Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
CRIMES OF GANG
LEGISLATORS
List Of Popular Demands Refused and
Of Vicious Bills Passed.

List of Popular Demands Refused and
Of Vicious Bills Passed.
A brief list OF some OF the delin-
Quencies of omission and commission
in the last regular session of the state
legislature should help to guide voters
in choosing their candidates for state
representatives and senators at the
November election. That session was
absolutely controlled by the Repub!l.
can leaders who have nominated the
Stuart state ticket, and re-nominated
more than SO of the worst members
OF the house at Harrisburg. The fol.
lowing is part of what was done in
that session:
Bills Killed.
. 1-Employers' liability.
2-Trolley freight.
3-Personal registration.
4-Primary election reform.
General election law amendments,
6|Senatorial re-apportionment.
Representative re-apportionment.
Slight hours for days work.
9-Antitrust.
1O-Creasy's State Grange tax re-
forms. tE
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12--NorInal and industrial school for
colored youths.
l3-Herbst probe into white slavery.
14-To catch rich tax dodgers.
15.-Creasy's anti-railroad rebate res
olution. ~
16-Resolution to investigate corpdr4
ate magnates paying off Qusy'u old
promissory notes IN return for naming
United States senator.
III nraI pnt i1p The pffepup In thiq
case bears not upon the question of
merit in the bill, but upon the sneaking
way of killing 1t by strangling 1t in
the committee room.
! Outrageous Bills Passed.
1--Trespass on private property. This
is a. law under which arbitrary en-
ployers, corporations, etc, can nab.
fine and imprison employees who In time
Of strike or other trouble leave their
own door step to get breath of fresh
air.
2-Constabulary bill, containing
some outrageous provisions against the
liberty guaranteed by the constitution.
3-Puhl bill, to protect the speak
tasies vice dens, white slave dealers.
gambling hells, etc. ..
4-Ehrhardt (three OF them) bills,
having precisely the same object as the
Publ bills, but on different lines.
Quay monument.
6-Philadelphia ripper, cause of tho
states political upheaval.
7-Passenger railway franchise
steals" supplemental to those Of 1901.
S-Publc grounds and buildings
grab" trebling the number of Offices
and employees under the board which
has surreptitously distracted 100000
for furnishings" for the new capitol.
Even in the late extra session the
reform" bills were largely perverted
so that they must be amended by an
honest legislature. One of the extra
session laws, the state treasury meas.
ure, is SO framed as to tie State Treas
urer Berry's hands in important par
ticulars. g.
Let the miners and laboring people
generally consider the sufferings in
posed upon them by the gang" legis'
lature through only one of their many
vicious measures-the trespass bill
which became n law. In fact only
the vice-den bills and the public
grounds and buildings '.grab," out of
the list specified. failed to get on the
statute books. The "trespaSs" law,
under penalty which can reach $40
fine and ten days In Jail, with costs
of prosecution. provides:
THAT from and after the passage OF
this act 1t shall be unlawful for any
person willfully to enter upon any land
within the limits OF this commonwealth
where the owner or owners of said land
has caused to be prominently posted
upon said land printed notices that the
said land Is private property and warn
ing all persons from trespassing there
on under the penalties provided in this
act"
This is the trap laid by monopolieS
and corporations, particularly the coal
operators, to practically paralyze the
employees who may clash with the EN-.
p!oyors over the pay system or other
differences. Such an employe may
only intend to step out for a little
quiet smoke, or to sun himself. sitting
intending to harm anybody. But the
property owner, revengefully desirous
Of furnishing strikers or troublemak-
ers, can clap that poor fellow into Jail
and fine him to boot.
Will the people who want TO see
great. good things come out OF the
approaching legislative session, vote
for the candidates for the same old
bosses who stand indicted In the fore
going list Of outrages perpetrated by
them against the commonwealth?