Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-06

portant theme" said he.
THAT so," remarked the member
"Glad to hear it. Where was the
man speaking?"
"At Wernersville," replied Mr..
| Mackrell gravely.
"Well, the folks are getting real
interested" commented the states
man.
Some Pittsburghers are hard
headed. The other evening one of
the Allegheny delegation picked up
a bill containing the latest offering
for a State song. Reading aloud he
quoted within the shade of Fort
Duquesne in peace the farmer sows
his grain"
"Why," said the outraged man
from the confluence of the western
rivers of PENNSYLVANIA "You
couldn't grow ragweed there. There's
nothing there but railroad tracks"
Some people have no sense of
poetry.
A good story is going the rounds
about a Democratic member of the
House. There are just 23 Demo-
Gratis in the House and the member
is intensely partisan. The other day
one of his colleagues was away, sick.
The member was urged to ask leave
of absence for him. ooh, no." he
| replied. I'VE might need his vote"
John ]. Casey, former legis1a-
tor here, who is back in Congress
as the member from LuZerne, was
at the Capitol yesterday. He severed
his connection with the Emergency
Fleet Corporation on the eve of his
assuming his duties in the House.
There is nice league of nations
controversy on in Scranton between
J. Benjamin Dimmick, who tried
for the Republican United States
senatorial nomination in 1914, and
Cornelius Comegys, Lackawanna
lawyer and a candidate for the su-
perior court, some years ago. Mr..
as now drafted. Mr.. Comegys is
with President Wilson on the propo-
sition.
Dolly G.. O'Dea, Lackawanna's s
only woman lawyer, is sitting as
commissioner in the McLane-F -Farr
congressional contest at Scranton.
Farr, the contestant, has submitted
his evidence. McLane, who took his
seat Tuesday, has forty days to air
his side. Then comes Farr's testi-
mony in rebuttal.
Members of the States Senators
Association of Pennsylvania will be
the guests of former Senator Clarence
J. Wolf, of Philadelphia, at a lun-
cheon and smoker in the Mercantile
Club, Philadelphia, tonight. The
membership of the association is
comprised of Senator'S and former
| Senators.
Members of the Legislature
| were today devoting some atten-
ton to the Palmer bills to amend
| the eseheat laws which are awaiting
action in the Senate committee on
| finance after having passed the
House. 1t is estimated that while
they would clarity and overcome de-
| fects in the escheat acts which are
now in litigation that they would
be very profitable to informants.
When the bills were passing the
! House Mr.. Palmer stated that they
would bring a million dollars into
the treasury, but the members are
| inquiring as to what fees the State
would have to pay to get the money.
Concerning the suffrage propo-
sition the Pittsburgh Gazette-T Times
says:
"The suffragists are preparing to
make drive for the passage of the
presidential vote bill, as they receive
quicker action by that route than
through amending the Constitution
They will, however, ask also for the
contitutional amendment The suff-
ragists say that they have the opin-
| ions of George Wharton Pepper, of
| Philadelphia and a prominent Pitts
| burgh lawyer that the presidential
act is constitutional. The women
have endeavored to secure an opin-
ion from Attorney General William
| 1. Shaffer, but he has informed them
that he cannot give any advice until
! the measure is in the hands of the
Governor for approval. He told
them the only way they could have
the question determined is to enact
the proposed law and have it re-
viewed by the courts. His advice
has been accepted, and the bill will
| be introduced within short time
The Philadelphia Inquirer
praises Judge John Monaghan for
severity in sentences in Philadel-
phia and says: 1T is notice to
criminals that we have on our own
bench at least one Judge who will
show no mercy to brutal criminals.
Those who terrorize helpless men
and women at the point of a pistol
really have murder in their hearts,
and they deserve to be treated ac-
cordingly. It is encouraging to
know that those who invoked the
technicalities of the law in order
to avoid the country judge have
Jared even worse at the hands of
/ Judge Monaghan. The punishment
! has been made to fit the crime"