The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-14
HARRISBURG CAILY DECKED
The Blizzard Does Not Chill Its Re
publican Enthusiasm.
LARGE CROWDS ARE EXPECTED
Some Of the Scrantonians Who Will Help
to Inaugurate Governor Hastings-Gen.
eral Interest Manifested in the
Compulsory Education Fight.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.


Harrisburg, Jan. 13.-Preparatdons
for the inaugural ceremonies on Tues
day are now almost complete. The cIty
Is gayly decorated, and when to this
multi-colored adornmeIlt shall be added
the tone coIlorlng of vibrant bands and
the blare and sheen of marching bodies
of soldiery and civilians, the aggregate
result will doubtless be midwinter
spectacle resplendent in all the essen
oials of great pageantry. Today's sud
den dispensation of Manitoba weather
may, If prolonged, keep some of the
numerous thousands of prospective
visitors at home, but even If 1t should,
there will yet be sufficient people in
Harrisburg on Tuesday to make the
Inauguration a huge and exceptional
success in point of attendance at least.
Lieutenant Governor Watres will
pilot party of Scrantonians here to-
morrow. Among them will be Colonel
+. H. Ripple, chairman of the Lacka-
wanna County Republican committee,
Lieutenant Colonel Coursen, Adjutant
W. S. Millar and several others. Both
house and senate will be in session to-
morrow night; and in addition to this
attraction leading politicians from all
parts of the commonwealth are eX-
pected to be here and discuss the latest
sensational phase of Pennsylvania Re-
publican politics, embodied in the Quay
Martin break and the Philadelphia
mayoralty campaign.
Interest in Compulsory Education.
The subject of compulsory education
is forging rapidly ito the front. Con-
siderable interest is manifested in the
bill which Representative Seyfert in
troduced last Thursday. Mr.. Seyfer'
has letter from State Superintendent
Schaeffer in which the latter says Mr..
.Seyferts bill is the best act of the kind
he has ever seen. 1t is known the state
superintendent is not particularly fav-
orable to compulsory education, and he
SO states in his letter, but he says If
any such law must be enacted he hopes
dt will be the Seyfert bill. Mr.. Seyfert
also has letters from number of other
well known educators indorsng the
provisions of his bill The Seyfert bill
requires that each child between the ages
of and Is years shall attend for at least
sixteen consecutive weeks in each year
some public or private school. 1t does
not, however. apply to any child that is
instructed for a like period of time in the
common English branches, or whose men-
tai or physical condition renders such at
tendance impracticable, or who lives more
than two miles from any school. Viola
tions of this provision by any parent or
guardian shall be punished by fine of IS
for the first offense, and by fine not
exceeding $50; or Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding thirty days, or both, for each SUBJ
sequent offense. These fines shall go into
the school fund. Provision is made for
absence from school in case contagious
or infectious diseases are prevailing in
homes of pupils. The school boards are
required to appoint one or more "truant
officers" whose duty it shall be, acting
discreetly. to apprehend all children be-
tween the ages specified above who hab-
itually frequent or loiter about public or
other places and place them in such
schools as the directors may designate re-
ceiving such compensation therefor as the
school board may fix. The school boards
may establish separate truant school
buildings for such children, but none con-
victed OF crimes or miSdemeanor other
than truancy shall be sent there. In addi-
tion to the common English branches in
dustrial training shall be impaired in the
truant schools. Another deputy superin-
tendent of public instruction Is to be ap-
pointed, at a salary Of $lSO0 and travel
ing expenses, whose duty it shall be to
luNtStledlt anu TtpOTt lHe eSlCHl u WHICH
the law is complied with and enforced,
and where any city or district wilfully
omits and refuses to comply with and
enforce 1t, the superintendent of public IN
struction may withhold from 1t one-half
Of the state school appropriation.
1t will be noticed that this bill diff
fers from Mr.. Farrs bill chiefly in per-
mitting occasional absences from
school, In creating a new state Office
and in Withholding state funds from
disobedient districts. Its penalties are
also more stringent. Mr.. Farr's bill
had the Endorsement of the Junior Or
der, United American Mechanics, last
session 1t has been indorsed by the
German Lutheran church synod. 1t
has also been approved by a number
Of priests of the Catholic church. Mr..
Farr also has some communications
from well-known educators favoring
the main ideas Of his bill.
The ant-company store bill which
Representative OMalley on Friday re-
ported favorably from the judiciary
general committee was introduced by
Representative Wyatt, of Schuylkill
county, and possesses points of inter-
est. 1t
prompts any mining or manufacturing
corporation or limited partnership from
engaging in or carrying on by direct or
indirect means any store or stores known
as company store or general supply store
They shall not directly or Indirectly COM
pei their employees to buy at any particu-
lar store, nor shall they through their
officers or stockholders or any rule or
regulation of their business contract
with the owners or keepers of any store
whereby their employees shall be obliged
to trade there, and any such contract
shall be violation of the law and all
moneys or values expended thereon shall
be recoverable by law with per cent
added, to go to the employe, and 500 fine
to go to the school district wherein the
suit is brought No assignment of wages,
under the provisions of this act shall be
valid, nor any agreement that relieves
such corporations or limited partnerships
from paying their employees In lawful
money of the United States. 1t shall be
the duty OF the factory inspector and his
deputies to bring action In the name of
the commonwealth for violations Of the
law upon the complaint of any citizen
The State Board Of Charities has re-
quested the house appropriation COM
mittee to appropriate $4,000 for the
erection Of a hospital at Hyde Park
s111.000 to the Scranton hospital, and
$4,000 to the Pennsylvania Oral school
Scranton.