THE SCIIANTON TRIBUTE- TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1899. 8 Royal ABSOLUTELY fojRE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome 0l MKtHO MWBIB POOR DIRECTOR AN ELECTIVE OFFICE fConelinled from Phkp 3 wc nro constrained so to trout this iiucMlon na not to oblltetutP ftorn our untute book Isinjp number or nets under which Important and costly Im provements have been commenced, nnd rluhts have been c?tcd. The con utiuctlon now tlplmed foi this clause ot tliu Constitution. ,lf adopted by this tourt, would uiipettlp the binpss of the state to on oxtpnt licvond the ca pacity of any otip to uVntii'. That we nre not boUnd to do po Is Mlillclently tl'iu both upon reason ind authority." Anothef authority cppclally nppll- able in the present case i- that In Up I'ottHtown borough. 117 Pit, "".. when; the nubject'.lfi fulls discussed Th latest cafe on this question Is Hookers' Appeal. It W N. r . 2,, As already set forth the Ad of I'CJ Is entitled "An Act to authorize the election of n poor house by the boi ourIi of Duntnore," iti Does not this title Klve'such notice of the subject of the act as would reasonably lead ji pet on Interested .to an Inquiry Into the body of the bllf? What would lie cspect to find' It Is within common luison that he would epeet to nnd l.tvivlslor.K for tr" election of bullditm, foi the election or appointment of ivor dlteetor-. for the lllllni; of vaennrles 1n the various office" and for many other matters necesnr tor the k v- 1 nment and regulation of a poor limiRi' We aie ileal lv of the opinion that the title Is sufficient and that the Fupplementaiy net of lKfifi, containing n provision In sctloi2 as to the fllllni? f vacancies, which pmvlslon Is prop el (jeimane to the subleet of th" original art. l not uneonstltution.il. THi: POWER TO APPOINT The second question to be cnmldered involves the light of the pu'sidBnt judge of the court of common pleas of Lackawanna count to appoint '.1 poot dlreetoi when there is a vacancy The act of ISi!-.' lotlgfil this power in the cuitlt of qiinrtei sessions of t.u 7Pine count The suiiplement of S!G made a change in this nutlctil.ir and nu'hmlzed the pieMuVnt Judge of the 1 omninii pleas of I uzeine enunt to fill vnc-nnrii"1 The tel.itois contends hat the piesplent judge of tin court of Luzerne iounv should continue to imtcIsp this light if the supplemen tary ac t Is constitutional, nnd that all appointments made bv the picsident judge In our county aie void This contention Is not well founded. A slight examination will show that th proposition Is without ip.isoii to sustain it Tenltoiy or men once nmdc the objects of legislation, lemaln subject to th" laws Imposed however the manner b which they aie desig nated, may be 1 hanged Parsons vs. AMnslow. I fiiant lfO AVhen the sup pliment if IS'jS was passed I.icKavv.in na as now toititoiially constituted, was a pan ot Luzerne count. The subsequent formation of I-aekawannv county did not operate to iepe.il special laws In force In Luzerne. The elmng ir.g of the name of the municipality which covered the tenltoi In t'ie new county did not nbingate the luws nppllcable to this tenitoij Lack awanna county vs Stevens. H3 Pa, 46j Whatever the law said must be done h the court or judges of Lu rerne count Is bound to be done by the couits or Judges of Lackawanna county after the formation of tin- lat ter county as to matteis within Its tenitoilnl limits And other conclu sion would lead to endless confusion Oui own court (eweptlnpr the w liter of this opinion) Is on lecoid on this question It Is fully discussed bv fiun ster. .1.. In the ease of the Appeal of John Gibbons, et al . Dliectoi.s. etc. No. u2"i Apill Term. 189!. It there foie appears menlfest to us that the president judge of Luzerne county has no powei to till a acaucv In the office of poor diiector of the Rcianton Poor District It Is well known that Judge Itiee exeiclsed the power vei unwill ingly and onlv by geneial consent, and with the expectation of remedial leg islation 1 elating- to the poor dlstiict. He finally refused to make nny ap pointments Since then the appoint ments have been made bv the ptesl di'iit judge of out own court, who un doubtedly has the power under the supplement of ISfG to fill all vacancies In the poor board. intkiipiu:tatjon of act. The third question 1 elates to the in