Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
additional licensing body.
Five Others vetoed

Five other House bills were vetoed
as follows:
Making term of office of city and
county inspectors of weights ana meas
ures four years, on whlcn .he 80 "
ernor saws: This bill amends the act
of May IL, 1911. by changing the ten
ure of INSPECTORS of weights and meas
ures from good behavior to term OF
four years. The present law puIs
these officers on a secure tenure Tree
from political menace. This Dlll Wouio
make these offices part OF the Spots
of office. 1t is legislation away from
| modern thought and against souho
public policy"
Repealing section of act of 1841
relative to county officers on the
ground that it was predicated on an
other act which was vetoed.
Regulating election of commission
ers in first class townships, on which
the Governor says: This bill would
give certain election districts the ad-
vantage over others in representation
upon the board of commissioners.
There can be no Just reason for such
discrimination. The present law is
more equitable and serves well the
needs of the disinterested people re-
siding in such townships. Others need
not be concerned"
Permitting a Lebanon sanatorium
to sue the State for money due for
treatment of a soldier during an en-
campment. The Governor says that
the bill is not in proper form and that
direct appropriation would settle the
matter without expense of a suit.
Exempting bequests for care of
burial lots from collateral inheritance
taxes. The Governor says It Is in vio-
lation of the Constitution. ut exempts
all bequests for the purpose made by
anybody for anybody" says he. 1T
goes too far and is open to abuse and
evasion of the law
In vetoing Speaker Ambler's bill
providing for repeal of obsolete laws
the Governor said This bill is an
omnibus repeater. 1t aims to repeal
$50 obsolete, expired, supplied or sup
erseded laws. To remove from our
statute books this mass of useless
legal stuff is wholly commendable. 1t
is to be regretted that it cannot be
done in the manner indicated, but the
title does not recite the acts repealed,
nor does it confine itself to a single
subject. The constitution requires both
| these to be done. Moreover, it pro-
poses to repeal quite a few laws that
are declared by department heads to
be essential to proper administration.
| In other words, some of these acts are
not obsolete. They are vital. At the
next session with more care and study
and fuller conference as to the useless
ness of laws that may be repealed ii
lis hoped that the really desirable and
contemplated may be accomplished .
The Governor also vetoed the Mar
| tin Senate bill to prevent fraud and
deceit in sale of fruits, vegetables etc,
because 1t had been so changed as to
make it's enforcement impossible. y
and Senate bill for reprinting State
publications on Pennsylvania at Get
| tysburg and frontier forts. On the
latter the Governor says that there
are expensive books and would entail
q heavy tax on the treasury, while
they have already been widely distri-
buted.
Five Senate bills were last night an
lnounced as approved, including the
department of labor and industry un-
der chief at 50 900 per yea~.
Increasing salary of secretary of the
State Lunacy Commission from $4,000
to $4,000.
Amending acts relative to adminis-
tration of estates of long absent per-
sons presumed to be dead by provid-