Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-16
Mr.. HOWARD'S LETTER.
Continued from First page,

room and on the floor of the house.
The members of the house, in addition
to the regular daily routine and work
in Committees, considered 5000 pages
of proposed laws, ard of the 769 bills
presented to the House, 627 were pass
ed by both Houses at the session of
| 1905.
| The Governor vetoed So Of these bills,
some of which appropriated money to
| private monuments, schools and hos
pitfalls. He also vetoed 5S bills on gen.
eral legislation. had voted "No" on
eight of these bills when they were up
before the House.
You must remember that all bills are
not put in with an honest motive, but
that enemies of good laws hire or fool
| some member to present a bin that
they have had SO cunningly worded
that if passed will either mix up or
nullify the purpose it was supposed to
represent. This was the case with one
of the pure food laws which the Cover
nor vetoed on account of a mild look
ing snake that the Legislature had not
noticed.
1t would be impossible to name all
the notable laws passed by the regular
session of 1905, but when you remem-
Der the acts:
To provide fixed salaries for
County Commissioners.
To abolish fees in the Attorney
Generals office.
To pay District Attorneys in small
counties fixed salary instead of
fees.
To prevent stealing of electric
wires.
To further regulate public school
education.
To license engineers of steam boil
ers and steam engines.
To tax automobiles and regulate
their speed.
To provide for united action of all
the States for better divorce
laws.
For County Commissioners to pro-
vide markers for graves of sold
iers and sailors.
To prohibit the sale of dangerous
fireworks
To Withhold right of eminent
domain from Water Companies
in the purchase of steams.
To provide for geological survey
of all the counties of the State.
To regulate the employment of
women and children.
To provide for registrations of
births and deaths.
To prevent the buying and selling
ofinfant children.
To increase the proportion of the
school and road fund allowed to
the thinly settled townships.
And last, but not least, the general
road law, which provides for the
State to pay rs per cent. of the
cost of building stone roads in all
the counties of the State, and
each township to get its proper
or favor of any political ring,you
can see that the people have
cause to be proud of the high
standard of intelligence, square
dealing and independence mani
tested by their representatives.
In the hysterical cry of reform raised
by the Democratic party and some
would be reformers the last Legislature
is charged with being corrupt and boss
ridden; but l know one member who
was neither boss ridden nor corrupt
and who was not threatened by any
boss or supposed boss and | am no ex-
ception. 1 appeal to the record of my
votes and challenge criticism. | also |
challenge criticism of all the acts pass |
ed by the Legislature of 1905 and sign.
ed by the Governor
1t is true that there were six bills
presented in the interest of the Phla- !
delphia ring which, on account of their
obnoxious tendencies were fought over |
during the whole session, but only |
one of them became law, and that |
was signed by the Governor under |
written protest and after clause had |
been added that it should not go into
effect until two months after the next |
Legislature should meet, thus giving
Philadelphia chance to protest |
through her new members to be elected |
if her people so desired. That one
act was repealed at the extra
session, and l venture the assertion
that it is the only act of the last Legisla
ture that ever will be repealed.
Can any other Legislature show as
good record? If there was any boss
ipor xyao 1ona ot fLo ,&aa;,J .o.,;o,.