Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-13
UPPER END BRIDGE
BILL IN SENATE.
Beidleman Also Introduces
Measure Calling For I'm
provements to Polytechnic

A bill appropriating $450,000 for
the erection by the State Highway De-
partment of bridge across the Sus-
quehanna river at NIillersburg was
introduced in the Senate last evening
by Senator e. Il. Beidleman.
The bridge would connect Dauphin
and Perry counties at point where
residents of both counties have long
The piers are to be erected without
cost to the State, according to the
provisions of the bill.
Mr.. Beidleman also introduced his
bill calling for the election of re-
ceiver of taxes in lieu of the cumber-
some and costly county tax collectors
for each ward and district in the
county. The bill is so drawn as to
avoid the objections raised at the last
session. 1t would apply only to coun-
ties having between 1890 and 15O,-
600 population and would have the
receivers salary fixed by the county
commissioners.
Other bills covering local needs in
troduced by Mr.. Beidleman include:
One appropriating $44,904 to the
Polytechnic Hospital; one appropriat-
ing S59,500 to the Stae Hospital for
the Insane, and one ap propriating
$4,000 to the same institution. The
red during the past two years.
The proposed Polytechnic Hospital
appropriation is divided as follows;
for maintainence, $4,000; for equip
ment, $4,000; for wiping out indebted
ness on grounds and buildings, $685.
500; for installation of an elevator,
1000, and for wiping out an indebt-
edness of $404. The State Insane Hos
pital appropriation calls for making
improvements at the institution by
the purchase of grounds and build
ingS at the entrance to the grounds,
the erection of barns and pig pens,
the equipment of an industrial home
for women and for the concreting of
cellars.
Among the bills introduced were the
following:
Mr.. Sproul-Appropria $4,000
for the payment of transportation to
and from Vickesburg of Pennsylvania
soldiers who took part in the Siege of
Vickesburg in 1868. Congress recent
ly provided for celebration of the
event to be held in october. Penn
sylvania troops engaged In the siege
included the Forty-flfty, the Fiftieth,
the Fifty-first and the Hundredth
Pennsylvania Volunteers and DurelPs
Battery.
Mr.. Sproul-Making changes in the
State Highway route between New
Bloomfield and Thompsontown so that
the highway will begIn at New Bloom
field and proceed to Duncannon, to
Amity Hall, thence along east bank
of the Juniata to point opposite
Newport and thence to Thompson
town.
Mr.. Patton-Providing for a State
home for persons suffering from in
durable diseases.
Mr.. Eyre-Providing for the crea-
ton of a rural bureau in the Depart
ment of Agriculture for the instruc-
ton of women and abolishing the
farm advisory bureau.
Mr.. Snyder-Providing for the re-
funding by cities of assessments col
lected from property owners for curb
ing, paving, etc, where the city had
no authority to collect the same.
Mr. Haldeman - Increasing t h e
number of deputy attorney generals
from two to three who are to be paid
$4,000 annually and abolishing two
deputies whose salaries are fixed at
$4,000.
Mr.. Lynch-Providing for the en-
ployment of INDECENT insane in hos
pitals and paying them from ten to
fifty cents a day.
Mr.. Leiby-F'iXing the fees of no
tary publics; appropriating $4,000
to the Lewistown Hospital, and max
ing it a misdemeanor punishable by
maximum fine of $1,000 or a years
Imprisonment to fix in q deed a higher
sum than was actually paid for the
transfer of real property.