1 i w . - )' 1 f u f '5 (I J i v I v. r? i' I 'I V : K i !N . VARE MAY FORCE PENROSE TO YIELD Governor's Friends Gain Up per Hand by Penrose Blunders in Senate CLAIMS ARE IN CONFLICT Both Factions Insist They Could Have Way, -but Facts Aro Doubtful Dv n fl(UT Cormpondcnt t HAIUUSBUIIO, Jan. 31. Tho Vare Brumbaugh forces won the second, round In the Investigation battle this week untf aro now "on top." Thla was the conscnsus-jof opinion here today notwithstanding the claims and counter-claims that were put out by both camps today as to the ultimate (ato of the Sprout resolution. The Administration forces, after hating lost In committee, gained tho advantage over Senator Penrose and his lieutenants In tho Legislature, who want to probe Into the. administration of Governor Brumbaugh and the" various departments of the State Government, through two legislate o "mis plays" by the Tenroso leaders. They were: First Tactical errors mado by the Sen ate Penrose leaders. Second. Loose wording of the probe resolution. The Sproul resolution Is so ague in Us wording and Is on Its face such a "Lexow," giving the proposed commission the broad est possible powers, that tho Var-Brum-baugh leaders at once opened their cam paign against It on this score. FAVORED FAIH PROBE They declared, nt the opening of last week's sesson, that they favored a probe, but one that would be "fair." They then proposed amendments to the resolution, the nrlnelnal one of which was the Salus amend ment, which Senators Salus and Vare tried to have the Appropriations Committee of yie Senate adopt. It was voted down, 23 to 10. The Salus amendment would hae elim inated perjury on the part of witnesses who might testify before tho commission. Senator Sproul himself privately admits that the defeat of the amendment was a big tactical mistake on the part of the Pen rose forces. The Vare Brumbaugh leaders had gone on record as favoring a "fair" Investigation To permit them to amend the resolution In their own way through this amendment would have forced them to sup port the resolution without having tho scope of the probo seriously Interfered with. On top of this, the Penrose leaders made 'another mistake In not postponing action When the resolution came up on second read ing In the Senate Monday night, when there were not enough Penrose votes In tho faenate to give Penrose a majority. i The fact that the resolution Is. so worded that It gives the proposed commission power to probe Mayor Smith, Major Arm strong, of Pittsburgh; the burgess of any borough In trie State or even any constable, also probably lost votes for It. The State Senators began to hear from their con otltuents, who perhaps were a llttlo afraid of the threatened Investigation, and several o(cs were changed In this way, according to political experts'vCho havo been observing the course of the Sproul resolution closely. Today both sides are making c'alms about the fate of the resolution next Mon day night, when It again Is on the calendar for third reading and final passage In the Senate before It goes to tho House. PENROSE'S BIO CLAIMS ' The renrose leaders say they are sure of between twenty-nine and thirty-one votes for the measure. They Include in their claims, "at least" twenty Republican Sena tors and nine Democratic Senators They assert that eiery Democrat except Stewart, who voted for postponement on Monday night, will line up with the Penrose forces for an Investigation along the lines Pen v. rose has mapped out. The Democrats undoubtedly, according to the Indications they have given, are heart and soul for a probe of the Gover nor, but the Vare-Brumbaugh leaders re fuse to" concede that Penrose can line up nine of the ten Democratic Senators The administration leaders nre declaring today not only that Senator Stewart will vote against tho resolution If it is called tip next Monday night, but that Senator Ilindman, of Claijlon, who vofed for the Salus amendment In committee, will also vote against the probe. The Vare-Brumbaugh leaders- also say that two of the Democratic Senators whh voted with the Penrose forces against postponement Monday night have switched and will -vote against the resolution. They also say their forces have not been broken Into by Penrose. It would appear, to Bitt It all up, that Penrose will have twenty-seven votes for the Sproyl resolution next Monday night, provided all of the fifty members of the Senate aro present ' The