Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
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BY the Ex-Committecman

Ter tomorrow upon it's eighth week
OF sessions with fewer bills than
usual on hand at this stage of the
olennial meetings. In the House
tne number is not much over 500,
including Senate bills passed on to
the lower branch. The Senate list
is not long.
Efforts will be made during tbe
coming week to have the hulk of
the remaining appropriation bills for
charltles presented so that the OFF,
GERS may know how to figure on
tHe appropriations for such institu
tlohs. 1t is understood that some
Oh the State administration bills
VIII also be ready for presentation
next week. '''' 'i0ii
MONDAY evening just before the
session of the House begins the
members of the Senate will present
d grand piano to Frank B. Nc
Ciain, former Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor Edward n
beldleman will make the presenta-
| ton
State Capitol departments are
not going to wait for the first of
April, the traditional fitting dav"
IN TINS part OF the State, but two
OF them viii begin moving during
the coming week with another about
10 follow, The State has leased the
OLD neutrality-suspicious. building. inst
remodeled. and it will house the
| department of Labor and Industry
ana the engineering force of the
state department of Health The
otate industrial Board and Compen-
/ rHrtII
| the Labor and Industry Depart
ment. The State Department of
Public Instruction is to be mohilized
in the Boyd building at Third and
Locust streets, used as a temporary
post office during the completion NJ
the Federal building annex and re-
modelling of the Post OfficeA The
quarters of the engineers are wanted
Tor legislative purposes, Speaker
ROBERT 5. Spangler having served
! notice that his committees want
more room right away. The Labor
and Industry and Engineers will
| move in week. There was n nIon
to move the State Fire MarshaTs
office, too, but Marshal Howard T,
Butz dug up a law which proSI.jes
| that his office must be in the Can't
tol and he stays.
concerning the overthrow of
the Republicans in the Westmore.
land-Butler congressional district
the Philadelphia Press says: "At
the recent caucus of the Republican
conferees from the two counties
much feeling was aroused because
Westmoreland would not listen to
the demands of the Butler people.
and tho frior1g
are charging that the adherents of
Levi NJ. Wise, of Butler, who sought
the nomination on the Republican,
ticket, laid down and, allowed Will
son to get such lead in his county
that they could not offset it. Jan1i-
son adherents claim the majority, of
nearly 1000 votes for the Democratic
candidate in Butler does not show
as If the Republicans in that county
had worked very hard for the party
nominee. In the Twenty-second
District, in 1916. Robbins received
1878 votes to 1876 by his oppo-
nent, Silas A. Kane. About sixty
per cent. of the normal vote was cast
on Tuesday, and Wilson, Democrat
received 10,150 votes and Jamison
9570. 1t is only the second time
since the two counties were CON
solidated that a Democrat has been
sent to Congress"
Mayor e. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, is home from the Washing
ton conference determined to hasten
an election on the proposed bond is
sue, and to get the work on public
improvements begun this summer
The mayor wants public works to
j aid the reconstruction of industry
and commerce and provide work for
the unemployed. Delay is crimi-
nal" said the mayor. 1--WE can easily
get started on public works in the
summer. If we hasten the bond
election. We ought to have the cleo