The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-06-05

The House met at 10 O'Clock and began
consideration of a mixed calendar, compris-
ing Senate and Appropriation bills. The
bill appropriating $4,000 for the Valley
Forge Park Commission passed finally. 1t
also authorizes the Commissioners to accept
gifts of money or land, and to permit the
United States or any State to erect monu-
ments or other memorials on the ground
acquired or to be acquired for said park.
fhe bill to pay to Henry A. Colwell, for
merly of the Kittanning Iron and Steel
Company S43750, being the amount OF
bonus paid into the State Treasury, was
defeated. Appropriation bills were passed
finally as follows, and rushed to the SEN
ate Howard Hospital, $4,000; West Side
Hospital, $4,000. The Senate bill granting
pensions to enlisted men from this State
who were in the service Of the United
States at the outbreak of the Rebellion
who are not pensioners nor applicants
therefor under the United States statutes
were recommitted to the Committee on
Pensions and Gratuities. The Senate bill
to empower the Governor to suspend
the State qarantines, etc, and to aban-
don the present Lazaretto, passed second
reading. Senate bill to prevent fraud in
the sale of transoceanic passage receipts,
orders or tickets passed finally unamendedi
as did also the following: Permitting the
establishment of free public libraries in the
several school districts, except in cities OF
the first and second class; authorizing the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to
employ a stenographer and typewriter; pro-
viding for the publication Of an extra edi-
tion of the State publication, Pennsylvania
at Gettysburg.
The Senate bill authorizing road super
visors to erect a suitable building in which
| to hold elections, store machinery and tran
sact township business passed finally as
amended.
Senate bill authorizing and requiring the
entering and indexing Of judgments and de-
crees Of the United States Circuit and Dis
| trict Courts for the purpose Of lien within
| the several counties was defeated.
Senate bill authorizing Courts of Com
mon Pleas to decree the dissolution of Ger
tain corporations in certain cases and tC
order the sale of their real estate and make
distribution of the proceeds thereof passed
finally.
After concurring in Senate amendments
to a few unimportant House bills, thi
House adjourned at / O'Clock until thii
afternoon at 3.
AFTERNOON SESSION,
The House met at O'Clock. Speaker
| Walton announced that the bill to repea
the law of 1873, which provides for the di
vision of counties and the creation of new
counties, was on special order at this time
Mr.. Harvey (Luzerne,) moved TO post
pone the special order until the same hou
on Wednesday afternoon. The motion wa
agreed to.
The House concurred in the Senate
amendments to the following bills: Making
an appropriation to the Danville Insant
Asylum. The amendment does not chang
the amount in the appropriation. To pre-
vent the adulteration of milk by so called
preservation companies, The bill wa
amended by inserting the words "Sale 0
offering for sale.' Requiring tax col
! lectors to give a numbered tax receip
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