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Page 20 - Every bill which shall have passed the council and house of representatives of the said Territory shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor of the Territory; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon their journal and proceed to reconsider it.
Page 20 - ... them to that proper rank and estimation in society, which the instructor of youth should always occupy. We are also in need of a proper system of school books, to be used in our schools, and which should be composed by competent persons for the instruction of the youths of Pennsylvania. Such a course as would tend properly to impress our youth with a due regard for our commonwealth, and endear her to their hearts. —Her position, wealth and intelligence; the admirable and free system of her...
Page 21 - ... and by public demand for the development of air power. The interest of our people in aeronautics at large is dead, and has been perhaps so lulled by a sense of false security and the belief that war will not come to such a vast and powerful nation as ours that it will not heed an oft-quoted maxim of the Father of Our Country, " In time of peace prepare for war.
Page 12 - Ser. credulity and stimulate the ambition of some member of the legislature to offer a petition, complaining of public grievances. A committee to investigate is appointed, — subpoenas are issued, and straightway, swarms of hungry confederates throng the seat of government, to prosecute their claims before the legislature, — to lounge at the public expense, and join in a wholesale pillage of the treasury. At the close of the session the committee reports, — the witnesses return to their homes,...
Page 24 - tc., cloths and other domestic manufactures, we are daily incurring immense debts to the citizens of other States, and are now, in the hour of our necessities, feeling the heavy hand of the creditor laid on all our resources. This ought not to be. It is unworthy the great State of Pennsylvania to depend on the manufactures of other states or of foreign countries, to supply her citizens with those articles for the various purposes of life which they can produce themselves as well, as cheaply, and...
Page 12 - It is true, we have little, if any, of that wretched illegal trash in circulation, which, during the early part of the last six years, inflicted all sections of the Commonwealth, in the forms of notes, checks, certificates, &c., &c., of corporations and individuals, for small sums, put forth without lawful authority, and in spite of the prohibitions of law: but we have, what is little better, a large amount of notes in circulation, ostensibly legal, and purporting to be of equal value, because founded...
Page 10 - January last, which cost $150,000; to the renewal of the North track of the Columbia railroad; to the rebuilding, in a permanent manner, the locks, bridges and aqueducts on several of the divisions, and particularly on the North Branch, where the original superstructures, composed entirely of wood, had so far decayed, as to leave no other alternative, than either to renew them throughout, or abandon the navigation entirely. It is also, in part, to be ascribed to the fact, that only a portion of the...
Page 9 - Contractors who have gone on to the work, and perhaps executed the least profitable part of it, will have fair claims on the justice of the legislature for remuneration, for the losses they have sustained by an abandonment of -the work by the commonwealth. Judging from the success which usually crowns perseverance, in similar applications, before the legislature, there can be little doubt that this class of claimants will not go away unanswered and unsatisfied. The farmer whose lands have been cut...
Page 12 - A few dissatisfied contractors, and oihers, impose on the credulity and stimulate the ambition of some members of the legislature to offer a petition, complaining of public grievances. A committee to investigate is appointed, — subpoenas are issued, and straightway, swarms of hungry confederates throng the seat of government, to prosecute their claims before the legislature, — to lounge at the public expense, and join in a wholesale pillage of the treasury. At the close of the session the committee...
Page 20 - Every bill which shall have passed both houses shall be presented to the Governor; if he approve he shall sign it, but if he shall not approve he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it shall have originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon their journal, and proceed to reconsider it.