The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-23

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reported favorably from the same COM
mittee. This bill was also drawn by
Judge Archibald, and presented by Mr..
Scheuer.
Another bill framed by Judge Arch
bald, making provision for recording
Titles acquired by adverse possession,
was reported favorably.
For the committee on municipal af-
fairs, Mr.. James reported favorably
the bill revising and amending the
third-class city laws according to the
ideas put forward by the solicitors OF
third-class cities in a recent conven-
tion. The bill was amended but only
In phraseology
other bills favorably reported were
as follows: Authorizing school boards
to cooperate with private institutions
IN establishing and maintaining kim
dergartens; providing each poor direc-
tor with telephone and stationery:
directing courts to refuse liquor
license when a majority of the adult
residents OF ward, township or bor-
ough demonstrate against 1t; taxing
dealers In cigarettes $3.50 per annum;
prohibiting the placing of screens or
other like obstructions to the view in
windows or doors of barrooms; penal
izing the piracy of plays and operas;
10 prohibit the sale of tobacco in any
FORM to persons under sixteen years of
age.
Two Revenue Reducers.
Among the bills recommitted were
the Scheuer bill reducing mercantile
taxes; the Hoy bill reducing liquor Ii
censes to the figures what obtained be-
fore ten per cent. was added for state
purposes; the bill to establish a state
board for the arbitration of disputes
between employers and employees, and
the bill establishing bureau of
building and loans associations in the
department OF banking. These bills
were reported from committee with the
understanding they would be recon-
mitted after being ordered printed for
general distribution.
Colonel Calder OF Dauphin, "by re-
quest" presented provender for the
pigeon hole in the shape of bill to
prevent the publication OF any charges
or allegations affecting persons char
acter. until such time as they are de-
termined to be true by court Of JUS
a fugitive from the Jurisdiction of the
court In which he may be charged.
Violation of the provisions of this law
subjects the publisher TO the penalties
of the libel laws.
Mr.. Fisher of Northumberland, in
troduced a bill making the common-
wealth liable for half the cost of a
county bridge constructed over a
cft~a1 ,,ft l,, ,,vsl 81 or
The necessity of the bridge and the
plans for its construction must be
passed upon favorably by commits
sion consisting of three persons to be
appointed by the governor upon the
request of the county commissioners.
Five dollars day is allowed the ap-
pointees for the time actually en-
ployed.
There was a big exodus from Har-
risburg to Philadelphia last night, as
the result of desire on the part of
the Fellowship club of the latter city
to keep up its reputation for having
as guests at its annual dinner a large
representation of the men most pr2mi-
nent in the public life of the common
wealth. Fully half the senator's anl a
dozen of the most prominent reprcscn-
tatives were in attendance.
Among the notable guests from other
states We're Hon. j. Edward Addicks
and Hon. Willard salisbury, RepYbli-
can and Democratic candida es re-
spectively, for United States senator in
the Delaware deadlock"
Deputy Attorney General Fleitz was
one of the speakers and made a happy
hit by swerving from the light vein in
which the speeches had been pit he'd
to treat in an appropriately serious
way the theme "Washington's Birth
day" His deviation changed the VIII le
tenor Of the post -prandial exc cises,
for although the event is in a way "a
Washington birthday affair. it had not
been alluded to in this relation until
Mr.. Fleitz was called upon, AMI after
him every speaker chose Washing on
for his theme Il. j. Duffy.