Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-24
HARRISBURG.

On Thursday Gov Hastings notified
the Legislature that all bills of investi-
eating and election committees must
be itemized. In the House that day the
bills amending the ballot act of 1898 so
as to provide for the certification of
nomination papers where there is no
opposition at primary election; TO
validate conveyances and other instru-
ments defectively acknowledged and
to validate the indebtedness Of any bor-
ough hereinafter incurred, passed
finally
A few sticks OF dynamite accomplish
ed in a short time Friday afternoon
what many men and ssrong steel cables
and q lot of apparatus had failed to do
in the tearing down OF the massive
tower which supported the dome OF the
old Capitol 1t was not until late iii
| the afternoon that it was decided TO
abandon the pulling and hauling on the
foundations and try, instead the dyna-
mite The FIRST blast split the tower in
twain, and the succeeding explosion
crumbled tire divided section into the
excavation? Two hours later the re-
mainder Of the tower was thrown down
in the same way Two thousand peo-
| pie stood in che rain and watched the
performance.
1 ~, NIap.1ax- Caparo,. D,rav y-as in II ar
| risburg and ordeled his followers in the
Legislature TO do the best they could on
the revenue and appropriation bills and
go home 1t is thought the legislature
! VIII adjourn by Saturday Of next week.
The general appropriation bill calls
| for $1,000 for the Butler General
Hospital
On Tuesday the general appropriation
| bill. calling for sixteen millions was re
4 ported but was not acted upon
| The House refused to concur IN the
Senate resolution continuing the com
| mittee TO investigate the convict labor
| system in Pennsylvania until next ses
| sion of the Legislature.
| The Governors veto of the bill au
| thorizing the incorporation of pawnbro
kers was taken up, and Mr.. Conrad Of
Philadelphia, appealed to the House tc
pass it over the executives head, but
! the veto was sustained by vote of AZ
yeas to 80 nays.
| The conference report on the Hamil
| ton road bill was called up by Mr.
Phillips, OF Chester and adopted by g
vote of 1873 to 81. The measure went tC
| the Governor.
| The vote by which the conference
| committee report of the fish bill was
| adoped was reconsidered and the meas
ure was referred back to committee to
correct certain grammatical errors.
The bill codifying the dental laws
passed finally by 1876 to 16 These bills
| also passed finally:
Authorizing contracts to be entered
| into between overseers of the poor in Dor
| oughs and townships in counties not
| having poor houses, and the authorities
| in charge of the poor in adjoining count
| les for the maintenance of the poor in
such boroughs and townships; amend
ingsthe act of April 90 1891, providing
for the classification of real estate and
other property, and for the election of
assessors in second class cities; authoriz-
ing courts to inquire into the validity
of Judgments confessed and alleged, to
be fraudulent; authorizing the transfer
of wholesale and retail liquor licenses
from one person to another, and from
one place to another.
The Merrick school distribution was
called up and lively fight took place
beteen the city members, led by Mr..
Stewart, of Philadelphia, who opposed
the proposition, and the country men, in
charge of Mr., Moore, of Butler The
bill passed third reading, and will be
laid aside for printing.
On Wednesday the Merrick bill
providing new plan for the distribu
ton of the school appropriation passed
finally