Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-05-27
HARRISBURG.

The Governor has signed the bill re-
curing a Smull's hand book to be plac-
ed in each public school.
Bakeries are to be regulated by bill
which passed last week. 1t provides
that no bake shop shall be compelled to
work more tn an 60 hours a week, and
prohibits working on Sunday, except
setting the sponge" also, that no per
son having consumption or contag1-
Gus disease shall be employed in such
establishments.
A good deal of interest is manifested
all over Pennsylvania in the proposed
increase in the appropriation for Far
mers' Institutes. The sum approprlat-
ed by the former Legislature for this
purpose was only s., 900 for two years.
1t is now proposed to make the appro-
priation for the next two years $l2,ooo
and if the farmers show united front
in the matter, they will get what they
ask.
A law for new inheritance tax has
been placed on the statute book OF TINS
State. 1t provides for the taxation OF
all direct inheritances of personal prop
erty exceeding S., 900 at the rate or 2
per cent. The law. for the collection OF
a collateral inheritance tax OF . per
cent. remains unchanged. 1t applies to
all property thus inherited, real, per
sonal or mixed; but the new tax applies
only to personal property exceeding
81. 600 in value directly inherited. 1t is
estimated that this new tax will furnish
the State an annual revenue OF from one
million to two million dollars, and this
will probably enable the the Treasurer
to meet all reasonable demands.
The bill supplementary to the pharma-
CIV act of 1887 regulating the practice
Of pharmacy, passed the Legislature
last week, and, if, signed, will exclude
from,the drug business every person
not holding certificate of competency
from the State Board of Pharmacy.
The bill will also make it impossi-
BILE for any parties who have no certifi-
cate to own drug store, even though
they hire certified manager. Another
obiect'is to keep the drug business out
of the department stores, and to pre-
vent infringement on the rights of duly
registered and qualified pharmacists.
That expense bill for the pretended
Lexowing of Philadelphia by the Sen
ate committee is, in popular parlance,
dandy. For example, $34, 900 is charg-
ed for procuring witnesses, and the
stenographer asks bagatelle of SO, 600,
as much as Pennsylvania farmer could
save in ten years provided he didn't eat
a bite. The bill at the Hotel Walton is
is S5.912. A the rate of S5 per day this
would keep a man nearly 1900 days at
this hotel where it costs man cent
for every breath he draws And the in
vestigators appear to have done nothing
but keep their breaths strengthened and
draw them regularly.
The Lexow expense bill passed the
Senate, Tuesday, by a vote OF 2S to II.
Meredith voted for it.
The House Tuesday began the night
sessions, to be held Tuesdays Wednes-
DAYS and Thursdays during the balance
of the session. A message from the
Governor was read announcing his ap-
proval of the following bills:
Repeal of the Greater Pittsburg bills;
requiring Grand Juries to dispose of the
costs in criminal prosecutions for lar
ceny where the value of the goods IS less
than SO, and in the prosecutions for as
sault or assault and battery where felo-
ny is charged and the prosecutor has no
reasonable ground for making the
charge; to allow the town council of
consolidated borough to appoint one
street commissioner; for preservation of
forests and partially relieving forest
lands from taxation; Furnishing the send
ing OF anonymous communications of a
libelous or scurrilous nature; to prevent
the adulteration of drugs and medical
preparations; to authorize boroughs to
make appropriations to establish free
public libraries; to provide for the main
tenance of INDECENT insane in county
and local institutions; authorizing the
recording of all releases contracts, let
ters of attorney and other instruments
of writing, which married woman is
or shall be authorized by law to execute
without the joinder of her husband; re
lating to the prosecutions of licensed
dealers and their employees on the
charge of furnishing intoxicating liquor
to minors