The President-A quorum of the Senate being present the Clerk will read the Journal of the preceding session.

The Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of the preceding session. when, on motion of Mr. Sassaman, the further reading was dispensed with, and the Journal was approved.

Mr. Turner presented petition of citizens of Butler County requesting enactment of legislation forbidding public service corporations from imposing "ready to serve charge" or any similar charge upon their customers.

Which was referred to the Committee on Corporations.

Mr. Crow, from the Committee on Elections, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 887 (House bill No. 254), entitled "An act amending section sixteen of an act, entitled An act to provide for the personal registration of electors and their enrollment as members of political parties in cities of the first and second classes of this Commonwealth; to make registration a condition of the right to vote in such cities and their said enrollment as members of a political party a condition of the right to vote at primaries in said cities, and providing for the payment of witness fees for persons summoned be fore the commissioners; to provide penalties for violations of its provisions and to repeal acts inconsistent herewith, approved July 24th, 1913, providing for a change in salaries of the employes of the regis tration commissioners.

He also from the Committee on Finance, reported as amended, Senate bill No. 981 (House bill No. 924), entitled "An act providing for and regulating the payment into the State Treasury without escheat of certain unclaimed moneys in the hands of depositories, fiduciaries, prothonotaries and clerks of orphans' courts, defining the terms "depositories," and "fiduciaries," as used in the act; providing for the refund of such moneys with interest thereon when claimed by persons entitled thereto, making an appropriation for such refunds and imposing penalties."

Mr. Jones from the Committee on Game and Fisheries reported as amended, Senate bill No. 910 (House bill No. 964), entitled "An act to. amend an act approved the 28th day of July, 1917, entitled, 'An act to revise, amend and consolidate the law relating to fish and providing penalties.'"

Mr. Leiby, from the Committee on Judiciary General, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 955, entitled "An act to amend part of clause (d), section seven of the act approved the 5th day of May, 1911 (P. L. 198), entitled 'An act to establish a county court for the County of Allegheny, and prescribing its powers and duties; regulat ing the procedure therein and providing for the expenses thereof,' as amended, by providing that informations in cases of desertion and non-support may be made before aldermen and justices of the peace; and providing for the binding over of persons arrested on warrants issued on such informations.

Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Education, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 928 (House bill No. 1094), entitled "An act designating Frances Willard Day in the Public Schools."

Mr. Weaver, from the Committee on Education, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 977 (House bill No. 1168), entitled "An act to amend an act approved the 18th day of May, 1911 (Pamphlet Laws 309), entitled An act to establish a public school system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, together with the provisions by which it shall be administered and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, providing revenue to establish and maintain the same, and the method of collecting such revenue, and repealing all laws, general, special or local, or any parts thereof that are or may be inconsistent therewith,' by adding thereto section one thousand five hundred and twelve, authorizing the directors of any school district in which a special school for pupils having tuberculosis shall he established to provide the pupils thereof with food, clothing and transportation necessary for attendance thereat.

He also, from the Committee on Judiciary General reported as committed, Senate bill No. 939 (House bill No. 1226), entitled "An act to fix the salaries of clerks in the Bureau of Searches under the Receiver of Taxes in cities of the first class."

He also, from the Committee on Judiciary General reported as committed, Senate bill No. 953, entitled "An act to amend section two of an act approved the 18th day of March, 1909, entitled 'An act relating to surety of the peace, and defining the procedure in such cases," by providing for the payment of costs by counties in certain

cases."

Mr. Woodward, from the Committee on Judiciary General, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 828, entitled “An act relating to names and change of names of the townships of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."

Mr. Patton, from the Committee on Judiciary General, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 954, entitled "An act relating to costs in certain cases of summary conviction before aldermen, magistrates, and justices of the peace; providing for the assessment of such costs pon the prosecutor or defendant and their commitment in case of default; and providing for the payment of such costs by counties in certain cases."

