Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
PseHsca e.,
Psn~atesania
BY the Ex-Committceman

z07, while thirteen of the fifty SEN
ators are members of the legal pro-
fession. Physicians are not
numerous In this legislature as they
nave been in many years gone by,
| there being only two in the Senate
and six In the House. Second place
Is held by the farmers, the House
having twenty-five and the Senate
one tiller of the soil. The Senate
mas eight manufacturers, the House
nine.
Alexander S. Cooper, assistant
Senate librarian, has compiled a
list showing the occupations of the
members and 1t is ~an interesting
study of the callings of the men
chosen to the Legislature.
The vocations of the senator's in
ADDITION to those given are bankeps.
merchants and contractors, each
three; publishers and druggists two
each and one each of the following:
Broker, general agent. prothonotary,
automobile dealer, policeman, farm
er' lumberman, congressman, coal
operator, manager, Inspector, in
surance man and oil producer with
one man who has retired. 1t is an
unusually long list of occupations
for senators and remarkably varied.
In the House there are in addi-
ton to the attorneys, farmers, ply
sicians and manufacturers enumer-
ated, fourteen merchants and twelve
clerks; seven managers and seven
statesmen and six insurance agents.
The educators are represented by
six teachers and the railroad work
ers by four conductors and one
brakeman. There are three den
lists and two druggists, three nc
countants and three inspectors and
the same number of superintend-
ents, brokers and publishers, while
three clergymen, the highest num-
Der In years, are on the list. Two
representatives gave their occupa-
tions as retired and there are two
each of the following: Bankers.
contractors, real estate men, secre-
tary and treasurer, oil producers,
miners and what are given as legal
representatives" Two men are put
down as "unclassified." There is one
each of the following: Agent, con-
veyancer. coal dealer. deputy cor
oner, editor, surveyor. civil engineer,
cashier, miller. electrician. Y. NJ. C.
A. secretary, teamster, superintend-
ent, court officer, with one carpen-
ter and one builder to represent the
construction trades; a we'll driller.
a foreman. veterinarian, confec-
toner, stock dealer. printer, plumb
er. hotel keeper, bookkeeper and
one metal worker. One man stated
he was gentleman"
The legislative session of 1919,
which will get down to business
next week after the Inauguration of
Governor-elect William c. Sproul
and the announcement of the COM
mittees, is not going to want for
bills judging from what has been
already heard about the State Capt.
tol. Without counting in any ad-
ministration legislation which the
new Governor may have in mind. to
place some departments of the state
government on more :.=siness like
basis, there are over 900 in sight
now. The departments of the state
government will await the launching
of the new administration before
placing their legislative programs
before the new Governor. The State
Legislative Reference Bureau has
thus far put over $50 bills into legis-
lative form. This bureau has made
a speciality of this work the last half
dozen years and Director James n.
Moore and his capable assistant,
John Fl. Fertig, have been inundated
by legislators asking that provisions
supplied by them be put into proper
shape for presentation to the Legis-
lature. Nono of the work of this
bureau is ever made public and
bills drawn are regarded as conf
dental, but the number sent in thus
far has been most impressive and il
anything, Indicative of q busy ses-
sion.
Th0 e4a 70
wise the banking, penal and insur-
ance laws will have extensive bills
and the old age pension, health in
surance and other commissions will
present reports and legislation.
Changes in third class city, borough
and township codes are expected to
be presented early. n
The Republican Steering Commit
tee, meeting this week at State
headquarters in Philadelphia yester-
day in announcing that Senator
Sterling r. Catlin, of Wilkes Barre.
would sbe named chairman of the
Senate Committee on Elections
caused no great surprise.
Senator Catlin succeeds the late
Senator James p. McNichol as the
head of the Elections Committee,
one of considerable Importance
There was some talk that Senator
William ]. McNichOl. son of the late
Senator. would succeed his father.
but this was not taken very ser
iously as 1t would be a violation of
precedent to bestow such an honor
on new member.
sSenator Max Leslie has done very
well for the Allegheny delegation.
Their score yesterday was four SEN
ate and three House chairmanships.
The Senate chairmanships are Nor
man A. Whitten, Canals and Inland
Navigation; William w. MearkIe,
Pensions and Gratuitiess CadwaI-
lader M. Barr, Militray Affairs, and
w. Crawford Murdoch. legislative
Apportionment. The House chair
manships are Carl c. Baldridge.
Legislative Apportionment; William
]. Mangan, Labor and Industry and
William + Stadlander, Municipal
Corporations.
These assignments leave Senator
Leslie himself and Morris Einstein
without chairmanships. However;
they have the compensation of being
placed on almost all of the import
ant committees of the Senate, which
means more in q practical way.
George w. Williams. of Tioga, yes
terday sent q telegram to the State
Committee. saying he had seen his
name mentioned in the newspapers
as the possible choice of the organ
ization for chairman of the Com