The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-02
Measure introduced To-
day Provides Assess
mentSfo Both Build
ings and Land
$4,000 ASKED
FOR ARSENAL
House Passes Finally the Bill Fixing
the Marriage License Fee at 81 In.
stead Of S1-Plan to Abolish Mo-
tion Picture Censors

A measure providing for separate
taxes on buildings and land in third
class cities, of which Harrisburg is one,
was introduced in the House this morn
county.
The measure amends the Clark COM
mission form of government bill 1t
provides that in the 1915 assessment
the buildings bear nine-tenths of the
amount required, reducing the build
ing tax gradually until 1925 when the
buildings and land tax will bear equal
amounts of the sum required. The as.
SCISSORS. under this bill, will also return
TO the City Commission the names of
all male residents of third class cities
who are more than twentyone years
old.
Representative Wildman, of Dauphin.
introduced three appropriation bills,
one carrying a total of $4,000 for i'm
provements at the State Arsenal, di-
vided as follows: $4,000 for com
pletion of the main building; $4,000
for retaining walls, and $500 for i'm
proved driveways. The second bin is to
reimburse Henry C. Musser, of the Mo-
ravian Pottery Works, of Doylestown,
to the extent of s469.6S for tiling
placed in the Treasury Department in
the capital and the third appropriates
S3S3.S0 to Pierce Rettew, of Harris
burg, for mailing 1,010 copies of the
annual report of tine Department of
Health for 1909.
Other Measures Introduced
Other bills introduced inclade:
Mr.. Dodjs. Allegheny-Provding
that all vehicles carry lights at night
and that all trolley ears be equipped
with air brakes.
Mr.. Myers, shington-Providin
for two assistant chiefs in the Depart
ment of Mines. one for bituminous and
the other for anthracite districts, and
fixing their salaries at $4,000; requir-
ing banks to report quarterly on all
moneys bearing interest together with
the names of the depositors.
Mr.. Walton, Lawrence-Prohibitin
minors from entering places where liq-
uor is sold or to induce minors to enter
such places, except in the ease where
parents take minor children or q hus-
band his minor wife.
Mr.. Mellott. Fulton-Providing that
County Commissioners build one bridge
year until all streams are provided
with adequate facilities crossing.
Mr.. Geary, Alegheny-Providing
for the erection of monument to Bat
terry |, Independent Volunteers, known
as the Hampton Battery, at Chancel-
lorsvile and Antietan and making the
three remaining members of that bat
terry a commission to provide for the
monuments and appropriating $4,000
for each monument.
Mr.. Willard, Philade,phia-Making
the fee for the registration of nurses
$40 instead of So, providing for re-
ciprocity with other States and requir-
ing the State Department of Health to
make annual reports on nurses train
ing schools.
To Abolish Picture Censors
Mr.. Stein, Alleghepy-Repealing the
act of 1911 creating the State board
of moving picture eensors and making
it misdemeanor TO discriminate
against any person on account of race
or color in places of public entertain
ment or accommodation.
Mr.. Stein, Allegheny-An anti-vivi-
section measure providing penalty of
not less than S100 nor more than $500
and an Imprisonment of not less than
three months nor more than one year
in the ease of all animals operated on.
Mr.. Lauer, Acknowledgements
ing $4,000 to- the Gettysburg Mem
orial Commission for erecting on the
battlefield of Gettysburg of suitable
statues of Generals Crawford and Glib
bon; making repairs to the Pennsylya-
MIA memorials and printing 10000 of
the Gettysburg commission S report for
the use of State officials and patriotic
societies in the State.
Fourteen bills were passed finally
in the House, most of them affecting
first class cities in the State. One gen.
eral bill which passed finally fixed the