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the work of good road construction, and very much deplore the fact 

 that our Governor considered it his duty to cut down our appropria- 

 tion for road building from |3,U00,000 to |1,000,000, thus cutting 

 down public road improvement very largely for the next year, or 

 until the next Legislature makes appropriation for that purpose. 



Also we express our approval of the Geiger Milk Law, which as- 

 sures the farmers of this State a "square deal," in that he (the 

 farmer) now receives his pay for every quart of milk sold, instead of 

 as heretofore having to furnish 46 quarts of milk and only receive 

 pay for 40 quarts. Formerly the farmer sold by dry measure, and 

 dealer by liquid measure, but now both sell by liquid measure, thus 

 making or establishing a uniform standard of milk measure. 



Also the McGowan's Clean Milk Can Law, which calls for the thor- 

 ough cleansing of all milk cans and other vessels shipped on rail- 

 roads. Under penalty of $50.00 fine, no milk can now be returned 

 by the receiver of milk, to the shipper of milk, unless thoroughly 

 cleaned, which we regard as helpful in a sanitary point of view, 

 as well of being of great value to the farmer. 



We would also recommend an amendment to what is known as the 

 Vaccination Law, placing the responsibility on the school board and 

 not on the teacher, and placing the penalty for violation on the 

 parent or guardian and not upon the scholar, as in many cases the 

 result is that it deprives the child of half the term of school. 



We would recommend an amendment to what is known as the 

 State Road Law, wherein it provides for joint action of the State, 

 County and Townships, and let the State take the whole respon- 

 sibility of making the State Roads and distributing whatever 

 money the State feels able to pay to the different counties in ac- 

 cordance with the miles of road in said counties, in a similar man- 

 ner by which the school appropriation is distributed, which would 

 be some relief to the overburdened taxation on real estate and 

 would not be as complicated and would hasten the construction of 

 our roads, for at present it takes months for all the parties to 

 agree. 



Believing that it is in accordance with the fundamental princi- 

 ples of our government that the majority shall rule, we also rec- 

 ommend the passage of a Local Option Law permitting the voters to 

 decide whether the sale of alcoholic beverages shall or shall not 

 be permitted in the communities in which they reside. 



Your Committee are of the opinion that some legislation is nec- 

 essary to make railroad companies, engaged in carrying passen- 

 gers, give to the traveling public a "square deal." There are some 

 railroad companies operating within this Commonwealth that, for 

 the sake of being able to present to the public, time schedules that 

 may appear more advantageous than those of their competitors, 

 make their schedules so that the rule, and not the exception, is to 

 be always late. Those wishing to travel must be at the station on 

 time, and if the trains are habitually late precious time that might 

 be devoted to business is lost. A law requiring railroad companies 

 to pay a reasonable compensation for the time that passengers 

 must lose in waiting for a train that is more than thirty minutes 

 late, unless the company can show that the delay was caused by 

 some unavoidable accident or unusual weather conditions, would go 

 a great way toward remedying this evil. 



