Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-26

tracted hundreds to the hall of the
House and the gallery was crowded
with men who vigorously applauded
every move made by the man from
Butler. while the floor was crowded
by former members who had come
here for the closing week and by
members and attaches discussing
the rapid-fire developments,
Mr.. Campbell decided not to press
his appeal and Mr.. Maurer, Berks,
moved to amend the FLYNN motion
to include the compensation amend
ments as a special order but the
Speaker held that 1t was out of or
der as the Flynn motion was for "a
specific purpose" Reconsideration OF
the bill on third reading.
The Elk members motion was
then adopted by viva voce Vote,
but before the bill could be taken UP
House voted down the motion.
AS soon as the bill was submitted
for third reading, Mr.. Maurer. Berks
began an attack on the measure
but the noise in the rear of the hall
was so great that he made an APP
peal to the Chair to maintain order
The Speaker pro tenn. MIR. Whitaker
Chester. threatened to clear the hall
The Berks members read num-
ber of extracts from articles ana
speeches on the subject The prog
ress of his speech was patiently fol
lowed by Mayor Smith and other
Philadelphians who were here on
the Quaker City transit bill, which
could not be reported to the Hous.
because of the flibuster
Mr.. Maurer held that IL the bill
should become a law the railroads
would be poorly manned and this
condition, he said, would prevail or
troop trains. He also attacked rail-
road capitalization methods,
The bill was advocated by Mr.
Sites, Montgomery, who asserted
that the year following the law there
had been an increase in accidents
and that there had been a jargon OF
laws on the subject.
The roll call followed. resulting as
follows:
Ayes-Aron, Arthur, Aston. Baker
Baldi, Benchoff, Bennett. Benninger
Boyer, Bidelspacher, Boulton. Bovee
Boyd, Brady, Campbell. Theodore;
Christman. Conner, Corbin, Crosby
Cummins. Curry, Davis, William;
Dawson, Dell. Dewey, Drake
Ter, Flynn. Franklin, Fretz, Cans
Glass, Colder. Goodnough. Goodwin
Graham, Gransback, Haight, Halde.
man, Heffernan. Hess. Hepburn
Hibshman, Hoffman. Horne, Horton
Jack, Jones. Lafferty, Lanius, Leary
Lohr, Luppert. McArdle, McCraig
Mccullough, McNichol. McPeake
McVicar, Mearkle, Mehring, Mer.
vine. Milliron, Neary. Patterson
Ferry, Pickering. Powell. Ramsey
Rhoads, Harry L., Rhodes, William
Manning, Rich, Richards, Rininger
Robertson, Rogers, Sampsell, Scott
Skunk, Siggins, Sinclair, Smith, Ed.
gar r., Smith, Jefferson W., Snow
den, Snyder, Somerman, Sprowls
Stadtlander. Sterling, Stern, Sites
Strauss, Sullivan, Swartz, Sweitzer
Taylor, Urich, Nickerman. Nodges
Walker, Walter, Weimer, Wells
West, Whitaker, Wobensmith, Wylie
Speaker Baldwin.
Noes-Albee, Baldridge. Barner
Bechtold, Bell, Black, Bouton, Bur.
hett, Campbell, James o., Canon
Chestnut, Clements, Goldsmith
Cook, Cox. Dale, Davis, David f.
Dean, Dithrich, Donneley, Ehrhardt
Erdman, F'itzgibbon, Fowler, Geary
Gormley, Graeff, Hecht. Helt, Hol.
lern, Hough. Howarth. sherwood
Mangan, Marvin, Maurer, McCurdy
Mckay, Mckinney, Michel, Miller
Ananias David; Miller, Allan D.; Mil.
ler. Conrad G.; Miller. George ]. A.
Miner. Mitchell, Morgan, Theodore
Morgan. Thomas j., Murdoch. Muir.
ply, Musser, Ogden, Palmer, Phil
lips, Reichenbacker, Reynolds, Ring.
ler, Rim, Ross, Rothenberger
Ruddy, Rudisill, Schaeffer, Adam c.
Shattuck, Simpson, Smith, Oliver w.
Sones, Speicher, Steedle, Stoffiet
Thomas, Ulsh, Wagner, Wallace
Wickman, Williams, George W., viii.
liams. John p, Woodward, Wynne