terpietalion of the second section of the fupplementaiy Act of 186B It piovides for an appointment to fill anv vacancy "whether such vncancj occur by the ex pi! atlon of the term of olllce or otliei wlie." Respondent's counsel claims that this provision wipes out the provision tor the election of pom dliectois In itio people of the scveial dlstilcts for jegular tennsas piovldedln the oiiginal ail and substitutes the appointive for the elective system The supplement of 1S66 hns 11 repealing tlnuse The TUG TORCH TO POWDER. Touch a lighted torch to the conteuts of a ponder mill and up it goesj Hut it isn't the torch that blows up the I mill it sthepow I der The stuff is all ready to ex plode It only needs one touch of fire to start it. When a man's blood is all ripe and ready for dis ease it only needs a little touch to start him going Maybe he gets a slitrlit cold, sets wet fe,et or sits in a draft , thru off he goes into a gal , loping consumption. nut it isn't the draft that does It; that only starts, him. His blood was all ready for it In the first place. It was thick with bilious poisons; clogged with germs of disease all ready to be roused Into fatal activity at the least touch. " My wife had a severe attack of pleurisy and lung trouble," says Abrum Treer, Fiq of Kock bridge, Greene Co , 111 . In a thankful letter to Dr K. V r,erce. of Buffalo, N. Y. "The doctors fe her up to die. She commenced taking IJr rierce'i Golden Medical Discovery and she be gan to improve from the first dose, Dy the time she hid taken eight or ten bottles she was cured, and It was the cause of a large amount being sold here. I think the ' Golden Medical Discov ery ' ts the best medicine In the world for lane trouble." Not only for lung trouble is it the most wonderful medicine In the world, but for every form of weakness and debility. It redeems the very sources of life from these subtle poisonous taints which lay the sys tem open to dangerous disease, It gives digestive power; helps the liver to do its work; enriches the blond; builds up solid strength and vital force, When you l.vid yourself losing flesh and appetite ; growing listless by day and sleepless by night there is an rneruy lurking ready to apply the torch. Write to Dr. Fierce. Your letter will be con sidered strictly confidential and he makes no charge for advice. Ills great thousand-page book, The People's Com mon Sense Medical Adviser, will be sent free piper.bouud for the bare cost of mail ing, a: one cent stamp, or cloth bound for ji stamps. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, El ill il iBHHHwuA J' i Baking Powder CO . H1W YOBK. sttongest argument In favor of this position In to be found In the case of Com. ex rel Snover vs. Stewart, 6 Law Times N. S. 1R9 It Is there decided that the clear Intention of the legisla ture was to abolish the elective system and that no other meaning tan bo de duced from the winds used. We have reached the opposite conclusion nnd will proceed to give our teasons tliere foi 1 The original net provides for the election of poor dliectors. They are to be elected from ceituln districts nnd for stated terms Numerous provisions are made for the icgulatlon of the elec tions. The same net, In section three, provides for the filling of vacancies caused bv ' death, 1 catenation or other wise." Thus, the act contains legisla tion, Inter alia, on two distinct sub jects, to wit, the election of poor dlrcc toi.s and the filling of vaeuncles. 2. The subject of the second section of the supplementary net relates to the lllllng of vnrancles only. The section has no reference whatever to the elec tion of poor directors. It studiously aolds any mention of the wold "elec tion." If the Intention was to abio gate the elective method the leglsla tuie should have sold so. A few vvoids to that effect would have been suffi cient, it could have enacted that the section prov Idlng for the olccllon of poor directors as set forth In the nc t of 1S6J Is repealed and that hereafter the directors shnll be appointed by the president Judge, nnd then proceed ed to piovide for the filling of vacun i les ny the very terms and vvoids of the section, the legislation refets to onl one of the subjects contained in the original act and accoidlng to u. well Known lule of interpretation all other subjects ate excluded und they cannot be brought