Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-04
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BY tho Ex-Committeeman

IidClSu the session INTO WdTDi
weather, seem about to be verified.
The proceedings last night when the
ware forces started to contest every
move have attracted Statewide at
tention and will have an interest for
every county.
Presence of Senator Boies Pen
rose here during the final stage will
make things of nnsudl interest, rs
the Senator is determined to put
through the charter bill and the
registration bill. The Ware people
have been industriously making
combinations among upstate mem
! bers, but the vote on the Powell
motion to suspend rules last night
showed them to be rather weak.
/ The session will end on June 20.
declare members who predict that
the appropriation bills will hold the
center of the stage for fortnight
and then will come the wind up.
Aspirants for appointment under
this administration have got to come
without shadows This was made
apparent yesterday when candi-
date for a Pittsburgh manic
appointment was given chllls. AL
| dernan Louis Alpern resigned re-
Gently. Yesterday Sumer Sumer-
man. former legislator appeared
with Senators Max Leslie and w.
| w. Mearkle at the Governors office
| to secure the appointment. Secretary
Harry S. McDevitt inquired whether er
| Sumerman had not gotten tangled
up with the State pure food laws
and whether some matters we've not
| pending. AS result of the inquiry,
! the papers were handed back with
| the information that there was
nothing doing in such cases.
The Legislative Correspondents
! Association, which will have it's
biennial dinner tonight, dates from
1895, and every correspondent who
has been engaged in reporting the
sessions since then for newspapers
or the big press associations, has
had to pass his credentials before
the members. Many of the proIni-
nent newspapermen of the State
have been members of the organiza-
ton, which reorganizes at the start
of every session and requires every
correspondent to submit his papers.
The Nickerman and Fox prohi-
bition enforcement bills were made
special orders of the House for next
tuesday morning by the House at
the night session. The first will
come up at 10:45 and the other,
ten minutes later. This arrange,
ment was made at the conclusion of
a day filled with rumors that action
would be asked on various liquor
bills. The fight over such bills Will
be staged next week.
Chairman w. j. McCaig, of the
House appropriation committee, is
planning to get some of the char
liable institution appropriation bills
Grafu l.
for this week. There is talk of a
Thursday morning session to receive
the bills. This would bring them
up for final action next week, when
they will probably be made special
orders. The following week, the
House will begin to receive appro-
priation bills from the Senate and
the rush preparatory to adjourn
ment will begin.
amendments to the com pensa-
ton code proposed in the admins
tration bill may be changed as the
result of series of conferences of
employers with the Governor and
Attorney General. The employers
nave asked for a change in the
basis of computation, but the ad-
mlhistration officials wish to retain
the increased percentages. Tt Is
VIC VIII ne de-
termined before the Legislature re-
conVenes next week.
The Bungard bill, increasing
salaries of assistant district attor-
neys in Westmoreland and other
counties OF similar population, has
oeen recalled from the Governor If
is said that the Governor found
objections to it.
-'Governor Sprouts statement
that he does not see anv occasion
10 enact any new taxation Ieeisla
ton, In view of the estimates bv
the Auditor General that with legis-
latlon asked he can raise $4,000. 900
IN two years. is taken to mean that
the tax on manufacturing capital
VIII be abandoned. Whether the
proposed tax on self insurers under
the compensation law will be given
up has not been determined II was
opposed to-day by employers.
john c. Winston. Chairman OF
the Philadelphia charter revision
committee, issued statement that
he did not doubt that the bill in
its present form would be passed
and be signed by the Governor.
-Governor Sproul last night an
nounced approval of the three much
discussed Philadelphia district at
torney bills. which passed the House
Monday night and which were the
occasion of lively hearing by
Senate committee. The chief bill
provides that the Philadelphia dis
trict attorney shall have his own
force of detectives and not be de-
pendent upon the city authorities
for such service. He is to name a
chief county detective at $4,000.
assistant at $4,000 and fourteen de-
tectives at s175 per month. The
second bill provides for four assist
ant district attorneys, making four
teen in all. The chief assistant is
to receive $500 per year. the SAL
aries of others being graded. The
third bill fixes the fees of the dis
trict attorney.
Owing to rush of matters, Gov
ernor Sproul has been compelled to
decline number of invitations to
speak this week. The Governor
plans to be here until tomorrow
evening and most of next week.
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