The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-01
HARRISBURG LETTER

Harrisburg, July 31.-Governo
| Tener finished signing the bills of the
last Legislature on schedule time.
Following is the windup of business
for 1913:
All prosecutions for violations are
to be instituted by the Commissioner
of Labor and Industry or his deputy,
and upon a conviction the penalties
are: First offense, from $40 to $50
fine; subsequent offense, from $25 to
5000 or by Imprisonment for not
more than sixty days, or both.
Making bounties on noxious ami
mails and birds as follows: Wild cat,
$4; gray fox, weasel, 50 each, gos-
hawk, great horned owl and sharp
skinned hawk, so cents.
Authorizing sale of State land at
Soldiers Home, Erie.
Validating ordinance not signed in
ordinance book by burgess
Providing for payment of board of
neglected children in court care.
Authorizing first-class cities to
make regulations for keeping of sta
bles and handling manure.
Making slaughter house licenses in
frst-class cities for calendar year.
in first-class city government to an
point deputy to sign warrants.
Requiring medical rooms in an
thracite mines.
Allowing second-class cities to pro-
vide funds for relief of EMPLOYEES re-
tired from or injured in city SER
vice and for families of those killed.
Raising educational requirements
for qnn1ipanfc 1inanoa,
medicine and surgery by providing
that IN addition to four-year high
school course or equivalent educa-
ton student must have a year of
college credits before entering a.
medical college and a years service
in a hospital after graduation.
Pension Bill Vetoed.
Two bills to pension soldiers who
served in the Civil War and those
who answered the call as emergency
men were vetoed on the ground of in
sufficient State revenue.
The Matt bill carrying $1,547,OOO,
provided for pensions to men who
served one year or less, and the Gray
bill for the emergency men carried
$4,000. The veto of the Matt bill
covers both, and the governor says,
in part:
The recent magnificent celebra-
ton of the fiftieth anniversary of
the battle of Gettysburg has inspired
my deeper reverence for, and obliga-
tlon to those battle-scarred heroes,
but 1nasmuch as the legislature has
appropriated many millions of dol
lars in excess of the revenues of the
State, l have been obliged to cut
down the appropriations to many
worthy causes to whose support the
State is already committed, 1 am un-
able to approve this bill without re-
ducing even more than l have al
ready been required to the appropria-
tons to public schools, to hospitals
for the care of the sick and injured,
consumptive and the insane"
Governor Tener has signed the
public utilities bill establishing a new
system OF control over public service
corporations in Pennsylvania.
1t was expected that the seven
commissioners authorized by the act
would be named as soon as the bill
was signed, but in the press of dis
posing of the numerous bills which
must be signed or vetoed before mid
night on Monday, Gov. Tener defer
red the appointments.
AS the law takes effect at once,
there will be no lengthy delay in
naming the seven men. 1t is gener-
ally accepted here that the members
of the State Railroad Commission.
Messrs. Ewing, Brecht and PENNY
packer will be appointed to the new
commission. =. u.....,..D......,