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DONALDSON IS
COMMISSIONER
Philadelphia Insurance Ex
pert Approved by Senate;
Popular At Capitol
The Senate very promptly con
. firmed the appointment of Thomas
Lialine Donaldson, of Philadelphia,
to be State Insurance Commissioner
in succession to Commissioner
Charles A. Ambler, of Montgomery,
whose appointment was, withdrawn
■iome time ago, when it reached the
upper house late yesterday after
loon and the new Commissioner
will arrange to take office at once,
ft is believed that peputy Com
nissioner Samuel XV. McCulloch and
he bulk of the office force will be
retained.
Mr. Donaldson, who was* born in
Philadelphia in 1576, has made a
lotable success of State insurance
vork. He was picked out by John i
v. Tener as a special deputy and it
s understood that his name was
uggested to the Governor by men
horoughly conversant with State af
airs and who have watched Mr.
Donaldson's career with interest.
In a statement issued by the
tovernor's private secretary last
light the following appears:
"In 1911 he was appointed a
'peeial Deputy Insurance Commis
ioner. and he has been connected
vith the Insurance Department ever
■ince, giving especial attention to
• natters connected with the winding
up of the affairs of insolvent com-
JASINTHESTQMAGH
IS DANGEROUS.
Jernmniends Dally I'M of Magnesia
To Overcome Trouble. Caused
by Fermentinn Food and
Acid Indigeatlon.
Gas and wind in the stomach ac
ompanied by that full, bloated feei
ng after eating are alino. t certain
vidence of the presence of exces
ive hydrochloric acid in the storn
ch. creating so-called "acid indiges
lon."
Acid stomachs are dangerous be
ause too much acid irritates the
ielicate lining of the stomach, often
•eadiAg to gastritis accompanied by
serious stomach ulcers. Food fer
ments and sours, creating the dig
ressing gas which distends the stom
ich and hampers the normal func
tions of the vital Internal organs,
often affecting the heart.
It is the worst of folly to neglect
such a serious condition or to treat
with ordinary digestive aids which
lave no neutralizing effect on the
nomach acids. Instead' get from anv
iruggist a few ounces of Bisurated
Magnesia and take a teaspoonful in
i quarter glass of water right after
:ating. This will drive the gas, wind
ind bloat right out of the bodv,
sweeten the stomach, neutralize the
xcess acid and prevent its formation
md there is no sourness or pain.
Bisurated Magnesia (in powder or
tablet form never liquid or milk)
;s harmless to the stomach, inexpen
sive to take and the best form of
magnesia for stomach purposes. it
is used by thousands of people .who
enjoy their meals with no more fear
of indigestion. G. A. Gorgas.
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panies and the prosecution of frauds
upon the public. He has won the
commendation of Insurance Com
missioners Johnson, o'Xetl and Am
bler by his efficient work. Recently
he has been engaged in investigat
ing the affairs of the Pittsburgh
Life and Trust Company, and Com
missioner Ambler gave him particu
lar charge of this work, which is
now completed and ready for clos
ing out. It has been knowp that
Governor Sproul was anxious to
place an insurance expert in charge
of the Insurance Department, in or
der to bring about a high degree of
efficiency there, the Governor being
impressed with the necessity of
thorough inspection and regulation
in this department. Commissioner
Ambler has been retained by Gov
ernor Sproul until the completion
of his work in closing out a num
ber of matters which were under In
vestigation." .
Harry L. Knapp, of Philadelphia,
appointed chairman of the Board of
Censors, to succeed the late Frank
R. Shattuck, was also confirmed.
Mr. Knapp is the well-known dram
atic critic of the Philadelphia In
quirer and is "a personal appoint
ment. He lias been in charge of the
dramatic page of the Inquirer for,
1 twenty-seven years and has followed
the moving picture industry from
its beginning and is widely known
as a critic. He is a Philadetphian
by birth and residence and has a
summer home in Norwood.
Mr Knapp will assume his duties
at once. The appointment is highly
praised generally.
