Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
EXTRA SESSION
IDEA KNOCKED
Prominent Dry Advocates De-
clare Against Proposition;
DR.. Urich's Idea


remarks about the State Capitol to-
day there was little disposition to re-
gard an extra session of the gen.
eral assembly as probability and
the fact that no inquiries as to
whether the Departments of Public
Printing or Public Grounds and
Buildings would be prepared to
handle the big lot of extra business
that would fall on them in event of
an extra session had been made was
taken as pretty conclusive evidence
that sentiment had been found
against a call"
The Governor will be in Philsdel-
phia about Monday and some
authoritative statement is then ex-
pected from him.
Considerable interest has been
aroused here by first page article
in the Philadelphia Evening Ledger
last night in which the extra session
is declared to to be favored by many
advocates of the prohibition amend
ment. The intimation has been
given here that prohibition amend
ment men were behind the sugges-
ton.
The Evening Ledger says in part:
so far as support from ardent
advocates of the prohibition amend
ment is concerned, Governor Brum-
oh I1ae 10 laa al- IT, Il;
reported intention to call an extra
session of the Legislature to ratify
this national legislation. A cursory
among politicians of nearly |
every line of thought has developed !
their opposition. and it may be al
most conclusively added that there
is objection by the advocates of ma
tion-wide prohibition. In Philadel- |
phia it was developed to-day that
such ardent advocates of nationwide |
prohibition as the Rev. DR.. Carl T. |
Church Federation; DR.. Homer Tope, !
head of the Philadelphia District I,
League; Bishop Berry, |
of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
the Rev. DR.. Delk, of the Lutheran
Church, and other clergymen are
against calling an extra session of
the Legislature. Add to this the
thought of such laymen as Sylvester
). Marvin, president of the National
Biscuit Company; Walter F. Bal
linger, leading architect and engi-
neer; George Burnham, Jr., financier
and social reformer, not to speak of
two of the highest officials of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and two of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, and it
becomes readily apparent that Gov
ernor Brumbaugh has conceived the
idea of an extra session of the Leg
islature without consulting such fac
tors in the prohibition movement"
Representative /. K. Urich, of
AnnVille, who is said TO cherish the
to serve another term in
the Legislature when asked by the
Lebanon News about his ideas con-
cerning Governor Brumbaugh's pur-
pose to call a special session, he gave
his opinion in his usual straight
forward way.
What purpose a special session
would serve i cannot see. 1t would
be nothing but an eXtravagant waste
of money. Governor Brumbaugh
and everybody else knows how the
members stand on Prohibition, and
no reason stands for spending mon
ey to. place them on record" AS
to passing new re-apportionment
bill, it is little short of ridiculous,
and it is questionable whether the
members would pass such a meas
ure with a new United States CEN
sus less than two years off. The re-
proposition is political
camouflage 1 would suggest that
the Governor do the people of the
state real service, instead of an
imaginary one, and go in with us to
spend that 100000 the special ses-
sion would cost, for good roads, and
especially for the improvement of
that section of the William Penn
Highway which lies between Harris
burg and Lebanon. To that end
the money would be spent to excel
lent purpose