Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-31
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BY the Ex-Committeenan

sylvania for 1919 will enter upon
week on Monday with date for final
adjournment not yet agreed upon
by the two houses and the appropria-
ton bills yet to be reported out.
This will be the third session of this
decade to extend into June, those
of 1913 and 1917 having gone until
the last week of the month. Other
sessions which lasted until June were
1879, 1881, 1888, 1885, 1898, 1895,
and 1901, all being closed early in
the month, except the latter which
was prolonged until June 81. The
session of 1897, the year when the
session was interrupted by the burn
ing of the old Capitol, adjourned
July l, the only July session since
1912, when the session lasted from
January 4 to July 27.
The calendars of both houses for
the coming week are large and the
Senate contains a number of i'm
portant bills, such as changes in the
compensation code, the State police
department reorganiZer, increase of
salary for members of the Legisla-
ture, effective in 1921, and constitu-
tional amendments. There are eleven
bills on the postponed calendar.
The House has fifty-six bills on
its postponed calendars, the largest
number in a long period of time.
Twenty- mine of these are on the final
passage stage, and a meeting of
the Rules Committee to discuss the
| situation will be held during the
week. There are forty-four bills
on the third reading calendar fer
Monday night in addition to thirty
one on second reading.
While various things are being
said in Philadelphia newspapers
about the prospects on the charter
legislation, it is declared by men who
have been observing the situation,
that the coming of UEited States
Senator, Boies Penrose. will clarity
1t and that in the end the charter
revision people will get most of what
they ask. The Governor and the
Senator are not out of accord as
some publications indicate, it is said
by people close to both, but that
they have very definite ideas of what
should be provided for the govern
ment of the city if it's people see fit
to use it.
The district attorney and other
bills will be passed during the COM
ing week. and one prediction heard
about the Capitol, is that if the jock
eying goes on there may be a revival
or the police commissioner bill
The State Police bill which has
been much amended is due to pass
finally during the coming week. The
rehabilitation bill, which has been
changed so that it will not cost the
State big sum of money and apply
only to people hurt in Pennsylvania
and living here, will be acted upon
IN the Senate next week.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
which has been devoting much at
tention to the philadelphia Charter
legislation is inclined to "go after.
Governor Sproul. In an extended
review of the situation it says! De
velopments in the General Assembly
during the week will definitely estab-
lish the status of Governor Sproul.
If the Sproul administration is a
Ware administration and Mr.. Sproul
factional Governor, allied with the
forces which not only are opposed to
| clean government in Philadelphia
but seek to extend their power
throughout the State, full acknowl-
edgment will be found in decisions
which the Executive must make
! sion bills and other bills to make
the. new charter effective. So far
the Wares have had the best of the
/ game. The Independent-P -Penrose
leadership has been fiouted. Delay,
secrecy and confidential negotiations
with the Wares have postponed not
only enactment of the charter bill,
but all legislation of Importance,
and the final result has been the
elimination from the Woodward
bill of a cardinal principle of re-
form and verbal disapproval by the
Governor of the chief reform bills
sponsored by the Penrose leadership.
| Those measures are the bills calling
for the appointment of a police COM
missioner for Philadelphia and for
dismissal of the Care-controlled
Board of Registration Commission
ers."
Calculations to see how appro-
priation bills carrying more than
| $125, 900, 900 can be made to fit in
less than $90,0O0,000 are being made
by members of the House Appropria-
tions Committee as a preliminary to
reporting out the hundreds of bills
for charitable, educational and sim
liar institutions and objects. While
| no QeleTHllIldlIOH mas Deen redCneQ
as to how much money can be ap-
propriated it is believed that the
| 5000, 900 limit mentioned by Gov
ernor William c. Sproul will stand
in the long run as Auditor General
Charles A. Snyder is confident he
can raise that sum if given the leg
islation he asks. The revision will
be made as soon as possible and
considered by men active in legisla-
tive affairs during the coming week
and the Governor will then have q
further conference with fiscal Of
ficers. 1t is the plan at the Capitol
tc clear up the revenue problem next
week and have appropriation bills
moving the following week.
Representatives of employers
from all over the State are coming
here next week to protest against
the compensation bill in it's present
form and the self insurers tax.
Still Faithful TO SfU0rfso