Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-25
LOBBTES ARE READY
ASFLOODS OF BILLS
RISE AT HARRISBURG
Liquor Mems Representa-
tlves at Capital and Rail
road Employees Agents
Also Open Headquarters.
tFnoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT ]

| HARRISBURG, Jan. 25. - The Legis-
lature will settle down to the actual work
of the session when 1t reconvenes at Q
o'clock tonight. Both houses are now
completely organized, and ready for
business" This is the first week for the
consideration of legislation, and flood
of bills will begin to pour into the Senate
and House during the three days the two
branches will be in session this week.
Governor Brumbaugh's plea for less
legislation will have some effect on the
number of measures passed by the Legis-
lature, but 1t lie not expected to greatly
reduce in number the hundreds of bills
that members have planned to introduce
BY far the majority OF these proposed
measures are for sectional Legislation
Local option, child labor, employers liza
bility, workmen's compensation, good
roads, agriculture, education and the
other measures urged by the Governor
Brown, so that the former inconvenience
of dozens of bills being introduced for
each of the Statewide problems will
probably be avoided.
The first of the Brumbaugh Administra-
ton measures are expected to be intro
duced this week. These include child
labor, which will come up In the Senate
first, and agricultural legislation. Local
option, slated to be disposed of early
in the session, may also be introduced
in the House this week.
with the Legislature settling down tI
actual work, two powerful Hobbies are
already at work here. Neil Bonner, sec
retary of the Pennsylvania Retail Dealers
Association, is here with corps of as
sstants, fighting for the liquor interests.
The railroad employees of the State hava
opened headquarters, from which to di-
rect activities in behalf of railroad mems
interests.
They will make a vigorous effort to
prevent the repeal of the so-called full
crew act, passed by the Legislature in
1913, and will urge the enactment of sew
erRl measures which they will have intro
duced later in the session.
According to the railroad men, an eff
fort will be made by the railroads to
bring about the repeal of the full-crew
act, and the railroad mems lobby is
making canvas of the House and Senate
in an effort to prevent the repeal of
this law.
The full-crew act was bitterly opposed
in 1913 by the railroads, as 1t required
the railroad companies TO keep certain
number of men on each train. The rail-
roads, in their fight to repeal the act, are
contending that on trains of a certain
size a full crew is unnecessary.
A bill providing that an electric head
light be placed on each locomotive will
soon be introduced by the locomotive en-
gineers. The trainmen also have meas
ure requiring that distractions located
near railroad tracks be removed.
The bill requiring that man must
serve a certain term of service with a
railroad before he can be promoted to
the position Of engineer, which was de-
feated after bitter contest in the last
session. will again be introduced and
another bitter contest is anticipated when
the measure comes before the present
Legislature The trainmen contend that
in the event OF strike. any one. whether
he has had experience or not. can now
be placed in charge of locomotive.