Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
ALL IS HARMONY
FOR 1919 SESSION
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position and>that the program Is sat
tsfactory to everybody.
Cut and Dried

position andthat the program Is sat
tsfactory to everybody.
Cut and Dried -,
Tho proceedings tomorrow Will
be cut and dried. Not even the pro-
|hibition issue, which threatened TOT
Ia time to bob up at the opening ses-
sion. will obtrude itself upon the
harmony of the day. This was maoe
certain by statement issued iast
night by Representative Jonn w;
Vickerman, leader nj the dry
forces in the Legislature, who is
sued the following statement:
.Inm mediate action by the Legls-
nature on the ratification OF the pro-
Inhibition amendment has been urg-
ed by a number of pesons through
ont the state, the suggestion being
that an effort be made to force
action at the opening session Tues-
day, January :, so that Pennsylvania
MOULD be among the first thirty-slS
states. the number necessary 10
ratify the national amendment.
Haste Cnwisc
an my Judgment, such haste
would be very unwise. Under the
Necessary procedure for such n
measure. it would be impossible TO
secure such quick action. The rati-
tication resolution, being a point
resolution, takes the form of DILL
and must be referred to committee
for their consideration, and since
the speaker will not announce MS
committees until January 2l' II
would be impossible to act on the
measure at the opening session: Ihe
|precedent for this procedure Is FOUND
I'm the amendment to the national
constitution providing for the cleo
tion OF United States senators by
3dtrect vote of the people. The reso-
hutton ratifying this amendment.
which was passed at the 1918 ses-
zion, was q joint resolution and was
referred to the judiciary general
Srommittee, so that the same pro-
cedure will be followed in the reso-
Sutton ratifying the prohibition
amendment to the constitution. and
h. is not likely Il vote can be had on
he measure until after the middle of
February. BY that time the neces-
sary thirty-six states may have rati-
he'd. but l do not think the required
humber will have been reached at
! hat date. Yet think it much wiser
.to proceed judiciously and have
ratify the amendm ent
even If we should be the th!rty-sev-
.enth, fourtieth. or forty-second state
10 ratify, than try to force quick
|ection and fail. I have had a num-
Der of conferences with Governor
.elect Sproul in reference to this par
ticular legislation and he has given
his hearty and enthusiastic support
In working out a program which
.will be entirely satisfactory TO the
dry forces of the state. Governor
.Sproul confidently expects the reso-
Button to pass both houses at the
proper time"
All to BE Reelected
Thomas II. Garvin. of Sharon Hill.
Delaware county. will be reelected
chief clerk of the House. and VIII
Iliam s. Lieb, OF Schuylkill county,
|will gain be chosen resident clerk
f of the House.
William T. Gallagher. OF Wilkes
Barre. will be named chief clerk of
3the Senate, and W. Harry Baker, of
Harrisburg. is to be reelected sec
'retary of the Senate. Herman p.
Miller. OF Harrisburg, will be ckos-
en- Senate librarian.
This is about as far as the Re-
/ publican leaders have decided to go
at the organization meeting OF the
Legislature, and the scores of other
Ijobs. clerks. sergeants-at-arms
3pasters and folders, doorkeepers,
81 sienographers, custodians, postmas-
+ers, pages, etc, will be parceled out
by the slate committees of the House
land Senate.
According to the plans of the Re-
ipu blican leaders, the Legislature will
ftske recess for fortnight imme-