I submit, Mr. Chairman, that if it were necessary at all, as it would seem to have been, to put section No. 25 in the report, something should be done to supply the deficiency resulting from the fact that the committee did not seem able to agree upon the seetion and it, and all the amendments, were voted down. But we discussed it here for a day, and from that discussion I think the subject worthy of consideration.

These matters of inspection have been mere mockery heretofore, and as for the standard of weights and measures, nobody has paid any attention to them. A proper, efficient, and careful system of this sort, I think, would be very beneficial to the people of this Commonwealth, whether in trade or out of it. Every man who buys and sells would find advantage in it.

Mr. HAZZARD. Mr. Chairman: I hope, sir, that this will pass. In my own county I have, on several occasions, seen the difficulties that have arisen from the absense of proper standards. Heretofore we have had an officer called "sealer of weights and measures." A grocer in our town, who was dissatisfied with the system, as the inspectors kept adjusting his weights and measures every little while, and charging him for it. He did not care about it, for he did not care whether his weights and measures were right or not, so long as they didn't weigh or measure too much, so he set to work to have the law repealed, and it was repealed. I took occasion last summer to go around to nearly every place in the town and test the scales, and I found that there were scarcely any two of them alike. We do not know when we buy articles, whether we are getting a proper quantity or not. It is better for the people, decidedly, that there should be some such standard as this proposition provides for.

Mr. W. H. SMITH. Mr. Chairman: The great necessity for this, as explained by the gentleman from Washington, (Mr. Hazzard,) is felt everywhere. Those who are in trade know very well what a grievance it is to be without an authentic and reliable system of weights and measures. We have to take the inspection of people who do not understand anything about it. As to the office of "sealer of weights and measures," it is a mere sinecure given to people who have no knowledge whatever, and no judgment of any worth, as to a single particular of the duties which should devolve upon such an officer.

Whenever any dispute has to be settled, the merchants or parties in dispute go to the scale makers, who are obliged to set them right. If a proper officer were appointed for the purpose, and proper standards provided and insisted upon, there would be no necessity for that:

Mr. CORSON. Mr. Chairman: I believe myself with the gentleman from Allegheny, (Mr. W. H. Smith,) that this is a wise provision, and as it is new, will require some further discussion, I trust that it may be adopted here in committee of the whole, so that we can have an opportunity of acting on it fully, when it comes into the Convention.

The section offered by Mr. W. H. Smith was agreed to.

Mr. BANNAN. Mr. Chairman: I propose the following section: "No law shall take effect until the fifth day of July next, after its passage, unless, in case of the emergency, the Legislature shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, otherwise direct. " It was rejected.

Mr. MACVEAGH. I move the committee rise and report the article to the Convention, with amendments. The motion was agreed to.

THE AMENDED ARTICLE ON LEGISLATION. The CLERK read:

SECTION 1. Each House shall judge of the qualifications of its members; but contested elections for members of either House shall be determined by the court of common pleas of the county in which the returned member lives, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.

SECTION 2. Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, and publish them daily, except such parts as may require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of any two of them, be eutered on the Journals.

SECTION 3. Either House shall have power to punish for contempt or disorderly behavior in its presence; to enforcз obedience to its process; to preserve order in tue House, or in committees; protect its

members against violence, or offers of bribes, or private solicitation, and with a concurrence of two-thirds expel a member for misconduct, not a second time, for the same cause; but a member who has been expelled for corruption shall not be eligible thereafter to either House. Punishment for contempt, or disorderly behavior, shall not bar an indictment for the same act.

SECTION 4. No law shall pass except by bill; and no bill shall be so altered or amended, in the course of its passage through either House, as to change its original purpose.

SECTION 5. Bills may originate in either House, but may be altered, amended or rejected in the other. No bill shall be considered unless reported from a committee, and printed for the use of the members.

SECTION 6. No bill shall be passed containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except appropriation bills.

SECTION 7. Every bill shall be read at length on three different days in each House; all amendments thereto shall be printed before the final vote is taken, and no bill shall become a law unless, on its final passage, the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the persons voting for and against be entered on the Journal; and a majority of the members elected to each House be recorded on the Journal thereof, as voting in its favor.

SECTION 8. No amendment to bills, by one House returned to the other for concurrence, shall be concurred in except by the vote of a majority of the members elected to the House to which the amendments are so returned, taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting for and against recorded upon the Journal thereof; and reports of committees of conference shall be adopted in either House, only by the vote of a majority of the members elected to each House, taken by yeas and nays; and the names of those voting for and against recorded upon the Journals.

