Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
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BY the Ex-ConmitSeemnn

Requests have been made for a
hearing to be given on the Smith
bill amending the State Compensa-
tion code which was presented to
the Senate just before it adjourned
for the week on Wednesday and it
is probable that il will be arranged
for some day during next week. Few
bills presented to the Legislature
this session have been in greater de-
mand and legislators who have re-
mained here for the weekend have
received numerous letters from con-
stltuents asking information as to
the provisions of the measure and
the chances for it's adoption.
The plan is to have the hearings
IN the Senate committee on judiciary
special to which the bills were re-
ferred and which reported them out
for first reading Wednesday.
The various other bills relating to
compensation which have been in
troduced in the House and Senate
will be held pending action on the
smith bills, which embody many of
the features suggested in other
measures.
Final hearings will likely be held
by the House appropriations COM
mlttee during the coming week. The
members of the State Armory Board
will be here during the week to ex-
plain the plans of the Board for
construction of armories. 1t is the
| hope to provide a number of new
buildings for the new National
Guard, for which appropriations will
be made on basis of division of
| peace strength.
The question whether a COM
mittee of the House of Representa-
tives can strike from a bill an
amendment made by the House be-
! fore the bill is re-referred to COM
mittee will be threshed out on Mon
day night in the lower branch of
the Legislature when the Fox pro-
hibition enforcement bill backed by
the Anti-Saloon League is reached
on third reading. The printed copies
| or the bill, purporting to show the
Dill as amended in the Law and Or
der committee on Wednesday, were
distributed to-day and show that
the amendment Incorporating the
right of search and seizure" in
serted by Representative w. c. Alex
ander, of Delaware county, on the
moor Tuesday morning, is in the
Dill. The Law and Order committee
ordered it stricken out. Members
or the committee will attack the ac-
ton OF the printer and demand to
know by what authority the amend
ment was left in the bill Liquor in
terests were behind insertion of the
tamendment and are said to have
peen contending that they have par
Ilamentary practice on their side.
They have been having men look
up decisions of the House and will
resist the effort of the "drys" to
throw out the amendment as con-
trary to action of the committee and
scheme to make the bill un-
popular.
Members of the LEGISLATURE are
trying to dispose of something like
1000 bills at a time when the Cen
eral Assemblies of PENNSYLVANIA in
some of the years of the last three
decades have been getting ready to
adjourn finally. There We're over
l,4OO bills listed in the House when
the tlme Tor presentation of bills ex-
pred on Wednesday and five-siXths
OF them are in committee. The
Senate has over 600 bills of it's own
on its lists and quite a number of
measures passed on by the House
which will hardly ever see the light
of day. The flood of legislation this
year was not as great as in the ses-
sions of 1909, 1913 and 1917, but
has exceeded other years, and the
variety of subjects is greater than in
any session since 1913. Another
| distinctive feature about the bills in
hand is that so many are proposed
amendments to codes, which shows
10 With
fled form, there are many alterations
desired. During the coming week
there will be numerous sessions of
committees to clear up the lists, as
Speaker Spangler has called upon
the chairmen to expedite matters
and warned that in a short time the
appropriation bills will commence
to come out and that special calen-
dars will require days to clear and
that measures not acted upon soon
will have to take their chances.
Senator 7. Larry Eyre, Repub-
lfcan leader of Chester county,
serves notice in his West Chester
Record upon Clifford Pinchot that he
is not going to be permitted to boss
the Republican party in Pennsyl-
vania, says the Philadelphia Inquir-
er. Pinchots announcement that he
| is q CanQlQaLe 10 go as delegate TO
the National Convention and his
elimination for the Presidency
| prompts a tart reply. 1.-The threat
to defeat any candidate who docs
! not bear the brand of Mr.. Pinchot
and his followers is an insult to the
intelligence of the Republican vot-
| ers of the United States" says the
editor of the West Chester Record:
'it is an insult to the men who may
have political aspirations toward the
Presidency, and it is an open af-
| front to those Republicans VINO have
been true to Republican principles
and all circumstances. Mr.. Pinchot
| rails at President Wilson and says
he must be defeated if he shall
again become a candidate for the
Presidency. We agree with him.
| Or any other Democrat who is NOM
| mated must also be defeated. But,
| if Mr. Pinchot As truly DESTROYS of
| bringing about this result, he must
| throw down his club, draw in his
horns, turn face about AMI make
amends for his past actions"