Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12
LEGISLATURE TO
Do WORK QUICKLY
Will Be Organized and Put Into
Operation Without Much De-
lay Early Next Month

There will not be much oratory and
precious little of the flibustering and
other tactics that were so freely en-
ployed in the last Legislature when the
General Assembly of 1915 gets down
to business Already plans are being
made to expedite business and as
there will not be as much infiam-
mable material introduced and not as
many carpng critics along the side
lines as in 1913. rapid progress is pre-
dicted by men who have been obserV-
| ing the preliminaries.
That there will be a short session
everyone agrees and people from the
members-elect to the leaders of local
politics in every county are declaring
for cessation of legislation that will
annoy business. In fact, the feeling
| in regard to business legislation In
the State is much like 1t is regarding
congressional activities.
TO begin with there Will not be as
much demanding of things in the
name of the people by little cliques.
The cumbersome Scnene of COM
mittee on committees will be done
away with The members of the two
! houses VIII gather here on January 3
and and on the night of the fourth
will hold the old-time party caucuses
lIOT SeleCIlOn Ol CdHuludleS. Inc next
| day, Tuesday, January 5, at noon the
| two houses will meet organize, re-
ceive the message OF Governor Tener
and such reports as he ma" transmit
aud then adjourn until the 18th, the
IITesiding officers making ur the com
nit. ee lists and tile inaugural TIM
rlit'ee taking VI its work N the in
teiim.
The Democratic State headquarters
in the Spooner building, which have
borne the golden head windmill flag
from the days when the reorganizers
got cLntro, of the Democratic State
Inachine, are a thing of the past. The
main windmill is now Ices ted 1T Phila-
delpha but it lS fIt ely pi edicted that
Ii: VIII be back in Harrisburg before
the end of tha Spring ci;mpaign Of
1916. Some people hore are wonder
ing what George w Guthrie, who was
away from the big cities, would say
about it.
-Governor-eIect Brumbaugh may
take hand in the speakership con-
test according to word from Phila-
| delphia. 1t has been expected that
he will show an active interest. Yes
terday r. j. Baldwin, the Delaware
county candidate, had a conference
with him and said II was satisfactory.
r. P. Habgood, of. McKeen, saw Sen
ator E. II. Ware, who informed him
that he would be for William H. VIII
son, of South Philadelphia, If Wilson
saw fit to enter the field.
| According to the Philadelphia
Press to-day Dinner Beeber, Phila-
delphia banker and lawyer and once
candidate for Mayor, former judge and
authority on municipal affairs, is TO be
| Attorney General. Judge Beeber Is a
former resident of Williamsport.
--Ex- Mayor William A. Magec, of
Pittsburgh, who was at Washington a
few days ago presenting his views on
the Ohio canal, turned in Philadelphia
yesterday and declared that he was not
in politics, but engaged in furthering
the canal project.
City Chairman Bromley, of the
Philadelphia Democracy, yesterday
declared that a movement for a de-
velopment of the Democratic leader
ship in the State was essential. He
declared that broader men than those
now in control of the Democratic ma
chine were needed If the party was to
amount to anything Bromley indi-
Gated that the movement referred to
in the Telegraph some days ago was
under way in the State.
| At Washington yesterday subpenas
were issued by Representative Lloyd,
chairman of the committee on ac-
counts, for the presence of Represen-
tative' J. II. Rothermel, of Reading;
Charles S. Coles, of Allentown; H. w.
Elliott and A. F. Gallagher to appear
before the committee next week to
testify with reference to charges made
by Coles that Congressman Rothermel
agreed to the padding of the account
to Elliott to the extent of $500. Ell
lott and Gallagher are the experts
whose accounts are alleged to have
been padded in connection with an
investigation made by the committee
on expenditures in the Department of
Commerce, of which Rothermel is
chairman.
| State Senator Edwin H. Ware de-
clared yesterday that, so far as he was
concerned. Governor elect Brumbaugh
was wholly free to make his Cabinet
and other appointments in accord
ance with his own best judgment II
urged DIR. Brumbaugh's nomination
and did all in my power to bring about
his election" Senator Ware observed.
"but did 1t for what believed were
sound party reasons and In the belief