Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
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By tho Ex-Committccman

administration Dill providing for a
commission to make a study of re-
vision of the Constitution of Penn
sylvania by the Senate committee in
charge and 1t is possible that the
measure may be reported out this
week. Since the bill calling for q
commission to report in 1921 was
presented a number of letters have
come to the Governors Office COM
mending that position and 1t is not
believed here that there will be any
opposition to the bill. The various
bills providing for constitutional re-
vision, elections on the subject of
revision and a constitutional conven-
ton which have been presented to
the House will probably be aban-
doned.
Prompt action is also expected on
the other administration measures,
especially those making changes in
the business methods of the State
government which were introduced
in the Senate by Senator William E.
Crow. Others which will embody in
the form of bills some of the rec
concentrations of the last Economy
and Efficiency Commission will be
presented soon.
The House this week will have the
Brady bill changing certain regula-
tions for the primary and providing
for new registration system for
Philadelphia before it.
appointment of Charles H.
Kline and Stephen Stone to the Alle-
gheny county bench is commended
by the Pittsburgh Times
editorially.
Governor Sprouts State art
commission plan is meeting with
general editorial support in the
State, some of it quite enthusiastic.
The Philadelphia Ledger. which had
had some adventures with Art Com
missions in Philadelphia, favors the
plan, too.
Commissioner Roy Hatfield and
Register of Wills r. c. Miller will
be candidates again in Montgomery.
Although the bill for an additional
judge in Lehigh is not yet signed,
the politicians are figuring on candi-
dates, among them Congressman a.
G. Dewalt, State Chairman l.. II.
Rupp, who don't want to run: eX-
Senator NJ. a. Henninger; ex-Rep-
resentative c. T. Reno and Senator
H. w. Schantz. Fred f. Lewis is
the only leader opposed to the
Evans bill for the judge.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
IF Governor Sproul succeeds in
ham, m-stringing the profiteering pro-
pensities of the coal price gougers,
that fact alone will go a mighty long
way toward justifying his admins
tration of the affairs of this State
-Luzerne county has established
a SO mill tax rate on valuation
of s320,O0o,00o.
-Anent the Brady bills Odell
Hauser says in the Philadelphia
Press: 1T seems likely that the
Brady bills will be fought out on
their own merits without any con-
nection with the charter revision
bills. Probably they will produce
a lot of that to be expected as a
side-show without prejudice against
final settlement on charter revision
acceptable to all parties"
The Philadelphia Bulletin in
Penn's column says regarding the
mayoralty of that city: 'At the
present time there are very few cit
izens who openly aspire to the May
orally. There are now perhaps
fewer of them than there have been
on any like occasion since the first
'Rullitt bill Mayor was elected.
There were fifteen to twenty of them
at the outset of the canvass on that
occasion. and they included some of
the ablest Philadelphians of the day.
Possibly there will turn out to be,
this spring and summer, as many
candidates as there We're in 1887"
The general impression about
legislative halls is that the nonpar-
tisan acts governing Judicial and
second class city elections will be
repealed within the next month and
that the proposed abolition of the
system in third class cities will take
a long. step as a consequence. The
opponents of the repeal in the third
class cities are getting very busy.
From all accounts the biennial
row between the attaches of the
Legislature from the two large cit
les has broken out. Some of the
Philadelphia men have refused to
work until men from western dis
tricts came here and the filing of.
bills in the House is said to have
The Philadelphia Press in an
editorial on the bill for compulsory
voting says that it would not work
out, but that compulsory registra-
ton would be a good thing. The
editorial says: I'VE should like to
see this bill pass so far as it bears
on registration. Every possible voter
should be registered. The assessors
try to do this but their list is largely
guess work. 1t is easily padded and
ha G hnnn raddnl ~
operation of the personal registra-
ton law makes it largely superfluous.
1t would be altogether superflous if
the present registration was made
compulsory. 1t is no hardship on
citizens to compel them to register
once year and under compulsion,
this registration would then include
tho whole body of voting citizens.
Frances Heroic Dead