Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Ware REGA|NS PEP"
!! MORE CAPITOL WAR
''De adIock" at Harrisburg Not
So Fierce but That Harmony
May Be Achieved
SPR0UL HAS LAST WORD

SPR0UL HAS LAST WORD
Resumption Of the fractional hostii-
ties over the Philadelphia reform legis-
lation will begins when the Legis-
lature reconvenes Monday night.
Senator Penrose will return to
Harrisburg again next week to force
action on measures which were DELAYED
final passage in the Senate this week
because Of tile illness of Senator Edwin
III. Ware. The Senate did not act on
the Woodward charter bills and the
Daix registration measures out of
z courtesy to the Philadelphia Senator.
The Woodward bills. which are in
the Senate municipal affairs committee.
of which Senator Ware is chairman, are
expected to be reported to the Senate
Mortay night or early Tuesday and
placed on the third reading calendar.
They were read twice before they were
sent back to the committee.
The Daix bills are now on the Senate
third reading calendar. At the request
of the sponsor of the bills they went
over in order to appear in their regular
place on the calendar next week.
IL is anticipated that the Senate will
pass finally both the Woodward and
Daix bills in their present shape next
week. The Ware forces may make some
opposition but the main fight will prob
ably be staged in the House committee,
to which the measures are referred
when an attempt is made to amend the
bills.
Brady Bills Troublesome
Action may be started on the floor
of the House Monday night over the
Brady registration bills, which are sim
liar to the Daix Senate bills. Trouble
may develop from two sources.
Representative Brady, sponsor of the
bills, backed by the Penrose forces, may
call them up for third reading from the
postponed calendar where they were
placed two. weeks ago. On the other
hand the Ware forces may call up the
resolution offered by Representative
Clinton A. Sewers to withhold action
on the bills until hearing has been
held in Philadelphia.
In either event there should be n
line-u between the rival factions which
would in a way be test of strength.
While on the surface there appears to
be much hostility between the rival
factions and plenty of mo compromise
/. talk, there is feeling about the Capi-
tol that when the bills come out of
committee in the House they will be
in such shape as to meet with little real
opposition.
"a Sproul for Harmony
Governor Sproul has set himself
against any factional features in the
charter bills and has expressed the
wish that charter that would be
drafted meet with the approval of all
elements. As the Governor will have
the final say on what kind of a charter
measure goes through the House, il is
4 almost safe to predict that what he
wants will be done.
Considerable progress along those
lines were made this week when il was
pretty definitely established that the DO :
ice commissioner bill would be dropped
aud the contract clause in the charter
bill amended so as to permit the city TO
award to private contractors street
cleaning and garbage collection work on
a majority vote of the proposed single
chamber council, together with the ap-
proval Of the Mayor.
Contracts Ware Sore Spot
These. two features of the reform
legislation have been fought most siren
uousiy by the Ware forces, and the pro
posed changes are expected to molify
their opposition to some extent.
So far the Wares have indicated a
Willingness to be for whatever the Gov