The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-19

with the Resultant Neglect to Provide
for Charities and for the Annual Militia
Encampment, Causes Much Dissatisfac-
hon Among Educators and Soldier Boys.
Especial Correspondence)
HARRISBURG, April 15.- The legislators
have not yet agreed upon the date OF final
adjournment. Many have grown weary
OF their duties and are anxious to get away.
resolution will probably be offered in
the house this evening fixing May % for
the close OF the session. It is thought q
compromise will be made on the following
Thursday. The last session closed on June
1. The question OF the final adjournment
was discussed Mt the conference last Thurs.
day night, at the executive mansion, be-
tween the states fiscal officers and others
to consider the state revenues and appro-
priations for the next two years. No date
was fixed, but 1t was the unanimous sentl-
ment of the gentlemen that the session
should not be extended into June.
Beginning this week the senate will ex.
tend its sessions an hour on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning at
10 O'Clock instead of IL as heretofore. The
senators have managed to keep up with
the house by holding one session day
and getting away every Thursday. The
older members of that body say 1t will not
be necessary to hold more than one session
aday until near the close Of the term. BY
prolonging the sessions an hour each day
the senators expect to clear their calendar
of oil the bills which originated in that
body.
The house is expected to hold night ses-
sions beginning tomorrow. The senators
insist that the house devote more time to
senate bills. 1t has been the rule hereto
fore with the house to drop about POO SEN
ate bills from the calendar near the close
OF the session. The senators are tired Of
this, and demand that at least month be
devoted to their bills, or time enough to
dispose OF them. The house has set apart
this evening for the consideration of SEN
ate bills on second reading.
The House Moves Very Slowly.
The lower branch of the legislature is a
very deliberate body. Last week less than
dozen bills passed finally in the house
and not more than score on second read.
ing. Few favors will be shown hereafter
by either body. Bills which have been in
troduced for buncOmbe and allowed to
pass second reading out of courtesy to
their sponsor will be accorded no such
consideration ON third reading. When
poned indefinitely, another way of dispos-
ing of them for all time The slaughter
Of such bills will begin tomorrow, and
will continue right along. The members
are convinced that too much time is being
wasted by the house in useless debate over
bills of no general interest. There has
been moro talk by this Legislature than at
any previous session. The time has como
to put down the brakes on those loqua-
cious members and get down to work on
the calendar.
An effort will be made during the week
to impress tlso members of the house more
favorably with the tax bill evolved by the
tax conference after years Of hard labor
@. Stuart Patterson, Leonard Rhone and
others Of the conference will speak in
favor of the bill at hearing in the hall of
the house tomorrow evening Some few
changes may also be favored, but the most
Objectionable features are not likely to be
eliminated, and, although the bill will be
reported to the house In few days, 1t is
confidently predicted that 1t can never be-
come law. The farming element will be
strongly in favor of it, but the bill will be
defeated because Of its inability to provide
a sufficient revenue and the opposition of
the manufacturing and other interests.
uc COillil0VCcb arc BcttlhR VI Dllls
under consideration and will soon have
their calendars clear The hearings before
committees are about over. None OF the
revenue bills, about dozen in all, put in
the house this session have been brought
out of committee. A special calendar will
have to be made for these measures and
the appropriation bills still in committee.
The apportlonment bills, except the ju-
dicial aportionment, which passed the
house and Is in tho senate committee, have
not yet been brought out. The various
bills amending the ballot law offered dur
ing the winter will be Incorporated into
one measure for which u specia, order will
be asked.
Opposition to the Quay County Bill.
The Quay county bill will probably
come up in the house tomorrow for third
reading The principal objection to this
proposition comes from the eleven mem
bers of the house from Schuylkill and Lu-
zerne counties, out of which it is proposed
to erect the new county. or the combined
representation from these two counties
only one senator and n representative
favor the bill. The sentiment in the house
is against it. Senator Quay is here and
his presence may secure the passage of the
bill out of sentiment. The Democrats are
opposed to the new county.
There will be plenty of excitement at
the state capital during the week. On
"Wednesday the state Democratic commit
tee will meet here to select chairman to
succeed ex. Deputy Attorney General Stran-
ahan, who declines Il reelection The |
board of pardons meets the same day. 1t
is expected that the board will dispose Of |
the case of Hugh Il. Dempsey, the Pitts
burg labor leaie', at this session Demp- |
sey is serving seven years in the Western
penitentiary for being ths chief conspira-
tor of the alleged plot to p bison non-union
workmen In the Carnegie mills at Home
stead in 1892. His case has been pending |
before the board for several months Ex-
General Master Workman Powderly and
other prominent labor advocates have
taken an interest in his caus and endeav-
ored to secure his release. However, the
chances are against Dempsey, and it is be-
lieved he will be refused pardon.
Unless the legislature shall pass some