The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-01
MANY BILLS
REJECTED !
House Refuses to Concur in the Senate's
Amendments.
FIGHT ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BILL
The Senators, Under the Lead of Losch.
successfully Prevent the Looping
OF s1.ooo,OOo From the
Appropriations After
Heated Discussion.

Harrisburg July 1.-The conrerene,
committee agreed upon a revenue bil
last night, but it was not presented {,
the house until nearly midnight. Chair
man Marshall is holding out the re
port of the conference committee OF
the general appropriation bin unit
after the house disposes Of the revenu,
bill. If it should refuse to pass tn,
amended revenue bill Governor Hast
ings says he viii be forced to cut many
Of the bills for private charities for the
want Of sufficient revenue. The biz
as amended grades the brewery IL
ceuses as follows;
Where the amount manufactured the
last year was less than 1000 barrels
the fee is placed at $3.50; less than .OOl
barrels $500; less than 5000, S4OO; less
than 5000 $500; less than 10000. $3.50:
less than 10000, 81 O00 less than 80. OO0
Sl,250; less than 100000 81 500; less than
$4,000, 81, $50; less than sc. 600. $4,000; less
than 10000, $2, 25O less than 10000. $2.-
5OO less than 10000, $780, less than
o000 $4,000; less than 10000. S4 900;
less than 100000 $4,5O0 less than 300. 600.
$4,000; over 300tCG barrels, $4,000.
The fee for distilleries, based upon
the output of the previous year. range
form 500 on an output of less than
80 barrels to S1,75O on less than 90 OOO
barrels while for over 10000 barrels
the tax is $4,000. 1t is further provided
by the conference report that when a
new distillery or brewery is licensed
the fee for the first year shall be 81 900.
there being no previous product.
The bottlers' license IN first and sec
ond class cities is placed at e5oO. thrd
class cities, $3.50; boroughs $3.50; town
ships, $125.
When the General Appropriation bill ap-
peared in the Senate to-day an amendment
was discovered to have been inserted during
the night, substituting ten million for eleven
million as the biennial school appropriation.
Senator Losch had special reason to Join
Senator Kaufman in attacking this change
Mr.. Losch was smarting under buncoing
that he complained of having suffered on the
mercantile appraiser bill and refused to let
the General Appropriation bill go to the
House with the ten million" substitution.
the one million was restored to
the school appropriation, making it Sl1,
0O0, 600.
Mr.. kaufman said the Republican party
opening the breweries"
The reduction already made in the Ex-
pense bills Of investigating and election con
test committees, together with the cutting
sure to be done, will bring them in the aggre-
gate down to about 80 per cent of their
original total of $16O,OO0 The abandonment
of S66,OOO "Lexow" bill left SQ4,0O and the
slashing into this win leave less than $50 900
as the aggregate of all the other bills.
Amusement resulted in the House by the
discovery of the enormous increases made i'm
the general appropriation by the Senate, I, {
increase of SlGs, ,s12 SO. The House refused
10 stand the raise made by the Senate in the
expense bills of the Elections Committee in
the Heller-Iauhach Senatorial contest. The
changes made in the General Appropriation
bill by the Senate were also repudiated.
The House passed finally these Senate
bills S65OO to the Chester
ounty Hospital, West Chester; $4,000 to the
PhoeniSyille Hospitals $4,000 to the Good
Hospital, Lebanon, $0277 48 to pay
Tue expenses of tho committee to investigate
She condition of the miners in the bituminous
coal regions; SGss1 25 to pay the expenses of
Vne committee to investigate the condition Of
the miners IN the anthracite regions: S1O.-
200 to st. Luke's Hospital Philadelphia; S2O.-
poo to the German Hospital, Philadelphia.
lhe bill appropriatng S5S72 10 to pay the ex
penses OF the committee to investigate the
Dleo scandal, Of which Senator Coyle is a
member, was defeated by vote of rs to "a.
Both House and Senate were in session
almost constantly until final adjournment to-
day noon. An all-night session was sched-
uled for both bodies, with a short recess at
midnight