Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-28
VARE UNDERTAKEN
TO DEAD AR0N BILL
Contract Street Cleaning Meas
ure to Amend Charter With
drawn on Senator'S Orders
FIREWORKS ACT IS SAVED
Bv a star Correspondent

b. a star CORE spordcrt
Harrisburg, April 2s.-The Aron bill
70 nuilify the section oi the Philadelphia
charter which permits the city to do its
own street cleaning work Is dead.z
Nv one Of those odd condolences Of
,oiitics Senator Edwin II. Ware, head Of
The Philadelphia combine, and George
~, Coles, once chairman of the Town
Meeting committee, and late chairman
~ the committee which conducted the
Moore campaign for Mayor, acted joint
" as the undertakers.
Although the incident resulted In the
burial of the Aron bill. Il provided one
NJ those humorous moments which help
10 eniiven the closing nours of the Cen
.rsl Assembly.
How Bill Was Buried
Here Is how the Aron bill was bur-
,,d by Undcrtakers Ware and Coles:
When the bill came UP on the House
second reading calendar. late last
nirht, Representative Leopold &. Glass,
thc Ware hoor leader In the House, took
the floor and asked thnt II be post
poned indefinitely.
In support OF this motion for post
ponement Representative Glass read a
telegram from Coles. 1t announced that
there was bitter opposition from the
charter revision committee.
Then It ended with the following
uathetic plea to Senator Ware, to whom
h was addressed:
II hope you will do all you can
to defeat this bill.'
The House had a good laugh, Rep
,esentatiyc Franklin Spencer Edmonds,
the Moore floor leader in the House.
sbook hands with Glass and congratu-
lated him, and the bill was given a de-
cent burial.
Fast living Is really one of the con.
tributory causes Of the death of the
measure. 1t Travelled through the Sen.
ate so fnst it lost vitality, going the
entire circuit Of the upper chamber
from the time 1t was introduced until
Il passed finally in thirty six hours.
Say Brown Opposed II
There Is some talk that Municipal
Court Judge Brown, who appears to
he very much interested in the doings
Of the LEGISLATURE, added his influence
srainst the bill in the final moments.
An eleventh hour attempt to spike the
DaiI fireworks bill and destroy It's ef-
fectIyencss failed In the House late last
night, and the bill was scheduled for
final passage today.
Representative Hugh A. Dawson, OF
Lackawanna, offered an amendment
which proposed to strike out the word
prohibit and substitute prevent.
This emasculates the bill and de-
stroys It," yelled Representative Col.
der, philadelphia, as soon as the read
Ing clerk finished reading the amend.
ment.
The House was in an uproar as mem
bets lcapcd to their feet and howled the
amendment down.
Provisions Of the bill give cities the
right to regulate the sale Of fireworks.
It's passage was advocated by Philadel-
phia city authorities and by women and
men connected with civic organizations.
1t passed the Senate, but when It
got into the House. where it was re-
ferred to the manufactures committee,
OF which Representative Hess, of Ian
caster, is chairman, It was threatened
with the "pickling.
When the administration forces seized
control of the House the fireworks bill
came out of committee along with much
other bottled up legislation.