The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-03-20

House. which passed by vote of l5l to
p. What its fate will be in the Senate
remains to be seen; neither is it known
how the Governor stands on the question.
In the Senate the following bills passed
finally: Appropriating $4,000 TO widen
the Delaware river channel from Phiia-
delphia to the sea; the Greater Pitts
burg;" relating to actions commenced by
attachment and pleading therein; To
permit the consolidation Of traction and
motor power companies; 20 establish an
intermediate court of appeals, TO be
known rs the supreme Court; requiring
railroad companies to fence their lines in
Crawford county; providing for the pay
ment OF the expenses of the inaugura-
ton.
The following bills were introduced in
the Senate: creating the Office of fire
marshall in cities of the third class /;
amending the high license law so that
when a majority of the resident property
owners Of district protest against a Ii
cense, it shall be refused; requiring spec
iiicaiions Tor work TO be furnished and a
proper temperature maintained for EN-
ploye> IN textile fabric factories fixing a
weeks work at iifty-iive hours for women
and children appropriaiing $4,000 for a
monument TO General Anthony Wayne /;
raising the age OF chiid-labor from thir-
teen To fourteen years to entitle owners
of property destroyed by a mob or riot
10 recover damages from the county; re-
guiring employers to provide seats for
females when not actively engaged in the
discharge of their duties; permitting
corporations not organized for profit TO
hold real estate TO an amount the clear
yearly value or income of which shall
not exceed 5000; authorizing the Secre-
tary Of Internal Affairs to construct mill
tary highways forty miles apart across
the state al right angles with the state
line, the ccst not 10 exceed 5000 per
year; changing the age of consent from
10 years TO Is; authorizing boards of
health in cities of the third class to regu-
late house draining and plumbing; Great
ing the Office OF Deputy Auditor General
and fixing his salary at 5000; requiring
the public schools 10 be managed and
conducted by citizens educated therein.
The Senate adjourned on Thursday, 10
meet next Monday evening at 8 O'Clock.
In the House the following bills were
passed finally: making it misdemoanor
for any public school teacher while in the
performance Of his or her duty in the
schoOl-Toom 10 wear any dress, mark,
emblem or insignia indicating the fac,
that such teacher Is q member of any re-
ligi0us order. sect or denomination: au-
thorizing notaries public, prothonotaries,
and clerks of courts 10 administer oaihs
and take affidavitS in proceedings in di-
vorce; authorizing cities of the second
class 10 establish bureaus of plumbing
and house drainage; 10 provide for a
more speedy and efIectual manner of col
leo;ing road and poor taxes; amending
the act OF ls;i3 prohibiting chief burgess
from holding any other borough office
during the term for which he is elected I;
repeating the act requiring miners in the
anthracite regions To be examined; pro-
viding for the election of two assistant
assessors to assist in making the triennial
assessment, the pay Of such officers TO be
s. per day.
The bin aboiishing days Of grace was
amended by the House SO as u provide
''that all notes. bills of exchange. drafts,
checks or other papers falling due On
Sunday or on legal holiday or half-hol
iday observed ~ such shall be deemed TO
be due on the next business day thereaf-
ter" and then passed finally.
The following bills were introduced in
the House: 10 regulate and establish the
fees TO be charged by conSta5les; provid-
ing that the Secretary of Agriculture
shall discharge the duties pertaining TO
the Weather Service Bureau, heretofore
imposed upon the Secretary of Internal
Affairs; permitting religions societies to
use school houses in the several school
districts; apprcpriating Sis,0)) for the
erection Of an equestrian statue to the
late Major General John f. Hartranft on
the Capitol grounds. Section two of this
biil provides that the Governor. State
Treasurer ana Auditor General. with
representative of the survivors Of the
Fiily-first regiment Pennsylvania Volun-
teeTs. and representative from each of
the Pennsylvania regiments which COM
prised the division under Major General
HaTtranft's command at the battle of
Fort Sieadman, shall constitute COM
mission 10 procure the statue and cause it
to Toe erected on the Capitol grounds; to
prohibit the wanton and unlawful de-
siructioD OF game; 10 repeal an act relat-
ing to hucksiering in Bedford, Franklin,
Fulton and York counties, 50 far As it
relates 70 Bedford county; protecting
employees frOrs being compelled to take
cut accident policies of insurance; for the
destruction sf weaseis and providing a
bounty OF fifty cents for every one killed;
making April lst 70 December lst closed
season for the killing OF racooOns, skunks,
opoSsums, minks and musk-rats: pro-
viding for local option in the granting of
liquor licenses; prescribing the branches
in which applicants for permanent Ger
tificates shall be examined; amending
the act Of April %. 1894, providing for the
of companies for buying,
selling. trading and dealing in any kind
Of goods or merchandise al wholesale; 10
the establishment of the State
School Directors Association: prohibit
ing the levying or collecting of any Ii
cense OF other taxes by any municipality
from persons or corporations not residing
gF having a business location therein
Fepealing paragraph two, section four. of
the Act of April -. 1884. relating to coun-
ty rates and levies, providing for the re-
covery of damages by land owners from
Isgs deposited along rivers OF the State !
by the breaking of boonss; 10 regulate |
The disposition Of state money to chsIita- |
BILE and other institutions not directly |
under state control; 10 provide for the |
Of paid or partly paid fire |
departments in cities of the third class;
70 prohibit the soliciting Of orders for |
goods or merchandise of any kind in the |
several bOroughs of the Commonwealth, |
md providing penalty therefor.
Friday being petition day in the House,
he usual variety of subjects was resolnt- |
u, petitioned and demonstrated upon to
he number of eighty-two petitions
The House adjourned on Friday to
nset al : o'clock on Monday evening.
The Governor has approved the follow