No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 161 



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have been trying to get some redress for local purposes and for 

 some reason we have not been able to secure it. Now while we 

 cannot get a whole loaf, our object was to get a little, and I for my 

 part, am emphatically opposed to striking that out. I believe that 

 there is a large sentiment in this State in favor of a proposition 

 of that kind, that it all be retained in the countv. 



MR. BROSIUS: Mr. Chairman, I suppose that the gentleman must 

 have misunderstood me. What I meant to be understood was, that 

 I believed the State could well afford to do without it, with its im- 

 mense revenue, and that it should be retained in the county, and 

 the change, as I understand it, that this gentleman wishes, is that 

 the license fees, etc., should be retained in the county. 



My contention as a farmer is, has been, and is to-day, that we as 

 farmers want to have all the benefit of all the money that is out at 

 interest in our districts, and therefore that should not be changed. 

 But it is a question with them there now. Of the license money 

 collected, it is divided, and a certain amount goes to the county, 

 a certain amount to the State and a certain other amount to the 

 townships, but I really cannot specify the amount. Possibly the 

 gentleman is right in regard to the distribution. Philadelphia and 

 Pittsburg are large cities and have a great deal of license money, 

 but I would not like to go on record as to that, but I think that 

 the State with its vast income can afford; not only to let us have 

 that, but to let us have a lot more. 



MR. BOND: Mr. Chairman, I think that the proposition to re- 

 tain the license tax in the county is very meritorious. I live in a 

 county w^here the liquor license costs hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars, and I believe that we should receive every dollar of that 

 license back to help us to pay the expense of criminal cases that 

 cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars that have to be paid out 

 of our countv treasurv. 



MR. McHENRY: Mr. Chairman, my sole object in having this 

 sent to the State Treasury, is simply to equalize that money that 

 comes from a traffic that does no one any good, and the only way 

 you can equalize that over the State, is to let it go into the State 

 Treasury, that comes from these counties that have been spoken 

 of, I know that we do not get from Brother Bond's county, but 

 we get this element that a bad influence has been exerted upon, 

 from those counties, and we get that out in our agricultural coun- 

 ties, where we do not have much of that kind of a thing, and the 

 only way we can get our share of it is to have it go into the State 

 Treasury first and then have it paid back for road and school pur- 

 poses. I am not certain that I am right; I think there is a certain 

 portion paid to boroughs, v,hereas the townships in which a licensed 

 hotel is located, receives very little benefit, I think that is the idea, 

 as I understand it. 



The SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, that is correct. 



MR. McHENRY: Now take it in my own county. We do not 

 have but one licensed hotel that gives anything to the township, 

 they are only in the boroughs and only in the cities, as a rule in 



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