Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-13
FULL CREW REPEALER
ON THIRD READING
IContinued from First Page.l

Continued from First Pagel
the specific reference TO the full crew
law in the repeal, but the House would
not agree to it after Mr.. Baldwin had
said there was no necessity for amend
ment. 1t is now on third reading.
At the opening session of the House
Chaplain Stanley prayed for Divine
guidance and help for the Governor
and that he would be successful in the
movements for the good of the State
which he had undertaken.
Jitney Bill Amended
The bill regulating iitney lines was
amended to reduce the bond required
for each car from $4,000 to $4,000
and for payment of u per cent. of
gross receipts instead of 10 per cent.
to municipality.
Mr.. Berntheizel, Lancaster, rising to
a question of personal privilege, said
he was reported as voting against the
workmen's compensation bill, when he
had voted for them. 1t transpired
that he had been mixed up with Mr..
Rothenberger. Berks, in some news
paper accounts, but that he was all
right on the record.
Salary Raiser Killed
Objections TO a $4,000 salary for
county controllers in Berks, Cambria,
Fayette, Lancaster. Montgomery,
sSchuyikill and Westmoreland, caused
after lively debate.
Tits On the Floor
During the second reading calen-
dar Mr.. Ehrhardt, Lackawanna, at
tempted to amend the Senate bill for
an elective poor board in Scranton to
make the salary $1,000. Mr.. Dawson
said that $1,000 was not too much and
charged that Mr. Ehrhardts motion
was only a plan to have the bill go
back to the Senate. Mr.. Dawson de-
clared the people wanted an elective
board and had been trying to get one
for twenty-six years. The amendment
was defeated.
Mr.. Cromer, Allegheny, enlivened
the House again this morning. He
went after bill to increase the salary
of an orphans court officer in Allie
gheny county and Mr.. Stein hit back,
saying Mr.. Cromer, who speaks on
so many things. ought to know the
Allegheny judges favored the bill.
In reply Mr.. Cromer said that any
legislation increasing pay seemed to
go through like creased lightning
The chaplain hardly gets through
praying for the commonwealth when
the members begin to prey on it. The
bill passed, 1873 to 13.
Bills Passed Finally
Bills passed finally:
Providing short term notes for Sec
ond class cities.
Senate bill extending right of ap-
peal to common pleas courts from
assessments for taxation to munich
palities and public corporations.
Fixing at $4,000 salary of first as
sistant clerk of orphans court in Allie
gheny county.
Regulating sale for smelling of pre-
cious metals.
Increasing authority of second class
cities to regulate storage of explosives
and to abate fire hazards.
Senate bill providing fifty additional
factory inspectors and other officers
in the Department of Labor and In
dustry
Regulating tenders of judgment or
payment in civil matters.
Requiring anthracite mine cages to
be of steel construction.
Providing for filing of maps of coal
workings and clay pits with owners of
adjoining tracts.
Senate bill requiring magistrates to
file acceptances of election with pro-
thonotary of proper county.
The House took a recess at p. m.
until p. m. the afternoon to be spent
by committees in acting on bills.
ANOTHER "STATE FLOWER"
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