Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-23
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By the Ex-Committeeman

over half of the bills on third
reading on the calendar of the
House of Representatives for Mon
day night, the first session of the
last week of the session of 1917, are
House bills, and after Monday there
will be no chance of any House bills
being acted upon in time to pass the
Senate. AS result many of the bills
on the House calendar will die and
some of the more important ones
will be imperiled unless special or
ders are made for their consideration
or there is limitation of debate.
Efforts to bring about special cal
endar of the more important bills
are under way.
The Senate calendar contains few
bills, compared to the House calen-
dar, and 1t has practically cleared
all of its own bills from it's list, hav-
ing sent them to the House earlier
in the week.
The House calendar contains 290
bills, of which 266 are on third read
ing. OF this number 162 are House
bills, fifty-one of the latter being for
new highway routes. There are
thirty-four bills either on special
calendars as revenue or appropria-
tions bills or on the postponed lists.
Blanks are being prepared at
the Department of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth for nomination
petitions for judicial candidates of
whom there will be a large number
this year. There are over a score of
judicial seats to be filled and nine
teen associate judges terms also ex-
pire. The period for circulating pc
titions will begin early in July and
forty days will be allowed to secure
signers.
Judging from what the Philadel-
phia newspapers are printing, the de-
velopment in regard to the Senate
transit bills are likely to be cause
for quite a factional outbreak in
the closing days of the Legislature.
Things are in bad enough shape In
the House anyway because of the
condition of the calendar and the fill
ibusters against the act to suspend
the full crew bill, the differences
over the compensation amendments
and similar measures and the
chances are that unless some agree
ment is made regarding considera-
ton of various bills that there will
be endless debating on Monday night
instead of any real progress.
The Philadelphia Ledger says
that Mayor Smith considers that "a
political issue" has been made out of
the kidnapping" of the bills by Rep
resentative Aron and that he pro-
poses to fight for the bills. Repre-
sentative Aron refused to give up the
bill to Representative Glass as order
ed to do in a letter sent by Chairman
Stern, of the committee in charge,
and stated that he would act prompt
ly on Monday. Glass made a blister
ing attack on Stern and all hands
seem to be issuing statements
David II. Lane, sponsor for Aron,
said that some of the charges were
"tommyrot."
Newspapers of the State outside
Of Philadelphia are not showing
much excitement over the "kidnap-
ing" In Scranton they are all discus
sing the plan to end the mine cave
nuisance and the chances are that
there will not be much more heard
on the question in the Legislature.
1t is probable that men interest
ed in attacking the constitutionality
of the act making Clinton county a
separate judicial district will take 1t
to the Supreme Court
Judge c. c. Evans, of the Colum-
bia county courts, has been endorsed
for reelection by the Columbia
County Sabbath School Association.
Mayor Kosek, of Wilkes-Barre,
who has been more or less of storm
center in political affairs, is now en-
gagged in a controversy with the Gov
ernor over the draft boards. He says
that he was ignored and that he does
not propose to allow the Governor to
insult" him.