Mr. Snyder, from the Committee on Education re-reported as amended, Senate bill No. 453 (House bill No. 454), entitled "An act relating to the qualifications of students in the schools, normal schools, colleges and universities of the State, and the graduation of certain students of normal schools who served as soldiers, sailors or marines during the war with Germany, and providing a penalty for failure to comply therewith."

He also from the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation, rereported as committed, Senate bill No. 787 (House bill No. 947), en87-Sen. Jour.

titled "An act to amend an act approved the 11th day of April, 1913 (Pamphlet Laws 58), entitled 'An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act for the protection of the public health by prohibiting the sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale or having in possession with intent to sell of eggs unfit for food as therein defined, and prohibiting the use of such eggs in the preparation of food products, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and providing for the enforcement thereof,' approved the 11th day of March, A. D. 1909, providing for the denaturing by kerosene of all eggs unfit for food within the meaning of said act, and providing penalties for the violation thereof' providing for the licensing by the Dairy and Food Commissioner of persons, copartnerships, associations and corporations engaged in the business of breaking eggs and separating the egg content from the shell and using or disposing of the contents thereof for any purpose; authorizing the Dairy and Food Commissioner and his agents and assistants to take samples of eggs for the purpose of analysis and providing penalties."

Mr. Leslie, from the Committee on Judiciary General, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 738 (House bill No. 511), entitled "An act to amend part of section one of an act approved the 20th day of July, 1917 (Pamphlet Laws 1158), entitled, An act to fix, regulate and establish the fees to be charged and received by constables in this Commonwealth.""

Mr. McConnell, from the Committee on Judiciary Special, re-reported as committed, Senate bill No. 535, entitled "A supplement to an act, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,' approved the 29th day of April, A. D. 1874, providing for the incorporation and regulation of telephone companies, defining the rights, powers and privileges of such corporations, authorizing and regulating the purchase, acquisition, and leasing the whole or any part of the properties, systems, capital stock and securities of other corporations, associations and persons engaged in the telephone business, and authorizing existing telegraph corporations to accept the provisions of this act."

Mr. Daix, from the Committee on Appropriations, re-reported as amended, Senate bill No. 568 (House bill No. 773), entitled “An act providing for the protection of the public health and the prevention of fraud and deception by regulating the weighing, testing, buying and selling of milk and cream, providing for the examination and appointment of certified testers and the issuing of licenses and making of tests and providing penalties."

He also, from the Committee on Appropriations, re-reported as committed, Senate bill No. 570 (House bill No. 774), entitled "An act supplementary to an act approved the eleventh day of May, 1911, entitled 'An act to provide for the appointment of county and city inspectors of weights and measures, providing for their compensa tion and expenses, prescribing their duties, prohibiting vendors from giving false or insufficient weights and fixing the penalties for violation of the provisions hereof,' providing for the examination of the glassware used for testing milk and cream for butterfat with the

Babcock test, prohibiting the use of inaccurate testing glassware, defining the term, standard Babcock glassware, and fixing penalties for the violations of the provisions of this act.”

He also from the Committee on Appropriations, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 979 (House bill No. 1242), entitled "An act making an appropriation to the State Livestock Sanitary Board for the purpose of reimbursing certain owners of animals destroyed during the late epizotic of the foot and mouth disease."

He also from the Committee on Appropriations reported as committed, Senate bill No. 918, entitled "An act designating officers and employes of the Insurance Department, and fixing their compensation."

He also from the Committee on Appropriations, re-reported as committed, Senate bill No. 684, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a commission to suggest revisions and amendments to the statutes of the State of Pennsylvania, which relate to children, especially those which relate to the dependent, defective, delinquent, neglected, incorrigible or illegitimate children, defining the powers and duties of the commission, authorizing the examination of documents, records and papers, and making an appropriation to meet the expenses of said commission."

