Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
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By the Ex-Committeeman

OF more than 200 bills which have
reached the desk of Governor Will
liam c. Sproul, 112 have been ap-
proved and are now general laws,
81 appropriation bills have been
approved and l9 bills have been
vetoed. Forty-five bills have been
recalled from the Governor by the
Legislature for amendment, The
bills approved cover a wide range,
although there are an unusual num-
| ber of amendatory acts. The ap-
preparations approved are nearly all
for deficiencies, including the act
| for the general State government.
A number of bills are now on the
desk of the Governor awaiting ac-
| ton, which will be announced next
week when the time expires on some
of them.
Both branches OF the Legislature
will reconvene Monday night with
bills regulating liquor special orders
for the House. The Philadelphia
bills will attract some attention, as
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revision measures is scheduled for
Tuesday before the House municipal
corporations committee. The same
day the compensation bills are to
have hearing in the Senate COM
mittee in charge.
Several administration measures
will be up for final passage in both
Houses next week.
There is much interest in the
third-class city nonpartisan repeater.
which is before the Governor for
action.
james F. Woodward, the new
secretary of internal affairs, will
take his seat as a member of the
State Board of Pardons on Wednes-
day, when the May meeting will be
held. He succeeds Paul W. Houck
The Board now contains three at
torneys. The list for the May meet
ing has five applications for COM
mutation of death sentences, an un-
usually large number. There are
about a score of new cases to be
heard.
People at the State Capitol have
started out to make their calling and
selection sure now that it has been
told about the corridors that no
reorganiZations OF departments will
be undertaken until after the Legis-
lature adjourns and the terms of the
bills, which are expected to pass,
will end the jobs of scores of per-
sons. The Governor has let it be
known that he expects heads of de-
partments that will be affected by
reorganization bills. to have their
plans ready when he finishes work
on the appropriation and other bills
which will be left behind and set
ting up of fences has started.
The administration is expected
to push the bill to amalgamate the
Game, Fishery, Forestry and Water
Supply Departments into the De-
partment of Conservation through
the House. 1t has passed the Senate
and much of the opposition to it
has abated. 1t is said that not many
changes in personnel will be made
and that the schemes to change
around the whole plan of forestry
management will be studied for two
years more.
-Overhauling of the Department
of Agriculture is to be done with
assistance of such experts as NAV
| be drafted from the national ser
vice. Secretary Rasmussen is now
in Washington taking up a plan for
working with the Federal authori
ties and men from other States IN
regard to the bureau of markets.
which is to be reorganized from the
ground up.
1t is probable that action will
be taken within the next week or ten
days on the bills providing that the
Supreme and Superior Courts shall
meet in Harrisburg. These meas
ures have caused much talk among
the lawyer members of the Legisla-
ture and are gaining many sup
porters.