The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-23
Down at Harrisburg.

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Senator q ray spent Monday in Harris
hurg aud rs n resul. of his visit il = be-
lieved that the legislature will adjourn as
near July lst as possible. lie says /. can
be done if everybody gets to work. The
Senator thinks the proper thing for the
State TO do isto cut down expenses, and
not levy any additional taxes, and go
home by July 3. IL is thought proper TO
take of tho extra 500, 900 given TO schools
annually for the purchase of books. The
schools have enjoyed this for four years.
and have gotten S2.0O0,000 This is plen-
ty TO buy all the text books needed by
the schools for some time. The schools
will continue 10 get the usual appropria-
tion which Is five millions yearly. The
million gotten in this way, the Sso1.0oo
from the direct inheritance tax, together
with the revenue bills 10 DO passed. will
do much toward wiping out the deficit.
which by the way, has been widely ex-
aggerated by sensational statements.
The State charities must be cared for,
but at time like this the institutions
will be willing to get along upon much
less than they usually receive.
Governor Hastings has signed the
Campbell bill imposing a tax of three
cents a day on all employed unnatnraliz-
ed foreigners. The tax is to be deducted
from the wages of this class, beginning
July next.
one-half goes to the school fund on the
basis of the number of schools and the
balance for the general expenses of the
counties. This proposition was first in
troduced in the house by Mr.. Campbell,
of Fayette, in 1859, and he has since been
working to have it become a law.
The electric light snake, requiring
municipalities before establishing public
lighting plants of their own to purchase,
through the courts, the property and
franchises of existing lighting companies,
was passed by a vote OF los to 20.
Three Of tho reform measures intro
duced in the senate at the beginning of
the session by General Goblin to carry out
the pledges of the state republican plat
form in the campaigns Of 1895 and 1895
will be sent TO Governor Hastings next
Tuesday. The report of the conference
committee on the non-politlcal inter
ference, non-assessment and poll tax bills
Was unanimously adopted this morning
by tho senate. IL will be taken up by the
house next Tuesday and adopted, after
which the bills will go to the governor.
The bill to tax pleasure carriages and
bicycles one dollar per year, and traction
engines three dollars, was defeated by
vote of 20 to 81.
Governor Hastings has approved The
following bills:
Prov iding for tho irguIatlon ofthe man
ufacture and sale Of vinegars Ia prevent
adulteration.
Limiting the number Of inmates Of
Stale prisons, peniteniiaIies, state re-
Grmatories aud other penal institutions
TO be employed in manufacturing goods
therein and prohibiting the use Of ma
chinery in manufacturing said goods.
Il provides that not more than five per
cent. Of the whole number OF inmates
shall be employed in the manufacture OF
brooms and not more than ten per cent.
in the manufacture Of any other kind OF
goods that are manufactured elsewhere
in the State except mats and mating, in
which forty per cent. of the whole mum
Der Of inmates may be employed.
Applying the provisions of tie act 20
prev ent the spread of the contagious di-
seases known as yellows, black knot,
peach rose,te and pear blight among
peach, plum, cherry, prune, almond,
apricot, nectarine and pear trees to the
''San Jose scale" when found on any vine,
plant, shrub or fruit tree.