The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-25
FACTIONS LIABLE
TO GET IN LINE

tends the time of the validity of a
claim from six months to year.
TO ABOLISH CONsTABLEs' RE-
TURNS.
\ bill aboishing the system of re-
quring Constables to make quarterly
returns to the court of quarter ses-
sions will be put in the house by w.
G. Smith, of Bedford. This is an old
custom which has long since become
as useless as expensive. At present
constables are required to go to the
seat of the county in which they re-
side on the first day of every term of
quarter sessions court and make a
sworn statement to the judges. In
nintey-nine cases out of a hundred, Mr..
Smith says, they swear they have no
returns to make. Some judges have
decided there is no provision for the
constables under the new bill and they
have to spend day and the time in
going to and returning from court
without compensation. In some coun-
ties the constables are allowed per
diem pay and mileage. Mr.. Smiths
bill provides that constabes who may
have knowledge of violations of the
law shall go before the nearest just
ice of the peace and be sworn to them.
These are to be turned over to the
court of quarter sessions by the just
ice, who receives twenty-five cents for
administering the oath, and the con-
stable gets fifty cents for making the
return. Mr.. Smith says such a law
would save from $4,000 to $1,000 an
nually to the state.
PLUMBERS REGISTRATION.
Alex. r. Connell will offer in the
house a bill to secure the registration
of plumbers and the supervision of
plumbing and drainage in cities hav-
ing a population of 10000 or upwards.
1t provides for the appointment by the
mayors of such cities of an examining
board of plumbers, two of whom shall
be master plumbers, two journeymen
and the chief inspector of plumbing and
drainage of the city, who shall be
member of the board eX-officio. They
shall have not less than ten years ex-
perience as practical plumbers and
have lived within the state three years
prior to their appointment. They shall
serve for a term of two years at sal
airy of So year.
Persons desiring to engage in the
plumbing business are to be required
ny tllS dtl W Jt tNdIlIHeu ny lnt BOARD
Failure to comply with this provision
is made punishable by fine of $50
Master plumbers are required to pay
50 as an entrance fee for examination
and journeyman plumbers 81. APP
prentices who have worked at the trade
three years and pass a satisfactory eX-
animation before the board will re-
ceiVe certificates as journeymen. There
is a general demand among plumbers
over the state for the passage of this
| law.
The annual meeting of the state
| board of agriculture will be held in the
| Supreme court chamber in this city
| Wednesday and Thursday. Governor
| Hastings will preside and addresses
| will be made by Deputy Attorney
| General Elkin and Prof. John Hamil-
| ton, deputy secretary of agriculture.
Arrangements will also be made this
| week for two dinners in which the
| legislators will take part. One win
| be given in honor of Boies Penrose's
| election to the United States senate
| 1t will be in charge of a committee
| of twenty from the State League of
| Republican Clubs, which will be here
Thursday to fix the time and place
| for the affair. The other will be given
| in honor of the seventy-six legislators
who voted in the joint Republican eau
| Gus for John Wanamaker for senator.
| Wanbaugh