Democrats are -"making hay while the sun shines" during the fight over the Sproul resolution. They have prepared an other Investigation resolution of their own, and are prepared to offer It to tho Legis lature for the Republlcansto support If the Sproul resolution Is defeated. One Interesting feature of the vote on the Sproul resolution Is the newly-dls-coyered 'fact that C. William Beales, of Gettysburg, who was elected to the Senate last November, has pot jet been sworn In. Beales has retained his seat In Congress from the York-Adams district. When the eg(slature organized on January 2, he was In his seat In the Senate Chamber, but dflV not go to the president's desk to be sworn In. The Penrose forces are making every effort to have him resign from Congress and. bring h'lm Into the Senate before next Monday night. s Both sides. In fact, will bring all the pressure they can to bear upon all mem bers of the Senate befote the Legisla ture reconvenes next week, In the hope of changing votes. NOTHING DONE Y,ET The Investigation has deltyed the ordl- nary legislative procedure to Buch an ex tent that nothing at all has been done during the first month' and aregular pro gram of recosses 1s being mapped out. Speaker Baldwjn proposed In the House ycs;erday that tmfLeglsIature meet four or Ave days for two, succeeding weeks from now o,n, and adjourn for an entire week every third week. Also an adjournment will be taken trom February IS until Tues day, March 6, This will combine the usual recesses over Washington's Birthday and the Inauguration of President Wilson. There are two outstanding results of the fight over the Investigation resolution. One Is the handling; of "senatorial courtesy" by the' two opposing factions, and the other ' Is. the .political opportunity which Senator Sjiroul failed to take advantage of. 'Sproul's failure, or declination, to take i advantage of an opportunity that seldom comes to any political leader, Is the talk ' if the Legislature today, , " When he, was leading the fight against f, postponement, he declared that the State tlredvof telnr drawn into me tacuonai t lu Philadelphia between trie Varea and irose and McNIchol. The UD-State leaders, wbo have had to ftaance factlonalcampatos every year be cause of this flght. were "on their toes'be hid 'Sproul when the Delaware County, Hanator trffdon this llnsof attack. Ttstay tho up-State 'Senators are assert -In that )t Sproul had gone a step farther and had declared tnat. me oiate wouia no loiurer help wash the ltaenof. AM Philadel phia organisation ana that If the Pnlladel- oraamaaiwm nan wuimhh. it Into, tha LHMtttrt agau. um fCE FIELD IN wk! i&7a.)ijr3 . ' w,w 'rf Ico floes nre packed like this in tho , been to throw Phllodelphla's factional Bquabbles out of tho Senate window, COULD HAVE DICTATED A move such as this would have mado Sproul absolute dictator of the situation, they declare, and would have placed behind him an organization similar to that con trolled by Matthew Stanley Quay, who lg norod Philadelphia and Pittsburgh In his State-wide fights "Senatorial courtesy" was Ignored In the fight over the resolution for the first time in ten jears. When the measure came out of committee last week and was on first reading In the Senate tho Vare-Brumbaugh forces, through the objection of a single Senator, could havo caused tho postpone ment of first reading until Monday of this week. The administration forces did not object, however. Tho Penrose forces, how ever, fought the Vare-Brumbaugh motion for postponement when tho resolution wns on second read ing Monday 'night and thus ignored "sena torial courtesy." The Varo-Biumbaugh leaders jesterday replied by granting sena torial courtesy and agreeing to a postpone ment on third reading and final passage, when they knew that Penrose did not have enough votes In the Senate to pass the measure The real fight over the Sproul resolu tion will be between now and Monday. Both sides will bend every effort to snitch votes, and the result may be a compromise measure, which would be nothing more than the present resolution altered and amended to tho satisfaction of both fac tions. , . Brumbaugh Got Pay From City for Trip Continued from Tnce One had to present a bill and also obtain tho consent of the l'lnance Committee of the Board of Education. UNUSUAL RECORD MADE When tho Flnanco Commltteo took ac tion on the bill this unusual record was made: The superintendent