Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-03

Z not, severe enough. This legislature
remedied one evil of long standing. 1t
passed a law providing that when
for year Judge is unable to attend
to his duties, he may be retired on
half salary for the balance of the
term for which he was elected, If he
is permanently disabled, and new
Judge elected to fill his place. In a
number of instances there have been
| Judges unable to hold their courts for
years until they died. 1t saves money
to the state, for it dispenses with the
necessity of calling other judges on
extra pay and gives the people op-
portunity to have their cases disposed
of by Judge of their own counties.
"The law committing sentences of
| prisoners passed last winter has been
knocking at the legislature for years.
All the prison societies and the prison
officials urged this law Those who
visit prisons and are interested in
the reformation of prisoners all ia
vored it. The yellow journals did not
oppose it until it passed, and then they
said that we were going to let the
prisoners all out of jail and turn them
loose upon the community The pris-
oners are not discharged, but paroled,
and during the time if they commit
crime they must go back and serve
the time commuted.
THE JUVENILE COURT BILL.
THE juvenile court law is an ex-
cellent law. 1t allows children under
16 years of age to be tried by them
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when in custody they are not incarce-
rated with older criminals
"The oleomargarine law is the cul-
| mination of the efforts of the farmers
and dairymen for years. They have
got a law to suit them. Under this
law If a man eats oleo he must eat
1T with his eyes open as we'll as his
mouth.
THE coal miners obtained the pas.
sage of three important laws, first
.ne law requiring the companies to
keep on hand at the mines the neces-
sary supplies for treating promptly
men injured in the mines. This will
save the lives OF a great many men
each year. Second the store order law,
which abolishes all forms of store or
ders and allows the employees to buy
their supplies wherever they can buy
them cheapest. Third the law permit
ting the people to elect their mine in
spectors from list who have been
found capable by examination.
The law prohibiting the marriage Of
first cousins is a good law. 1t will
reduce the number of idiots and i'm
beetles in the state.
STRONG CAPITAL COMMISSION
I'VE appropriated four millions of
dollars to build new capitol building.
Who is there in this state who does
not wish to see at Harrisburg a cap
itol building that will be a credit to
the state? Now let me tell you some
thing. The four men who have been
appointed commissioners to complete
the capitol building are honest and
capable men. That capitol will be
completed within the time named in
the law and for the money named in
the law. Not dollar more will be eX-
pended and not days more time will
be asked. The yellow journals could
not assail the personal character of
the commissioners because these men
are known throughout the state. They
were greatly disappointed. They had
cartooned the capitol building as
plum tree and said l was saving it for
the gang and would shake it for
their benefit, and when they found
that had done just what l always in
tended to do and had appointed an
honest commission they were disap-
pointed.
INSTITUTIONS PROVIDED FOR.
Were the insane asylums and hos
pitfalls crippled by the reduction of ap-
preparations? Let me tell you that each
insane asylum and hospital gets more
after the reductions are made than
they have received before. Why was l
able to take off 100000 and still
leave them more than they got before?
The decision of the supreme court that
the governor had the right to reduce
an item in an appropriation bill left
no doubt about the power to do it and
the senators and members knew that
would do it if the appropriations ex-
ceeded the estimated revenue and so
much larger appropriations got
through than otherwise would have
gotten through. l do not blame the
senators and members. They knew that
l would have to take the responsible
ity anyway and so they thought that
while | was about it | might as well
take part of their responsibility as
well as my own. They knew, too, that
l did not care much about newspaper
criticism.
IL will not take up your time referr-
ing to any other particular laws. There
are many other just laws, complicated
laws relating to commercial paper, me-
chanics liens and insolvent estates are
codifled and made simple. Every man
ought to read the laws passed by the
legislature of 1901. You have often seen
book entitled Every man his own
lawyer The laws of 1901 come nearer
to it than any book that was ever pub