Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-25
COMPENSATION IS
To co SMOOTHLY
Amendments Have Been Gone
Over and Bill VIII Come Out
Next Tuesday Afternoon
CHILD LABOR AGREEMENT
Governor Shows That He Is Will
ing to Meet the Manufacturers
More Than Half Way
CHILD LABOR AGREEMENT


| leaders have given the Governor to-
understand that they are for it and the
measure which is in sufficiently COM
plete shape to permit of its being re-
ported out at the next meeting of the
| judiciary general committee of the
House which will be held next Tues
day. Last night Representative Will
| liam II. Wilson, Philadelphia, chair
man of the judiciary general COM
mittee, went over with Attorney Gen
| cral Brown the amendments proposed
at the hearing of the Brumbaugh bill
given by the committees of the Senate
and House in the hall of the House on
Tuesday afternoon.
The Attorney General declined to
| comment upon the disposition that
would be made of the proposed
changes and notifications, except TO
reiterate his observation made at the
public hearing, which was that pride
of opinion on his part would not stanl
in the way of meeting the just and
reasonable objections urged against
the administration measure"
Popular Support
| 1t was declared to-day that Sena-
tor William T.. Crow, chairman of the
Republican State committee, and Sena-
tors McNichol and Ware, Philadelphia.
had agreed that Attorney General
| Brown had whipped the proposed
compensation act into the shape that
made 1t acceptable to them and to
other Republican senators. A factor
that had considerable weight in de-
Gliding the Republican organization
senators to fall in behind the Cover
nor's compensation bill was the action
OF number of large employers in
withdrawing their opposition. These
acceptances were for the most part
unexpected and led both the Cover
nor and Attorney General Brown to
carry their policy of compromise and
cancellation to a length that they
would otherwise not have been dis
posed to do.
Not only was this the case, but the
Governor and Mr.. Brown declared that
they were prepared to meet all classes
OF employers half way in the matter
or adjusting points in dispute, provid-
ing only that the changes asked for did
not impair the character of the pro-
posed act to the degree of making it
a sham and a farce.
No More Hearings
Confidence in the "acceptance" of
the compensation measure has reach
ed the stage where it is asserted that
another public hearing will not be
necessary. Amendments not made in
committee Will be made upon the floor
OF the House, as it is not probable that
q measure made up of seven separate
bills viii come before the House in
perfect form from the judiciary gem
eral committees hands.
The Governors BILL however will be
subjected to an unusually thorough
scrutiny and revision after it is print
ed, consequently it will probably be
freer of typographical errors than IS
usual with measure of it's size.
Governor Brumbaughs reliance up
on the support of Republican senators
is such that he has turned his at
oh lnlN I.
duced in the House by Representative
Edwin r. Cox, Philadelphia, and with
q determination to diSarm opposition
not by welding the big stick" but
with course of Cancellation similar to
that which he believes has won the
necessary support for his compensa-
ton bill.
To Discuss Bill
The Governor stated yesterday aft
lernoon that he would meet representa-
ltlVe manufacturers at the Bellevue
| lStratford next Saturday and take IN
with them the objections raised against
his child labor act. Governor Brum-
baugh removed at least one stumbling
block in the way of an agreement"
Yesterday afternoon by declaring that
his attitude as regards the child labor
question was precisely that adopted by
Attorney General Brown towards
workmenS compensation, that he had
! nv PIiuc VI OplHlOn, DuJ was oil an
! open mind to accept suggestions"
The Governor in the course of an
IirterView with newSpapermen said:
| Il Will meet some of the manufac-
turers at the Bellevue -Stratford Satur-
day morning at RI O'clock and explain
the continuation school features of tho
child labor bill. If they have any Dro-
position that is fair and workable and
will make the bill better than it is. I
certainly have an open mind in the
matter. But they must remember that
| the time has come in PENNSYLVANIA
when we must have an advanced child
labor law which will be fair to the
children am perfectly confident that
we will get it.
| 4 Historic Fight
! NO concessions will be maze in the
matter of hours. That has been set
tiled by competent medical opinion. by
the judgment of people who have
studied the subject, and it is no long
er n matter of debate. | shall stand
by the hours in the Cox bill
80 far as the age limit is concern
ed, there is no disagreement about
that, so far as l have been able to
discover.
THE passage of the Cox bill will
mean the opening of a new kind of
school for every working child in the
State. OF course, we do not expect the
continuation school to be a complete
success at once, but the way to get the
continuation school is to get it, The es-
Establishment of the continuation schools
will be the second great educational
step in the history of the State. There
will be opposition to it-that is the
story of all progress. There was op-
position to the first great step, which
was the opening of the public schools
TO all the children of the State. That
was in 1884. Two years later an at.
tempt was made to repeal that act.
= but one Thaddeus Stevens stood up
against his party and won the fight
against the repeater. We would new
er get the continuation school If we
waited upon the manufacturers. They
have had generations in which to es-
tablish these schools, and now it is
iup to the State"
Ware For Governor
Senator Crow gave this version of
his talk with the Governor on the child
labor bill:
II pointed out that the passage of a
child labor bill was not only a pledge
in the Governors platform. but in the
platform of the Republican party as
well. / stated my belief that the re-
demption of pledge was a compara-
tive matter. and that, while a child In =
bor bill should be passed, Il was n
question as to what details should go
into the bill.
II told the Governor that, under the
circumstances. IL would be the height
, Of fOliV tO renOrt the hill out ~ fbto