Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Advocates of woman suffrage may
make their final effort in Legisla-
ture tonight and as an indication
that they do not expect to get very
far they have addressed a saluta-
tion from those about to die" to
Speaker Baldwin and members of the
lower house in which they are taken
to task for not passing the suffrage
legislation. The suffragists announce
that they intend to come back and
that legislators who oppose them
| Will have their own troubles.
The suffragists are understood to be
| planning to move to place upon the
| calendar Notwithstanding a negative
recommendation the Mitchell bill to
| permit women to vote at presiden-
| tial elections. The negative recon-
mendation was given by members OF
the judiciary special committee sign
ing up a report. Opponents of the
bill contend that II would do no good
to put 1t on the calendar as 1t would
be defeated in the windup.
The Mitchell bill is similar to the
bill presented in the Senate by Sena-
tor Ware and still in committee.
The dinner to Senator w. C.
Sproul tomorrow night continues to
attract attention and has caused
more speculation than any event in
State politics in a long time. The
general opinion is that 1t will mark
getting together and that the boom
or the Chester senator for governor
will be heard from. The senator
just smiles and will not talk.
The reappointment of Col.
Richard Coulter, Jr., or Greensburg,
as colonel of the Tenth regiment, has
revived talk of him as Democratic
candidate for governor.
Deaths are announced of EX-
Congressman A. l.. Kiester, of Scott
dale, and EX-District Attorney w. A.
Blakely of Pittsburgh. Both were
men of wide influence and much in
State affairs.
Warren Van Dyke, secretary of
the Democratic State committee, has
been visiting friends among post
masters in Western Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia Ledger in re-
viVinG reports that Penrose and ad-
ministration people have reached an
agreement on appointments on a
fifty fifty" basis says: "Penrose
leaders are freely giving Senator
Ware credit for the smoothing of
the way for a probable harmonious
ending of the Assembly. They point
to his work in forming a State War
Board and now to his dinner for
Senator Sproul. 1t is known that
Senator Ware would also like to
honor Senator Grow, as we'll as Sena-
tor Sproul, in some signal manner.
Both Sproul and Grow, along with
Lieutenant Governor McClain and
Auditor General Snyder, are being
considered for the harmony nomina-
ton for governor.
The Boyer bill providing for
elective school boards in Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh bids fair to be
as much a cause for physical strife
as the various Philadelphia bills in
the Legislature. At the hearing held
on the bill in Philadelphia on Satur-
day the board was attacked as COM
posed of unprogressive old men and
defended with as much vigor. The
next hearing is set for Pittsburgh on
Thursday.
The Philadelphia Republican or
sanization has come out with en-
dorsement of the reelection of
Judges Bergy, McMichael, Ferguson.
Stake, Audenreid and Monaghan, of
the common pleas bench and Judges
Anderson and Lamorelle, of the
orphans court bench. Democrats
will probably not make much of an
effort against them. IT does not mat
ter anyway.
-Schuylkill county Democrats are
getting ready to boom Judge Bechtel,
of Pottsville, for reelection. They
have formed Il countrywide club
without assistance from the Demo-
cratic State windmill
Judge Butler, of Chester county,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer has
conceded a reelection.
There are only a few hearings
scheduled for this week. One will
be the final session of the Philadel-
phia transit situation tomorrow be-
fore a Senate committee and hear
ing on the bill to bar children under
sixteen from moving picture thea
ters. Another sign of the closing up
of the session is that the Public
Charities Association has suspended
publication of its bulletin. Various.
other activities are being closed up.
Capitol Hill is suffering from
some trepidation over the general
appropriation bill and it looks as
though there would be delays in pay
ments in June as occurred in 1913
and 1915 because of the lateness of
approval of the bill.
The right of the governor to
appoint the secretary of agriculture
is preserved in the Lohr bill to abol-
ish the State Commission of Agricul-
ture and substitute therefor the ex-
ecutve committee of the State board
of Agriculture. The original bill took
away the right of the governor to
appoint but it was represented that
such an enactment would be follow
ed by a veto.