Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-06

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sending $500 Springfield rifles to
/ this State.
! The rifle practice season started
on Thursday but owing to the new
rifles, the Adjutant General will di-
rect that new rules be laid down at
once.
The Adjutant General said that the
new rifles would be issued as soon
as possible.
Bills Approvcd-Governor Sproul
last night announced that he had
signed the Ware Senate bill to carry
! into effect the constitutional proVi-
sion for calculating the borrowing
capacity of Philadelphia. He also
! signed the resolution providing for
a committee of three Senators and
five Representatives to make an in
Vestigation of the public school sys-
tenn of the State. AS the appropria-
ton provided is only $4,000, it will
not go very far in opinion of people
at the Capitol. This resolution was
presented in the Senate on March II.
Order on CarS-The Public Ser
vice Commission last night issued an
order that all automobiles on ferry
boats on the Delaware river should
have blocks at their wheels and that
chains strong enough to hold them
should be placed on the gates. This
| is the result of the inquiry into the
! accident in which a car went off
boat about ten days ago and several
people were drowned.
Two Capital CaSeS-Two first de-
gree murder cases have been filed
with the State Board of Pardons for
commutation of death sentences. The
cases are those of Loomis, of North
ampton, and Gibson, of Allegheny.
The Board is to meet on May 81.
New ASSOciationS-More building
and loan associations have been char
tered by the State government in the
last four months than known IN
any similar period. The aggregate
capital of the associations chartered
since the first of the year, will run
over $25,000,000. Some of those in
corporated recently have authorized
capital of S9,000,0O0 and a number
of increases of capital to $1,000
600 have been flied.
After JitncyS-More complaints
against illegal operation of jitneys
have been filed with the Public Ser
vice Commission than in regard to
anything else in the last fortnight.
They have been filed not only by
trolley companies. but by municipal
authorities and by men operating
iitneys which have certificates from
the State.
y Midnight Veto-A veto of the
House bill "to prevent unfair COM
petition and unfair trade practices
was sent to the House just before it
adjourned at midnight, the Governor
saying that its provisions are vague,
loose and indefinite" The Governor
goes into detail as to objections to
the bill as carelessly drawn and says
that there is now an adequate reme-
dy for the appropriation of trade
names, marks and brands and that
it requires no statutory enactment to
give effect to these remedies. He
also says that the proposed act has
no penalty attached to it,
Bond Issue PlanS-In a communi-
cation to the Senate issued last even
ing, Governor Sproul outlined his
plan for the issuance of bonds which
will take place under the Good
Roads" bill, which carries a $50, ,000,-
600 appropriation to be raised by
bond sales. Twelve million dollars
worth of the bonds will be issued on
the first of July, and the same date,
one year hence, will see eighteen
million more forthcoming The bonds
will bear interest at a rate of 41s
per cent per annum, and will be pay
able in not less than 80 years from
date.