Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-24
GOVERNOR ADDS
TO VETO RECORDS
Also Approves the Bill to Give
Adequate Force to Depart
ment of Labor

twenty y-eight. He has seventy bills
including those announced last night
The Governor spent practically all of
yesterday acting on bills and left for
Philadelphia where he will spend the
week end.
Four of the vetoes were of Senate
bills and three were House bills. All
but three of the bills signed were
Senate bills.
The vetoes were as follows:
Bullfrogs Safe
Buchanan Senate bill regulating
catching of bullfrogs and tadpoles on
which the Governor says it contains
provision relative to terrapin which is
not mentioned in the title and that IL
is of constitutional uncertainty"
Croft Senate bill regulating assess
ment of lands where divided by town
ship lines, which the Governor says
would cause much confusion and Sc
cure but little benefit" and that it has
defective title.
Kline Senate bill increasing salary of
first assistant clerk of orphans court
of Allegheny county on which the
Governor objects to the classification
of the county, which is on a basis of
population, says This county classlti-
cation is of doubtful constitutionality
and, while it is claimed the increase is
paid from fees, it is paid finally by
the taxpayers. The only question,
aside from the validity of the BILL is
the compensation properly attacked to
the service rendered. 1t does not seem
to me prudent at this time to increase
salaries where no real hardship fol-
lows
Crow Senate bill increasing author
ity of literary, scientific. educational.
religious. charitable. benevolent or
beneficial societies to hold property
the Governor saying: This bill in
creases the holding of real and personal
property from an annual income of
$4,000 to 100000. The propriety of
such a large increase in the possible
tax exempted properties of the Com
monwealth is questionable.
Up to Council
Roney House bill regulating salaries
of clerks in office of recorder of deeds
in Philadelphia, the Governor says
that the existing act provides that
councils in first-class cities shall fix
salaries paid out of the city treasury
and that they should be allowed to
do it.
Wobensmith House bill requiring all
public printing to be done within the
State, on which the Governor says:
There is no sufficient reason for such
territorial limits. Many other public
services might with equal propriety
be so limited. Moreover it is in con-
travention of section II of article III
of the constitution and in violation of
the act of July 26, 1897, as defined
by the courts in Commonwealth VS..
Casey, 231 Pa, 100"
Dunn House bill requiring second
class cities to establish municipal pen
sion funds. The Governor says on
this: "The bill requires cities of the
second class to establish municipal
pension fund. The bill entered the
legislature as a bill applying to cities
of the frst-class and emerge as ap-
plying to cities of the second-class.
Section l of article III of the consti-
tuition expressly prohibits this. 1t is a
grave question whether the Common
wealth should mandate any municipal
unit as to the method of eXpending its
own money. The councils of a city,
representing the taxpayers are best
qualified to pass upon such matters
More Inspectors
Among the bills signed was the Ger
berich Senate bill to give the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry force
adequate to it's work. The bill creates
fifty new factory inspectorships. The
present force of inspectors number RS
fifty which the economy commission
recommended should be doubled. The
additional places created are as fol-
lows: For the administration end of
the department one auditor, $4,000;
filing clerk, S1.500: three stenograph-
ers, $500 each; skilled stenographer,
$1,000. For the bureau of inspection,
one skilled stenographer, $4,000: one
stenographers $1,000: fifty inspectors
at 81. 500 each; two supervising inspec-
tors, $4,000 each; four inspectors who
shall be skilled stenographers, $500
each; for the division of hygiene and
engineering, two engineers at $1,000
each; clerk, $1.500; stenographer,
5000; bureau of statistics and infor-
nation, four clerks at S1,40O each;
editor at $1,000; expert tabulator
Isl. 400 two machine operators, 81 200
each stenographer, $1.500; bureau
of mediation, secretary, $4,000; indus
trial board, secretary, $4,000.
The increases of salary are: Chief
medical inspector, $4,000 to $4,000;
chief of bureau of statistics $4,000 to
| 5000; chief of bureau of statistics
$4,000 to $4,000, and chief clerk, s2,-
500 to $500.
Senate Bills
| Other bills approved include:
Appropriating sSO,s71.63 to Polk
institution for cottages, bakery, etc.
Increasing enumber of State game
protectors from thirty to sixty.
Appropriating S11 ,090 to State In
stitution for Criminal Insane for de.
| ficiencies.
Amending foreign corporation reg.
istration act of 1911.
Amending school code by permitting
school boards to make contracts with
seminaries and academies for instruc'
ton and to receive and administer as
sets of such institutions for educa-
tional purposes.
! Appropriating s25,S9S.29 to State
Hospital at Shamokin to meet a de
| ficiency.
Relating to competency OF witnesses
in actions arising out of exercise o.
eminent domain.
Regulating appeals from reports o.
auditors of boroughs, townships anC
school districts.
Prohibiting naturalized foreign -bor1
residents from fishing or killing fish
in the State under penalty of $40 fine
| House Bills
Providing for semimonthly pay day
for employees of Philadelphia county.
Amending school code to provide
for employees pensions
Providing for registration of owner
lships of real estate in second-clas
cities.
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