Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-03-14
To Secure Passage of Bill Abolish
ing the Obnoxious State
Constabulary.
MEMBERS ARE MUCH ALARMED
Are Bound to Make Enemies No Mat
ter Which Way They Vote on This
Question-McCord Senatorial Nomi
nation Bill Sure to Pass.

the almost successful battle to place
the Garner bill repeating the state
police act upon the calendar, the labor
leaders of the house have served no
tice that they have only begun Their
fight. The resolution to place Gar
ners measure upon the calendar was
defeated by the small majority of four
votes. Now the labor people say that
they propose bringing one of the other
bills repeating the constabulary act
out of the committee on military af
fairs. There are two such measures
before this committee, and the labor
people are giving the members of the
committee no end of trouble concern
ing them.
The administration people and
others who favor the state constabu
larry hold that the state policemen
have been doing good work or there
would not be such insistent endeavor
to abolish them on the part of the
labor people. They contend that the
repeater would never get through the
house, and that if it did the senate
certainly would throttle it.
1t is certain that some of the mem
bers who made speeches in support of
the Garner measure did so to please
their constituents, or a portion of
them, but would hesitate long time
before they would vote for abolishing
the state constabulary. Some of these
legislators feel better now that they
have gotten those speeches out of
their systems but the fear that they
may yet have to go on record on this
subject is making them very uneasy.
Will Stand No Dodging.
The labor people say there were
enough of their representatives alb
sent from the house at the time the
vote was taken on the Garner Tesolu.
tion to have passed it had they been
present. They at once got to work
upon the members of the military
committee to bring out one of the
repealers.
The labor people have lot of other
bills in committees and they have no
titled the respective chairmen of these
committees that they will stand for
no monkey business" with these
measures. They want them brought
out of committees and declare that if
they are to be defeated they want
them defeated in the open, on the
floor of the hall of the house. These
bills pertain to child labor, prison
work, allowing foreigners to carry
firearms, regulating work in bitumin-
Gus coal mines, and a score or more
other measures relating directly to the
interests of labor.
Holy horrors! Legislators went to
look into the manner in which cor
porations do business. These law
makers actually desire to investigate
the methods of these soulless concerns.
For that is exactly the meaning of
resolution introduced in the house the
other day by Jesse f. Bluestone of
Pittsburg. A similar resolution was
introduced recently in the Senate by
Senator Elliott Rodgers of Allegheny.
1t provides that a commission be ap-
pointed to investigate the auditor gen.
erals department. The Bluestone
measure provides for commission of
two senators and three representa-
tives with power to examine books
and witnesses for the purpose of as
certaining if there has been negl-
gence in the collection of taxes from
trust companies, railroads and other
corporations.
Rodgers Resolution Sleeping.
Such authority, if granted, would
give everybody chance to look in"
1t would show up some corporations
and their method of doing business in
way that would be very objection
able to the corporations. And later it
might mean that they would be re-
quired to separate themselves from
good deal more money annually to the
state than they have been doing. The
resolution carries with it an appro-
priation of $4,000 to defray expenses.
1t has been several weeks since the
Rodgers resolution was introduced in
the senate. 1t was promptly put to
sleep in committee for il has never
been heard of again. 1t is rumored
that Rodgers inspired the Bluestone
resolution, thinking that if the Blue
stone resolution could get through the
house it would be harder to knock it
out or smother it in the senate.
This legislature purposes doing
kindly things for the old soldiers. A
bill has been introduced by Mr. Sny-
der of Schuylkill exempting soldiers
who served in the Civil War from
payment of tax upon homesteads and
occupation tax except for state and
county purposes. The senate passed
finally the bill allowing old soldiers
pensions of S. to $40 a month, accord
ing to their terms of service.
McCord Bill May Pass.
Charitable institutions are to be
given closer inspection hereafter A
bill introduced in the house by Mi
Kiess of Lycoming provides that the
state board of charities shall be
authorized to name two assistant gen.
eral agents who shall examine all in