Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-15
Which Are to be Disposed of at the
Organization of the New
Legislature.
THE NEW EXECUTIVE MANSION.
6oyernOr-Elect PattiSon Takes His First
Peep at the GOrgeousness Which
He is to Occupy.
DON CAMERON HAS LOTS OF PLEDGES.
Il ID Believed the Movement for Hastings is without
His Consent

HARRISBURG, Dec. 14.-Now that the
time for the meeting of the Legislature is
near at hand it will not be uninteresting to
the public, and especially to the politicians,
to know just what sort of plums are
to be given out at the organization.
The Speakership of the House is worth
$500 for the session, in addition to the
occupants s pay as a member of the
House; and Senator Penrose, as Presi-
dent pro TEN. of the Senate, is also paid
$500 extra for the session. These places are
also looked upon as stepping-stones for
future preferment. Penrose's friends expecl
to see him nominated for Governor some of
these davs, and the man who wins the House
Speakership will almost certainly be a can
didate for one of the State offices to be filled
next year. The following is a list of the
other places to be distributed in the organi-
cation shuttle.
Chief Clerk of the Senate, 50 500 for the
session year, and s., coo for the year in
which no session is held.
Chief Clerk of the House. the same COM
pensation.
Librarian of the Senate s., 900 year.
Reading and journal Clerks of the House
and Senate, four in ALL 81, 500 for the ses-
sion.
Resident Clerk of the House, 81, 900 for
the session year, and 81, 500 for the year in
which no session is held.
Message Clerks, one in each House, So per
day. Two trsuscribing clerks in the Senate
and two in the House, each 81 day.
A Sergeant at Arms for the Senate and
two assistants at 81 per day each. A Ser
geant at Arms for the House and four as
- 80 4 = Il
and President pro TENS clerk. 81 day
each. The other employees, doorkcepers,
postmasters and pastors and folders receive
each Sc day. The chaplains get s. per
day. The engineers, fremen and watchmen,
ali of whom queerly enough are selected by
the caucus get S3 day each.
The Gorgeous Executive Mansion.
Governor-elect Pattison this week OBJ
tanned his first peep at the new Executive
Mansion, which lhas been so thoroughly re-
modelled aud gorgeously furnished since he
left it, some four years ago, that he could
not recognize it. 1t is practically a new
house to him. The Governor showed his
successor all over the place with much pride,
and exhibited several thousand dollars worth
of tableware which has also come in since 1887
Governor and Mrs. Beaver have kindly ex-
tended the hospitalties of the Executive Man.
sion to the Governor-elect when e shall come
here to be inaugurated.
The Governor-elect's Inauguration promises
TO be much finer affair than the one in 1sS3
1t is pretty well settled that the State militia
will attend and be reviewed by Governor
Beaver and his successor, as the arrangements
1or their transportation have almost been COM
pleted. Those who recall the bitter weather of
The last Inauguration day will wish for better
luck for the soldiers next January. The inaug-
uTation will occur on the Goth. two weeks after
the organization of the Legislature.
The hotel accommodations of the city will be
taxed severely on Inauguration day. At the
Bolton House. which is always the Democratic
headquarters, there will be quartered the JEFF
ferson Club, of Philadelphia; the Central, ,Scrah-
ton, and the Danville Democratic Club. A
also engaged quarters at the Bolton. The
Americus Club. of Reading, will hang its ban
ners on the outer walls on the LochIel.
Cameron Has Enough Pledges.
The New York evening Posts boom for Ad-
jutant General Hastings for United States
Senator together with the statement thar he
would be supported by the Philadelphia Press,
is Isregarded here as sensational. There is no
probability of the General becoming Sena-
torial candidate against Cameron, and the
Generals friends deprecate the publication of
such statements General Hastings is re-
garded as a promising figure in State
politics, and his friends think that he
will be the next Republican nominee for Gov
ernor. He is young and can afford to wait.
ceualOE mere QeClare InaJ
the Senator has in his possession the written
pledges. most of them given voluntarily since
the election, of enough Republican members
elect not only to give him control of the caucus
but to elect him on joint ballot, when the two
Houses meet TO elect Senator
A friend OF the Senator said to-day: IAN eff
fort has been made We know to draw Magee
into an antagonistic position to Cameron in
the Senatorial fight by inducing him to believe
that Cameron is playing into Quay's hands to
shut him (Magee) out of politics again, but
n, 1,~r1 4.
cordial support; and this should end that sort
of talk"
When Senator George Handy Smith was
elected for his first fall term in 1876 he luckily
drew one Of the four favorite seats in the SEN
atorlal chamber. These are the only four sim
gle desks in the room, and are on the front row
Immediately under the of the presiding
officer.
One Senator in Luck,
At the drawing of seats at every subsequent
session Senator Smiths lucky star guided him
TO the same coveted seat, and for IA years ne
has graced no other part of the House. This
year the same lucky star and the new Librarian,
Miller, took the same care of the genial Sena-
tor, and his rotund form will be ensconced be-
hind the same desk. Senator Cooper was
Smiths next door nelghbor, but General Goblin
will polish the chair that the Collector used
two years ago.
Senator Packer has fallen heir to the desk at
which Senator Delamater wrote his letters
during the session of SO. Charlie Porter has a
seat on the front row to the extreme right. and
John B. Robinson will make his speeches from
the other side of the House on one of the back
rows