Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-22
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By the Ex-Committeeman

| Pennsylvania Legislature which
has just completed one month of
business sessions has just S25 bills
oe1ore it. Three bills have reached
the desk of he Governor, one car
rylng the money to meet deticien-
cles in the State government, hav-
ing been approved. Both branches
have heavy calendars and there will
De much activity in the committees
during the coming week. Practi-
cally every committee of the House
which has bills in its charge will
meet next week.
Senator I. L. Eyre, Chester, leads
the senator's in number of bills pre-
sented, having introduced eighteen
of the 25S in hand. Senator II. w.
Schantz, Lehigh, is next with six
teen, followed by Senator c., w.
Sassaman, Berks, with fifteen and
Senator A. +. Doax, Philadelphia,
with thirteen.
On the House side, where there
have been 572 bills presented, Repre-
sentative j. A. Walker, Philadelphia.
leads with eighteen, a numer- of
Representative w. +. Stadtlander,
Allegheny, is second with fifteen;
Representative James A. Dunn,
Philadelphia, third with thirteen,
and William Davis, Cambria, fourth
with eleven.
Next Tuesday for the first time in
decades Pennsylvania will have two
special elections for senators to sue
ceed the members of the upper
branch of the Legislature Who were
chosen governor and lieutenant gov
ernor by the people. The elections
will no hold In nannhtr nnIn
ware counties. Radnor township,
Delaware, will have special cleo
ton on a debt increase the same
day. On March Il special cleo
ton to choose congressman to sue
ceed the late +. E. Robbins, of
Greensburg, will be held in the
Westmoreland-B Butler district. The
Republicans will win.
Duplicate inspection by attaches
of various branches of the State
government is to be ended by eX-
ecutive order in a very short time.
Since Governor William C. Sproul
took Office some Investigations have
been made as to whether the prac.
tice turned up a year or so ago of
men connected with various depart
ments and, indeed, inside of some
departments, duplicating work, and
the result is said to have been the
discovery that the practive thrived
last year and was being continued.
In some instances it has been cur.
tailed, but enough has been unearth-
ed to demonstrate that some of it is
still going on and orders from the
Governors office to stop it are
likely to be sent out shortly. The
duplication of inspection work has
been found to exist in the depart
ment of health and labor and indus
try. Health department attaches
have gone into industrial and hotel
establishments which have also been
under the supervisory eyes of fac
tory inspectors and in some instances
virtually the same work. has been
done. Reports of similar character
on identical features have been
found.
One of the results may be that
the whole system of inspection in
these departments may be brought
under a system of coordination and
limitations placed whereby the men
Will not tramp at each others heels.
1t is also possible that some system
of interchange of reports which
would do away with the lost mo-
ton" may be devised.
Discovery by some of the rural
members who remain here for the
week ends that a number of the
bills they presented have not vet
been lifted from the offices of the
clerks of the House of Representa-
tives by chairmen of committees in
spite of the admonition of Speaker
Robert S. Spangler for them to get
to work bids fair to precipitate
some action next week. Literally
dozens of bills were found not to
have been taken out after being re-
ferred and when this was found out,
after the speaker had urged chair
men to get the legislation commit
ted to them, caused much unfavor-
able continent.
The chances are that the Offend
ing chairmen will be called to ac-
count when they arrive Monday
and that there will be more meet
ings of committees next week than
in any week. Whether the men,
bers will get ont their bills is a
question. Speaker Spangler in his
statements has asked for action. not
necessarily favorable action, but to
get the committees to work on bills.
Many OF the measures in hand will
not see the light of day and a few
which We're much advertised are
now thought to- be contrary to some
administration ideas.
Battle signals were being flown
here today by members of the State
Teachers League against the propo-
sitions of Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder for a new minimum salary
list for teachers and they will be
here to combat it on the ground that
rural teachers would get most of
the benefits and that ii would give
parsimonious school boards too
much control. The league is com
posed of teachers from all over the
State and put through the retire
ment bill and is backing measures
to give teachers increased salaries.
Mr.. Snyder has advocated a plan
which would call for about $1,000
600 yearly from the State in addi-
ton to what 1t now gives, but BEN
eft over $4,000 teachers. There
have haan some SIIRQasff0na af a