In by Judicial con stiuctlon. VACANCY HY HXPIKATION. .1 A vncancj occunlng "bv the ex piiatlon of the term of olllce," when the olllce has been once tilled and when the law provides for the election of a successoi. Is u curious anomaly, and can exist only under certnln excep tional conditions. If the frnmer of the supplement Intended bj It to abolish the sjstcm of electing poor directors, we would characterize the attempt as u oluiiiBj effoit to secu'ie legislation by a species of legeidemnln We can not for n moment believe that the legislature Intended nny such result It Is teasonable to think that the inten tion was to substitute one method of lllllng v 111 ancles for anothei As to the meaning of the won! "vacancy" we are not without some authority. The question was very learnedly and elaboiately discussed In the case of Wulsh vs. Commonwealth. 8D Pn 4M In that case there was no dispute as to the oidlmuy signification of the woul as applied to an office. An oITIcp which had been once filled and became vacant on account of the death or re signation of the incumbent Pleated a vacancy This was a plain piopositlon lequlrlng no aiguinent to sustain it But the supreme couit went further and decided that the word "vacancy" aptly and Htly describes the condition of an olllce when It Is first created and has been filled by no Incumbent " The conditions confronting the couit In the Walsh case Induced them to ex tend the legal signification of the term "vacancy" beyond the popular concep tion of Its meaning In the nbsence of oeculiai conditions the common ac ceptation of the use of the wotd must prevail An office that has an Incum bent elected foi n legulnr term, the law providing for the election of his suc cessoi .cannot become vacant because of the pxpltatlon of the teim Theie may be a falluie to elect at the pioper time, 01, the dliector-eleet mav fall to quallfv and a acuncy may exist for these causes, but not meielv and specifically because the tei m has expired Tiu:si:roND suction 4 It Is out dut now to examine mote paitlculaily the plnaHcologv of the second section of the supplemen tary act of 1866. It Is clnlmed that the put pose was to 1 hange the elective svstem of seeming poor dliectors. and in this connection ourattent'on Is called to the fact that by the terms of the supplement the petition far the appoint ment must be signed bv twenty free holders from the proper district and the appointment must be made at a tegulai term of court, whereas under the oiiginal act the lllllng of vacancies was not hedged in with these Impoit ant formalities This nigument has no weight The appointment of a poor dlreetot to fill a vacancy Is Important enough to require a petition signed bv twentj freeholdeis nnd It Is entirely proper that the appointment shnll he made ut a tegular teim of court, so wmi me people interested in the ap pointment should have an opportunity to be heaid 1'nder the Act of lhfi'J vacancies were filled by the judges of the mini-tor ko. slons without petition, at any time. In open court, 01 In vacation The safe guatds sunounding the filling of va cancies, ns provided In the supplement of 1S66. cuie the defects In the Act of 1862, mid are consistent with the con struction we place upon the law. He g.tidless ot the object which the fram ers of the supplement had In view our duty Is clear We must aseettaln the meaning of the act from the act Itself Whi n, the language of an act Is plain and admits of only one meaning, the task of Intei protatlon Is easy. "Where the words of a statute are plainly ex presslve of an Intent, not lendered dubious b the contest, the Interpola tion must 1 onform to and cairy out that Intent " Uradbury vs. Wagon luust. 