Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-26
EVENING CHAT


| and especially those Harrisburg people
Who like to attend the sessions of the
General Assembly during the long VIM
ter evenings and who have come to
look upon men who take a leading
| part In the framing of laws almost as
residents of the State capital because
or their long service in the Legislature
and prominence in the news will be
especially interested to note that some
OF the commanding figures in the last
House Will not be members, having
| declined denomination. First and fore
most Speaker George E. Alter will not
be here, having refused to run for any
nomination this year and declining at
tractive offers to back him for state.
congressional and senatorial nomi-
nations in his home county. Daniel j.
Shern. one of the ablest of the Phila-
aelphlans and wheel horse of the
Republican organization, will not be
heard. and neither will his next neigh
porbor and old-time friend, with whom
he fought often and hard last ses-
sion, John r. h. Scott. Scott is run
nlng Tor Congress and the Legislative
journal will miss him. S. Taylor
North, chairman of the appropriations
committee. will not unbend his six
feet to look irritatingly in response to
|
George w. Allen. the Pittsburgh law
yer, who spoke on every question un-
DER consideration and who was on the
nr1ng line as often as Scott; Dan Malie,
one of the front row Pittsburghers;
z. j. Hemminger, of Somerset; Albert
Davis, of Scranton; George c. Irwin,
| the Hollidaysburg railroad man, and
A. e: keeport, Readings Republican
member. will be missing when the roll
is called. On the Democratic side Z.
| Lowry Humes is now safe in a federal
| ofhce and there may be Republicans
from Crawford. John I. Matt, of Bed
ford, who stormed around when
Humes did not have the floor, is not
coming back, and neither is the vet
eran agriculturalist with keen tongue,
ii. Y. Snavely, of Lebanon. d. Lloyd
Claycomb. of Altoona, will not be
around. either. Plymouth w. Snyder,
of Blair, and w. H. Semmes, of Ale
gheny. will probably be in the Senate
Among the Bull Moosers the faces of
j. NJ. DeFrees, of Warren: John Rex,
OF Norristown. and G. A. Baldwin, of
Beaver, will be missing.
The list of nominating petitions filed
| diu not contain the names of some of
the leading men and just now folks on
| Capitol Hill are awaiting the official
returns to see how those who did file
/ Il
primaries. Judging from the few
county returns already in hand, it
| would appear that the next House will
contain rather large proportion of
| new faces. OF the veterans John NJ,
Flynn, of Elk, will not only be the
| oldest Democrat in point of service,
but the Father of the House." Flynn
has sat ever since the session of 1908.
Fred c. Ehrhardt, of Scranton, is the
| Oldest Republican in service, dating
from 1905. He had a hard fight for
denomination. If Dick Baldwin comes
| back 1t will be his sixth regular ses-
sion. Dirt Roads" Jones has been in
every session since 1907, so that he
is pretty we'll along in work, and so is
S. Is. Scott. the stormy petrol from
Germantown, who sat in 1907. Josiah
Howard goes back to 1905. Richard
Curry has been in the House for a
NUMBER of sessions, although he has a
preak OF two in his line, which began
back in 1901. Henry Gransback, of
Ph1ladelphfa, may be the oldest man
IN point of age in the next House.
He is also a former senator and has
sat IN the House for three sessions.
| 1t might be said in passing that of
the committee which investigated"
charges of lobbying and other things
only K. j. Baldwin, the versatile Della
"aie SouHtldn, seems at all likely to be
heard of next winter. Claycomb went
! down in his battle for denomination
and George A. Baldwin, the chairman
| OF the committee. laid off this time.
| IL is SAID he has ambitions to be Judge
OF his county. This committee used
| up some of the hottest days, from the
| STANDPOINT of temperature, last session
| and ran UP bills for witnesses and
expenses which have not been paid.
me report as made satisfied no one
and 1t is probable that there will be a
Iuss over the unpaid bills when the
next session starts. The whole matter
was started by George Baldwin and
he began it when the session was near
| its close. -'o'''
| IL mas always been more or less of a.
question why some of the leaders of
the last House have declined to con-
slider returning. Some have pleaded
business and that they can no longer
make the sacrifices required by legis-
IatlFe service. Such men can i'll be
spared. others have found the game
not what 1t was believed to be and still
| others have found their people not in
accord with their aspirations. A
| story going the rounds about one
| member is we'll worth repeating. IT
| appears that this man, one of the hest
VINO ever filled a legislative seat. and
that is saying something, was taken to
task one night and asked why he
would not stand for denomination.
| Well, he said. II happened to see
IN newspaper that one of my COL
leagues IN the last session had been
appointed tipstaff and the news
| paper in which 1 noted the item said
that his friends were delighted with
| his promotion"