Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-01
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Legislature and be thorough in its OPP
GRAFTON. From the Executive Mansion
| last night came the statement that no
one had had the "temerity' to suggest
| that the Governor remove Attorney
General Brown in order to avoid
the lightning. Western Pennsylvania
Democrats began to boom Colonel
Richard Coulter. of Greensburg, as a
/ candidate for Governor.
The general impression is that the
| Sproul resolution will be much dis
| cussed in formal and informal confer
ences the next few days in Philadel-
| phia, but that the efforts of some men
who have been endeavoring to get the
warning factions to agree on a pro-
| tocol will be unavailing. PenroSe men
this morning claimed that there would
| be over thirty votes for the resolution
in the Senate on Monday night, which
| was disputed by administration men,
who were talking of how they had
blocked the plan and would force their
own scheme with the assistance OF the
| Democrats.
Some of the newspapers appear to
! be just waking up to the plan to have
| the Legislature take recesseS to allow
the Governor to act on appropriation
| bills and to permit the investigation to
| be reported upon from time to time.
| The Penrose statement to the In
quirer is one of the most terrific slams
| he has given the administration and it
is interesting to note in connection
\ with it that he says he does not think
| the Governor was approached to sac
| rifice the Attorney General in order to
halt the investigation. The Philadel-
phia North American prints a very
circumstantial story of how the Gov
ernor was approached. but it does not
/ square with the denial from the Man
| sion.
Senator Penrose said:
The probe will go on. There will
be no halting or compromise. If 1
thought there was any doubt about
the passage of the resolution calling
for an investigation | would go/ to
| Harrisburg and ask the privilege of
| addressing the Senate and the House
| in joint session. When | would get
through with my staten cnts of fact l
| do not believe there would be a single
member of the entire Legislature who
would have the temerity to vote
| against the resolution calling for a
probe of the Brumbaugh admins
| tration.
"Of course everybody recognizes that
| the Brum baugh administration is
wreck, and that a logical thing would
be to get rid of Brown as salvage. You
will recall that Jonah was tossed to
the whale. The Attorney Generals
| department is the rottenest in the
whole administration, and should
| Brown go, that would. as matter of
course, have it's effect upon the in
vestigation TO some extent Browns
relations with the Governor have been
such that possibly the Governor may
| take some time to think over propo-
Sition to remove him.
Il have been informed that the tele-
| phone bills and mileage used by State
| employees in the several political con-
lob lNa,t nj
istration has been engaged have cost
| the State not less than $4,000, and
| probably this may reach 100000 for
these items alone. When the inVeSti-
eating committee shall be organized it
will be possible to get the bills for long
| distance telephone calls and the names
of the parties that were called up in
the various congressional districts and
! legislative districts, not only when
! Brumbaugh was making a campaign
for delegates to the national conven-
| ton as u presidential candidate, but
in the recent effort OF the admins
| tration to get control of the organ
ization of the Legislature. Factory in
spectors and other employees of various
| departments of the State were sent up
and down the commonwealth osten-
sibly upon public business, but actually
working on campaign schemes of the
Brumbaugh political combination"
| Little concern was expressed by
Mayor Smith yesterday over the pos
| sibilitieS that the Legislature probe of
the Brumbaugh administration might
be extended to cover his own and
other municipal offices, more particu-
larly his connection with the Thomas
B. Smith Company, which has exc
cuted much bonding business for the
| city of Philadelphia.
I'm not talking about anything like
that yet said the mayor. IF have
any statement to make. it will have to
come later" said he.
Congressman Rowland declares in
answer to the Tobias suit to contest
the election in his district that there
was nothing to the Democratic howl
about corruption.
-EX-M Mayor Jones. of Coatesville,
having been acquitted, will now run
again. The ousting of Jones and his
trial have cost thousands of dollars.
Third class city members are get
ting ready to secure quick action on
the city solicitors bill to fill vacancies
in council. There is a general de-
mand for it.
Democratic members of the Leg
islature We're guests of the Central
Democratic club at the annual pig
roast and there was considerable gos-
sip about the attitude of the minority
in the Legislature. From all that can
be learned the Democrats are going to
be strong for the probe and will vote
for it after some backing and filling
in order to get their desires on record
In the Senate the Democratic Senators
are expected to line up for the probe
with the possible exception of one, and
in the House after an attempt to
amend the resolution so as to embody
some ideas of the ringmasters, the
Democrats will vote for the probe
rather than see it fall.
-Senator-elect William Beales, of
the Adams district, seems to be at
tracing much attention as some men
have just found out that he is still q
congressman and that he will serve
out the term for which he was elected
and then become a senator.
The proposition of Henry A.
Bomberger to have State conference
of "Progressives" does not seem to
be as popular with the Democratic
newspapers as the old Progressive
Washington party used to be. The
Bomberger call for a conference with
out fixing any date says that the men
he represents will not have anything
to do with the "Old Guard" of either
party, and it is said that they are
against the organizations in both
parties.
Thus far nothing has been heard
from William Finn and the other late