The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
NEWS FROM The STATE
CAPITOL
Legislature Asked to- Set Aside
$5OO,OOO For State Fair-Leib
Election To-day - $54 100000
Available For State Needs.

If Governor Teners own declara-
tion and the enthusiastic concerted
action of nearly a thousand repre-
sentative farmers, fruit growers,
livestock breeders and dairymen of
Pennsylvania has any significance,
the State fair for the Keystone is GER
tainly assured In a brief speech
last Thursday evening before the
joint gatherings of the State Board
of Agriculture, the State Horticul-
tural and Livestock Breeders Asso-
Citations and the Pennsylvania Dairy
Union, Governor Tener declared him
self "in hearty accord" with the
movement to establish a state fair in
Pennsylvania. When Secretary N.
B. Critchfield asked the assembled
delegates from all over the state who
favor the project to express their
approval by raising their hands
there was a prompt and general up
lifting of hands.
The state bodies closed their three
day session and among the import
ant resolutions adopted was the one
asking the legislature to provide an
appropriation of 100000 for the
great exposition.
In many years Pennsylvania till
ers OF the soil, tenders of orchards
and vineyards, cattle fanciers and
milk dealers and dairymen have not
held so enthusiastic a gathering as
that which nearly filled Chestnut
street auditorium last evening. 1t
had originally been intended to meet
in the Board of Trade, but the larger
auditorium was selected because of
it's size.
Leib Election To-day.
In anticipation that the House
will be called upon to vote again for
the election of a resident clerk,
members of the three factions in the
chamber were busy Friday getting
into touch with their people in order
to fight out the question once more.
When the point of order that no
election had taken place was raised
by Samuel B. Scott that afternoon,
less than 1875 members were in the
city, and every effort is being bent
to have things all ready to meet
whatever situation arises.
Speaker George E. Alter has been
studying the point of order made by
Scott, which bristles with all sorts of
possibilities, and intends to go into
the whole subject thoroughly Be-
fore leaving for Pittsburg at an early
hour Thursday morning, Mr.. Alter
looked into the situation and pre-
cedents and will be back here on
Monday to take it UP again. There
is a disposition among members in
the city to uphold the Speaker, as
everyone seems to have confidence
in his fairness in dealing with the
question.
100000 Available For State
Needs.
According to information from
official sources the Appropriation
Committees of the upper and lower
Houses of the General Assembly will
have at their disposal for the needs
of the State for the next two years
the vast sum of fifty-four or fifty
five million dollars. This sum is
an official estimate of the probable
amount of revenue that the State will
get during the two fiscal years be-
ginning with June of this year and
it is on the basis of such an estimate
that the Appropriation Committee
will disburse the funds of the Com
monwealth.
This revenue, large as it is and
made possible by increased corpora
ton taxes, would not suffice to en-
able the committees to prepare as
big total appropriations as were au-
thorized by the last General Assem-
bly, The appropriations were ap-
proximately $5S,000,000, sum said
by the State officials to have been
several million dollars larger than
any previous State general appropri-
alton bill.
Senator Charles H. Kline, of Pitts
burgh, chairman of the Senate APP
preparation Committee, and S. Tay-
4f Tnf ~
chairman of the House Committee,
will hold a conference this week.
They hope to arrange for harmoni-
Gus cooperation of the two big COM
mittees. Chairman North expects
to call a meeting of the House Com
mittee next Tuesday, so that the
twenty-seven appropriation bills al
ready received and those received
today may be considered.
Vitally connected with this i'm
portant matter of the States eX-
penses is the proposed reorganization
of the Auditor Generals department
to the end that increased taxes may
be collected from the giant corpora
tions of Pennsylvania. This reor-
ganization, originally planned and
urged by the present Auditor Gener-
al, A. e. Sisson, again will be urged
upon the General Assembly by the
incoming Auditor General, State
Senator A. w. Powell, who purposes
to introduce into the Legislature,
of which he is still a member, bills
which would enable him to set about
the reorganization. 1t is believed
here by those in Powell's confidence
that his bills on the subject will be
drafted along the lines of bills pre-
pared for the last Assembly by Gen
eral Sisson.
To Borrow 10 Per Cent. Instead of z.
A bill is in for convention to re-
wise the State constitution, and
resolution to amend it so as to per-
NIT municipalities, counties and
school districts to borrow 10 per