Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
CHARITIES ASK
s7,OOO,OOO
Huge Sum Carried by Bills
For Those Not Under Con-
troll of the Commonwealth

Appropriations asked by hospitals,
homes and similar institutions not
under States control will aggregate
close to $4,000 judging from the
appropriation bills already in hand
State and semi-State institutions will
run considerably higher owing to
the requirements for new buildings,
including the two new State insane
hospitals and the home for inebri-
ates and drug victims.
Chairmen of the legislative ap-
preparations committees discovered
these facts when they began their
check-up of the bills in hand last
night. Comparison with the appro-
priation list of 1917 showed that
a number of bills had not yet come
in. The State Board of Public
Charities recommended $3.50. 466
for non State hospitals. a reduction
OF over S2,O00,0O0 of what was ask
ed for maintenance and refused all
requests for building appropriations
which amounted to S2.429,S00;
recommending also S1,360,6S6.2O for
homes, etc. and S1S5,200 for sani-
toria. The policy of the appropria-
tions committees will be to refuse
all building requests.
Details of the general appropria-
ton bill will be taken up this week
with State officials by Chairman w
j. McCaig, of the House committee,
who is working with Chairman A.
+. DaiN. Jr, of the Senate commit
tee. Some cuts in departmental ap-
preparations are a certainty.
Chairman +. F. Jones. of the Sem
ate committee on agriculture, will
ask for speedy action on the bill to
reorganize the Depa rtment of Agri-
culture. which he will introduce to-
night. Secretary Frederik Rasmus-
sen will meet Chairman McCaig dur
ing the week TO discuss the items
in his budget which is the largest
drawn up for the department. and is
designed to cover the increased ac-
tiNities
The bill to make Workmen's
Compensation separate depart
ment from the Labor and Industry
Department is due to appear this
week. together with some bills for
changes in administration.
The bills urged by the miners for
changes in the rate of compensa-
ton and other features of the COM
pensation law will proba bly, follow
the boards bills. AS yet no agree
ment upon the points made by the
members of the district boards at
their meeting with the Governor
and Attorney General has been an
nounced.
Members OF the House are being
canVassed very thoroughly by men
who want the Brady primary and
registration bills sent back to COM
mittee and by those who want them
to stay on the calendar. The bills
were ordered reported out Wednes-
day after a stormy meeting of the
elections committee and the Ware
men want them sent back on the
assurance that all they want is a
hearing. The Brady bills will be on
first reading this evening and the
uCht to recommit will start as soon
as they pass that stage. 1t is said
TO he the scheme of the Ware men
10 have them held up until action is
had on the measures to take police
men and firemen out of politics.
sponsored by John r. X. Scott.
There is little doubt that Gov
crnor William c. Sproul can get all
the support he wants in the Legisla-
lure for any measure he may desire
10 effectively investigate the cause
for the proposed advance in the
price Of domestic sizes of anthra-
ute. Members returning 10 the city
declared that they had found the
Governors move a popular one and
that they We're only waiting to hear
what the Attorney General recon-
mCuded.
The death OF DIR. Nathan C.
Schacffer. State superintendent of
Public instruction. will be followed
by some radical legislation affecting
education. it is believed. The super
intendent's death will temporarily
stop the proposed inquiry. but the
plans for a general overhauling of
the whole educational system are
being matured.
The bill for the survey of water
resources now on second reading in
the House will likely go to the ap-
propriations committee. 1t carries
100000 and was reported out by
the forestry committee. which also
reported out the forestry depart
ment reOrganiZer.