Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-21
NEW GOVERNOR IS
WORKING ON PLANS
Intends to Have Them Ready For
Incorporation Into Bills Within
the Next Month
NO APOLOGIES TO MAKE
DR.. Brumbaugh Says That He Is
Not Thinking of Washington
Trains Nowadays

Governor Martin u. BruInDauSn Is
going to follow his own inaugural pre-
cepts in regard to eXpediting legisla-
tive work and no time will be lost in
drafting the bills to carry his ideas in
to effect, local option included. The
Governor is having studies made OF
the principles underlying the big pro-
positions which he set forth in his ad-
dress on Tuesday and they will be
embodied in bills which will be in the
hands of legislative committees within
month. The drafts of some of the
bills are said to have been made and
the Governor will be ready next week,
in all probability, to talk over matters
with the joint committee to carry out
platform bills.
Speaking to newspapermen for
the first time since his Inauguration
yesterday afternoon the new Governor
said that he was giving more atten-
tion TO his legislative plans than to
appointments and criticisms or praises
of what he had done in that line and
that he had not taken up the matter
of more appointments or those made
by his predecessors. He said that he
was aware of constitutional rights of
the Senate and the Governor and that
he had not read the address of Lieu
tenant Governor Frank Il. McClain.
The suggestion that he might find GUS
toms in regard to addresses at Wash
Harrisburg he met by saying: Just
now 1 am not thinking of taking any
train out of Pennsylvania"
The new Governor was much in
terested in the revenues to be appro
priated and said that he would make
a study of the prospective income for
the next two years and would make
an effort to verify statements made
about the difference that may exist
between those of the next two years
and the preceding biennial period.
I'VE must cut the garment according
to the cloth or else get new cloth" was
his way of putting it. On the ques-
tion OF a constitutional convention the
Governor made this statement: You
can change the constitution by con-
vention or by amendment"
1t is very apparent that DR..
Brumbaugh is going to start out to get
his legislation framed early and to
have it well discussed and then gone
Skunk Brown. Then he will follow
out his ideas about the executive and
the legislative branches OF the gov
ernment.
People about the Legislature who
saw something in the makeup of the
House committee on law and order are
1 lllt VI biiS
members of the House rules commit
tee which was announced to-day. This
committee is composed of Speaker
Amber. eX-officio: Il. E. Jones, Sus-
quehanna; Viellerman, Allegheny;
Whitaker, Chester; w. II. Wilson,
Philadelphia, and Shaffer, Columbia.
The latter is a Democrat. This COM
mittee is all powerful as it makes the
rules for the House and 1t is said that
1t stands five to one in favor of the
"drys." This means the local option
bill will not be hampered while in the
House. The law and order commit
tee is now said to be fourteen to eleven
in favor of the "drys," which means
that it will also have plain sailing in
the committees. The Senate commit
tee is ten to one for the "wets."
The Antisaloon League people,
who have turned in behind Governor
Brumbaugh, are claiming greater
strength than in the last House and
so are the antilocal optionists. Local
option people say that if they can get
| thirty-four votes they can pass the
bill and the strong declaration of the
Governor in favor of local option is
counted upon to bring some of the nee
| essary number into the fold. The bill
| is scheduled to be presented in a fort
| night and no time will be lost by the
committee in getting it before the
House. The chances are that it will be
acted upon earlier than has been the
case in the last three sessions.