Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-18
HARRISBURG LETTER.
Again Agitating the Question Of
Final Adjournment.
THE REDUCED STATE REVENUES,
with the Resultant Neglect to Provide
for Charities and for tie Annual Militia
Encampment Causes Much Dissatisfac-

tion Among Educators and Soldier Boys
Especial Correspondence0
HARRISBURG, April 10 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. 1t is thought a
compromise will be made on the following
Thursday. The last session closed on June
l. The question of the final adjournment
was discussed at 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-
prlations for the next jg"o years. No date
was fixed, but 1t was the unanimous sentt-
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 ut
10 O'Clock instead of II rs heretofore. Tho
senators have mlnagel to keep up with
the house by holding one session a day
and getting away every Thursday. The
older mem )ers of that body say it will not
be necessary to hold more than one session
day until near ths close of the term. BY
prolonging the sessions an hour each day
the sen ttOrS expscU to clear th sir calen lar
of all the bills which originated in that
body.
The house is expected to hold night ses-
sions beginning tomorrow. The senators
insist tnat the house devote more time to
senate bills. 1t has been the rule hereto
fore with the house to drop about 2JO SEN
ate bills from the calendar near the close
of the session. The senators are tired of
this, and demand that ut least IA 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 Lust Week less than
dozen bills passed finally in the house
and not more than II score on second read
ing Few GavOrs will be shown hereafter
by either body. Bills which have been in
trOduced for buuCombe and allowed to
pass second reading out of courtesy to
their sponsor will be accorded no such
consideration on third reading. When
they come up they will be killed OF post
pOned indefinitely, another way of dispos
ing of them Tor all time. The slaughter
of such bills will begin tomorrow, and
will continue ri Sht 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 more talk by this legislature than at
any previous session. The time has come
to put down the brakes ON those loqua-
cious IN ,moers and get down to work on
the calendar
n, .tfnrf ,ytil1 no La Ittr inrs
to impress the mombers of the house more
| favorably with the tax bill evolved by the
tax conference alter years of hard labor.
/ e. Stuart Patterson, Leonard Rhone and
/ others of the conference will speak in
| favor of the bill ut II 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 bul will be
reported to the house in u few days, it is
confidently predicted that it can never be
come IL 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 tine opposition of
the manufacturing aud other interests.
The committees are getting rid of bills
under consideration and Will soon have
their calendars clear, The hearings before
committees are about over. None of the
revenue bills, about u duZ N in all, put in
the house this session have been brought
out of committee. 4 special calendar will
have To be made for THESE measures and
the appropriation bills still in committee.
The apportonment bills, except the ju-
dicial apOrtlunment, which passed the
house and is in the senate commiUGee, have
not yet been brought out. Tne various
bills amending the ballot law offered dur
ing the winter will be Incorporated into
one measure for which Il specIa. order Will
be asked
Inere will be plenty of excitement at
the state capital during the week On
"Wednesday Ung stats ID, IL Icritic commit
tee will IN 'Gt mere to sslecG IL chairman to
succeed ex-Deputy yAttorney General Stran-
ahan, who decunes u reelection. The
board of parduns meets the same day. 1t
is expected that the board will dispose of
the case Of HItl f. Ds,np .ey, the Pitts
burg la jor 10, at this session. Dsmp-
sey is serving seven years in the Western
penitcnUiary for being h chief cOnspira-
tor of the alleged plot p son non-union
workmen In the Cdrncg. mills at Home
stead IN 1872. HIS cas- mas been p1nding
before the board for several months. Ex-
General Master WJrkmll P1Hdsrly and
other prominent labor advocates have
taken an interest in his aus AMI enieav
ored to secure his release. However, the
chances are against Dempsey, and it is be-
lieved he will be refused II pardon.
I Unless the Legislature shall pass some
quarantine law speedily the port of Phila-
delphiu will be left without any state pro-
lection against the introduction of Euro
pean epidemics after July of the present
year. Under the terms of the act of 1893
the present quarantine station must be
abandoned at that time. Provision was
made for the purchase of IA suitable site by
the governor but as no site which would
answer the purpose could be secured moth
ing was done in the matter, and, with the
time for abandoning the site but little
more than two months off, no provision
has yet been made for proper quarantine
after July /.
No Quarantine Precautions.
A bill introduced by Representative
Bliss u provide merely quarantine OBJ
sargation or boarding station, and to re
turn anV infpctpd vessel to the TTnltad