Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-25
NEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE
BOLARD BILLS
PASSED AT LAST
Fight Made i'll House, but 1t
Got 116 Votes After
Debate

The Bolard bill to require that
all legal advertiser be publish
ed in newspapers published in the
language of the land was passed
finally in the House last night after
Il strenuous battle. The bill was
defeated by a close vote last Tues
day and in the meantime many peo-
pie have been active to have it en-
acted.
The bill was reconsidered last
night and passed 116 to 63 in the
diences of the session. Mr.. Curran.
Washington, moved the reconsidera-
tion and Mr.. Bolard, Crawford, it's
sponsor, spoke for il. Messrs. Glass,
Golden, Baldi and Bennett, Phila-
delphia, and Alexander, Delaware,
spoke against it. Mr.. Martin, Allie
sheny, advocated the bill.
All the Dauphin Members voted
for the bill as did Cumberland,
Lebanon and other central Penn
Sylvania county men.
Mr.. Glass read letter from Judge
Joseph Burlington, of Pittsburgh.
against the bill. Mr.. Bennett said
the bill was doubtful and some
things not clear TO him. Both
Messrs. Bennett and Golden de-
clared the principle in the bill
against American ideas of freedom
and praised the loyalty of the for
eign born during the war. Mr.. Mar
tin vigorously championed the bill
and when Mr.. Alexander read an
anonymous post card abusing him
for voting against the bill last Tues
day, Mr.. Bolard said it was an un-
fair matter and wrong to inject it
into the debate.
Mr.. Bolard said: "I think no more
time should be taken by this House
i'll talking of the patriotism of our
boys over There" but simply to
consider the bill. We do not need
to make patriotic speeches. Nearly
all of us have boys who have been
i'll the service and are patriotic. We
do not need to make any patriotic
speeches after the patriotism that
has been shown by them. Now the
question is merely the way legal
practice is to be conducted, whether
it is to be in half a dozen different
4OItlSn utStS. are we W DC
Americans in Pennsylvania, or are
we to have half Il dozen languages
as they have in Europe, where they
cross the border from one country
To another? If we go into one dis
trict we would have to read in Yid-
dish, and in another district in Ital-
ian, and in another district English.
Is that the way we are to enact
lDNESp Tho 1nint nf fhiS
bin is to require every legal notice
10 be printed in English. This is
u good thing for us as a nation.
1t is the proper thing for us as a
State in all our legal proceedings.
It is said that it is unfair to have
any restrictions placed on the pub
lication of legal notices. ] say it
is not unfair or unjust to require
this, and it is not Unfair TO ask
for a reconsideration of the bill.
When the bill was defeated last
week, unfortunately forty members
happened to be absent at the time
il was considered. Now I ask all
of you and all of those forty who
We're not here to vote for this bill.
and ! hope that those forty are in
line to vote for it.
To reconsider it now gives every
one of the members a chance to
go on record and show whether he
is for or against this bill.
Now another point raised in re-
ference TO this bill is that it has
been brought forth by the English
Publishing newspapers. The bill
did not come from foreign news
papers. 1t came from me person
ally because l was tired of having
the notices published in a German
newspaper, and I agreed to present
this bill. Under the law at the
present time a sheriff or other officer
can do as he pleases. He can ad-
Nertise in a German paper or Ital-
ian paper If he wants to. l differ
from the gentleman from Philadel-
phia, (Mr. GLASS; when he says the
bill is unfair. after we acted on
the bill the other day an attorney
from Crawford county said it cost
him $3.50 for advertising in a Ger
man newspaper. 1t is simply moth
ing but a legal holdup. and 1 say
il IS absolutely unjust; and l say,
gcntlcmen.. the bill should have
unanimous support of every man in
his House. If any one is not in
tereSted in supporting any such Ger
man newspapers, or foreign tongue
newspapers, l can see no argument
in not supporting this bill. ask you
TO support it, and I do not care to
go into any discussion as to the
loyalty or patriotism or anything OF
that sort, for We all know about
that"