Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

opinion tnat the reports lnaJ IoN-
ernor Martin G.. Brumbaugh is SER
iously considering a call of an extra
session of the legislature to act on
the long delayed reapportionment of
the state for congressional and legis-
lative purposes, there are some who
declare that what the Governor and
his political friends are thinking
about is to head off the Penrose
plans for reforms in Philadelphia.
1t is an open secret that the Pen
rose people propose to ask the gen.
eral assembly of 1919 to enact laws
to radically change the Philadelphia
city government and to make cer-
tain happenings. impossible in fu-
ture. 1t is equally well known that
| the Governor and his upstate
| friends would like to force a show
by the Penrose people and if in the
wood make a breach between the
Penrose leaders and the Wares
which would smash any chance of
harmony in advance of the primary
/ The Governor and his friends here
are committed to the O'Neil candi-
| dacy, but if an extra session in
which Senator Sproul would have to
sit would get into a row over Phila-
| delphia it might make uncertain the
support of the Wares for Sproul,
which is commonly reported and
which is disturbing administration
men.
Operating against this plan for an
extra session would be the cost.
which would be easily 100000 or
100000, according to the length of
| the period and the fact that the leg
| islature would be the same as last
year in regard to the Governor and
liquor legislation, and possibly the
amendment. However, a showdown
on the amendment this year in spe-
cial session would make much trou-
BILE for many legislators who desire
to come back.
According to the Philadelphia
! Ledger Governor Brumbaugh said
| when asked about the extra session
/ reports in Florida, that he would
| attend to that matter when he re-
turns. Sunday the Ledger said the
Governor was puzzled" over the
situation.
Highway Commissioner O'Neil
and his friends are cheered over the
situation in Western Pennsylvania
as they see it. The Pittsburgh Dis
|
ing of the O'Neil strength in Mercer
and other western counties. The
commissioner is planning a number
of trips about the western end of
the state. To-day he will leave for
Downingtown to make an address
tonight.
Representative Jim Maurer's de-
termination to attend the Socialist
meeting in England and the state
| I,,t l,n ~ not n -
are being followed with much inter-
est at the Capitol.
Mayor Fibert, of Reading, does
not stand for any nonsense and his
example will probably be followed
in other sections. An alderman who
did not hold a man charged with
disloyal conduct, was refused per-
mission to- preside in the mayor s
court.
Philadelphia firemen will get
some sort of an increase in pay. 1t is
said that the two platoon system will
be postponed for year.
Senator w. C. Mcconnell, of
Shamokin, who is being urged by
Northumberland county friends as a
dignified and worthy candidate for
lieutenant governor, is said to be
entirely willing to run if he will not
eet into a rough and tumble fight.
The Senator is a native of Dauphin
county. having been born at Halifax.
Major T.. n. Carpenter, of Will
lkes- Barre, will be a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Con-
gress in the Luzerne county district.
Col. Frank G. Dartes decision to
take a trip south for several weeks
/ being taken to mean that he will
not run. Thomas Kennedy, the
Hazleton miners leader, is being
urged to run. but there are some
Democrats who would like the au-
burn haired John j. Casey to make
another try.
One of the jokes in Chester
county is the fact that EX-Controller
Robert Kay, who stirred up the an
imals and made all kinds of sur
charges, paid S1,SS6 too much to
Montgomery county on a bridge bill.
He insisted he was right. but Mont
gomery county commissioners sent
a check for the difference. Kay was
appointed by the Governor to fill a
vacancy caused by death, but did
not run for reelection.
d. ]. Stevens and B. NJ. Arthur,
who have been fussing over who is
to be burgess of Lansford, have TAX
en- their troubles to court.
| Chester city nre companies are
. all divided up over the question of
whether the fire chief should be
paid.
Representative Conrad G.. Mil
ler, of Hazleton. has sent word to
s friends in this city that he proposes
, to be a candidate for reelection.
General Charles NJ. Clement has
informed men who urged him to
run for Congress that when he sale
| he had no ambitions in that direc-
, tion, he meant it.
L. r. Goshorn, political writer
of the Pittsburgh Dispatch and wei
known as legislative correspondent
E has been confined to his home in
, Pittsburgh by an accident due to a
fall upon an icy pavement.
The Philadelphia Inquirer which
has been reviewing the counties, says
| the hard coal region is for Sprou
, and that Carbon county will give
him "a large majority" In North.
; cumberland, says the Inquirer, the
+ Sproul boom has been given "a de.
cided impetus during the past week
I more Sproul sentiment than is now
realized.
"A Lebanon dispatch says I. Say.
lor Zimmerman, of Lebanon, will
run for the Legislature in place OF
J Asa A. Weimer and adds:
Considerable interest was in.
/ iected into the Republican nomina.
ton for county treasurer by the for.
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