Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-25
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BY the Ex.CommitteemAiS

! the passase OF the Bolard bill is the
result of one of it's action. The Sc
iecuon or this committee is said to
nave followed a conference last
week in Philadelphia of Governor
| Sproul. Senator William +. Grow,
ehe republican State chairman, and
Sehator Penrose. Charter bills, the
ware measures revising certain forms
oI municipal government and the
brady bills to revise the registration
laws are understood to have been
considered at the first conference.
AS announced last week a decision
was reached to get the Legislature
uoWh TO business and fix the date oR
ao!ournment as early as possible.
II is expected that the House Rules
committee will put in q resolution
| next week setting the date of ad-
Journment as May Is.
| -ihe new steering committee held
d meeting last evening before the
Legislature reconvened and the word
| went forth that the Dawson and Bo-
lar, Iard bllls were to be reconsidored.
| They We're
a "A decision is said to have been
| reached at the conference opainst
the repeal of any of the nonnarti-
san laws except he law affecting
second class cities. The fate of this
measure will be left up to the mem
oers from those cities.
an agreement is still being
sought on the Brady bills. Action
mas been withheld pending an effort
! 70 br1ng the rival Penrose and Ware
iactlons together When the meas
ures We're reached last night on the
rouse third reading calendar they
| we're not called up 1t Is understood
tnat two of the measures, the one
simplifying the ballot and the other
settlng back the date OF the primary.
are to be killed The third bill, the
one which would rip out the board
OF registration commissioners in
Fhlladelphia, is the subject of the
proposed agreement A compromise
may be reached by which it would
De amended to suit all factions
Two bills regulating election of
councilmen in second and third class
cltles Were presented in the House
last night by Mr. Dawson, I.acka-
wanna. One provides for a return
In second class cities to the system
or electing mayors, councilmen and
CITY controllers on party tickets,
present officials are to hold Office
until successors are chosen. The
nonparusan election feature of the
ACT OF 1913 as far as it relates to
second class cities is repealed.
me third class city bill provides
that no councilmen shall be elected
i'll 1919, but in 1921 two shall be
elected for four years and two for
two years and thereafter all shall
be elected for four years. The non
partisan elective feature is not dis
turbed.
The Wilson bill repeating the
nonpartisan clause in the third class
city code was sent back to the NUM-
cipal affairs committee for a hear
ing which is to be held next Tues
day.
ALL persons holding salaried
positions in third class cities includ-
ing city clerks are placed under
civil service in a bill introduced by
Representative Reber, Schuylkin.
Representative Bidelspacher, Ly-
coming, presented a bill to fix the
spring primary, held in even num-
bered years, from the third Tuesday
in May to the first Tuesday in June.
"A bill providing that prece-
dence on two nonpartisan State wide
judicial ballot shall be determined
by lot before the Secretary of the
Commonwealth was presented in the
House by Representative Palmer.
Schuylkill.
Representative Millar, Dauphin.
presented bill to put various legis-
lative employees now paid by the day
on a salary of $50 per month.
DR.. William d. Lewis, William
Penn High School, Philadelphia, is
being mentioned for superintendent
of Public Instruction.
Tho Scranton PannI,Iioo,, .o,,,.
When Ben Eynon quits the service
of Lackawanna county as chief clerk
to the com misSioners on April /.
next, TO take a position as chief
registrar in the automobile division
of the State Highway Department,
Lackawanna county will lose an en-
ploye who has given it most ex-
cellent service during a period of
nearly ten years The office of chief
clerk to the county commissioners is
most eXacting position that calls
for business ability of a high order
and great tact. These qualities Mr..
Eynon has in a large degree and he
is moreover Il master of the difficult
| art of systematizing a business so
that the highest degree of efficiency
can be maintained. Mr.. Eynon is
! good natured and good tempered.
makes friends readily and altogether
is the kind of person the public
| likes to do business with. His sue
cessor will have q considerable order
| on hand to fill the position as we'll
as Mr.. Eynon does.
1t is probable that a successor to
Mr.. Eynon will be named within a
| few days. The men most promin-
emily mentioned for the berth are
| Hon. William J. Thomas, former
| member of the Legislature and for
| some time past a clerk in the COM
missioners' office, and Irving Lewis
who is also a clerk in the commits
sioners' office. 1t is probable that
| Mr.. Lewis will be named. He has
had some years of experience in the
commissioners office specializing on
matters connected with the assess
mept of property.
The Philadelphia Inquirer in an
| interesting character sketch of the
! late Senator Sterling r. Catlin, of
| Wilkes Barre, tells how he came to
| get into politics under the old third
| class city laws. Incidentally the
Inquirer says:
| Senator Catlin never married. He
occupied a town house and had a
| fine old-fashioned home on his farm.
He spent much time on his farm
when health permitted, and while
| farm work in general pleased him,
| horses were his hobby. The Senator
| liked race horses and was never
/ without several of them. On his
farm he built a private racetrack,
kept trainers and handlers there and