Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-03-28

the five judges each elector shall vote fol
four only. This will give tho Democracy
one representative on the bench. The
court shall sit once year at Philadel.
phla, Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Williams
port and Scranton, and shall have jurisdis-
diction in less than 1000
| Journalists on Hastings StaT.
Governor Hastings has three newspa-
per men in his military family A month
ago the governor appointed Henry Hall,
the bright and versatile legislative cor
respondent of the Pittsburg Times, and
James Elverson, Jr, publisher of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, aides on his staff
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Last
week the governor announced the appoint
ment of George n. Mccain, Legislative cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Pi d as
an aide on his staff with the ranl. OF - III
tenant colonel Colonels Hall and Nc
Cain are two of the brightest and most
popular newspaper men in the state, and
their appointment is credit to the gov
ernor' Colonel Hall is president of the
Harrisburg Newspaper Correspondents
association and a member of the Wash
lngton and Pittsburg Press clubs.
MIR. Schwarz, of Monroe, has introduced
a bill in the house to make lawyers of pro-
thonotaries who have served three full
terms. Mr. Schwarz's friends are having
lots of fun out of the bill by forwarding
him number of amendments to be of
fered on second reading. Among the pro
posed changes suggested is one creating
physicians out of Doctors hostlers An
other makes court house janitors full
nedged lawyers. A third compels county
superintendents to grant certificates to
school house janitors and compels boards
or education to employ them. Another
creates Changers out of railway employees
who handle fertilizers.
AT tho request of the oolored people
OF the state bill has been introduced by
Representative Haywood, of Fayotte, max
ing February 1S, the anniversary of the
birth of Lincoln, legal holiday. Mr..
Page has n bill to provide for the inspec-
tion of all private or public hospitals, re-
formatory houses, converts asylums secta-
rian sominaries schools or institutions by
the commissioners of the county in which
said institution is situated, by the grand
jury thereof or by any person appointed
by the court of record upon petition
signed by twenty persons.
The bill creating the office of state Gus
todian is in the hands of the governor. 1t
passed the final stage in the house last week
and was amended by changing the name
of the office from custodian" to super
intendent." The senate concurred in the
amendments. The governor will sign the
bill during the week and nominate Cap
tain John G. Delaney, of this city, to the
office created by it.
The Governors Presidential Boom.
Governor Hastings friends are making
an energetic canvass in behalf of his can
didacy for the presidential nomination in
1896 Since Senator Quay has declared for
the governor his friends have received
pledges of support from many of the most
active political leaders in the state. A. NJ
High, of Reading, has already announced
his candidacy for delegate to tho next ma
tional Republican convention, with the un-
derstanding that If elected he will support
Governor Hastings. Nine years ago Mr.
High was the first delegate elected to the
national convention from Pennsylvania.
He was for Blaine and supported the man
from Maine until the finish. AS the Berlls
count primaries will be the first in the
state for national delegate the result will
be watched with interest, as it will indicate
to degree of certainty the strength of
the Hastings sentiment
The house has shown disposition to
kill the bill allowing justices of the peace
to try certain petty cases by jury of six.
| The bill was up last Wednesday, and after
much debate 1t was postponed for the
| present to prevent it's defeat Under the
bill the defendant asks for the trial and
valves all right of appeal, but the testi-
mony and verdict can be reviewed by the
| court. The cases which come under the
| provisions of the bill are as follows: AS
sault and battery, blasphemy, larceny,
| where the amount does nor exceed $40;
disturbing public meetings, cruelty to an
imals, selling unwholesome provisions,
revealing telegraphic dispatches, cheating
innkeepers, firing woods and malicious
mischief, trespass and cutting down tim
Der. The country members want the bill,
but the city members are against it.
In the Interest of Retailers.
A bill which Is intended to largely in
| crease the revenues of the retail liquor
dealers is now pending on the second
reading calendar of the house. 1t was in
troduced by Representative Macl1rell, of
| Allegheny and is being backed by tho
recently organized State League of Retail
| Liquor Dealers. On its face it seems to be
n very ordinary bill, in that it merely
amends the wholesale liquor law so as to
| prevent wholesale dealers and grocers
from selling spirituous or vinous liquors
in less quantities than gallon, instead of
| quart, as at present. When the great
| quantity of wines and liquors purchased
| by the quart from grocers and certain
wholesale dealers for family use is taken
into consideration the Importance of the
measure can be readily seen. Should the
| NJ ackrell bill become law it would prac-
tically force grocers out of the business, as
most of their sales are by quart bottles,
and then the entire traffic would go into
the hands of the retail saloon keepers.
Every person desiring quart of liquor for
household purposes would, under the pro-
posed law, have to go to saloon to get it.
A mild sensation was created in the
senate Saturday by the introduction of
the Baker rapid transit bill. The new
measure is very general in character and
Is to remedy the defect in the present law
which prevents the construction of elevated
roads. 1t applies only to such corpora
tions which have been or may be organ
lied under the general railroad act of 1868,
| or have accented its proyistons The hill