Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-07
TRACTOR BILL
HAS HOT TIME
Measure Opposed by Farmers
Who Claim 1t Would Be
Burdensome

Farmers and tractor owners from
dozen counties opposed the Eyre
Senate bill forbidding use of trac-
tors with cleats on State Highways
at hearing that lasted most of the
afternoon before the House Roads
committee. The opponents of the
bill contended that the measure
would interfere with service for
farmers in rural districts and denied
the damage alleged to be done by
the machines. Speakers included (:
j. A. Rose, Harrisburg; A. l.. Bier
bower Carlisle; A. H. Brubaker,
Rohrerstown, and Morris Long,
Lebanon. George H. Biles, assistant
State highway commissioner, ap-
peared for the bill.
Chairman Harry A. Mackey, of
the State Compensation Board, op-
posed the bill providing choice be-
tween compensation awards and
court action at a hearing before the
Judiciary General Committee, con-
tending that it would involve every
case of death in protracted 1itiga-
ton and that it would seriously
interfere with the foundation of the
compensation system. He said that
between April /, 1916, until April
19 last, the State Board approved
1929 agreements in death cases, the
total amount of money involved be-
ing $17, ,162. In the same pc
riod over 100000 general agree
ments were entered into between
employers and employees. He said
that employers had shown the right
spirit in many claims. The chair
man said that one law would not be
enforced through the penal code OF
another.
Petitions for repeal of the act OF
1913 creating the Public Service
Commission were presented at a
hearing held by the same commit
tee on the bill to abolish the COM
mission. 1t was contended that the
commission did not meet the needs
of Duquesne, PhoeniXville, Scranton
Carlisle, Middletown, Tarentum, Nc
keesport Rankin, Swarthmore, La
trobe, Lehighton and Emaus. r. J.
Wheeler, Allentown, and f. X. Les
sig, Ashland, advocated the bill.
The Hess bill amending minor
Tabor laws SO that girls between
fourteen and sixteen can work in
cigar factories was the subject of
4 three hour hearing before the
House Manufactures Committee in
the course of which the bill was
attacked by Colonel Edward Mar
tin, State Comm issioner of Health;
Mrs. Edwin Sollenberger and Mrs.
Harry Smith, Philadelphia; Miss
Helen Doty, Lancaster, and w. c.
Hoverter, Reading.
r. G. Bondy, a manufacturer, and
Charles Dushkine, secretary of the
Tobacco Merchants Association, ap-
peared for the bill.
Charles Eisenlohr, Philadelphia
opposed provisions in the Alexander
bill relative to use of various sub
stances in tobacco.
The Rim bill for abolition of
grade crossings was opposed by
representatives of various railroads
at a hearing.
Strenuous opposition to the Boil
ard bill prohibiting the publishing
of advertisements in any language
except the English, was manifested
yesterday at a hearing before the
Senate Judiciary General Commit
tee. The measure in question, spon-
sored by Representative John A.
Bolard, Crawford, is a companion
measure to the Davis bill which was
passed recently, prohibiting the
teaching of the German language in
the public and normal schools of
the Commonwealth.
Speakers against the bill included
Herbert d. Mason, general manager
of the Publishers Association of the
American Press and Foreign Lam
guages, New York, and Franz Ehr-
Itch. Philadelphia.
The bill was finally referred to
ub-committee composed of Sem
ators ShantZ, Lehigh, and Salus,
Philadelphia, and Senator Buckman,
Bucks.
A large number of bills were
passed by the Senate yesterday, in
Guiding the general salary raiser of
the district attorneys of all counties
of the State, excepting Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh.
Senator Ware, late in the after
noon, reported the Philadelphia
charter bills from committee and
they were read for the first time.
A large portion of the afternoon
was occupied with numerous Senate
committee hearings, including the
Mine Cave, Housing, and Minimum
Wage Measures.
Miss A. Estelle Lauder Philadel-
phia, at a hearing before the Senate
Judiciary Special Committee on the
proposed minimum wage bill yester-
day afternoon declared that it is
now practically impossible for wo-
men in some walks of industry, to
pay for the bare necessities OF life,
and urged the speedy passage
the measure. Other speakers in
cluded Henry Collins of Philadel-
phia, and Mrs. Frances Axtell a
member of the minimum wage COM