Mr. Nason, from the Committee on Judiciary General, reported as committed, Senate bill No. 623 (House bill No. 804), entitled "An act amending ‘An act for the establishment of a uniform standard of time throughout the Commonwealth,' approved the 13th day of April, A. D. 1887, so as to make the same uniform to the standard fixed by Act of Congress."

Mr. Sones from the Committee on Game and Fisheries reported as amended, Senate bill No. 708 (House bill No. 771), entitled "An act to amend an act approved the 28th day of July, 1917 (Pamphlet Laws 1215), entitled 'An act to revise, amend and consolidate the law relating to fish and providing penalties."

He also from the Committee on Game and Fisheries reported as committed, Senate bill No. 601, entitled "An act relating to the disposition of penalties collected under the provisions of the Act of May 8th, 1909, amended by the Act of July 11th, 1917, Pamphlet Laws 466 and 779, respectively, also the act of June 1st, 1915, Pamphlet Laws 644, relating to the possession by unnaturalized foreign-born residents of firearms and dogs respectively."

He also, from the Committee on Game and Fisheries, reported as committed, Senate Bill No. 969, entitled "An act taking protection from the red squirrel and changing the open season for blackbirds." Mr. Whitten from the Committee on Judiciary General reported as committed, Senate bill No. 938 (House bill No. 1225), entitled "An act to amend part of section eleven of an act approved the 2d day of February, 1854 (Pamphlet Laws 21), entitled A further supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia.”

Mr. Sassaman from the Committee on Game and Fisheries reported as committed, Senate bill No. 441, entitled "An act to amend section fourteen of an act approved the 7th day of June, 1917 (P. L. 572), entitled 'An act to provide for the protection and preservation of game, game-quadrupeds, and game-birds, and song and insectivorous and other wild birds, and prescribing penalties for violation of its several provisions.

Mr. Murdoch from the Committee on Game and Fisheries reported as committed, Senate bill No. 751 (House bill No. 965), entitled "An act providing a method for the abatement of the penalty as fixed by law for killing by mistake a deer or an elk in this Commonwealth."

He also from the Committee on Game and Fisheries reported as committed, Senate bill No. 781 (House bill No. 992), entitled "An act to amend section two of an act approved the 9th day of April, 1915 (Pamphlet Laws 73), entitled An act to provide for the better protection and preservation of deer and elk, squirrels and certain birds classed as game-birds within the Commonwealth; providing a method through which certain lands in the Commonwealth may be closed to hunting for a term of years, and prescribing penalties for violation of its several provisions.""

Mr. Barr from the Committee on Banks and Building and Loan Associations reported as amended, Senate bill No. 906, entitled “An act creating in the Banking Department a Bureau of Building and Loan Associations, defining the organization, powers and duties thereof, providing for the examination and supervision of Building and Loan Associations, levying a tax upon such Associations to assist in defraying the expenses of said bureau and providing for the collection thereof, and providing for the reorganization or winding up of the business of domestic Building and Loan Associations in cases of insolvency."

Mr. S. J. Miller from the Committee on Education reported as committed, Senate bill No. 913 (House bill No. 960), entitled “An act to amend section one thousand four hundred and six of an act approved the 18th day of May, 1911 (Pamphlet Laws three hundred and nine), entitled 'An act to establish a public school system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, together with the provisions by which it shall be administered and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, providing revenue to establish and maintain the same and the method of collecting such revenue, and repealing all laws general, special or local or any parts thereof that are or may be inconsistent therewith."

Mr. Marlow from the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation reported as committed, Senate bill No. 713 (House bill No. 974) entitled "An act to amend section three of the act approved the 6th day of April, 1911 (Pamphlet Laws 51), entitled 'An act providing for the protection of the public health and the prevention of fraud and deception by prohibiting the sale, the offering for sale or exposing for sale or having in possession with intent to sell of adulterated or deleterious sausage, defining sausage, and prescribing the penalty for

the violation thereof."