The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-04-24
Harrisburg Letter.


er committees never get before any
committees, but arc pigeonholed.
\ resolution TO place on the calendar
the bill prohibiting railroad companies
from charging more than two cents per
mile for passenger fares, negatived by the
Committee on Railroads, was voted down.
Upon a reconsideration ofthe vote by
which the bill authorizing township su-
pervisors 70 erect buildings for holding
elections. and storing road machinery
dc, was defeated on second reading.
The Farr compulsory educational bill
which passed the House March 5th, has
been reported from Senate committee
with amendments, one of which provides
for truant room in each school house,
and another changes the name of the
truant officer to attendance officer, aud
gives him s. per day.
The Senate defeated the bill providing
for the appointment of game commits
sioners, which creates six new offices but
gives them no compensation except trav-
cling and contingent expenses. A mo-
tion was at once made 10 reconsider the
vote by which the bill was killed and
this being carried its further considera-
ton was postponed for the present.
The House bill permitting cities and
boroughs 10 appropriate money for memo
rial Day services has been reported from
the Senate committee with an amend
mont to include Independence Day.
There was an exciting scene, in the
HOUSE when the Muehlbronner bill pro-
viding for the unconditional repeal of the
oleomargarine law came up on second
reading. Owing to the confusion which
prevailed the clerk could not hear the re-
sponses on the roll called and the correc-
ton OF the record was the occasion OF
much Ill feeling among members who
crowded around the clerks desk. The
bill was Overwhelmingly defeated-yeas
80, nays ll3.
The act TO restrain and regulate the sale
OF dairy products was fought by the
Granger element in the House and the
bill was indefinitely postponed by vote
ofl02 to 20.
The bills preventing cruelty to animals
prohibiting the sale of vinous or spiritu-
Gus liquors by wholesale dealers and
storekeepers in less quantities than one
gallon providing that public funds shall
not be appropriated % institutions con
controlled wholly or in part 10y any secta-
rian society, passed second reading in the
House.
The Chairman the House Committee
on Iiaics offered resolution, which was
unanimously agreed TO, fixing Thursday,
May 2}d, a noon, as the hour for final adj
ionrnmeut of the Legislature, ifthe SEN
alc coucurrei IN the same.
In response to resolution from the
House. state Treasurer Jackson reports
the following balance in the Treasury
March 3ist, 1898, less advances made to
the Legislature, :, ,2Si, ,so5.59; the amount
still due on account Of appropriations for
1888, and which includes the common
school appropriation balance TOR 1885 Of
s., 5Go,O 900 amount TO $3.50, ,32l.G1. In this
total slm there are appropriations to five
charitable associations and to the Sol
d.ers' Orphans industrial schools, OF
which no part has been drawn from the
Treasury. amounting to Sl03, 800.
The estimate of the ordinary revenues
ofthe State for the current year ending
November 30th, ls9j, amounts 10 :, ,S25,-
100. From this is to be deducted $3.50
$7L50, transferred to the sinking fund,
leaving an estimated revenue of 81, 3D.
72}.50, total for the two years ending
November 39lh, 1896, Of SIS, S,9Il, 45T.
In reply 70 the fourth question as 10 the
probable amount of revenue which could
be derived during each of the next two
years from taxation of sixteen cents per
barrel on malt liquors brewed in the State
State Treasurer Jackson says:
- desire 10 say am not in possession
of the data necessary TO make such an es-
| timato. The number of barrels brewed
in Pennsylvania annually could probably
be had from the Internal Revenue De-
partment of the general Government"
By a resolution the Greater Pittsburg"
bill was made a special order for second
reading in the House next Tuesday, and
final passage, on Wednesday. Other
special orders were granted as follows ::
| increasing the salary of the Adjutant
| General from $500 to 5000; Senate bill
providing that school book shall not be
changed more than once in five years /;
providing for the taxation OF aliens; the
Smith bill providing new method for
the distribution of the State school fund /;
and number Of fothers-fourteen in all
more than can be reached on the dates
specified.
Alta meeting of the Democratic State
Committee last Wednesday, Robert Z.
Wright. OF Allentown, was elected chair
man by acclamation. Score another for
Harrity. Hon. James Kerr, of Clearfield
county, was the candidate of the "inde-
pendent and aEbossed'' Democrats.
Benjamin f. Haywood, the present
cashier of the Treasury under Colonel
Jackson, is . prominent candidate for
State Treasurer, and his nomination by
the Republican convention which meets
next August, seems to be almost Ger
tainty.
Messrs. r. n. Linton of the Somerset
Dsa1-rg', Warren Worth Bailey, ofthe
JohnstoNn Democrat, Hon. l.. ID. Wood
ruff and F. J. o'Connor. of Johnstown
were in the city during the session of the
Democratic State Committee.
II the Senate the following bills. among
osAers, passed finally; diiinins the sew
efal methods Of life insurance authorized
by iHw, and extending protection to, and
Furnishing fraud upon foreign and domes-
tic life. accident and casualty indemnify
Insurance companies; relating II the
location of bfrial grounds by cemetery
companies; extending the time for the
completion OF railways already chartered;
authorizing the Fish Commission to ap-
point thirty fish war,lens at 500 per an
nam each; 70 prohibit prize fighting and
TO regulate boxing with gloves; to pro-
vide for the punishment of bribery at
nominating, primary and general elec-
ti0ns ; increasing the charge for mainte-
nance in the Elwyn Training Schaol for
Feeb!e-Minded Children from 800 to sI75;
providing that one burial permit shall be
a sufficient authority for interment in
cemetery that Is partly within the limits
of two or more municipalities to COM
pensa.e the members of the National
Guard who contracted typhoid fever at
Gettysburg onc2GPmenis (the amounts
viii aggregate shout four thousand dol
lars , requiring specifications for works
10 be furnished and proper temperature
maintained for employees in factories;
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