presented a bill for expenses Incurred whllo attending the convention held at Richmond, Va. On motion It was, agreed to pass tho bill provided that the chalrmin of the committee on elementary schools ap proves. William Row en, chairman of tho com mittee on elementary tchools, said today that he did not bellevo that he was chair man of tho committee at that time, but that he was one of tho members "I think I remember some one making a remark about" wishing that he could also go to Richmond and havo his expenses paid by some one else," said Mr. Row en, but ns I remember It the remark was In tended only to be accepted humorously." Edwin Wolf, who for many ears has been chairman of tho Finance Committee, said that he signs hundreds of school bills every year. The number Is so great, he ex plained, that hecould not recall this par ticular expenditure When bills are presented to him they have already been audited, and, for that reason, he heldom gives detailed considera tion to each Item. Superintendent Brumbaugh presented hU bill to the Board of Education on March C, 1914. .For a round-trip ticket he charged $!69; tor a Pullman ticket ho asked $1 25 and for meals on tho way to Richmond he charged $2. ITEMIZED EXPENSE He stajed at a f'five-dollar-a-day" hotel at Richmond for four days, making a total charge for this item of $20. For a Pullman ticket, returning, he also charged J1.25, and for meals on the return Journey J 1.20. For his meals In Richmond he spent $3 a day $12 for the four dajs This totaled $47.39. The bill was filed under the number 2158 1914. "When Doctor Brumbaugh was superin tendent of schools he was a well-known man; and ho was popular," said Mr. Ed munds. "But when he left the services of tho Board of Education he had few friends among the members. "I don't like to strike a man when ho Is down. And I want to see the Board of Education kept out of this trouble. Never theless. I must admit the truth. I remem- h th incident well. I was under tho 1 nresslon that he spent several hundr dollars in Richmond. I am surprised to hear that the bill was for only $47. i'Doctor Brumbaugh was always a good n.nrir. He was liberal In his expenditures. and I remember that his assistant, tho late Dr. William C. Jacobs, who later 'became superintendent, told me that he spent freely of his own mdney," David II. Lane Republican leader of the Twentieth Ward and a member of the Board of Education, said that he did not recall the bill, although be, too, was a mem ber of the committee on elementary schools. "Tho Incident may havo Impressed me at the time," he said, "and then left my memory." STATElROHIBITIONISTS LAUNCH. FIGHT FOR BILL Claim Largo Minority in Legislature and Hope to Win a Faction's ( Support Temperance advocates started today to line up legislators In support of their bill for State-wide prohibition after the first of next year. The bill will be referred today or tomorrow to the Law and Order Com mltteo of the State House of Representa tives, dominated by the "wets." Advocates of local Option, who Have been fighting for yearsXlo get a bill through the Legislature so that the question could be put squarely before the voters of Pennsyl vania, are among the backers of the pew plan. They expect to have a strong mi nority In the Legislature and. If the sup. port of one of the organisation factions Is obtained, to have a majority. The start today of the campaign follows the action yesterday of the trusteesof the Anti-Saloon League, at their annual meet' Inr, .Within a short time after their de. oUtonUo back prohibition, a bill to (hat ejfeot waailntrod&oad Jn the Legislature. 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" iMiM-mi,. -m iv Aiarf,iswt3fcaBif'?tfi0rTX f "" " f t r "w 3mS laSn iiuve y U moI EVENING liEDaER-PHILADEEPHIA1, WEDNESDAY, JANVABY St X SUSQUEHANNA WORST IN YEARS - tvp - .t,jv w.vrv?. ?. ir '.si? - "ii- i Jt UT. .J river virtually nil tho way from Hnrrisburg to McCnll's Ferry, nothing liko it sinco 1004, old residents say. BILL WOULD LET STATE HELP BOROUGH PAVING Senator Jones, of Susquehanna, Offers Amendment to High way Department Law Du a Staff Corrtttfondent HARRISBURQ. Jon. 31. To get around a decision of Attorney Qener.il Francis Shunk Brown that State-aid money In the Highway Department cannot be used to help defray tho expenses of paving and re pairing State hlghwas within a borough's limits. Senator E E Jones, of Susquehanna, has