Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
Pee;t;c% ;n
Pe~~o4esonio
By the Ex-Commftteeman

with the announced intention of get
ting action instead of talk on the
various Philadelphia reform bills
which have Been storm centers this
session of the Legislature. goes back
to Philadelphia to-day with all the
honors up to date. The Senator eX-
poets to return here next week and
may be the week after Last night
he declared that the bills inswhich
he was interested would be ready
for the Governor in three weeks
time. The Ware people, who were
worsted at various points yesterday.
We're in a bad humor and inclined
to say that the Senator was too san
guine.
The general opinion is that the
Senator won a big victory\ in the
prompt action by the Senate Appro-
priations committee on the district
attorney bills and the passage of
the Woodward bills, providing for
the revision OF the Philadelphia
charter, on second reading helped
along the impression. The Senator
issued statements in which he point
ed with pride to the results of the
day and District Attorney Samuel p.
| Rotan's handling of Senator Edwin
Fl. Ware and the Ware men at the
hearing was the talk of Capitol Hill.
-Penrose men were inquisitive
about the hearing which Senator
Ware wants to have on the charter
bills next Tuesday and hailed the
announcement that Mayor Thomas IS.
Smith, of Philadelphia, would be
here. They also expressed doubts
whether Ex-Mayor's John Weaver
and Edwin S. Stuart would come
here for the hearing.
The fact that the Philadelphia
police bills which appeared Monday
night were reported out and passed
first reading also enthused the PEN
rose men.
Philadelphia newspapers con-
tinue to say that the situation is now
up to Governor Sproul and to say
that if the Penrose people put
through the bills with a good show
of strength, the Governor will
promptly sign them. The Ware peo-
pie say the Penrose program will hit
some rocks in the House and that
they have been preparing some tor
pedoes has been apparently to any
one who has watched them operate
in the House for weeks.
The Governor will be here be-
fore next Monday night.
According to what is being
heard about the State Capitol, Re-
publican National Chairman Will II.
Hays had a good bit to do in bring
ing about the passage of the Woman
Suffrage resolution by the House OF
| Representatives of Pennsylvania yes
terday. The vote was decisive be-
ing 12S to &C and the question is now
| up to the Senate. While the anti
suffragists were showed under in the
vote, they take the position that the
action of Pennsylvania will be tre-
mendous help to them in preventing
the next Congress from submitting a
Federal amendment to the States.
Miss Eliza ID. Armstrong of Pitts
burgh. who has led the opposition
to the bill, says that Pennsylvania
congressman can now take the posi-
ton that their State is preparing to
submit the question to the electors
and Federal action would be an in
reference with state rights.
The bulk of the votes against
suffrage were cast by the Democrats
and Allegheny and Philadelphia
counties. The Democrats gave II
votes to the opposition, for the
amendment and one member of the
party was absent. Fourteen votes
each against the resolution were
contributed by Allegheny and Phila-
delphia counties, while the former
gave it s and the latter 81 votes.
Two Alleghenians were absent. In
1915 the electors of the State voted
on an amendment to the Constitution
giving the women the right to vote.
The proposition was defeated by a
majority of ,6S6 in a total vote of
S26,3S2
The legislative chambers did
their best this week to overcome the
criticism of not much work and there
is disposition now to cut down the
hearings on the ground that they are
more causes of delay than produc-
ers of information. A few are sched-
uled for next week, but there will
not be many after May 1. The two
houses worked until after last eve
ming, it being almost when the
House quit This was done to avoid
night sessions. To-day both branches
met. Next week there may be a
Thursday session.
DR.. T. T. Mutchler, of Philadel-
phia, head of the Sabbath observ-
ance organizations, scored another
victory yesterday when he succeeded
in having defeated the bill to allow
training of dogs on Sunday. The
doctor, say his friends, has defeated
every bill he set out TO kill this ses-
sion and he has done it by attending
strictly to business and avoiding en-
tangling alliances.
Ex-Judge John w. Reed, shortly
to be named as a public service COM
missioner, was in Harrisburg to-day.
The House Judiciary Special
Committee staged a nice little row
among the Berks county Democrats
yesterday over the bill to rip" out
the Berks poor directors. The bill
will not get very far, but 1t afforded
a chance for the Berks delegation to
exhibit some of the factional feeling
that prevails among the Democrats in
that district.
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