Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-18
NINETEEN VETOES
ARE ANNOUNCED
BY BRUMBAUGH
Fall of Sixteen Senate Meas.
ures Indicated by Appro-
priation Cuts

a number of measures whose veto
was indicated by his disapproval of
| items in the general appropriation
bill last night. Sixteen of the bills
vetoed were Senate measures and
three were House bills.
The Governor also announced his
disapproval of the Senate bill giving
electric companies the right of emil
nent domain, saying that to grant
such rights might result in steel
towers or other structures being
placed on homo properties and that
Deautitul scenery, fine farms or eX-
pensive residences would be marred.
The Governor says that the bill is
also an amendment to the steam
power act and would give such cor
porations right of eminent domain
and deny 1t TO water power compa-
MES. He adds that in time the wa
ter power companies are going to be
very important and that he does not
like the discrimination.
The Governor also vetoed the bill
providing that there should be
quadrennial instead of triennial as
sessments of properties in counties
The Governor says he is in favor of
annual assessments and that an as
sessment holding for four years
would work great injustice to the
people at large and great advantage
to the owning corporations, COM
panies and individuals" He says the
bill is unfair, unjust undemo-
cratic"
Other Senate bills vetoed included:
Providing for establishment of
war garden commissions in cities
and other municipalities, on which
the Governor says that the State
Committee of Public Safety with it's
local organizations throughout the
State is-amply fitted to perform any
service these commissions may un-
dertake and that there is no need
of creating wheels within wheels"
Lops Salaries
Increasing salaries of the Senate
Librarian and Resident Clerk of the
| House to $1,000, on which the Gov
ernor says the officials had a sub
stantial increase two years ago and
that the Legislature made no pro-
vision to pay the increase
Creating the office of deputy State
| Treasurer. law clerk and other treas.
ury officers, on which the Governor
says the department was reorganized
two years ago and its appropriation
largely increased. The present bill
adds such an important sum to the
| cost of maintaining this department
that it is impossible to authorize it
in view of the fact that the Assem-
| bly, made no adequate provision to
| pay the expense it authorized
Amending school code relative to
| settlement of second class tax COL
| lections, the Governor saying there
can be no good accomplished by
singing out a collector in one class
and lengthening time in which to
settle.
Requiring improvement of high
ways where owners of abutting land
desire it. The Governor says the bill
distributes authority and that in his
opinion litigation and expense loom
up. He says he thinks 1t is designed
to cover a special case and is un-
! wise.
Amending school code to provide
for elections in independent districts
on which the Governor says there is
no legal provision for registration of
electors and no legal means of hold
! ing an election.
Providing that second class cities
need not advertise when an article
desired is completely controlled by
patent or by a monopoly on which
the Governor says the bill is wholly
wrong in principle"
Validating, leases and sales by cor
porations for mining, quarrying and
other business. The Governor OBJ
! jects to the term 'other business"
and says When such sales are
made without authority of the stock
holders somebody Intentionally OF
unintentionally blundered. >
| Surely stockholders have some
rights. They are fast disappearing
| by the innumerable procession of
validating acts. Let the procession
halt and let responsible directorates
obey the law"
/ Relative to second class school dis
trict tax collection on which the Gov
ernor says a similar bill was vetoed
and adds careless action in the AS
sembly brings both to me-"
Relieving supervisors of roads from
giving security for taxes, which the
Governor says does not relieve over
seers of the poor, who were included
in the original act. IF funds should
be held, security ought to be given,
| says the Governor.
Validating certain elections for in
crease of debt, which the Governor
says is similar to others and that
| they are all alike unnecessary. These
bills are in effect indictment of mu-
nicipal management OF what
use are laws regulating the increase
of Indebtedness if every proposition
of law can be violated with impunity
and then have such illegal action val
ldated by the Legislature
school Code Amendment
Amending school code by providing
that a surplus credit in one course
of study shall not be transferred to
another course in which a pupil may
be deficient who ever heard of a
| teacher who by shift of percentages
| could produce rounded and balanced
knowledge? cannot believe that
any teacher could be found who would
do the unethical thing this bill pro-
hibits. The attempt to gain school
credits by such courses as music by
correspondence is absurd and as soor
as known will by executive regulation
be-promptly suppressed"
The bills vetoed referred to in the
general act are reorganiZing the De-
partment of State. on which the Gov
ernor says that while increases Of
salary are justified. the Legislature
did not provide funds; for a salarieC
commission on agriculture, on which
the Governor says the bill in per
fectly foolish way undertakes t.
place the appointment of the eXecu
tive officers away from the Governor
"and that "it is an old-time ripper
with no reason for the ripping witt
the further information that the pres
ent commission is well organized
for work.; creating salary board
for the State, on which the Governor
says "there is no evil to be remedieC
by this act" and that II would cause
complications and check freedom o.
responsible heads of departments
reorganizing the fire marshafs de
partment, which the Governor say'
is a laudable attempt to put the bill
on more comprehensive basis, bu
| that fba does have thu