Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
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1t is not often that q deliberate
body votes to exercise free speech
and then forgets to take advantage
of it. And yet that is exactly what
the House of Representatives did I
yesterday and such an experienced !
parliamentarian as James N. Moore, :
director of the Legislative Reference
Bureau. says that he never saw 1t =
happen before. This session of the
General Assembly has been marked I
by many unusual things and 1t has
been as out of the ordinary AZ was
that of 1913 and as that of 1921
will be. But the House yesterday
did the queerest of all. There was
debate raging on one Of then
Philadelphia bills. as usual, when
some one moved to shut off the dis
cussion. 1t was desired to end the
flood of words and the motion was
to move the main question, which
means that what ever is to be de-
cided must be taken up then and
there. But instead of passing the
m otion, which would have been an
official assent to the suspension of!
debate, the House voted not to do
so. But when the announcement
was made of the passage OF the
| motion, no one wanted to say a.
the regular business. There have
been several parliamentary incidents
| this session and Director Moore says
| that the record will be an interest
| ing study to any one who is con-
cerned in reading up such matters.
And 1t has been rare that the House
has moved to stop debate. Generally,
when any one has moved the ques-
ton, the orators have run down.
Among visitors to the city yester-
day was Colonel j. l.. Kerr, formerly
president of the Pittsburgh city
council and in charge of base hos
pital No. n in France. DR.. Kerr,
as he is best known to many Har-
risburgers, has been one of the big
figures in Pittsburgh affairs and
gave up his practice and left munic-
ipal work to take charge of a hos
pital in the army. Colonel Kerr was
given a hearty greeting here and
told some interesting stories of
army medical work.
Any one who has an idea that the
general public is not interested in
the Peace Treaty has only to listen
to the discussions in the street cars,
declared a conductor this morning.
! mo SOhuuSlOlp SOihpol AOtOo
with his motorman, said that the
leak" of the treaty, was the big
theme in the car talk, being even
more popular than the approach of
prohibition, which has heretofore
been the chief theme among home
ward bound folks. The conductor
said that many of the people he
heard were sore that the treaty had
not been made public long ago and
inclined to be bit fussy over the
delays.
In this connection a couple of
Legislators were telling stories last
evening when one said that he had
been to a moving picture show and
there were lot of jokes sprung.
People were asked, for instance,
when shaves we're five cents and
pretzels two for a cent. But the way
the crowd carried on when some one
asked: when did the President of
the United States live in this coun-
try?" was the real rich occasion.
|
Governor Sprouts remark that
everyone should support the move
ment of the Red Men to perpetuate
the Indian names will find hearty
support in this city. There are
| many SITeeIS WlIn 1Huldn HdDl6Ss
such as Swatara, Kittatinny, Seneca,
wiconisco, Mahantongo, Delaware
and the like. More could be SINH
larly named, although the selection
of names of creeks such as Conod
! guinet and the like wiuld be rather
hard on street car conductors, for
instance.
i Approach of the end of the legis-
lative session and the time when
people are commencing to get ex-
cited about bills, is being reflected
in big increase in the mail at the
/ Governors office. The Sproul ad-
ministration has been the unfortun-
ate breaker of all records in receipt
lof mail and instead of one bag, two
. and three are dumped on Secretary
Harry S. McDevitt's long suffering
desk every day. 1t takes the Gov
ernor three to four hours to go
through what he has to and Mr.. Nc
Dewitt puts in five hours on the same
task. while the rest of it is handled
in the office at high tension, because
tomorrow is going to bring just
as much
; MANY people are regretting that
the city fathers cannot fnd enough
money to provide more bath houses,
,, the popularity of the Seneca street
establishment being the cause of the
remark. This bath house attracts
,, people from all over the city, many
folks who could go to the big island
as easy. being among those who
gather for a swim away up town.
Here are all our councilmen. can
didates this year and thousands of
people wanting to go swimming and
they say they cannot find the money
, for more bath houses" said one man
, last evening. Some one is over
looking a good bet"
There is a new way of designat-
ing bills in the Legislature. 1t is
according to dates. Yesterday some
one asked for Columbus in the Of
flee of the ATTORNEY General. Secre-
tarv Howard M. Hoke handed out
bill No. 1892. Similarly in anothe:
office some one asked for Independ-
ence and drew 1776.