The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-06-28

TO ne remover.
Mr.. Greasy of Columbia, the Demo-
cratic leader Of the house. and Mr..
Heagy of Dauphin. are the only mem
bers Of either body who have not mis-
sed a session since organization.
THE WYATT BILLS
Adjournment on Thursday may mean
intentional failure to reach certain appro
priation bills, the aggregate amounts Of
which might offset the half-million that
was aimed at by the now abandoned pro
iect TO cut the school fund 1t certainly
means the death Of some investigating
committee bills which the dominant Repub.
lican element cOnfessess its fear to father
among them the four bills put in by Serge
ant-at-Arms Wyatt for the Saunders Roberts
and Shifler-Leh election contests, the Wash
ington Monument celebration and the $50. OOC
| insurance scandal probe.
/ All four Wyatt bills were found fraud
ulently on the calendar Saturday. The
election contest expense bills had been re-
pudiated by the Elections Committee through
the antagonism practically of Chairman
French and Representative Sterr Herman
and Kerr. With the two other bills they
were placed on the calendar bearing the
name Of Representatives Schrink, of Mr..
Wyatts county (Schuylkill), as though Mr..
Schrink had reported them from the Appro-
priations Committee. Mr.. Sehrink, appro-
priations, June "a, 1897, " was the reading on
each Of the four bills in the file Chairman
Marshall, of the Appropriations Committee,
declared it a crooked job and refused to
stand for it..
News Of this alarmed the Schuylkil
countians, including Senator Coyle, who had
been Mr.. Wyatt's chief hacker for the posi-
tion Of Sergeantat-Ams The scare spread
and Mr. Schrink not only disowned the bills.
but indicated that he might take occasion to
publicly clear himself, If necessary. Mean
while the four bills had passed first reading.
and were comfortably located for second
reading, when Leader Lytle, to prevent
scandal, successfully moved their recon-
initial to the Appropriations Committee that
had never reported them out. Quietly a
little afterwards another Schuylkill countian.
Representative Orme obtained unanimous
consent to introduce four bills They were
the identical Wyatt bills that had just been
recommitted, and that evening, avowing the
paternity of Mr.. Orme instead of Mr
Schrink, the bills, through genuine report
from the committee by Chairman Marshall
were handed up for the calendar, merely for
peace sake, and with no thought that they
will be passed
Prior to this, after an alarm conference by
the Schuylkill countians and their friends,
Senator Coyle had caused the introduction of
the four bills in the Senate, hoping to induce
Senator Andrews and other leaders to work
them through that body so that they could
be taken up by the House at once as Senate
bills instead of depending upon the forlorn
hope for the duplicates in the House.
The elections committee repudiated en-
tirely Mr. Wyatt's demand for 81, ,633. So, even
after he had cut it down to 81 200 and later
to its present figure of 81 1858 16. They
wonld have allowed him 81 900. Following
were the items of Mr.. Wyatt's original bill:
Mileage, 1857 extra car fare, $40; telegraph
messages etc, $6O3; printing subpoena
notices and cards, $50; two doorkeepers, $50;
mileage for serving subpoenas $l55.50; serv.
ing subpoenas ON 779 witnesses, SlfBs. so
payment Of witness fees, S727.5O incident
ais, sos; total, S263s53.
HOSPITAL ON PAPER.
Schuylkil county distinguished itself
again through a bill backed specially by
Senator Coyle and Representative schrink,
appropriating $4,000 for maintenance of a
hospital that does not exist" This evoked
from Representative Stewart of Philadelphia,
the remark to the House that there was
nothing in the phraseology of the bill to as
sure the Legislature that the proposed appro-
priation might not give rise to another case
such as that of a Fayette county Representa-
tive, who, in 1888, obtained an appropriation
of $4,000 for hospital that existed only on
paper, drew or caused to be drawn the
money, and served two years in Jail for his
cleverness."
This bill, introduced by Mr. Schrink,
would appropriate the $4,000 ITO the
American Hospital Association of Maha-
noy township, schuylkill county, for the
fiscal year beginning June II, 1898 for the
purpose of maintenance, provided that no
part of the money shall become available
until the managers of said institution shall
have certified under oath to the Auditor
General that they have completely furnished
that building for hospital purposes with
capacity of at least 25 beds and equipped the
same with the necessary surgical implements,
and that the said furnishing and implements
have been paid for by private subscription,
and that no part of this appropriation will be
used for payment of any furnishing or i'm
plements.
Mr.. Schrink appealed to the House to pass
the bill on second reading, on promise to
furnish more information when it came up
for final passage. He said it was simply a
piece Of spite work to attempt to kill the bill
The bill went through by vote of los to 25.
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