Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-02
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perse them. But they had important
business to transact. Eight weeks time
had been lost in the senatorial deadlock,
and for the first time in the history
of the state, the Legislature had
two years legislation to transact.
the sessions now being biennial. The
members resolved to stand to their posts.
They did not believe that the attorney
general, an executive officer, had any
power to decide upon the constitutionality
of the law fixing their salaries. That was
4 matter for the courts. If the law should
be declared uncor stitutional they would
have to be satisfied if CONSTITUTIONAL they
expected to get the same pay their prede
cessors had received-thc same pay that
Governor Hoyt and Attorney General Pal
mcr had received when they were mcm-
is IL. the salary grab" so far as members
torIey General Palmer favored the passage
81. 700 pef session, whether long or short
and he, Mr.. Wolfe, had opposed the bill as
unconstitutional, because it proposed to
increase the pay Of members during their
term of Office, which the constitution cx-
pressly forbids. 1t was tie attorney gen
eral who proposed salary grab and
Mr.. Wolfe who opposed it.
As to Palmer's charge relative to Nj.
Wolfe's dodsin. y vote on the insurance
bill, MIR. Wolfe replied, the bill passed
first reading as a matter of course. When
it came up for second reading he was 1T
home, two Of his children being sick with
scarlet fever. 1t did not come up for third
coa1ip.r y,pfii y n'oInnf- tlo 1,c
night OF tie session. 1t was believed that
at that late hour 10 more legislation would
be attempted and many members had gone
among them Messrs. Law, Mupcs, Nc
kee and others. Mr.. Wolfe started to 90
home and was called back and asked to
stay and vote for the bill. lie replied that
if the bill couli be amended he would
vote fcr it, but this could not be done as
the amendments would have to be printed
and lie over until next day, and that
world kill the bill.
AS to his being director OF the Buffalo
Valley Insurance company Mr.. Wolfe salt!
the facts were that lie had been named by
i friend as 4 director; that he had never
| accepted the Office never attended Il meet.
ing of the company, and did not regard
himself rs 4 member of it. When he found
that his name bad been printed in the list
of directors he insisted that it should be
taken Oft, and it was taken of, and Other
| slips were printed with his name omitted.
| lie had never in all his life been Interested
to tho extent of one cent in any kind OF
life insurance except in travellers risks, IL d
never received from any company Or intii
vitlual one cent of profit from insurance
Mr.. Wolfe apolosized to his audience fo,
devOting so much time to tie rIfutatiOn
of Palmer's un:ounded charges. II his
hearers were rs We'll acquainted with that
gentleman rs he is, they would know there
was no necessity of answering him. To
paraphrase Mr.. Paimcr's own saying, he
would add that the partition between his
memory and imagination is completely
broken dOwE-it is all imagination and nO
memory.
MIR. Wolfe, in conclusion, called urou
any citizen present who might have a
question to ask OIL any of the topics unde.
discussion to ask it, and he would give an
answer. After pausing for some time, he
continued, Sis the editor of the Examine.
| here: He has asked some questions
which | have answered, and may have
some more to ask. If he has, ! vii! tax.
the risk of answering them. If lie is here
let him put his questions, or forever after
ho,d his peace.'
This sally produced Great laugh and
clapping of hands, and MIR. Wolfe con
cluded with brief but eloquent perora
ton iii which lie predicted that the time
was not far distant when Pennsylvani;
will be freed from the boss rule which has
50 long iettered the grand old common
wealth.