The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-30
HASTINGS CUTS
EXPENSE BILLS !
Many liens DisapprOved Por Reason Of
Being Excessive.
THE COMMITTEES FARE BADLY
The Eli Appropriating s5,s72.l5 For Bx-
ponses Of the Dairy and Food Com
mission Of Which Coyle was
Member, Was Cut
So, ,1eO.24.

AAeii lobuAbr July oVs - Inc People e
fish bin and the bin creating the office
Of fish warden at a salary of 81, 200 a
year were vetoed yesterday by the gov
ernor. The executive signed the bills
appropriatng $4,000 to pay the expen-
ses of the Heller -Laubach senatorial
contest from Northampton county The
result Of the governors labor on the
mercantile tax measure, general appro-
priation and Simon electric light bills
will be announced this evening. The
governor also disposed of all the ex-
pense bills of the various legislative
investigating committees. In nearly
every case he disapproves the items In
favor of members for sleeping berths
parlor and dining car charges. car
riage hire, mileage, telegram and tele-
phone messages"
These items for sleeping berths, parlor and
dining car charges, kilograms and telegraph
messages, preparing reports, clerk hire and
personal expenses, are vetoed in the bin of
the Oleo Investigating Committee: William
Teas, Montgomery. S497 go; Fred W. Turner.
Armstrong, $503 James Schofeld. Centre.
1904 John J. Coyle, Schuylkill, $3.50 Walter
T. Merrick, Tioga $3.50.
The item Of $500 in favor of Sergeant-at-
Arms Wyatt, of the House. for mileage and
attendance upon committee, is also vetoed.
All the items in the bill of s11 AIS 40 in
favor of the Bituminous Investigating Com
mittee are approved except the following:
Henry d. Saylor, Montgomery, S756. oil .
Alfred w. Milleisen, Cumberland. $3.50
The bill includes an item in favor of Ser
geantat-Arms Eyre, Of the Senate, for
S216l A. which is approved because the item
OF mileage at 20 cents mile was cut down
by the Legislature to less than 10 cents a
mile.
These Items are dlsapprovod in the bill an,
propriating $sl3.50 to pay the expenses of the
investigation Of the $50, 600 insurance scan
dal To Sergeant-at-arms Wyatt, for serving
subpoenas, S29s 40; to hotel expenses, S6g0O to
stenographer, S3G91O The investigation
was conducted in Harrisburg.
The Governor cuts out these items for "ex-
ira car fare, carriage hire telegrams ct -
in the Saunders Roberts election conte
bill Perry NJ Lytle, Huntingdon 1924:
Charles w Hermann, Snyder 1904; John S.
Wilson, Lancaster, $204; Clarke 4. Baldwin.
Fayette, 1924; George Sterr Jr., Philadel-
phia, $780, Charles NJ. Kerr, York, $29I;
Seth Orme, Schuylkill, 1896; d. NJ. Pry,
Washington $42; Chairman John c. French,
Washington, S3l4.
Almost the entire amount appropriated in
each instance in this bill was for mileage.
The Governor says that in Withholding his
approval he deems it only fair to say that the
appropriations made to members of the COM
mittee were made up ON what he believes to
have been the honest assumption that they
were legally entitled to mileage.
The Governor vetoed the bill appropriating
S4lS.6O to Joseph Wyatt. Sergeant-at-Arms of
the House, for services rendered and ex-
penses incurred by him to the Legislature in
connection with the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Mckinley, for reasons similar to those
which caused veto of the Grant and Wash
ington monument trips. In the bill appro-
priating $3.50 to Mr.. Wyatt for services in the
Shitfer-Leh contest of Northampton county,
the item of 1894 for mileage is dsapproYed,
as were the items in the bill appropriating
81, 1854 to Mr.. Wyatt in the Saunders VS..
Roberts election case, of Philadelphia, re-
lating to mileage and printing of subpoenas
and subpoena cards.
All items in the bill appropriating 81 /, ,Qs7 .43
to the anthracite investigating committee are
approved except the following William b.
Meredith, Armstrong, $685. 80; Harry w.
Haiues, York, $217.3Oi Jacob Roberts, Jr.,
Luzerne, $235.3O; H. ]. Dunlap, Philadel-
phia, $332.3 .30i j, @. Campbell, Westmorelaud,
$177. 80.
In his veto of the bill of the Dairy and
Food Commission, the Governor says three
members of the committee informed him
that their charges included mileage at the
rate of twenty cents a mile for the distance
travelled in making their investigation. As
the remaining two members did not answer
his communication requesting information
as to the nature of the several claims he in.
ferred that their items were of similar
character and made up In a like way The
Governor adds
The only mileage to which member of
the General Assembly appears to be entitled
is that provided in the act of Assembly of
1874 and 1888. He is distinctly forbidden TO
receive any other Compensation whatever,
whether for services upon committees or
otherwise Should these items receive Ex-
ecutive approval compensation would be
given for service upon committee under the
guise of mileage in addition to the salary
and mileage provided by law"
The result of the Governors labor on the
mercantile tax measure, general appropria-
tion and Simon electric light bills will be
announced this evening.