The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-31
Especial Correspondence.)


Especial Correspondence)
HARRISBURG, May 27.-The Legislators
will hardly get away before June 49, This
is now conceded by those who have all
along contended for short session Tho
time of final adjournment will be fixed at
this evenings session OF the house. Mr..
Stewart, of Philadelphia has served no
tice that he will call up at that time the
senate resolution to adjourn June6. Many
OF the members are anxious to get away
and will vote to concur In the senate's nc
tion. Those who have not yet gotten
through all their pet schemes arc opposed
to the time fixed by the senators, and IL Is
believed they can control enough votes to
prolong the session until June 49,
IL the senate resolution prevails no bills
can be messaged to either body after Fri
day. Chairman Marshall, of the appro-
priations committee whose opinion at
this time is entitled to more consideration
than that of any other member of the
house, says 1t is absolutely impossible to
adjourn at the time fixed by tho senate
unless the appropriation bills are side
tracked. The general appropriation bill
will require three days consideration in
the senate and house. 1t will be reported
Thursday, and rushed through so that IL
may reach the senate by the following
Monday
The program is to hold the general APP
preparation bill until all other appropria-
ton measures are out of the way. The
committee may be forced to change its
plans and bring the bill out earlier than
expected. There will be u fierce fight by
the rural members of the house to amend
the bill so as to give the schools Sl1 ,O00,-
600 for the next two years, instead of Sl0,-
000,0O0 rs proposed by the committee.
The fight over this proposition will delay
the consideration of other important busi.
ness.
Increasing the House Sessions.
The house will hold two sessions today,
from $3.50 to in the afternoon and from 8
to 10 in the evening. Tho order of bust
ness will be first reading bills, resolutions,
revenue bills on second reading, local and
special bills on third reading and final
passage, and appropriation bills on third
reading Under the order of original reso-
lutions Mr.. Smith, of Jefferson will
offer concurrent resolution that the leg
islature do not adjourn until new APP
portionment is made of the state. The
friends of the measures have until to-
morrow in which to move u reconsidera-
tion of the votes by which the bills were
knocked out but whether anything in that
line will be attempted or not will depend
largely upon the result of General Niles
visit to Senator Quay at Beaver If he can
induce Senator Quay to interpose the bills
will be reconsdered, but If Colonel Quay
persits in holding off and letting the mem
bers fight it out among themselves, 1t Is
extremely doubtful whether any attempt
at reconsideration will be made.
Mr.. Smith will call the yeas and nays
on the resolution, to show how each men,
Der stands on this question. 1t Is prob
able that an effort will also be made ut
one of these sessions by Chairman Cul-
bertson, of the legislative apportionment
committee, to secure reconsideration of
the three apportionment bills defeated last
Tuesday. These bills will take up at least
several hours and should the intermedi-
ate court bill be called up 1t would be
good for several hours more.
The time of the house tomorrow and
Wednesday will be taken up in consider
ing the Fritz and Smith bills for the dis
tribution of the school funds and the other
ten bills for which special orders have been
made for these days. The Smith bill dis
tributes the appropriation by giving $50
to each school and the balance on the basis
of the number of taxables Mr.. Fritz's
plan Is to divide the fund on the basis of
the number of school children in the re.
spective districts between the ages OF
and 20 years There has been much time
wasted in discussing these two PROPOSE
tions. and the chances are that neither
will pass this legislature.
VIII Adjourn on Memorial Day.
Thursday will be Memorial Day, and
the old soldiers in the senate and house
will want to go home to help decorate the
graves of their departed comrades. The
house will probably dispense with the
afternoon and evening sessions on that
day The order of business will be appro-
priation bills on third reading 1t re-
quires 1856 votes to pass these measures
finally, and it is hardly likely that there
will be that many members in attendance.
The appellate court bill and the meas
ure creating the county of Quay out of
portions of Luzerno and Schuylkill coun-
ties will be called up In the house on We'd
nesday for final consideration. The oppo-
sition to both is so intense that much time
will probably be wasted in trying to pre-
vent their passage. There are indications
that the Quay county bill may get through
by narrow majority, not, however with
out stiff fight by the Schuylkill and Lu-
zerne delegations
The religious garb bill will be taken up
on a special order in the senate tomorrow
Tor nnal passage. Inesenaue mas lts caien-
dar pretty we'll cleared, and from now until
the close of the session will act upon
house bills. Governor Hastings has a
batch of bills unacted upon, which will
be considered tomorrow at the cabinet
meeting. The governor is taking his time
in disposing of the bills which reach him.
Many are so full of typographical and
other errors that 1t Is necessary that they
be very carefully perused before being
acted upon.
Speaker Walton and some of the more
prominent Republicans on the floor are
making every exertion to get the calendar
in shape for final adjournment, but the
'mob" is continually spelling their plans,
and this week will be conspicuous ex-
ample of 1t. With almost every minute
required for necessary work, the house has
practically already used up half of the
ith N Lot of snnninl nrlars Ii hilla