NEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE
HOUSE CHAIRMEN
SPEED UP WORK
Report Out Over Fifty Bills
in Response to Spanglcr's
A (Inanition
Effect of Speaker Spangler's
notice to the chairmen of House
committees was evidenced at the
session of the House held late yes
terday afternoon when over fifty
Kills were reported out, some of thepi
negatived. The committees workfed
most of the afternoon and all bills
reported out were passed for the
first time to assemble a calendar.
The House is now in the best shape
it has been in the middle of Febru
ary in years and the business on the
calendars is in lino with the desire
of the governor for business.
The session was held mainly to
receive reports of committees and
few bills were presented, although
many more are expected next week.
The members who went homo an
nounced that they intended to be
present at the reception of the Har
risburg Chamber, of Commerce re
ception next Tuesday. /
The House adjourned until Mon
day at 4:(0 o'clock, as today is a
legal holiday. The proposed Wednes
day session was abandoned.
A bill to change the system of se
lecting members of the Philadelphia
Hoard of Education was introduced
by Mr. Sterling. Philadelphia. The
present board of fifteen is appoint
ed by the courts And tinder the
amendment to the school code pro
posed by Mr. Sterling the board
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DR. J. H. SCHENCK A SON, PhiluLlphia
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
would consist of ssvsn men elected
et large.
Mr. Oolder, Philadelphia. Intro
duced a bill establishing procedure
In extradition of Insane persons
charged with criminal offences. The
bill Is designed to establish uni
form laws on the subject In the
United States. It would govern In
future Thaw cases.
Mr. Qulgley, Clinton, read In
place a bill regulating purchases
and sales of land for normal schools.
Mr. Pike, Montgomery, intro
duced a bill to repeal the Montgom
ery county tax law of 1868 and the
supplement of 1871.
Just before adjournment Mr.
Smith, Bedford, introduced a bill
taxing all moving picture reels,
films and views at the rate of one
cent a foot, payable when approved
by the State Board of Censors. The
proceeds are to go to the fund for
fire insurance on state buildings
and bridges. He also presented a
bill making changes in the license
act for circuses, menageries and
other amusements.
State Sheep Valued
at Over $9,400,000
Figures on the sheep on Penns>l
vania farms Issued today by the
State Department of Agriculture
show that the 1918 returns record
820,756 sheep valued at $8,747,210
ogainst 810,000 sheep valued at $.-
670,000 in the previous year. It is
estimated that the number of sheep
now on the farms is 862,248, which
is not far from the figures of 1910
when the recent decline began.
year fifty-three counties reported ill
creases in sheep. Washington in
creased four per cent, and Greene
nine, these being the leaders. The
sheep in the state are now valued at
over $9,400,000.
The state authorities estimate the
hay crop at 4,252,831 tons, of which
1,114,100 tons is given as clover hay
and 257,000 tons alfalfa. It is es
timated that sixty-two per cent, of
the acreage in winter wheat is seed
ed to clover.
The department estimates that
ninety per cent, of the corn grown
in the state is fed on farms and that
10,000,000 bushels of potatoes raised
last year were in the hands of
growers on January 1.
MIXERS ENTOMBED
Johnstown. Pa.. Feb. 12. —ln a
cave-in of a heading at the mine of
the Monroe oal Company at Colver.
this county, last evening, Steve
Bernaritz and Paul Martin, miners,
were entombed and probably were
caught under the fall. Four loaders
in the mine heard the cracking of
the roof and escaped.
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HIGHWAY BILLS
REACH SENATORS
Measures Approved by Gover
nor Sproul and Carrying
Millions
The three bills drafted by Attor
ney General Schaffer to provide the
laws and money to carry out the
highway construction program of
Governor Sproul were presented to
the Senate yesterday afternoon
shortly before 5 o'clock and within
a quarter of an hour after they had
been finally passed upon by Gover
nor Sproul. The bills were finished
by Mr. Schaffer during the after
noon, some changes having been
made from tlie original plans and
they wi 1 be handled as administra
tion measures. Senator T. 1.. Eyre,
Chester, presented them. They will
go right through. Commissioner J<.
S. Sadler will appear for them if
needed.
The main bill centralizes the con
trol of the whole highway proposi
tion in the hands of the highway
commissioner whose authority is re
peatedly stated to be final. The sal
ary of the commissioner is made
♦ 10,000 a year and the bond $200,-
000; assistant, $8,000; township com
missioner, which it is generally be
lieved will be Joseph W. Hunter,
$6,000, and chief engineer, $7,500.
