Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
CHILD LABOR BILL
HEARING WEDNESDAY
Senate Passes Long List of Bills /;
Gerberich Would Pay Farmers
in Full

Senator Snyder, SchuyllIill, an
nounced last night that the Senate
judiciary special committee would give
hearing on Wednesday afternoon OF
next week on the child labor bill. at
which time those who favor the meas
ure as it passed the House would be
heard. In the meantime the commit
tee will take no action on the bill.
Bills passed finally by the Senate
last night included the following:
Creating a State Bureau of Elevator
Inspection.
Authorizing the Governor to close
any county to hunting or fishing when
such is necessary to conserve the
health of the people or natural re-
sources.
House bill providing for the regis
tration of ownership of real estate in
second class cities to facilitate the as
sessment and collection of taxes.
Clark bill clearly defining and regu-
lating the manner in which food fish
may be caught, and upon what de-
vices fees shall be paid and authoriz-
ing the limited use of an additional
kind of net with mesh of defined sizes.
House bill requiring second class
cities to establish a municipal fund for
employees.
Authorizing boroughs to redeem
bonds and for that purpose to issue
new interest bearing bonds,
The bill regulating the sanitary con-
ditions of handling and serving food
in hotels. restaurants and dining cars
was defeated.
COMPENSATION in Senate
The workmen's compensation bills
passed by the House Monday night
were received by the Senate and re-
ferred to the committee on corpora
tions. Senator Crow, of Fayette, is
chairman of the committee.
Senator Snyder, Schuylkill, present
ed in the Senate a bill repeating the
first, third and fourth sections of the
act of May %, 1879, regulating places
of public amusement in Philadelphia.
Foot and Mouth Bill
Senator Gerberich, Lebanon, intro
duced a bill in the Senate regulating
the appraisement and payment for ami
mails destroyed in the eradication of
the foot and mouth disease. In cases
where animals destroyed and paid for
at less than the appraised price of ami
mails the State Livestock Sanitary
Board is empowered to reimburse
owners of such animals to the full
amount of the appraisement. The bill
carries an appropriation of fifty thou
sand dollars.
Other Bills Presented
Other bills introduced in the Senate
included the following:
Gerberich. providing for the sale,
distribution and use for biological sci
ence of unclaimed animals in the pub
lie ponds; also a bill creating a divi-
sion of boiler inspection in the De-
partment of Labor and Industry. The
bill provides for a chief at an annual
salary of $4,000.
Buckman. Bucks-Authorizing cor
porations organized in other States
carrying on farming, fruit growing or
vegetable raising to hold real estate
in Pennsylvania.
Bedleman, Dauphin - Providing
by public officers shall be paid out of
the expenses allowed such officers by
law.
Burke. legheny-Providing that
obligations issued or which may be
issued by any municipality, other than
Philadelphia, to provide for the con-
Struction or acquisition of water works,
subways or street railways, shall not
be considered as a debt if the net
revenue derived from the property for
Il period of five years shall have been
sufficient to pay interest and sinking
fund charges during that period, or if
the obligations shall be secured by
liens upon the property and shall inn
pose no municipal liability.
Sensenich, WeStmcreland -Provid-
ing that in counties not exceeding 500,-
900 population no person except a
physician shall be elected coroner or
deputy coroner.
Thompson, Beaver EXempting
from taxation script. bonds and certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness of third class
cities.
Hilton. Mexican Providing for
compensation for loss to property by
fire proXimately caused by locomotives
by making railroads responsible for
all such loss in cases where such fires
arise within one hundred feet of the
railroad outside of the limits of cities
and boroughs.