Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-08
MI AGAINST DOPE
WATTS UPON CANS
ctoto House Health Commit
tee Chairman Assumes
Arrogant Attitude
,rpENDENT ON WEATHER
By a star Correspondent

,,o, Sipmund J. Cans. of the House
o,,,nc ona on public Health and SANTA
ocn'd ard Penrose-McNichol representative
uon ,he Thirty-eighth ward Philadelphia,
~ taken unto himself the so'e Dover oi
,.r,slation that would curtail or icS''lc'
~ narcotic drug traiiic.
c,,airman Cans gave out an interview,
,s,ah be announced that there would be
I'D wn,ing viii, of the House Public Health and
sl.e,iop committee after an unexplained
sn, ~ three weeks, and in which he also
oeay ir,cd his independence Of popular
pU,,nent and fair play on legislative
ssrrsements, in the following terms;
,.r,o done bill is bothering everybody in
,he Legislature except me-
nvo,, ,an be sure that there will he an
..,,rslv new bill reported out Of commit
Zee. If any
.,ybether the new bill is reported out or
80, denends upon the weather IL 1t Is falr,
:. rav he reported out. II 1t Is raining, IL
Iii not be reported out
,,osn three sentences Cans outlined
49, entire program TO which he Is apparently
mun,n,ittod. this session, so far as any at
-, 81 enacting ant-narcotc legislation
"a concerned.
cans who for the last two weeks has
,e,inod 70 call meeting of the House
Ia,ittoa on public Health and Santa
w. annarently for fear that the numerous
.s.ocates of a stringent antelope law
sauId force action. today announced that
ss committee will meet at about O'Clock
this afternoon .,,,,,...oo
..,,ed during the last two wceks?' he was
asked. ,., ,,,,.,,o,.;,,,, ,,.i.h
a. rverybodv in the Legislature seems to
he bothering about this bill. except myself. >
IAN agreement to combine the Ware and
yrbitaker bills was announced he was
reminded. go,
nut of Committee"
ian entirely new bill has been drafted"
Cans frankly confessed.
III is not a combination of the Ware and
the Whitaker bills or of any two anti-dope
Nils now before the Legislature. 1t will
d, ne an entirely new bill when it comes out
Of committee.
"When will this be-this afternoon?"
,"I can't say of course it is all in my
hands, but | am not worrying at all. 1t all
depends upon the weather If the weather
is fair, the new bill will be reported out
II il is raining, the new bill will be kept in
committee
Zone of the most powerful and one of the
most wealthy of the lobbies in Harrisburg
Is that maintained by the druggists of the
State. They introduced their own bill
sponsored by Representative Theodore
Campbell of Philadelphia, and then re.
ported out of the subcommittee of the House
Public Health and Sanitation Committee
q socalled compromise" Nare-Campbcl
bill Campbell reported the measure out
and stood Hsponsor for it, The compromise
bill was promptly recommitted.
The whole situation involving the anti
narcotic bills was involved enough durnl
, the last two weeks, but Senator Edwin II
Ware today added complication. in spite o
the i'll odor into which the druggists lobby
has gotten itself.
Senator Ware admitted that he was
party to the SO-Callcd Narc-Campbell bill
which would have given to druggists tn,
right to prescribe for narcotic drug habits
He explained, however, that he agreed t
having the bill reported out but explained
that it was for the reason that he wante,
TO kill the Campbell bill.
Il agreed to the Narc-Campbell bill tina
was reported out" he said, because
wanted to kill Campbells bill"
The whole antelope law situation is a
loggerheads. 1t looks as though the Pub
lie Health and Sanitation Committee Of tn
House must be discharged before the lay
can be enacted, and it also looks now a
though Senator Ware is the latest stun
bling block.