Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
BEIDLEMAN BILL
IS UP IN HOUSE
Third Class City Councilmanic
Vacancy Measure Has
Passed Senate

The House to-day passed on first
reading Senator Beidleman's bill for
the filling of councilmanic vacancies
in third-class cities. 1t has been
passed by the Senate.
The House passed a big first and
second reading calendar. The new
building code, bills for two-mill tax
on corporations for road improve
ment; authorizing third-class cities
certs and Sproul bills to facilitate op-
erations of federal farm loan banks
being on first reading.
To Purchase Normal Schools
An appropriation of 100000 for
purchase of normal schools by the
State is proposed in a bill introduced
into the House to-day by Mr.. Mervlne.
Stroudsburg. The State may not pay
more than shareholders paid for their
stock, under a clause in the bill. The
State now owns ten of the thirteen
schools.
Other bills were introduced as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Shaffer, Columbia-R
employers to furnish information to
tax collectors and to deduct from
wages sums to pay delinquent occupa-
ton taxes.
Mr.. Benchoff. Franklin-Requirin
auto owners to equip cars with dim
mers, approved by the State and re-
quiring use in passing vehicles. Pro-
hibiting auto drivers from passing
others moving in the same direction
at curves or ascending a grade; re-
quiring owners of lands to cut out
noXiouS weeds.
Pa ID t,.i,
closing of schools on the following
legal holidays: Lincoln's and Wash
ington's birthdays, Memorial, Thanks
giving and Christmas days.
Philadelphia Bill Lost
The Philadelphia city administra-
ton was attacked and defended in the
House to-day when the Hefferman
bill forbidding policemen and firemen
of first-class cities from taking an
active part in politics, interfering with
elections, canvassing districts or US
ing influence for political purposes,
came up. After a hot debate it was
defeated 104 to rs. Efforts to re-
consider are under way.
These bills were passed finally:
Amending school code to provide
for education of blind children. b..
Amending school code to require
auditors to file reports by September /.
The House concurred in the Sen
ate resolution calling on the Auditor
General to explain employment of ad-
ditional expert clerks.
The House adjourned at 1850 d. m
until 10 a. m. Wednesday.
Bills Passed Finally
Among the bills passed finally in
the Senate were the following:
The Reynolds House bill authoriz-
ing companies, manufacturing cigars
or tobacco incorporated under the
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necessary Tor the conduct OF their
business in this state; the late Senator
Magee's act providing for the print
ing, binding and distribution of the
analytical index of official opinions of
the Attorney Generals department.
The Mcconnell act supplementing
the township classification law so as to
provide for the election of a township
solicitor in townships of the first class
passed second reading, as did the Jen-
kins bill extending the provisions of
an act to include the sale of real
property of the Commonwealth re-
served for the use of a poor district.
On the second reading calendar the
bill introduced by Senator Burke ex-
tending the provisions of the State
employees retirement act to include
employees in penitentiaries and other
institutions operated by the Common
wealth was passed.
Senator G. A. Snyder's act defining
cold storage and regulating the time
of storage of certain articles of food
and providing penalties, on the Sec
ond reading calendar, was recon-
mitted to the committee on public
health and sanitation.
The act providing for the joint ac-
QUESTION and maintenance by Penn
sylvania and New Jersey of certain
toll bridges over the Delaware river
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