Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
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BY tho Ex-oomrnitteesnan

Stlll the. blOrIn Center 'OL INC LeS ls-
lature and of State politics. With
the charter bills practically disposed
of through an agreement between
the rival factions, the fight has shift
ed once more to the Daix-Brady
registration bills and the Rotan
measures. United States Senator
Penrose is coming here Sunday to
help the fight for reform. He sent
word to that effect to his lieutenants
here last evening.
Senator Edwin H. Ware threw a
monkey-wrench into the harmony
machinery by renewing his opposi-
ton to the Rotan bills. An agree
ment had been reached to pass the
bills through the House without OPP
position. Senator Ware announced af-
ter looking over the bills that they
provided bigger salaries for the new
detectives to be added to the Dis
trict Attorneys staff than is paid
city detectives. He handed an ulti-
matum that unless the salaries were
decreased he would oppose the bills
The decision to put the bills through
the House yesterday was rescinded
and it was announced the measures
would be held up until Monday
night.
Late yesterday several upstate
members, who have become dis
Igusted with dilatory tactics, took a
hand in the game. They forwarded
an ultimatum to the legislative
leaders that unless the Philadelphia
| bills were disposed of quickly and
final adjournment fastened, they
would oppose the program. The
effect of the upstate mems ulti-
matum was a quick report by the
| House rules committee in the shape
of a resolution calling for three ses-
sions daily on Tuesdays and Wednes-
days and one session on the Thurs
days. 1t passed the House unani-
mously after Speaker Spangler took
drastic action. He ordered a poll of
the House and 12S of the 207 men,
bers responded when their names
were called.
! Plans to get action on the Phil
adelphia charter bills began to be
made as soon as the bill as amended
was reported to the House by the
| House municipal corporations COM
mittee. Several members asked the
Speaker to advance it as rapidly as
possible and will seek early action
by the committee on any additional
amendments. 1t was announced that
Senator Boies Penrose would be here
Sunday to urge the passage of the
bill. Governor Sproul has also been
Iimportuned to ask the Legislature to
expedite the bill, which members
claim is holding up the fixing of a
date for final adjournment.
DR.. Thomas T. Finegan put in
about as an eventful day yesterday
as ordinarily comes to the average
man in Pennsylvania public life in
a life time. He arrived from New
York in the morning and spent an
hour in converse with the Governor
| and the men who handle the mill
| lions for the Keystone State about
what could be set aside for educa-
ton; then he was assigned a legal
residence in Harrisburg; appointed
uperintendent of public instruction
and his nomination promptly con-
firmed by the Senate About the
same time the bill establishing the
salary of the superintendent at $12,-
900, the same salary as the Attorney
General and only little lower than
the Supreme Court justices. was ap-
proved and he was named to receive
that figure. DR.. Finegan was well
coined to Harrisburg by some peo-
pie living here and complimented
on the speed with which he had
become domiciled enough to be ap-
pointed from the State Capital.
There are four cities in the
United States which pay their super
intendents of education more than
the new superintendent receives,
while several States also pay salaries
away up. The county of Allegheny
pays its head of schools as much as
the Governor receives.
Many members of the Legisla-
ture last evening commended the in
PRODUCTION of the Eyre resolution to
investigate the treatment of National
Guard officers. The case of Captain
Samuel A. Whitaker, one of the
members of the House from Chester
who served with distinction in the
Guard for years and made a fine
record in Europe, has aroused much
Indignation among the Legislators
who knew him and there is general
support for the probe which is pro-
posed and which seems to worry
the Democratic Senator from Perry
exceedingly.
The action of Speaker Spangler
last night in calling a roll for a
quorum and the prompt move of the
rules committee to establish time OF
sessions, ais was done in 1918
brought members of the House uI
standing. If they go away hereafter
they must have leave.
The House committee in charge
of the Hess bills to move the appel.
late courts here took no action yes.
terday, but members are commenc.
ing to hear from lawyers in Phila.
delphia and Pittsburgh. No actor
will be taken this week.
/ Revenue measures were mucf
, discussed on the Hill to-day. The
talk of a manufacturing capital ta1
is being revived as the appropria
tions continue to pile up. This prop
t osition will be vigorously fought
, Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
. burgh, was here last evening lookinl
into legislative matters connected
2 with Pittsburgh.
Some of the legislators werc
smiling to-day over the action o
Messrs. Alexander and Glass in op
posing the Dawson bill relative t.
appointment of mercantile apprais
ers yesterday at the very time wheI
S the conference in the Governors of
1 flee was deciding to urge that it b.
! passed. The bill came up in the alb
sence of Chairman Dawson of th,