The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-05-14
SOLONS VOTE FOR
ELECTRIC CHAIR
House, I59 TO z, Would Do
Away With GaIIOWs
MEASURE GOES TO THE SENATE
House Kills Bill Providing For Voting
Machines and Creating a Board
Of Voting Machine Examiners,

OF Voting Machine examiners
That the gallows, which has been
used to execute murderers in Penn
sylvania for centuries, will be sup
planted by the electric chair was the
almost unanimous verdict of the house
OF representatives. The bill intro
duced by Aaron b. Hess, Lancaster
passed finally by vote OF log to 2
and now goes to the senate.
The measure provides that every
person convicted of murder and sen
fenced to the death penalty should be
executed by having passed through
the body of the convict current OF
electricity of intensity sufficient to
cause death The punishment would
be inflicted in the Western peniten'
tiary in Center county by the warden
or deputy warden, Persons now under
death sentence would be exempted
from electrocution.
The house defeated, by vote of 92
to %, the Davis bill, to provide for
voting machines and create state
board of voting machine examiners,
The question of installing voting ma
chimes under the bill would be optional
with each county.
The Mitchell third-class city plan
ming commission bill, which would give
a commission OF FIVE jurisdiction OF
territory lying within three miles of a
third-class municipality, was passed by
a vote of III to 2.
The bill of ]. A. Dunn, Philadelphia,
to provide for free treatment in hos
pitfalls of veterans of the Civil war who
we're unable to pay, was passed finally,
By vote OF 1S9 TO the house
passed the bill of Senator Beidleman
increasing the salary of the second as.
sistant state librarian from $1,000 to
$1,000.
The Kline bill, to allow saloonkeep'
ers, when refused a license, to appeal
to the superior court, was given a
test of what will happen to 1t when the
measure comes up in the house on
final passage. Its friends we're able to
prevent the bill from being dropped
from the calendar, but the vote IN
favor of such action indicates suf
ficient opposition to defeat the legis'
lation.
Governor Tener signed the Cox false
statement bill. The law makes 1t a
misdemeanor for any person knowing
ly to make or cause to be made, di'
rectly or indirectly, any false state
ment in writing to secure credit, the
delivery OF goods, the payment OF
each or the making of a loan. The
penalty is a fine not exceeding $1,000
or Imprisonment not exceeding one
year or both.
The joint resolution introduced by
Harry Cochran. Fayette, to provide for
commission composed of senators
and representatives to probe the white
slave traffic in Pennsylvania, passed
the house.
The measure carries an appropria'
tion of $4,000 for expenses and takes
the same course as a bill. 1t now goes
The f. E. Jones bill to appropriate
81, 100000 to cover a deficiency under
the act of 1911, which abolished the
work tax on roads, passed the house
finally by vote OF 173 to 0.
The administration blue sky bill
introduced by A. C. Stein of Pittsburg
was amended on third reading by the
insertion OF provision that brokers
books be open for the inspection OF
the state banking department, but not
for the public.
The senate defeated the west
pocket" ballot bill, the chief product
of the legislative election commits,
sion's four years of labor, and also
refused to pass Senator McNichol's bill
TO bar the placing in the field of can
didates by petition or nomination
papers.
These bills we're defeated, the first
22 to 16, the second, 20 to IS, despite
an agreement that the senate should
pass these bills as preliminary to a
conference of senate and house on
| tleCllOu TelOIH ultdoul co.
The Humes bill, to provide the in
itiative and referendum for second and
third class cities, was recommended
to the municipal affairs committee Of
the state senate.
The Allen initiative and referendum
bill for boroughs was passed in the
house after L. B. Latshaw of Arm
strong had succeeded in eliminating
the provision inserted by G. w. Allen
Allegheny, several weeks ago to pre-
vent his law from being invoked to
regulate the liquor traffic.
The senate killed the two bills es.
pecially prepared by the pure food de.
partment. One, known as the pure
food BILL" was designed to prevent
fraud in the manufacture and sale OF
food in the state. The other is the
bill to prevent fraud in the manu-.
facture and sale of non-alcoholic
drinks.
The Beidel bill, to permit third class
cities to operate an ice plant in con.
nection with their water departments
and sell the product to the residents
OF the cities, passed the senate.
The Flynn party enrolment bill
passed the house, 1872 to As. An at
tempt of Frank H. Rockwell. Tioga
to have the bill, which was drafted by
the elections conmiss ion, amended
failed