Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
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Officials of the State Library, who
have been making studies of the
legislative enactments of the last
century and half in Pennsylvania,
to-day, called attention to the fact
that Susquehanna river fishermen.
who have been making some vigor-
Gus protests against the State fish
code provisions in regard to seines.
fish baskets and the like, were doing
the same thing just one hundred
years ago. The legislative records
and the newspaper accounts of pro-
ceedings which were proportionately
greater than those given in newspa-
pers nowadays, show numerous
memorials and protests from the
Susquehanna fishermen. The Oracle
of Dauphin, published in this city.
in its issue of almost 100 years ago
to the day, voices protests of fisher
men against an amendment to the
fish laws. This amendment, which
was approved on March 26, 1919.
was aimed to put a stop to the
wholesale fishing in the Susquehanna
because it provides a penalty of S25,
lin addition to those now provided
by law" for any person who should
use or aid in use of net or seine
in the Susquehanna, between the
Maryland line and the forks of the
river at northumberland, between
April l and June Is. The river con-
tanned many shad and other fish
which have since disappeared and
the arguments used against the act
of 1891 were much like those insist
ed upon by the State authorities in
their effort to prevent use of dip
| nets and seines before fisheries com
mittees of the Legislature this month.
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State Highway Department ON
cials are looking forward to an early
start on some of the main highway
contracts and from reports coming
here, several of the big contracting
firms have commenced assembling
equipment. material and labor on .
scale which indicates that they re-
gard Pennsylvania business pretty
highly and that the building will be
! done on heavy construction scale.
The advent of these big firms is be-
ing hailed here not only because of
the chance of lower prices through
their use of superior facilities, but
! that the small bidder, sometimes
backed by only a bonding company
and who has made considera BILE
trouble for the State construction
program in years gone by, will be
eliminated.
The Pennsylvania State Compen-
sation Board has laid down the rule
that compensation cannot be grant
ed in cases where men inhale fumes.
is,
death or injury was Directly due to
such occurrences. In a series of
decisions handed down this year, the
Board has declined to accept state
ments that men employed in explo-
slVe and other factories, men died
from pneumonia caused by the
fumes. In several claims it was as
serted that fumes from INT caused
pneumonia and in others that bron-
chlus, superinduced by inhalation of
the fumes, resulted in lobar pneu-
monia. The Board has declined to
accept any such claims unless ac<u-
ally proved that death was directly
due to fumes doing violence to the
physical structure of the body.
1T is probable that the PennsvI-
vania Legislature will enact a reso-
luton providing for an investigation
into health insurance and abandon
the proposed Industrial accidents
commissions for investigation of
such matters. A study of the health
insurance and old age pension prop
osltlons. especially in industrial com
Imunities, was begun under action in
1917 and it is now planned to con-
tinue the old age pension inquiry
along certain lines and to make the
health insurance investigation one
of wide extent. The reports would
be called for in the session of 1921,
when the proposed constitutional re-
vision commission would also report.
The ground is taken that conditions
now are of such a character that
enactment OF laws to create certain
systems or make changes would be
lnadvisable, as they might have to
be changed in few years.
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Thousands of Young peach. annie
and other fruit trees will commence
bearing in countries in the lower
tier of counties in Pennsylvania this
year, as a result of the extensive
orchard extension plans launched a
few years ago. In the Adams York
Franklin district alone. thousands OF
apple trees will begin bearing this
year, while in Cumberland county
there will be great increase in the
peach production. Reports coming
here also indicate a considerable in
crease in the bearing trees in Or
chards set out in Western Pennsyl-
vania counties, notably the south
western, while northeastern counties
will have a number of bearing trees
although not so numerous as the
southern counties. While the Adams
county district has increased it's trees
more than any other, the western
counties have been planting orchards
generally and will be big producers
in few years. Governor William
c. Sproul is extensively interested in
orchards in the Susquehanna valley
which were set out some years ago.