Introduced an amendment tu the act creating the Highway Department. It would permit the uso of State-aid money for this purpose. Speaking of his bill, Senator Jones told of the boroughs of Montrose and New Mil ford going to tho expense of Issuing bonds for new roads only to learn that tho State could not assist In meeting the expense of building the roads He added that the simo Is true of Dalton and other boroughs in Lackawanna County. A similar bill has been put In the House by Representative Dell, of Huntingdon. Senator Lclhy. of Perry County, presented a bill In tho Senate making It mandatory for Judges lu disposing of liquor license applications to fix a time for tho opening and closing of all bars. There would bo nothing to prevent the Judges from per mitting the bars to remain open day and night, except Sunday. Harrlsburg Is shy one councilman, due to the death of Councilman Bowman. The law, ns now framed, calls for u special election to flit a vacancy. Senator Ucldlo man. of this city. Republican leider here, has n bill permitting other members of Council to nil such a vacancy, the new man to continue lu ofllce until the follow ing general election This bill Is apt to bo hurried along to meet the local situation. Fire Threatens Schmidt Brewery Fire originating from an overheated pipe threatened tho bievvery of Henry Schmidt, Second street and Glrard avenue, this morn ing. Firemen checked the flames beforo they could reach the paint department, where many combustibles were stored. Tho fire was confined to the storage, room on tho fourth floor. The loss Is said to be slight. INSTRUCTORS CAFE b abbST firilr . Three , U lmKKk ir Sessions If (raPJ Jgr Daily Jf 3J!ij3 j Except Sundays Ml (JPn-v 10;00A.M.tol2;30P.M. lit Jf 2:30 P.M. to 5;0OP. M. Jff ' ml W 8;00P. M. tolO;30P. M. M Si i Ii w Tho Largett and Only Open-Air Artificial Ice Rink in tho World. Admission, 50c WINTER GARDEN 52d Street Above Lancaster Ave. Wlli BELMONT XIIHIt vllllli Ik rnrtnfWJIII DF-iifllHuBBiiHRHH DRJNK Mountain Valley Water For Bright' Disease, Rhcttinatisnif Diabetes, etc. m to GET M WELLT SampU it FREE , PAons -.sH .- Tfch KVvMvi'jSIiiriJIKfeV,l.i;JiT -y fc. s- 4. v"! .-rscrrjs.. .. " v.;.,i?v- . ;?fl t. 5i vs? " --T! -a -,?riiJB "-- -"- aS-'S ' -. V .viicV'w, rzx a Thero has City Will Mark Navy Yard Boom Continued from Tare One some form of appreciation by the city," ho said, "I know that Secrotnrv Dinlels expects us to show that ve aro thankful by marks of olllctal welcome to the new Gov ernment enterprises. He has lndlcited this on several occasions recently I feel sure that sulllclcnt Interest can be aroused In Councils to Insure a flttlnn celebration 'The expansion of the Philadelphia Navy Yard Is apparently the consummation of the hopes and prajers of the city, nnd of South Philadelphia especially, for the last twen ty-one ears, or since tho rise of the South Philadelphia Business Association. "We havo on Innumerable occislons sent committees to Washington to plead the causo of the navy jard, and on several oc casions havo had councllmanic committees and the Mavnr In conferences with the Washington olllclals We have never ceased to contend that our navy jard la the great est natural site In tho world for navy jard purposes. "It has every requisite nnd every advan tage of territory and natural surroundings It Is close enough to a big city to obtain all Its needs of skilled nnd unskilled labor and all forms of material and et the city .Itself can never encroach on tho jard or get undesirably near. Tho city and the ynrd ore separated by a magnificent plaza, boulevard and park, 'The time has surely arrived when tho yard should be put to a greater use than a mere storage yard for tho Junk of the naxy and a way station for-sillors on shore leave. The branching out for building of new.jhlps will benefit tho city nnd sur rounding territory as nothing eiso has dono for j ears. And the time of breaking ground Is certnlnlj worthy of being celebrated as a real civic occasion" Dr. Edwnrd B Gleason, president of Common Council, Is heartily In favor of a civic celebration Ho said to nn Evknino Lepoeu representative this morning: "If tho EvusiNa l.YDOi.H favors and promotes Mich a ccltbrntlon I wHl be thoroughly in nccord with If nnd will support it: If nil the members of Common Council feel ns I do there will be no doubt nboih. passing n resolution, or concurring in a resolution passed bj- Select