wholly unable to enforce
the present law and put stop to
this kind of lawless work. Why not
give up all expenditure of pubic
funds, so far as building fish ways
or restocking the Susquehanna are
concerned and devote the money to
be appropriated to our Fish Com
mission to other streams Repre-
sentatives Kerr, Focht and Hermann
are certainly supported by a large
majority of The voters residing along
the Susquehanna and it's tributaries
in the earnest efforts they are max
ing to pass this BILL
The Monster Steamship, 50. Paul,
Successfully Launched.
On the 25th of March an attempt
was made to launch this giant of
the sickness of the ways she re-
fused to move much to the disap-
pointment of the Cramps, the bull
| ders, rs well as to the thousands