Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-18

N.Y. tion of Governor John X.
Wv Tener will be part of the his
tory of Pennsylvania. The
record of the Washington county gov
ernors tenure of the highest office in
the Commonwealth is to be found in
the statute books. Political animosity
and personal enmity. friendship and
admiration can not change what is set
down in the laws of the State. Per-
haps the acts will be more eloquent of
the constructive work of John X.
Tener dozen years hence than they
are to-day.
1t has fallen to the lot OF few gov
ernors to approve and put into opera
tion so many important laws, acts af-
fecting so many Pennsylvanians and
so great interests. What he did and
how he did it is a record for all men
TO read. He was governor in a time
when pretty nearly everything in the
governmental line, courts included,
was subjected to unbridled criticism:
when mere demands for changes were
regarded as sage solutions of great
problems and when comments from
UNUSUAL SbuICGS ICtelNtu unusual
Jention. But all these circumstances
cannot detract from or enhance the
record of his administration.
on the final day of the governor
ship of John X. Tener a few of the
things done for the benefit of the
Commonwealth may be cited. They
include:
Enactment of the school code
Establishment of the Public Service
Commission.
Launching of the several great
charitable projects. such as the >home
for feeble-minded, the women's indus
trial reformatory and other matters
now in hands of commissions.
Changes in laws for the dependents
and Inauguration of the comprehen-
sive survey about to be reported upon.
Supplementing work for elimination
of tuberculosis, two great sanitoria
having been opened.
Inauguration of the movement for
workmen's compensation, endorsed by
all political parties in the last cam
paign.
Establishment of the State highway
system which the defeat of the pro-
posed bond issue makes difficult to
carry out.
Reorganization of the State High
way Department.
Reorganization of the State Insur-
ance Department.
Enactment of the soft coal mining
code.
Passage of the National Guard mill
tary code.
Creation of the private bank license
and inspection system.
Anthracite coal tax law.
Regulation of the escheat laws.
Extension of State vocational edu-
cation.
Commencement of the model peni-
5entiary.
Inauguration of the farm counsellor
service.
Development of the State orchard
inspection work.
Comprehensive regulation of profess
Eions by the new medical bureau.
The hunters license act.
New automobile registration law
yielding over S1,00O,O0O a year.
State College development.
Extension of Capitol Park.
Establishment of the State Bureau
of Standards with its important work
for inspection of weights and meas
ures
Establishment of the State Fire Mar
shars Department for the detection OF
arson and punishment of incendiar-
ism.
Enactment of law designating sala-
ries of Capitol care-taking force.
Changes in the primary and gen.
eral election laws.
Extension of forest reserves until
they have passed the million acre
mark.
Establishment of additional game
preserves.
The cold storage regulation act.
Inventory of the water resources of
the State.
Creation of the State Board of Edu-
cation.
Extension of the activities of the
State Fisheries Department.
Establishment of the censorship of
moving pictures, etc.
Enlargement of the powers of the
State Board of Public Charities.
Extension of powers of the State
Water supply Commission for control