Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-26
THRONES COMING
FOR LEGISLATURE
Hotel Reservations Have Been
Made For Many Men Prominent
in States Affairs
INAUGURAL PLANS MOVE
Many Clubs Will Be Represented in
the Procession in Honor of
the Big Event

Hotel reservations for the first half
of the week of January 8 indicate that
there will be almost as many people
in Harrisburg for the start of the leg
islative session as for the inaugural
ceremonies q fortnight later. Every
one of the larger hotels has a big list
of reservations commencing with New
Years Day and extending until the
day following the organization of the
Legislature. The names on the lists
are not only of members of the GEN
eral Assembly, but of men prominent
in politics all over Pennsylvania, Re-
publicans, Democrats and Bull Moos-
ers. Representatives of the Woman
Suffrage Association, State Federation
of Labor and Railroad Brotherhood
organizations have also reserved quar-
ters.
Headquarters will be opened on
the Saturday preceding the gathering
Richard j. Baldwin has taken rooms
in the Commonwealth Hotel, which
have been used for headquarters for
many contests. and Charles A. Amber
will have quarters in the same place.
Rooms have been reserved by several
of the other aspirants, including Henry
l. w liSOl, VI JclleISOHt X. 11aDSOOu,
of Mexican, and G. w. Williams, Tioga,
although they do not call them head
quarters.
1t is the belief that the Legisla-
ture will be in session only one day in
the first week and that it will adjourn
until January II, after organizing, re-
ceiving the farewell message of the
Governor, listening to reports by vari-
Gus commissions and providing for
the inauguration by naming a commit
tee of which Edward T.. Beidleman, of
this city, will be the chairman. The
caucus meetings will be held on the
evening of Monday, January 8, at the
Capitol.
About the Capitol it is gossip that
efforts may be made to fix a date
earlier than April 10 for adjournment.
In addition to the big Philadelphia
clubs and the Harrisburg clubs which
will participate in the Inauguration
parade there will be large delegations
of marcherS from Fayette. Montgom-
cry, Chester and Lehigh in the pro-
cession. Steps are also being taken to
| have Huntingdon and Blair counties
| represented. The Fayette organizations
will come with Senator w. T.. Crow,
the State chairman. 1t is also posi-
BILE that a Pittsburgh club may attend.
lretary of State William Jennings Bryan
is getting ready to retire.
The fight on the Pennsylvania
postmastership appointments worked
out by the Palmer machine will be
Presumed at Washington next week
w. G.. O'Malley. late candidate
| for Mayor of Scranton, will be named
as county tax collector of Lackawanna
james Fl. Maurer, head of the
| State Federation of Labor, announces
/ that he has several amendments to
the third class city law which he will
press. One will simplify the refer
endum.
| A Washington dispatch says: "The
next fight of national interest before
Congress will be the vote on the
woman suffrage amendment on Janu-
airy 10. This resolution, il is believed
will be defeated in the House by q
vote about the same as that which was
cast on the prohibition resolution. The
| resolution will not receive a majority
of the vote cast. according to Mrs. Ar
thur NJ. Dodge, of New York, president
/ of the National Association Opposed
/ to Woman Suffrage, who has haC
three men at work for several days
taking a poll of the entire member.
ship of the House, in order to deter.
mine accurately the attitude of eacf
! one of the lawmakers on this question
According to the poll, the Penn
sylvania delegation stands as follows
For = Ware, Edmonds. Donohoe
Logue, Butler, Diefenderfer, Griest
Farr. Ainey, Kiess. Kreider. Bailey
Brodbeck, Patton. Keiser, Carr. Tenn.
lple, Shreve, Palmer, Hulings, Porter
Kelly, Rupley. Walters, Lewis.
Against-Graham, Casey, Rother
mel, Lesher, Langham, Burke, Barch
field, Norm.
committal-Lee, Dershem.
Fewer experienced lawmakers viii
sit in the next State House of Repre-
sentatives than at any session in tn,
last quarter of a century, according
to eX-Representative George w. Al
len, of Allegheny county, who bring.
out in an analysis worked up through
ipersonal correspondence with every
one of the 207 members-ele In hii
data, made public to-day, he show!
that only rs of the 207 members o.
the next House served in previous ses
sions, and that only sc of these served
through the session of 1918. There
will be 129 members without previou,
/ legislative experience, or 60 per cent
of the entire membership, and there
will be 141 members, or 30 per cent
of the whole, who were not member:
of the session of two years ago.
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