54 Pa 182 Judges have no right to mould the lunguuge of a statute In older to cany out un unexpressed purpose or to meet an alleged coincidence, nor can they alter the ileal meaning of vvoids even If the legislature may not have con templated the convenience of using them Looking nt the words of the supplement, wo find that the vucnnclcs 10 be filled may occur by expiration of the term of office or otherwise. Ac coidlng to the original act the vacan cies would occur "by death, resigna tion or otherwise." The wnid "other wise" in the supplement is broad enough to cover vacancies by death anil lesignatlon It also covers va cancies by removal of the Incumbent fiom the district and by failure of a director-elect to assume the duties of his olllce. WHEN A VACANCY KXISTS IJut how can there be a vacancy caused by the expiration of the teim? Wo know uf only one way and that Is the failure of the elected s of any par ticular distt let to elect a poor director at the proper time The term has ex pired. No successor has been elected. Thereupon the president Judge, accord ing to tho supplementary act, appoints a director for the full term, or for the unexpired portion of it. The legisla ture may ns well have said that n va cancy could occur by non-election as to say It could occur by expiration of the term. Unless wo give he phrase this meaning wo would be compelled to hold that the legislature Intended to abolish the elective system provldeel by the Act of 1862, without the URe of any words Indicating such an Intention. Such an alternative would be subvers ive of all rules of Interpretation. Recapitulating the conclusions we hnvo reached, they arc lirlclly as fol lows: 1. The supplemental Act of 1866 Is constitutional. 2. The president Judge of the court ot common pleas of Lackawanna Is the proper authority to fill vacancies In the poor board. 3. In case there Is a vacancy the ap pointment Is for the unexpired part ot the whole term of three years, and In ense of a failure to elect a poor direc tor, a vacancy exIstB by reason of tho expiration of the teim and the appoint ment Is for the full term. 4. The supplementary act docs not change or modify the system of elect ing poor dliectors provided by the Act of 1862. r. V, J Dlckert, the icspondcnt In this case, was appointed to fill a va cancy nnd Is therefore rightfully In office until his successor Is duly elected or appointed Tho foregoing naturally ends the dis cussion neceBsnry for the disposition Of the picsent case. Hut we cannot avoid commenting upon the complications that will surely nrlse In the future. It Is eiuestldhablo whether under present conditions It Is possible to hold a valid election for a poor diiector In nny of the districts described In the Act of 1862. For thlity-three jenrs the poor dlrpctors have been appointed nnd not elected. During this period the lines of election districts and wards have been changed and the Integrity of the old poor dlstilcts, especially as to the ma chinery for holding elections for poor dlreetot s, has been destioyed to a gieal extent. A part of 11 district cannot elect n poor director. Spasmodic at tempts have been made to elect a poor director from the old South ward, but as far ns we can now see. although the question Is not before us, there could not have been a valid election There hns not been In existence for several years for the purpose of an election a political division of territory answering to the district known as the South w aril LHG1SLATION NECESSARY It may be that the president Judge must continue to exercise the undesli -able preiogatlve of appointing poor dl iectors until new legislation relieves the situation and brings the pool dis trict out of Its present chaotic condi tion The energies of the parties In terested In the solution of this question should he directed to the legislature and not to the courts. We understand that theie are now four vacancies In the poor board These must be filled by appointment in the usual way ns the law now stands, because there have been no elections According to the information filed In this case. Mr Murphy claims to have been elected from the South ward In 189S While we cannot consider this ques tion In these proceedings, neveitheless It Is manifest that there could have been no valid election at that time, be cause the machlnerv for holding an election In the South ward, even by combining together several of the pics ent wards und election precincts, was not In Existence In addition to this, the piopei period for holding .111 elec tion In that dlstiict. if such an election (ould have been held, was in 1899. These suggestions nre made tentative ly, and aie not to be considered bind ing on parties now or hcieaftei Inter ested In poorboaid matters. Judgment is enteted In favor of the defendant We dliect the county to pay the costs. Judge Archbald did not sit in tho heat ing of this case. Attorney I H Ruins, who lepre ents Attomey John J. 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