Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-09-21
Rccor1s Showing What True Prophets Were Honest
Members of Last Popular Session Who
Fought For Peoples Rights.
GREASY AS PIONEER TRIBUNE
In Both Senate and House the Popular Champions
Struggled For the AmeIiOraton Which Penn
sylvania Voters Can Win In November

Of the committee's death chamber
Offering a resolution to discharge tn
committee Of strangers from turtle
consideration of the bill Mr.. Flynn
said:
II hope that this resolution Will
prevail | have no doubt that this
Is the most important measure in
troduced at this session, and ono
which the people, no doubt, are
strongly in favor Of. We have frit-
tered away our time here for the
past three months, considering
nothing Of more importance than
Increasing salaries and creating
new offices, suppressing law and
order societies, while this bill lies
smothered in committee. | hope
that this motion will prevail, and
/ call for the years and nays"
Supporting Mr. Flynn, John G. Har
man, of Columbia, said:
"As a member of the elections
committee, | feel most keenly the
point of this resolution, but | sub
nit no valid reason can be given
here for this house being placed in
this position or in this situation.
offer any legitimate excuse TO the
voters of Pennsylvania why We
should be put to the public shame
of voting upon a resolution to dis
charge the committee that has had
that bill in charge and custody for
over two months.
Now, Mr.. Speaker, the history
Of this House shall go down up 70
date as being naught. We eagerly
voted $50 coo OF the peoples money
for exposition purposes and we
were slapped in the face by execu-
tive disappTOyal We willingly vOt-
ed that druggists, the soda dis
pensers OF this state, might put
poison in the stOmachs Of their pa
irons, but the poison that gnaws
and eats at the very vitals of good
government, that corrupts and cor
rOdes the ballot box, that makes a
mOckery of our vested citizenship
and civilization. still eats its can
kerous way. and this house Is de-
MED opportunity 70 eradicate II. |
speak for my party, for my col
leagues. when ! say that the re-
sDOnsibility for this outrage must
fall where the gentleman from
Lancaster has placed It, 10 wit,
upon the dominant party in this
house. and say 10 him and TO my
Republican friends on this floor,
that the damnable charge Of per-
Jury will hound every man in this
house who fails 10 do his duty in
this behalf. Upon the opening day
of the legislative session our
worthy chaplain delivered a most
remarkable prayer. II struck me
there was humOr, pathos in 1t when
he PRAYED that God in His wisdom
and in His mercy would spare the
members of this house and their
families until the end of the legis-
lative session. The innuendO was II
mattercd little what became Of
them after the session. ! would
suggest 10 him that he 80 one step
further and invite Divine prOtec-
ton on all OF us II we leave this
house without giving the people OF
Pennsylvania what they declared
for by majority of 1880 votes.
But vote OF le4 to 20 defeated this
effort, and the regular session refused
30 grant personal registration. Thi!
suggests that If the people permit {
machine majority to be elected to thu
coming legislature. no dependence car
be placed upon efforts to improve th'
new law, much less to grant other re-
forms.
Democrats Blocked Great Junket.
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