Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-26
FIRST BILLS FROM
SALUS AND RONEY
They We're Presented Last Night
and VIII Get the No. l Mark
For This Session
GOSSIP OF THE LEGISLATURE
Germantown Man Gets Into the
LimeHght With a Battlefield
Monument Bill

Senator ;. w. Salus, Philadelphia,
had the honor of introducing the first
bill of the session in the Senate and
Representative Roney in the House
The first Senate bill was for a Phila-
delphia appropriation and Mr.. Roneys
was for constitutional convention.
The House received more bills than
usual for the first night, over twenty
appropriation bills being put in. The
bills were all referred to committees
to-day by Speaker Amber and those
for the appropriations committee were
Immediately docketed by MIR. Wood
ward MIR. Woodward called his COM
mittee together this morning and ad-
dressed them on the task before them.
He expects to see the Governor and
Chairman Buckman, of the Senate
committee, at once about the WORK.
The bills are going to be held within
the revenue. Mr.. Woodward did this
in previous sessions.
-Ex-Representative C. +. Swift, of
Beaver, now connected with the Anti
Saloon League, was about the House
last night
Representative Hibschman. of
Lancaster, chairman of the House
committee on agriculture, was granted
leave of absence because of illness.
Prominent mine workers VINO are
here for the conference on legislation,
were among visitors to the House last
evening.
Representative A. C. Stein, of AL
legheny, said that he had the bill for
compensation drafted by the State In
dustrial Accidents commission and
planned to present it next week. He
will consult with Governor Brum-
baugh about il.
Senator Crow returned last night
from Uniontown where he has been
since the receiverships began to be
put out.
A photographer bombarded the
House taking pictures last night. He
caught Col. Adams, of the Coldstream
Guards. first Of ALL
Germantown folks don't like the
monument which a State Commission
erected in Vernon Park to commem-
crate the Battle of Germantown, and
there is a strong feeling among them
that the monument is unfinished ana
inadequate. 1t is a stone tablet of
about twelve feet in height, with let
tering on it telling about the happen
ings on that famous day and year
when Washington's army met the
British red coats and bullets flew thick
around the Chew mansion. The dis
Senting GermantownerS. however,
| think, that the monument should pay
more honor to the Continental SOL
diers and that a figure of Continen-
| tai soldier should surmount the monu-
ment. There is a fiat space on top OF
| the tablet which would accommodate
such a figure. and they want il put
! there. Therefore, Senator owen b.
jenkins, who is serving his first term
/ as the Senatorial representative of
Germantown, has at their behest
drawn up a bill providing that the
State make a further appropriation to
! put the figure of a Continental soldier
atop the monument. Senator Jenkins
introduced the measure to-day, it be-
/ ing among his maiden efforts in the
| way of new laws.
Democratic members of the
/ House did not show much interest IN
the proposed Democratic legislative
program last night and the absence OF
bosses who were so conspicuous last
session was much commented upon.
Milton W. Lowry, prominent
Scranton man. is here to attend the
State College trustees meeting.
Senator Moses f. Clapp will ad-
dress a public meeting in the House
| tonight on woman suffrage. He
comes by invitation of the Woman
Suffrage Association.
Governor Brumbaugh will have a
conference with the auditor general,
State treasurer and the chairmen OF
the appropriations committees this
week regarding the finances. An eff
fort to find out how much can be ap-
propriated.
The bill of Mr.. Milliron. Arm
strong, presented last night, Is
squelcher for fusion. A man cannot
be a candidate of any party except
that of which he is bona fide MEM
Der if the act goes through. 1t Will
end the practice of men being on half
dozen tickets.
Representative Samuel ]. Perry,
of Philadelphia, the author of the box
ing bill of last session, plans to intro
duce it again this year. Mr.. Perry
would have the authorities issue per-
mits for fights and control them in ths
interest of sport.
The move engineered against the
Public Service Commission by the
Home League. which appears to have
it's handspring in Allegheny county,
came to the surface last night in bills
to abolish the commission and to re-
strict its powers. The opinion among
Legislators was that the league was
after commissioners rather than the
commission.
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