Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-17
ACTIVITIES IN THE LEGISLATURE
FINAL WEEK HAS
LIGHT CALENDARS
Signs Are That the Close of the
Session VIII Be Marked by
Easy Sailing

The fna week of Pennsylvania's
one hundred and t~wenty-irst Legis-
lature will begin tonight with the
highest calendars known for the last
Monday of a session in a long time.
The session is to end on Thursday ana
prospects are that it will be al easy
finish. Very few conference commit
tees are in sight and legislative leaders
declare that they do not see much
that will be likely to cause friction.
Bills that do not get through first read
ing in one branch after having passed
the other will be as good as dead to-
night when the gavels fall. This con-
dition will cause senators to get their
bills into the House as early as pos
sible this evening, while the repre-
sentatives will pay a good bit of atten-
ton to the Senate
The workmen's compensation bill is
due to come out of committee o-night
and will be on third reading with pros
poets of passage tomorrow.
The other important administration
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anthracite coal tax. stock transfer tax,
100000 appropriation to vocational
schools to aid in making the school
features of the child labor act effective,
proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition to issue $50, OOO. 900 worth of
bonds for highway improvement, Civ
ing the Attorney General control of all
-. aln Cfafn nnd
the escheat bill. With the exception
of the last two measures the program
is in good shape.
The more important bills the Gov
ernor has got through are child LABOR,
r-eorganizing the Agricultural Depart
ment, reorganiZing the Highway De-
partment, State fire insurance fund,
counties to pay the cost of the prl-
maries, relatives who are financially
able to pay for the cost of keeping in
ane in the aSylumS and u commission
TO investigate the increased price of
anthracite Goa His most important
defeats were local option and the add
tional tax on automobiles.
The important House bills pending
on the Senate calendar are workmens
compensation, anthracite coal tax, sec
ond class city single tax repeater, wal
ton third class city amendments, equal
rights bill for negroes, consolidation of
Western and Eastern Penitenttaries.
appropriation to carry on the work of
building the new Western Peniten-
tiary in Centre county. an amendment
TO the parole law and regulating the
work of Convicts on the roads. The
Dauphin third Judge bill is the only
one on the postponed calendar.
The Senate bills that have no hope
of getting through unless they are
passed tonight and sent over to the
House in time to be read there before
the Monday session adiournS are: Pro-
Niding that all books, accounts and pa
pers in any department of the state or
local governments, except police and
law departments, would be open to
public inspection; regulating the occu-
patton of horseshoeing by establishing
a state examining board; permitting
the Industrial board of the Department
of Labor and Industry to subdivide the
one-day rest in seven for females into
two half days; providing for in
stallation and maintenance of tenders
on motor vehicles; requiring pro-
prietors of all places used in selling,
storing and repairing motor vehicles
in first and second class cities to report
daily to the police the name, makers
number, license number and owner of
all motor vehicles in their charge, and
providing for a, branch state capitol
commission to consider the feasibility
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The important Senate bills pending
on the House calendar are: To give the
Republicans first place on the ballot
and change the time for election of
national committeeman; appropriating
S7,l00, 900 to the Highway Depart
ment; proposed amendment to the
Constitution voting $50, 600, 900 for
highway Improvement; taxing stock
transfers; increasing the powers and
employees of the State Fire Marshal;
second class city police pension fund
female watchers for the woman suf-
frage amendment: authorizing the
State Board of Education to report to
the Governor on ACCESSIBILITY of erect
ing an educational building in Harris
burg as a memorial to the founders
of the public school SYSTEM; allowing
the judge to use his discretion as to
whether the penalty for murder will
be death or life imprisonment; fixing
the responsibility and method of set
tltng damages for fires started by rail
road locomotives; reducing the capita
stock tax on mercantile corporations
paying a mercantile license tax from
mills to | mill; requiring the Auditor
General TO pay appropriations to in
situations receiving State aid in adj
vance of h beginning of a quarter:
authorizing cities to regulate %jitneys;
fixing the method of sale of bonds
issued by counties and cities; increas-
ing the salary of the superintendent of
State police from SO, 900 to $4,000 and
increasing the salaries of his deputy
n office force; authorizing the Gov
ernor to appoint a commission to de-
termine the practicability of a brick
making plant at the new p~enitentiary
IN Centre county, the brick to be used
in building highways.
The Moore bill. which would au-
thorize counties to construct trunk
line sewers and sewage DISPOSAL plants
has passed the Senate and is up tc
hnal passage in h House. The county
commissioners would be authorized tc
levy a 2-mill tax for the purpose. Thu
county could constitute one sewer dis.
trict or 1t could be divided.
There are a number of House bills
That have to be gotten to the Senate
before it adjourns to-night-if they AIRS
to have a chance.