Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
GOVERNOR TO KILL
INQUIRY TONIGHT
Will Demand l m p ar ia |
Body in Sending Veto to
Legislature
HALTS PENROSE FOR TINE
Another Week of Doing Nothing
to Be Begun by
Solons

Governor BrNmbaugh's veto Of the Sproul
LeXow resolution will be sent to the Senate
when the Legislature reconvenes tonight,
according to friends of the State admins
tration
There exists no doubt that he will dis
approve of the measure among Narc-Brum-
baugh followers, and when he sends his
veto message to the Leg stature they eN-
pect him to ask for an investigating body
that will not be partisan or faCtlonal
The Governors veto is expected to put
an end to the talk of a probe, for a time
at least The Legislature will adjourn at
tho end of this week until March IL, and
Senator Peurose could not carry out his
threat to push through a concurrent reso-
luton that would not require the approval
of the Governor until that time
The Legislature. wren it reconyenes to-
night. will start another week OF doing
nothing. Senators James p. McNichol and
Edwin II. Ware are both in the South. and
have taken with them several Of their fol-
lowers who are floor leaders in the House
The deficiency bill is scheduled FOR action
IN the Senate. Both branches have good
sized calendars, the sixty-two obsolete law
repealers being on first reading in the
House.
Included in n list OF bills TO be introduced
into the Legislature this week at the in
stance of the state Board of Public Char
tiles is n measure the object of which, it
was announced by Bromley Wharton. sec
retary and general agent of the board, is
ito prevent the propagation of detectives
for the support of which the Commonwealth
would be Chargeable.' Some of the other
bills on the boards list are follows:
An act placing the control and manage
ment of county jails in boards of prison
inspectors. This act takes the manage
ment of county jails away from the sheriffs
and places them in boards of prison in
spectors appointed by the Court of Quarter
Sessions of each county, thus making the
control Of such institutions uniform
throughout the Commonwealth. The act
provides deliberately for the management
Of the jails by said boards of inspectors
An act making an appropriation OF $780,
900 to the building commission of the West
ern State Hospital for the Insane for the
erection of buildings on site owned by
the State in Westmoreland County
An act to provide for the selection and
purchase of n site for an Eastern State
Hospital for the Insane This act provides
merely for the selection and purchase of
site and the preparation of proper plans
for the buildings of the institution, leaving
it to the next Legislature to appropriate
for the buildings
An act providing for the establishment
of n State home for persons suffering with
incurable diseases. There is no such State
institution now, and the two private insti-
tutons, in pittsburgh and Philadelphia, re-
spectively, are both overcrowded with long
waiting lists, so that, according to the board
il is impossible to get patients admitted
TO them even If they have money where
with to pay for their support therein.
An act requiring the consent of the courts
committing boys to Huntingdon Reforma-
tory to the transfer of inCorrigble inmates
to the Stale penitentiaries.
An act providing for the pensoning of
superannuated employees Of State and semi
State hospitals, penitentiaries etc more
than seventy years old, who have been con-
tinuously employed by such institutions for
tMentN-One wears.