There are provided a maintenance
engineer, controller, principal as
sistant engineer, construction en
gineer, office engineer, engineer of
plans and surveys and engineer of
bridges. The total sum carried for
administration and various pur
poses is $3,626,000. which is in a
separate bill. This would provide
for the working force all over the
state.
_Tb® third bill appropriates $13,-
678,730,57. the largest appropriation
bill outside of a general appropria
tion bill ever presented and quite in
accord with the monumental project.
Generally these appropriations are
carried in the general or special
bills. This is the first time the bills
have appeared so early and in such
complete form. For permanent
state highways the sum of $6,000,000
is carried, state aid construction $3.-
000,000. maintenance and repairs on
state aid. $800,000; state highways in
boroughs, maintenance and repairs.
$1,000,000; acquisition and improve
ment of toll roads, $1,000,0071: pay
ments to second class townships for
"dirt roads'' for 1913 and 1914, $l,-
858,730.57. and damages. $20,000.
This is all separate from the $30.-
000,000 road bond issue proceeds,
which will be used for the construc
tion of roads on the "arterial sys
tem" to be announced later. The
rates of interest and other details
will be decided soon.
In the Senate yesterday in addi
tion to the road legislation a meas
ure to compel nonresidents of the
Commonwealth to take out licenses
of $2.50 in order to fish in the
waters of the state was presented by
Senator Jones, of Susquehanna. It
was referred to the Committee on
Fish and Game.
The federal relations committee
reported out a resolution by Sena
tor Daix ,of Philadelphia, which
calls upon President Wilson to give
Ireland the right of self-determina
tion at the world peace table. The
Senate passed the resolution and
sent ito the House for concurrence.
Report of Burials
of American Troops
at Port of Brest
12 \ - r'
ficial report has been made of the
burials at Brest of American sol
diers during the occupancy of that
port by the American expeditionary
forces. The figures include those
men who died after being brought
ashore at Brest from transports be
fore October, the month in which
influenza was at its height, and
t' ose who died in Brest among the
sick and wounded brought from
various hospitals on their way
home.
The report shows burials prior to
October to have been 1.577, and
during October 1,566. Pontanezen
camp was not then open.
In November the .burials num
bered 93, and in December 52. of
which 35 were Pontanezen; in Jan
uary 69, of which 63 were at Pon
tanezen, while in February, up to
date there have been eight burials,
all at Pontanezen. This gives a to
tal of 3,365.
Committees Get
Their Axes Busy
The judiciary special committee
of the House negatived five bills it
i its session during the afternoon.
, Two of them were the Marcus bills
i relative to criminal procedure, re
' quiring notices to be served on dis
j trict attorneys and allowing em
bezzlement charges to be put in one
1 indictment. . The Mclntyre bills
abolishing distress for rent and rela
tive to agreements in regard to dis
| tress for rent were also negatived
| as was the bill to provide that de
] fendants might enter pleas of
j guilty without cases being sent be-
I fore grand juries.
The House roads committee filed
all bills for additional road routes
and referred all motor license leg
islation to a subcommittee headed
by Mr. Dithrich, Allegheny.
The committee in charge of the
McCordy bill lowering licenses for
sale of oleomargarine fixed February
18 as the date for a hearing. Ar
rangements were also made for
hearings on the bills to permit en
tertainments of an educational na
ture. concerts, etc.. on Sunday.
The military affairs committtee is
arranging for hearings on military
training bills later in the month.
Ukraine Peasants in
Possession of Kiev
Vienna, Feb. 12. • Advices re
ceived here from Kiev say that the
forces of Petlura. leader of the Uk
raine peasant army, have been in
possession of that city for five days,
having defeated the local Bolshe
vikl.
The delegate of the Ukraine in
Vienna says the Ukrainians and
Ruthenians in the region of Bem
burg have expressed a willingness
to sign an armistice with the Poles,
but that the Poles demanded that
they retire twenty kilometres from
Uemburg, which the Ruthenlan
leaders were unwilling to do. The
delegate also said the Poles were
unwilling to • accept an armistice
which did not place in their hands
an Important part of the oil regions.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
INDEPENDENTS
FOR MA LEAGUE
Will Discuss Legislation With
All Comers—Headed
By Wallace
The legislative league, composed I
of independent members of the
Pennsylvania Mouse of Representa- i
ti\*cs and which has representation
in the Senate, has been organized,
with Representative Robert L. Wal
lace, of I.awrence county, as chair
man and floor leader for the pur
pose of guiding the House on all
matters of clean legislation and to
uphold the legislative program of
Gov. William C. Sproul.
