Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-30
SENATE WILLSEE
SNYDER ELEVATED
He Will Take Office as Audi
tor General at Session
Tomorrow

Legislation varying lin scope from
bill fixing the fees of witnesses
and jurors in actions before alder
men and justices of the peace to
measures proposing amendments to
the constitution of the State will oc-
cup the attention of the Senate
when it meets tomorrow forenoon
at 11.45 to witness, before taking
up 16-page calendar, the induction
of one of its members, Auditor Gen.
eral-elect Snyder, into office. The
new officials term as senator eX-
pires at the stroke of midnight to-
night, in accordance with his resig-
nation read at last Wednesdays ses-
sion by President Pro Tenn. Beible-
man. He has served continuously
in the upper body since 1908. His
legislative career began in 1903.
when he was chosen as an assembly,
man from Schuylkill county.
At the head of the calendar is
the Miller vivisection bill, which was
defeated last Monday night and
placed on the final passage calendar
before the Senate adjourned for the
week on Wednesday. The bill gives
airy schools or colleges the right to
buy dogs unclaimed in the public
pounds for the promotion of biologi-
cal science and the discovery of new
methods of treatment in medicines
and surgery. The humane societies
of the State opposed the bill with
considerable vigor when it came up
on final passage.
SO Bills on Third Reading
There are Sc bills on the third
reading calendar, among them the
Ware joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution so as
to allow the consolidation of the
common pleas courts of Philadelphia
county. The Reynolds bill authoriz-
ing the director of supplies in Phil
adelphia to purchase supplies to the
amount of $1,000 without entering
into a contract is on this calendar.
The bill has been amended so as to
include only supplies necessary dur
ing the present war emergency.
The Boyer act providing for leave
to pay fines and costs in criminal
proceedings by instalments is on
final passage, together with the bill
offered by Senator Beidleman re-
quiring railroad, canal, navigation
and telegraph companies to submit
their annual reports to the Secretary
of Internal Affairs not later than
March 81 of any year.
On this calendar. also is the
Snyder bill prohibiting holders of
brewers licenses from having OFF,
ces or agents soliciting business in
counties outside of the one in which
they have their breweries, without
a county agents license.
The Sproul bill, proposing an
amendment to the act providing for
the creation and maintenance of a
reserve fund in banking institutions
nf a State hV stimulating that the
reserve fund may consist in part of
gold or silver certificates. notes or
bills issued by a Federal Reserve
bank and authorizing a portion of
the reserve fund to be deposited in
any bank or trust company located
in any State other than Pennsyl-
vania, subject to the approval of
the Banking Commissioner, Is on
third reading.
Martin Bill Up
A bill of more than passing in
terest is booked for final action in
the Senate, the Martin bill making 1t
a misdemeanor for a person wilfully
to neglect to support a child born
out of lawful wediock, whether such
child shall have been begotten or
shall have been born within or with
out this Commonwealth. The act
makes 1t q misdemeanor also for
to the parentage of the child. The
penalty is fine not exceeding $500
or Imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or both at discretion of the
court. The bill seeks to make the
duty of the parents of neglected
children more imperative and to
prevent these children becoming
charges on State and counties.
Senator Snyder's act forbidding
the appointment of nonresidents to
any Office, position ~ place as en-
ployes of the commonwealth is on
the third reading calendar, as is the
Eyre bill appropriating 1882, 500 to
uniform and equip the enlisted men
of the National Guard of Pennsyl-
vania; the Buckman bill appropriat-
ing S7,267.62 to meet the salary and
mem bership increase voted the State
Police Department, the bill having
been approved by Governor Brum-
baugh on April IL as a further
strengthening of the defenses of
Pennsylvania during the war with
Germany.
Another war measure, the act pro-
viding an additional armed land
force for the defense of the Com
during any war in which
the United States may be engaged,
offered by Senator Mckee.