Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-11
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Employers and employees, manufac-
turerS and labor leaders, heads of or
ganizations of various kinds will
gather here next Thursday for a SYM
postum on workmens compensation
and it is expected that some general
agreement as to the manner in which
the campaign for the enactment of
such a law will be waged in the next
Legislature can be reached. The meet
ing has been arranged by the State
Industrial Accidents Commission, which
has drafted the bill to be submitted to
the General Assembly. but which was
requested to give a hearing to a num-
Der OF people interested in other forms.
1t is understood that one of these
bills will represent the ideas of people
In western Pennsylvania, while an
other Will come from the other end of
the State, but no idea as to their gen.
eral features has been given. Repre-
sentatiVes of the State Federation of
Labor. various manufacturers, welfare
and other organizations have been
asked to be present and criticise the
drafts and to offer suggestions. 1t is
likely that much attention will be given
to the insurance feature of the pro-
posed bills This is matter that has
caused wide difference of opinion and
unless some agreement is reached is
likely to cause much discussion in the
Legislature. Within short time meet
ings will be held here by legislative
committees of various organizations to
draft bills to present their propositions
to the Legislature. They will deal with
laDor, insurance, construction and
other subjects which have been morL
or less in the public eye. Judging from
the manner in which the three codes
of laws drawn by the State Legis-
lative Reference Bureau are being dis
cussed, they will attract much atten-
tion from the Legislature. Many sug
gestons are being made regarding
them, although there is much COM
mendation, especially for the simple
manner in which the codification of
borough law was made.
Later on in the year the various
organizations interested in the pro-
motion of agriculture and horticulture
will have their annual meetings in this
city, the sessions being of import
ance to the rural interests because of
probabilities that agricultural conser-
walton will occupy a big place in the
legislative program. of the new adj
ministration. These meetings will be
attended by hundreds of men interest
ed in such lines and will be watched
by the legislators who will be just get
ting down to their work.
What will be of more interest, prob
ably, to Harrisburgers than anything
else will be the session of the solicit
tors of the third class cities who will
nave series of amendments to the
Clark third class city commission gov
ernment act and who will probably
precipitate one of the most important
discussions of the legislation. Attempts
to amend the school code before it had
been given a thorough try-out were
blocked last year with the result that
this most important piece of statute
law was little affected by the storms
which ragged in legislative halls. In all
probability there will be a similar dis
position manifested in regard to the
third class city act and only such
changes as experiences have demon
strated to be essential will be made to
the public service company law.
Fraternal organizations which have
benefit features are also keeping q
sharp lookout on the coming legisla-
ture because in the last half dozen
sessions bills vitally affecting this
branch of social life We're presented
and some regulations proposed which
it was contended would be onerous.
This city is one of the strongholds of
secret societies, almost every order
being represented here and some of
subordinate bodies.
Word spread about the city yester-
day afternoon that DR.. Martin G..
Brumbaugh, the Governor elect, was
in court. 1t was not DIR. Brumbaugh
but the man looked like him except
for the lack of the eyebrows, which
are distinguishing feature of the new
executive. The man happened to be
T. Ellsworth Davies, noted mining en-
gineer of Scranton, who was here on
the coal tax case.
There was some quiet amusement
among lawyers from the hard coal re-
gion in court yesterday over a break
by a man from the soft coal region.
1t was not a break, but just a plain
little misStatement. The lawyers had
been talking about coal sizes and the
soft coal man in discussing them went
over the list, mentioning crate, egg,
chestnut. pea, rice, barley and so on
He put in walnut. Now it happens
that there is no such size as walnut
but eX-Judge i. w. Wheaton, OF
Wilkes-Barre who was seated inside
the bar in the courtroom, remarked
mo such size. but he means black
walnut, probably"