Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-23

Dauphn county CouI'7' II '"o' ''-'''' 10
found to be advisable
THE Senate Appropriations Committee,
.rhicb has charge Of the sproul resolution,
!. composed OF forty-three members, SEN
..,r Edward h. Bedleman, president pro
80, being ain ex-oflicio member. There are
s.venteen staunch TFnrose members and
,,,e democrats on It,
rho, is the situation today, while the
.h,os tonic of capital gossip is the revea-
,ion Of the Governors State-paid personal
.x,ense account, which, it Is believed, viii
anure in the Investigation. This was fore
oas, with the arrival of Speaker Baldwin
- his charge that the state is paying
,,s ooo more a year for the comforts and
,,oaspres of Governor Brumbaugh than it
noid for any other chief Executive
The working of the resolution Has also
teen many penrose members Of the Legis-
iature doubt as to whether or not it is
sincere. ~
soctions. which will decide whether or not
tbe investigation Will be pushed to a finish
o senator Penrose says 1t will be, will prob
htv come when one of the two bills state
senator and Auditor General-elect charles
SNYDER will introduce today come up for
vote in both houses.
SNYDERS BILLS
Senator Snyder has drafted one bill that
,ouId place the power of appointing the
orcontIle appraisers in Philadelphia under
tbe Auditor General alone. At present they
ore eppointed Jointly by the Auditor Gen.
sral and the City Treasurer of Philadel-
mia who is a Ware man. and who can
guarantce at least'a compromise.
The other Snyder bill aims 10 carry out
. penrose threat to shear Attorney Gen
,,f his The measure
would abolish the power bestowed upon
hi,n by the Legislature of 1915 TO appoint
special deputy attorney generals at VIII to
handle the various cases that come under
his jurisdiction. -,
The bills probably will he rushed through
the Senate and into the House, 50 that the
respective strength of the two factions can
easily be determined
The penrose investigation resolution, or
rather the Sproul resolution, provides for
an appropriation of $4,000 for expenses
That provision is regarded as the snake
In the grass
ANY measure that comes before the Legis-
lature carrying with it an appropriation
must have a two-thirds vote of both houses
before II can pass.
Neither faction has two-thtrds vote in
,elther the Senate or House. apparently, and
the Ware Brumbaugh leaders say the in
yestigaton resolution was drafted to carry
the the appropriation with 1t, simply lor
the purpose of covering up
They are also pointing to the fact that
the Penrose floor leader in the House, Rep
fesentative Frederick Boyer, of Philadel-
phia led the fight last night for postponing
indefinitely the Sarg resolution backed by
the Democrats, for complete investigation
of the charges made by DOth FACTIONS during
the speakership fight
The Sarig resolution. after heated
debate between Representatives Sarig ana
Boyer, was indefinitely postponed by vote
OF 100 to 80. -
The Ware -Brumbaugh leaders are assert
ing today that the entire campaign of
Senator Penrose is for publicity and they
say they are mot worrying
Senator Edwin II. Ware, the principal
supporter of the Governor discussing the
Penrose moves for an investigation, said
THE higher they take this investigation,
the lower they will fall"
The Penrose resolution was referred to
the Appropriations Committee, of which
Senator Clarence j. Blckman, of Bucks, is
expected to be chairman.
That committee will not organize until
this afternoon at least Should the measure
be reported back next week, 1t must come up
on three separate days in the Senate, and
then go to the House, where 1t must lie
over until the following week before any
action at all can be taken upon it, This
procedure can be followed only If there
is no delay in placing the measure farther
up on the calendar each day.
ton as follows:
"A splendid conglomeraton of the Eng.
lsh language"
BOTH SIDES SEE FLAWS
The measure is full of flaws, according
to leaders of both sides. The Ware Brum-
baugh leaders point out that 1t names no
particular State officials departments,
but deals merely with series of general
charges against public officers"
'b. De, Loo tl,a han nt,I
declare that it gives the commission power
to investigate any one from a constable to
the Governor.
The resolution differs radically from that
passed by the House in 1901, which created
o commission 10 investigate the charges of
bribery made in connection with the elec-
ton of Matthew Stanley Quay to the United
States Senate, and to report to the Iegis-
lature upon the feasibility of the McCar-
rel bill throwing the prosecution of the
men named in the report of the committee
to jury.
The vouchers for the amounts the State
has paid for the Governors expenses in ex-
cess Of his salary of $4,000 year show
that the public has met the bill for vir-
tualy his every expense except clothing.
Pressing and repairing his clothing, food,
gasoline, travelling expenses, hotel bills,
meal tickets, books, magazines and news
papers, cigars and hospitality are included.
The Auditor Generals office has file the
vouchers Tor the personal expenses Whlch
were taken from a fund of $50. 900 appropri-
ated by the last Legislature, which is dis
bursed under what is known as the Execu-
tive Mansion account
GOVERNOR REPLIES
Governor Brumbaugh this afternoon de-
elared that the bills he incurred as Governor
for luxuries i'm the executive mansion and
Tor his personal expenses, as published to-
DAY were "in every respect regular and
honest"
The charges that he has been spending
he States money for personal use will
not be taken seriously" he added.
Auditor General Powell, who 20, KID"
lhe vouchers for the Governors vacation
ulps' cigars magazines books, taxcabs,
etc, came to the defense of the Governor
with a statement that hey were not eX
ofbltant or unreasonable
state Senator William c. Sproul, of Della
ware County, who is a candidate 10 sue
eeed Brumbaugh as chief executive said
mat the bills exceed the limits of good
TASTE State Senator Edwin II. Ware de-
enned to discuss the disclosures.
me Governor issued his statement in
answer TO the disclosures after he had left
the meeting of tha Ctata E(oard of