472 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



Mr. Kahler, the Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, pre- 

 sented and read the report of the Committee, which was as follows: 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board: 



At the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture in 1905, in 

 which there were quite a number of bills formulated by the Joint 

 Committee of all the Allied Organizations pertainting to agriculture: 

 namely, Stock Breeding, Butter Association, Poultry Association and 

 all other kindred associations. A number of said bills were approved 

 and presented by your Committee at the last session of the Legis- 

 lature. Your Committee is sorry to report that a very small per 

 cent, of said bills received favorable consideration and were enacted 

 into law, and in this report we wish to show our appreciation by 

 thanking the Members of the Legislature and the Governor of the 

 Commonwealth for his approval and to any and all who have con- 

 tributed towards the passage of the following bills: 



The Appropriation Bill to pay the expenses of the Board attending 

 the Annual Meeting. 



For the small amendment to the General Road Bill, whereby the 

 counties and townships are relieved of one-sixth of the expense im- 

 posed by the original bill, and making it one-eighth. 



Some improvement to the Local Road Bills, allowing the town- 

 ships to elect three supervisors and to appoint path-masters and 

 allowing the townships to vote as to whether they work out or pay 

 money for tax 



An appropriation to enable us to stamp out the Scale of this State. 

 We would suggest an Amendment to the Township Road Bill, 

 wherein it provides that the State pay 15 per cent., where the town- 

 ship vote to pay tax in cash, we would insert to word 40 per cent. 



But we deplore the action of the Legislature in not allowing 

 trolley cars to carry freight. While we favor the trolley system and 

 are willing to make some sacrifices, we think that we are entitled to 

 more benefits than we can derive merely from passenger traffic. 

 And we also recommend to the Legislature that hereafter we are 

 emphatically opposed to trolley systems occupying our public roads. 

 The using of public roads endangers the public travel and makes 

 travel hazardous, and greatly interferes with the proper improve- 

 ment of our public roads. We think that we are entitled under the 

 circumstances to have the trolley lines carry our freight to and from 

 the market. 



We recommend a further amendment to the General Road Bill; 

 that the words "county and township" be eliminated from the origin- 

 al bill and the Road Commissioner to have entire jurisdiction under 

 the bill to proceed without the consent of the County Commissioners 

 and County Supervisors, which, in our judgment, only complicates 

 and hinders the working of the bill and would relieve local taxation 

 to that extent and place the costs upon the State where it justly 

 belongs. We would further recommend the enactment of a law 

 whereby the personal taxes and the license fees should be retained 