Council. "I think It Is a good Idea nnd the time Is proper for nn appropriate civlo celebra tion calling attention of the peoplo to tho great benefits that will come to tho city through tho Government Improvements at tho Philadelphia Navy Yard" Ice Skating 52d St. i Above Lancaster Ave. SKATES RENTED MUSIC 3633 7iaChetnut St. tut WA 1 WA TO KEEP WELL SUFFRAGISTS HERE RAP WHITE HOUSE PICKETING Sign Protest Agninst Tactics Pursued by Congressional Union Leaders Suffrage leaders In Philadelphia have signed n protest against tho picketing of tho White House by members of the Congres sional Union, tho militant RUfTrage organiza tion, In order to correct tho popular nnd mis taken Impression that members of tho Worn an Suffrago party arc In sympathy with such action. Definite expression of the feelings, de layed because of the desire of members of the party not to air their troubles In the open, wns taken nt a meeting last night at suffrago headquarters, 1727 Chestnut street This protest Is signed by Mrs E. L. Too good, Anna R. McConomy, Dr. Eleanor M. Hlestand-Moorc, Mrs W. B. Derr, Llda Stokes Adams, Mrs. Wolstan Dlxoy, Emllr Q. A. Ellis, Oertrudo Atkinson, Mrs. Oeorgo L. Plersol, Margaret W. Pierrot, Mrs. Jn sephlne L Adams, C. P. Crumb, Nettle L liahn, Mrs. If. Huberman, Sarah Fisher, Alice E. Clatlln, Helena A. Lukens, J. E. Owen-Phillips, 11. It. Bcrnhclmcr and Paul, lino Mitchell. llolicrt H. Fee Robert H Fee, scventj--clgit j-ears old, a retired Falrmount Park gtsv-d, died yes terday at his residence, 4310 Manajunk ave nue, Roxborough of general debility, follow ing an attack of gripe. Ho Is survived by a son nnd five daughters Mr. Fee was born In Mnnayunk, November 23, 1838. In his youth ho was a cotton splnnor, and In 1870 he was appointed a guard nt Fair mount Park, which post ho filled forty four j cars. He retired September 1. 1914. ; WWMM pleasing your taste yjjflyyjfSI dition to pleasing the taste, does RJBTBBMlijaJI a new thing, tne one thing you've MPwm'jil always wished a cigaretteico??do JlwlfMrS spot," they let you know you are BBWgrMgpW mestic tobaccos are blended in a new KwfflPijSI waV that's what does it. And the . f wPSMrf yu dn't Deleve there can be 'rSrSSSHB'-rfr'' more to a cigarette than good taste i'liaPKi'il 'buy tt P66 of Chesterfields aesterfielct olMPOKTED DOMESTIC iobJccos-BktUtd - 1017 December Lumber Output CHICAGO, Jnn 31. Monthly statement of cut and shipments of lumber by CCC ml(ls Ip December, Issued by the Lumber Manufacturers' Association, shows a total of 072,000.000 feet of soft wood cut, 113,000, 000 feet of hard wood cut, 1,115,400.000 feet of soft wood shlppod nnd 110,0000,000 feet of hardwood shipped. There was n decrease of one nnd five-tenths per cent lu total pro duction and nn Increnso of five nnd one tenth per cent In total shipments as com ptred with December, 1916. Total produc tion for twclvo months of 1916 was eight and revcn-lcnths per cent greater than for tha same period In 191f, nnd total shipments five nnd two-tenths per cent jrealcr. 1 iiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiii;iiiiiii!ini!ii'iii Peattt4 An unusually lar&e collection of Oriental Pearls, is now bcin& shown in tho Special Exhibition of New Jewels from DREICER & CO., 560 Fifth Avenue, Now York. Included aro Pearl Neck laces in wide ran&o of sizes, and loose Pearls for addition to centres, or for Earrings, Rins, Pendants, now at RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL (South-West Salon) PHILADELPHIA Until Febnirr jl .dlllllllHlllllllil1l!JIWlllllllillllllliW CIGARETTES - -? --- ' I. , nil In,, . f ktiunuiu ilna.nai4 uuiiiu itiaiv AiuBvaar , , ! - ., T Siena Bond When LaHr In AocuHLl SUNnUIlT, Pa., Janf Jli Sympathy" nn mulcted rouow man cauaM J. w. son. totally blind, to co on the ball of Frank Edgar, deaf, at a hearing twfor United States Commissioner N, S.KnfW here. Both llvo In Bloomiburf. n Edgar, Is charged with Using the m4f with Intent to defraud. It Is alIefe4tMt ho ordered nn' ear trumpet! from ar Hf York concern, signing his daughter's nam and neither returned nor paid for tha strument. rest. Postal Inspectors caused hie "a IHK $r I f W ,$ 3B9 .nsMn I'll M I ' w mmmmmmmmmmmmmm WlwiilHiiiM -;: LBV , V m "s 5iw i V i f, X fy .iHrn. 4 fc. . , - ! m -"Vl "m : ;v YfJi M3 .m f 1 1 . xM f: .riv" w"1- lv- of HQMMW. V I' tttef ITMimTiiii i TuE5&i!tii4 Jtk t dhte&i&kj.
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