Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-05-28

FRANK N. MOORE OF BIad-otu county
now special agent of the department
Of agriculture In Pittsburg. II is al
legged that Moore received money from
the dealers in oleomargarine to secure
protection from the prosecutions of the
dairy and food commissioner. Mr..
Moore denies the charges, and says he
viii be able to prove their falslty.
Representative William Marshall, Of
Allegheny, chairman of the house COM
mittee on appropriations, says no bills
will be reported until the status of the
revenue for the next two years is fully
determined. He says 1t would be worse
than foolish to pass a lot of appropria-
tion bills In the face Of a bankrupt
treasury. Even with the additional
revenue that II is proposed to raise
there will be a wholesale cutting down
of appropriations.
Governor Hastings has been asked
by many correspondents throughout
the state whether he would issue
proclamation regarding the observance
Of Memorial Day on May 20. The gov
ernor has stated IN an interview that
he is not expected to issue proclama-
tions defining the law. Regarding the
observance of Memorial Day he says:
when May 80 falls on Sunday the
day preceding It, Saturday, shall be
observed as the holiday" IL win thus
thus be seeen from the quotation of
law that next Saturday viii be a legal
holiday without any proclamation by
the governor.
The Young Trolley Bill.
The Young trolley bill. which has
been a bone Of contention in the legis-
lature between the steam railroad and
the electric railway interests, passed
second reading, but whether 1t will be
reached on final passage remains to be
seen. Everything possible is being
done by the steam railroad companies
to defeat this bill.
It is now thought that the amend
ment to the Hamilton road bill pro-
viding that It shall not go into effect
until the legislature has appropriated
81 600 600 to be distributed among the
townships of the state for the improve
ment OF the highways has practically
killed the measure. With the revenues
in the limp condition in which they are
now an appropriation of $1,O00,O0O for
better roads is out of the question. It
is probable, however, that the bill win
go through in its present shape and be
approved by the governor, so that sue
to make it effective.
A bill has been introduced in the leg
islature appropriating $4,000 for the
purchase of a dress uniform for the
National Guard. Since the visits OF the
legislature to New York and Philadel-
phia on the occasions of the Grant
monument and Washington monument
demonstrations the lawmakers are per-
suaded that the Pennsylvania troops
should have something better than
the service uniform for such cere-
monies.
Representative Clarency, of Phila-
delpha, has succeeded in having an
important amendment inserted in the
bill taxing full paid, prepaid and ma
tured stock of building and loan asso-
Citations. 1t provides that nothing in
the act shall be taken to require the
payment of any tax upon any unma-
tured stock OF building and loan asso-
Citations upon which periodical pay
ments are required to be made, or upon
any such stock which shall mature or is
in process of payment.
The house has defeated a bill which
was of special interest to cities of the
third class. 1t provided for the collec-
tion of taxes, being a supplement to the
act of 1899.
! Senate bills preventing the exhibi-
tions of hypnotism in public and the
reproduction of prize fight pictures
have both been voted down by the
house.
A strong effort was made by certain
prominent capitalists in Philadelphia
to get through a bill providing for the
Incorporation of companies to carry on
the business Of pawnbrokers. 1t went
to the governor and was promptly We
toed. He objected to the banking feat
ures of the bill and to certain other
/ provisions.
Interest on State Deposits.
The Stewart bill providing for the
payment of interest on state deposits
| is still hanging fire In the senate. 1t
has been amended so as to provide that
/ there shall be six active banks-three
in Philadelphia, two in Pittsburg and
one I'm Harrisburg-which shall pay no
| interest, all the other banks to pay 2
per cent. 1t has been amended fur
ther to provide that the selection of
the six active repositories shall be left
to the board Of revenue commissioners.
An important bill passed the house
last week, and is now in the hands of
the governor. II protects employees Of
corporations in their right to form,
/ Join and belong to labor organizations
An attempt was made in the senate to
80 amend IL as to take from It the pow
er that the labor unions seek, but #
failed.
The Gould bill making a uniform poor
| system throughout the state, except
ing in counties containing a popula-
lion of 1000 or less, was defeated OF
final passage. The principal objection
was that It interfered with those coun-
ties where the practice Of farming out
their poor is in vogue.
The contested election case from the
Third district OF Philadelphia has been
settled in favor Of oscar p. Saunders.
who has taken Mr. Roberts seat
Another attempt to abolish The Leg
islative Record has failed. Repre-
sentative spatz's bin to discontinue its
publication was voted down.
State Forestry Commissioner Roth
rock is delighted with his success in
having enacted into laws a number Of
bills which will materially assist in pre-
venting the destruction Of the forests
Of Pennsylvania.
Beginning this week night sessions
are being held, and while this will
facilitate the work OF the legislature
It Is not believed that final adjourn
ment viii be reached before the end OF
June.