Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
NEAR BEER" IS
GIVEN
House Gets 1t Tangled Up
With the Brooks High
License Law

"Ntar beer" legislation gave the
House some enjoyment at the night
session before it was voted down by
a vote of 81 to 76. Messrs. Wallace,
Lawrence, and Boland, Crawford.
discussed the beverage and its re-
lation to the Brooks high license
law, with MIR. Powell, Luzerne, the
sponsor. Mr.. Davis. Cambria. de-
clared a better concoction was the
old time spring and fail tonic that
mother used to make" The bill
would have legalized sale of bev-
erases containing less than one-half
of one per cent of alcohol.
Resolutions were adopted at the
opening of the night session of the
House for three sessions on Thurs
day, to be held at 10, and $50.
The Senate bill amending the
prison labor law was negatively re-
ported.
The Bigier physical education bill
fell in the House at the evening ses-
sion, receiving fourteen short of the
majority required.
The Senate bill regulating suits
and claims against the State was
amended in minor details and laid
over.
Second reading bills were then
passed and the House took up third
reading bills, over fifty being on the
calendar.
Scott Stirs House
Unusual points of order raised by
John R. K. Scott, Philadelphia. en-
lfvened the night session of the
presented by Mr.. Hess, Lancaster,
forbidding persons not admitted to
pracrice law from soliciting or In
duc:ng any person to prosecute a
suit for damages, as a duplicate OF
one negatived by the judiciary spe-
cial committee. The bill objected to
was on the calendar and was killed.
TIE situation was that the first Hess
bill was ordered negatived by the
committee. but held over for a hear
ing and then again ordered mega
lively reported, but the member
having it failed to report. Mr.. Hess
meanwhile presented a similar bill
and had it sent to the committee OF
which he is chairman, which report
ed il out Mr.. Scott held that the
jud ciary committees action stood,
but was overruled. He then tried to
report out the first bill with a mega
tive recommendation, but Mr.. Hess
objected. Mr.. Scott next held that
the second bill was improperly on
the calendar, but was again over
ruled. The bill was then defended
by Mr.. Hess as an "anti-ambulance
chaser" but the House voted 1t
down.
The House defeated the Daix bill
exempting principals from the teach
ers' retirement act and recommitted
the industrial farm bill and that for
bidding fees or allowances to in
mates of prisons or reformatories.
Rim Wins Again
The House passed the Rim bill
abolishing grade crossings at the rate
of one a year for each forty miles
after the biennial fun over the meas
ure. This bill has been UP at three
sessions. 1t had Just one more vote
than needed
Other bills passed were:
Forbtdding changes of names of
persons without court proceedings.
Making an appropriation to the
Indiana
Exempting from taxation public
property, churches and burial places.
Senate bill providing for con-
demnation of lands for forest re-
serves.
Fixing pay of attendance officers
in first class school districts at not
less than $1,000.
Regulating publication of game,
fish and forestry laws.
Authorizing boroughs to make sep
arate grades for cartways and side
walks.
During the evening the heat be-
came so intense that electric fans
were brought into the hall and at
tached to lighting fixtures near the
clerks.
The House defeated the bill for
clerks of courts to issue hunters Ii
censes and passed that regulating
buildings along streets between two
boroughs.
Just before adjournment the House
voted down the Sewers bill providing
for annuIment of marriages of
minors who wed without parents
consent and who never lived to-