SECTION 9. No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended or conferred, shall be re-enacted and published at length.

Regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts.

Changing the names of persons or pla

ces.

Changing the venue in civil or criminal

cases.

Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering or maintaining roads, highways, streets or alleys.

Relating to ferries or bridges, or incorporating ferry and bridge companies, except for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form boundaries between this and any other State.

Relating to or incorporating ferries or bridges.

Vacating roads, town plats, streets or alleys.

Relating to cemeteries, grave-yards or public grounds.

Authorizing the adoption or legitimating of children.

Locating or changing county seats, erecting new counties or changing county lines.

Incorporating cities, towns or villages, or changing their charters.

For the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the place of voting.

Granting divorces.

Erecting new townships or boroughs, changing township lines or borough limits.

Creating offices or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, boroughs, townships, election or school districts.

Changing the law of descent or succession.

Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of, or changing the rules of evidence in, any judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, aldermen, justices of the peace, commissioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters in chancery or other tribunals.

Or providing or changing methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcing of judgments, or providing the effect of judicial sales of real estate

Regulating the fees, or extending the powers and duties of aldermen, justices of the peace, magistrates or constables.

Regulating the management of public schools, the building or repairing of school houses, and the raising of money for school

Fixing the rates of interest.

Affecting the estates of minors or persons under disability, except after due

Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the treasury.

Exempting property from taxation, regulating labor, trade, mining or manufacturing.

Creating corporations, or amending, renewing or extending the charters thereof.

Granting to any corporation, association or individual, any special or exclusive privilege or immunity.

Granting to any corporation, association or individual, the right to lay down a railroad track. Nor shall the Legislature indirectly create such special or local law by the partial repeal of any general law.

Nor shall any bill be passed granting any powers or privileges in any case where the manner, form or authority to grant such powers and privileges shall have been provided for by general law; and in no case where a general law can be made applicable, nor in any other case where the courts have jurisdiction, or are competent to grant the powers or give the relief asked for: Provided, That bills may be passed repealing local or special acts.

SECTION 11. No local or special bill shall be passed, unless public notice of the intention to apply therefore shall have been published in the locality where the matter or thing to be affected may be situated; which notice shall be at least sixty days prior to the introduction into the Legislature of such bill, and in the manner to be provided by law. The evidence of such notice having been published, shall be exhibited in the Legislature before such act shall be passed.

SECTION 12. The presiding officer of each House shall, in the presence of the House over which he presides, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by the Legislature after their titles have been publicly read, immediately before signing, and the fact of signing to be entered on the Journal.

SECTION 13. The Legislature shall prescribe by law the number, duties and compensation of the officers and employees of each House; and no payment shall be made from the State Treasury, or be in any way authorized to any person acting officer or employee, elected or appointed in pursuance of law.

SECTION 14. All stationery,printing paper and fuel used in the legislative and other departments of government, shall be fur

tributing of the laws, Journals, department reports, and all other printing and binding, and the repairing and furnishing the halls and rooms used for the meetings of the Legislature and its committees, shall be performed under contract, to be given to the lowest responsible bidder, below such maximum price, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law. member or officer of any department of the government shall be in any way interested in such contracts; and all such contracts shall be subject to the approval of the Governor, Auditor General and State Treasurer.

No

SECTION 15. No law shall extend the term of any public officer, or increase or dimin- ̧ ish his salary or emoluments after his election or appointment.

SECTION 16. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose amend ments as in other bills.

SECTION 17. The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments ofthe Commonwealth, interest on the public debt, and for public schools; all other appropriations shall be made by separate bill, each embracing but one subject.

SECTION 19. No appropriation shall be made to any charitable or educational institution not under the absolute control of the Commonwealth, other than normal schools, established by law for the professional training of teachers for the public schools of the State, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House.

SECTION 20. No appropriation (except för pensions and gratuities for military services) shall be made for charitable, educational or benevolent purposes to any person or community, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution, corporation or association.

SECTION 21. The credit of the Commonwealth shall not, in any manner or event, be pledged or loaned to any individual, company, corporation or association whatever; nor shall the Commonwealth hereafter become a joint owner or stockholder in any company or association or corporation.

SECTION 22. The Legislature shall not authorize any county, city, borough, township or incorporated district, by virtue of a vote of its citizens or otherwise, to become a stockholder in any company,