The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-19
STATE
LEGISLATIVE
TOPICS.

The bill which the state Fish com
mission has presented TO the legislature
Is document of 10000 words. 1t defines
which are game fish and fish commercial
ly valuable for food. and regulates their
catching and encourages their propaga-
ton. 1t also protects the waters from
Improper and wasteful fishing. All the
existing fish laws of the state are wiped
out and this act is intended to take
their place. The fish specially named as
coming within the protection of this act
are salmon, brook. rainbow, California.
brown, lake and salmon trout and all
other forms of salmon; of food fishes,
black, rock strawberry, striped, calico,
grass, green and white bass; sunfish,
pike, perch wall-eyed pike, pickerel.
muscallonge all of which are designated
as game fish; also shad, white fish, lake
herring, herring and sturgeon, which are
CLASSIFIED as food fish. Hereafter 1t shall
be unlawful to catch with outlines or set
lines or to fish for any game fish, eX-
cept with rod hook and line. The sal
mon season is March to Aug. IS. Sal
mon less than three pounds in weight are
forbidden to be caught. The trout season
is from April 10 to July 10. The minimum
size for trout Is six inches. Lake trout
can be caught between Jan. / and Sept
80. The limit in length is nine inches
The bass season for any of the varieties
is from May 30 to Sept. so, size five inches
Sunfish under four inches are forbidden
to be caught, The pike, pickerel and
muscallonge extends from May 80 to Dec
81; the size must not be less than nine
inches The period to catch herring is
from June 20 to Dec. 81 and for shad
June 30 to March 10. The use of senes
or other nets is forbidden except during
weekdays from March Is to June 90.
Sturgeon can be caught by net from Jan
81 to June 80. In general the use of dyna-
mite, nitro-glycerine, torpedoes electric
ity or any other powerful force or explo-
sives, fish baskets, eel wires, brush nets,
etc, are strictly forbidden. The penal
ties vary from fine of so for each fish
and includes Imprisonment, according to
the variety of the fish.
The following curious bill has been in
troduced at Harrisburg by Representa-
tive Smith. of Philadelphia: ',That from
and after the passage of this act it shall
and may be lawful for any person or per-
sons, corporation or corporations what
soever, who may be the owners, lessees,
| tenants or oCcupiers of any dwelling
! house, hotel, boarding house, restaurant,
store or other building, or of any real
estate whatsoever, in or upon which any
garbage, offal or any refuse matter may
| be or become accumulated or collected
| to remove or cause the said garbage, Of
| fal or refuse matter to be removed from
! such dwelling house, hotel, boarding
| house, restaurant, store or other build
| ing or real estate; and it shall also be
| lawful for any person or persons whatso-
| ever to receive. collect and remove the
| said garbage, offal or refuse matter and
| to haul away and convey the same in
Water-tight metal carts, securely COW
| cred, through and over any of the streets,
alleys, roads and highways of any city,
| borough, township or county of this
| commonwealth; and no license, permit or
authority of any sort or description from
| any city or borough council, board of
| health, or any other body or individual
| for such accumulation and collection and
| removal, as aforesaid, of such garbage
| offal or refuse matter, or for the hauling
| conveying or carrying of the same over
| and along the streets, alleys, roads and
| highways of any city, borough, township
or county of this commonwealth shall
| be necessary or required" Nobody
seems to be able to figure out the rea-
son for this bills existence.
| Another of the gallery plays of Rep
resentative Orme, of SchuyllIill, has been
made in the introduction by him of a
| bill to tax all orders, checks, dividers
coupons, passbooks or other paper repre-
| senting wages or earnings of an en-
ploye not paid in cash, and to provide
| for a report to the auditor general OF
| he same for failure to make reports and
| reward to party informing auditor gen.
| eral for failure to report. Schuylkil
| countys legislative delegation seems tC
| have rather more than its share of gal.
lery players when it comes to labor
| topics.