Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-28

the two committees on mines. Chair
men Baldwin and Ramsey presided.
The hearing was for advocates of
the bill. James Scarlet, the attorney
who drafted the act. being the chief
speaker. n delegation of $50 men
from Scranton alone came here with
men from other sections Cf the hard
coal region. The bill was sponsored
by the Scranton Surface Protective
Association, of whose legislative COM
mittee j. ID. Keator, managing editor
of the Scranton Times, is chairman.
The opponents of the bill, or rather
the mine owners, will be given hear
ing later on.
The hearing has attracted great at
tentlon among Legislators and the sit
uatlon Will be presented i'm great detail.
oplnion On Inspcction.-E Emerson
Collns, Deputy Attorney General. has
gwen an opinion to Commissioner
John Price Jackson, of the Depart-
hieht or Labor and Industry, to the
erect that there is no reason WHY
boiler inspection should not he eX
tended TO boilers at oil wells He holds
that form of operation is entitled TO
the same protection as industrial op-
erations generally.
Lebanon Gets Pcrmission.-The State
water supply Commission YESTERDAY
granted permits to the city of Lebanon
10 make a number of changes in Quit
tapahllla creek, in that city. The
iteadlng Railway received permission
to build bridges i'm Northumberland
and Union counties. The PENNSYLVANIA
iiallfoad got permission to change
bridges in Union county.
No Change i'm Ordcr.-Thc Public
Service Commission has refused to
GhahSe It's former ruling i'm the cases
brought against the Ohio Valley Water
company by the boroughs of Ben
Avon, McKees Rocks, Bellevue, Ava
ION and West View and stowe town
snip and William b. Dawson, all of
Allegheny, except that it makes the
effective date April /, 1917, and an
nouncing that it had considered one
thlrd of capacity of the MonongahcIa
parallel line in liking valuations. The
commission also refused a rehearing
commissioner Killing filed dissenting
opinion, in which he did not concur i'm
the refusal OF rehearing and differed
on valuation fixed by the commission.
The opinion given is one of the most
exhaustive issued by the commission.
Compensation Case. The State
Workmen's Compensation Board has
reversed Referee ChrstIey i'm the case
oil PopoblcS vs.. Consolidated Expanded
Metal Company. Braddock, in which
the compensation award is modified,
and dismissed Il petition, Gargano VS.
the PENNSYLVANIA Fire Proofing Com
pany, st. Marys, in which review of an
agreement is asked. A new hearing
! is awarded in the claim of David
MCMullen VS.. Bowman & Co., Har-
risburg, and aflirms awards of referees
in other cases.
Bill Goes Over. - The House com
mittee on banking last evening heard
arguments in favor of the industrial
bank bill 10y ex-senator Bayard Henry
and others of Philadelphia and fixed
April 10 as the date to hear opponents
of the measure. Representatives of
the State Association Of small loan
brokers attended the hearing but did
not speak to-day.
Mangan Bill Out.-The House labor
and industry committee has reported
out the bills repeating the clause of
the industrial accidents report act pro-
viding that such statements shall not
be used in court and the bill requiring
notice to be given if strikes or lock-
outs prevail when advertisements are
made for labor.