Representative Allan D. Miller, of
Susquehanna county, has been elect
ed secretary and an axecutivo or
steering committee chosen to con
sist of Representatives C. 11. Ken
nedy, Beaver county; K. M. Swettzer,
Clarion county; John B. Coldsnuth,
Westmoreland county; John W.
Vlckerman, Allegheny county; 11. B
Showalter, Union county; Itaniel W.
Melt, Northumberland county, and
Secretary Miller. Chairman Wal
lace will be an ex-otflcio member.
The purpose of the legislative
I.eaguo is to make a thorough study
of bills and to decide, after that
study, whether the measures are
worthy of support. They will give
the member proposing bills deemed
without merit to withdraw them and
in the event that he does not do
that the bills will be openly fought
on the floor. For the purpose of
being effective the league has some
alliances in the House which Chair
man Wallace claims will be more
than enough to defeat a bill and
generally strong enough to pass a
bill. Any alliances that are made,
the league members say, will be
merely for the purpose of assisting
meritorious legislation and to make
possible the successful consumma
tion of the governor's program. The i
league members declare that they :
want to make it impossible in the
future to what they call "railroad" a
bill before it lias been thoroughly
studied and its provisions digested.
The league feels that its general
strength will be about 7u members
who will act in unison. They feel ]
they can count on one-third more in
the House which would place their
strength at 100 votes, quite a tidy
amount and much to be desired by
any person having a bill on the cal
endar. Considering the average at
tendance in the House that number
of votes would dictate the thought
of the House in ninty-nine cases
out of one hundred. Caucauses will
be held by the league. They claim
they will not take an active part on
every bill in the House but will pick
out the important ones for study and
action. Their active members will
be stragetically located in the
House from the standpoint of get
ting into quick contact with other
members of the league when Chair
man Wallace passes the word on a
bill.
Frequent meetings of the steer
ing committee are contemplated. At
that time bills will be distributed for
study and reports, according to the
position of the proposed legislation
on the House calendars, will be
made and acted upon. There will
be little secretive work in the league.
Representative Vickerman says, but
it has been formed for action and
the House will know its stand with
regard to bills.
From its political complexion it is
independent, though not outright
dry. It naturally has a fear of the
liquor lobby and for that reason its
organization membership is com
posed of those who. t happens,
for ratification of the national
Prohibition amendment and helped
pass it in the House last week. Mr.
\ lckerman is the most active dr\
member on the steering committee.
Ihe league, according to Chairman
Wallace, is not an anti-liquor or
ganization. He says it is a pro-
Sproul and pro-good legislation or
ganization. The liquor attitude of
a member with legislation in view
will not influence the league against
or for the legislation. The latter
must stand on its own bottom.
Chairman Wallace said that
threats against the league had bet
ter not be uttered, lie said that he
; means that if any member of the
House who would have reasons best
known to himself to fear the league
j attempts to hamper its work that
] retaliatory measures will be taken
■ and he said that went for all com
| mittees in the House. He claims
j the new league will give a few dem
j onstrations of its attitude and has
only one hope—that Pennsylvania
; will gain because the league was or
ganized.
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40-inch Pershing satin. A soft and supple grade for
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from £or COmmand th / ? 1 same f rcs P cct 36-inch chiffon taffeta; $1.69 to $3.00 yd. i
Vffi JinS lTO,nch ° r Poor-regardless of party 40-inch Kumsi Kumso; $7.50 yd. !
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inan and his deeds."which the distorted views of partisan- English black velveteens. 24 and 27 inches 'wide, at <
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the generation when his accomplishments were per- i BOWMAN'S— Main Floor,
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time does not permit a comparison with other great
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New Tailored High-Neck Blouses -
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Many Complete Suites and Separate Pieces j |
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8-piece fumed oak dining suite; $lOO.OO. ; Mahogany poster beds; $19.75.
4-piece American Walnut bedroom suite; $lOO.OO. '- a , r .* t c overstuffed tapestry davenport; $62.00. 1
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