Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-15
PENROSE PLANS
BILL TO MEET
VETO OF PROBE
will Ask Passage of Concur
rent Resolution to Inves- T
tigate Brumbaugh
nEsERTERS MAY BEAT 1T
Governors Attack When He Re-
(. jects Measure May Further
Weaken Senator's Position
BIZ a star Correspondent

HARRISBURG, Feb. 1.-THE Penrose
49,. todey began to line up votes In
S-.h the Senate and the House OF Repre-
2 ssntatiyes for the concurrent resolution Tor
= nrobe that will be introduced just as
,s,o, as Governor Brumbaugh has vetoed
me sproul prober that was nnaily passed
Nv the House yesterday.
I rbere is little doubt that the Governor
i-,,, veto the prober. and the Penrose House
- Sanate leaders feel that Brumbaugh
.rul place them at n disadvantage by ac-
rompanying his veto with long attack
s~ainst the factional spirit behind the
nrobe. and Offering to submit TO an in
y;stieation conducted along lines that will
i've 10 the probers an opportunity to dig
Sto the Affairs Of the Penrose faction as
ali az those Of the -Brumbaugh wing
q the party
The penrose leaders have found a strong
'ls,ntinent against the proposed substitute
srohe even among the members who are
Gassed as out.and-out Penrose followers.
MAY DEFEAT NEW BILL
Many Of the Senators and Representa-
ssves who voted for the Sproul measure feel
mai they have discharged their full obli-
cations TO the senior Senator. and IL they
vote the way they are talking now when
ne probe question comes before them again
they will defeat it,
The Sproul prober had only the narrow
set kind Of a majority in both branches,
the Senate passing 1t by a vote Of 29 to 10,
4 majority Of three. and the House Of
representatives by 10 to 80. which was
emily slY more than a constitutional ma
3ority.
Governor Brumbaugh will have plenty of
tme TO think over the prober before he
acts upon II.
Thanks to the Senate's haste in closing
M shop for the week while the final debate
on the Sproul probe resoiu;;on was on in
the House yesterday afternoon, it will be
next Tuesday, at the earliest, before the
measure reaches his desk 1t must first be
signed by the presiding officers OF both
branches and then sent TO the Secretary of
the Commonwealth to be certified.
The concurrent resolution which has been
drafted, and which the Penrose legislative
leaders decided to try to rush through the
General Assembly Immediately after the
Governor vetoes the first prober, is virtually
the same as the Sproul resolution. but it
does not carry with It any appropriation
The plan Of the Penrose forces is to have
the investigation financed privately.
The passage of a concurrent resolution
would be turning one Of Attorney General
Browns own weapons against himself.
Under the provisions of the State Constitu-
ton all concurrent resolutions must be
effect.
The Wares rushed through a resolution
-. for a Lexow commission last session and
the Attorney General, in order not to place
the Governor In embarrassing position.
made a ruling as legal officer of the State
that the Governor did not have to pass upon
concurrent resolutions, as they were not
3 legislation themselves. carried no approprla-
tons, and concerned only possible future
legislation.
WARE IN STATEMENT
State Senator Edwin H. Ware, of Phila-
oelphia, the principal ally of the Governor,
issued statement last night in comment
ing upon the passage of the Sproul prober,
IN which he declared that the vote shows
that no legislation can be passed by the
present Legislature without the co-opera-
tion of Governor Brumbaugh. Senator Ware
said:
THE vote on this factional investigation
resolution which has for its real purpose the
hamstringing of Governor Brumbaugh's nd
ministratlon and the holding of political
club over the heads OF every official in
every borough. city and township in the
entire State, clearly shows that there can
be no legislation of any kind enacted in
the present session without the co-opera
tion of Governor Brumbaugh and his
friends. If It had not been for the Demo-
cratic support given for the purpose of
stirring UP strife among the Republicans,
It would only have received twenty of the
nifty votes In the Senate. or six less than
the required majority, and only eighty-fo