Constitutional
• Convention Bill
The bill providing for the Govern
or to name a commission of twenty
' five men to study the constitution
and suggest changes to the legisla
ture of 1921 which will pass upon
the question of a convention ap
peared yesterday in the Senate. The
Governor is to give much attention
to the matter.
The Senate late yesterday received
a report and passed the first time
the bill for the State to sue West
Virginia in the natural gas matter.
Senator Eyre, Chester, at the ses
sion of the Senate late yesterday
afternoon, presented a bill appro
priating $250,000 for the encourage
ment of agricultural shows; also a
measure providing for the consoli
dation of rural schools.
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SUFFRAGE ROW
ABOUTTO START
Resolution to Amend Consti- .
tution Will Be Signed For
Grand Contest
Signs are becoming as plentiful
about the Capitol that there will be
a breezy time over xtfoman suffrage,
as they are that runtfl members
are eager to finish up the work
and go home and that the old Phila
delphia struggle for control will soon
demolish hopes of harmony the re
mainder of the session.
The suffragists and the antis have
gone to the mat in the Pennsylvania
Legislature and there are several
weeks of interesting happenings
' about to start. When Representative
William T. Ramsey announced yes
terday that he would introduce a
resolution to amend the Pennsyl
vania State Constitution to permit
women the ballot, the Antis, headed
here by Miss Eliza D. Armstrong,
of Pittsburgh and Mrs. O. D. Oll
phant, of Trenton, N. J. represent
ing the National Anti Suffrage Asso
ciation, immediately got busy." Why
try to force the ballot on us when
we do not want the open
ing gun of words that Miss Arm
strong of one of Pittsburgh's first
families, fired into the opposing
i camp.
Mr. Ramsey, experienced in legis
lative halls and with respect for Miss
Armstrong who yesterday celebrated
her seventy-fourth birthday, made
a non committal answer and excused
himself to go to a committee hear
ing,
/ "I have no fault to find with Will
Ramsey," said Miss Armstrong, "and
possibly he is acting at the behest
of others, but I insist that women
do not want the ballot and nothing
coukl be fiurer than to let the women
decide that question for themselves.
But the others, meaning the suffra
gists! would not agree to that. It
is because they are afraid and do
not dare to let the women of Penn
sylvania say whether they want to
vote or not."
"That Is the rule everywhere,"
said Mrs. Oliphant.
"I am at a loss to understand
the words of these women who want
to vote," said Miss Armstrong. "To
save my life I can not find a senti
ment among women for this mascu
line privilege. They do not discuss
the matter at all and what women
do not discuss they are not interest
ed in and what the women are in
terested in they will talk about, be
it other women, dresses, styles or
anything that strikes their fancy at
that moment. There is a never
ending mystery about women that
is their greatest charm, but in the
voting respect there is no mystery.
On this subject they are as open as
the sky—they do not want it. To
prove my point, I am willing that
men or women ask the women with
whom yiey come in contact and they
: will soon see that women are not
! interested. And when a woman is
| not interested —but why go into ,
j that again?
| "Do you think there is as much
I interest among women in suffrage
■as there was a few years ago?" Miss
Armstrong was asked.
I "I never thought there was much
! interest in the subject among wom
en gene®Uly," answered Miss Arm
j strong.. "Of course, among a cer
tain t>;oe of women who can be rec
ognized almost on sight there was a
big interest in getting the ballot.
Those faddists were for it strong,
; but the cradle-rocking and bread
i baking type, speaking generally by
| that, were not for it. The mother
j ly type, whose sole thought was in
! her husband children and home,
i had no time for such didos. Of
I course, the strong-minded, or weak
j minded kind, according to the per
sonal viewpoint, Who burned our
I President in. effigy, who have served
rprison terms and have no haven ex
, cept among themselves and little
welcome elsewhere, are using the
! suffrage vehicle for their publicity
\ exploitations, but the only thing I
I have heard about their goings on
■ lately was from a man who said the
i minute the newspapers stopped
printing their disgraceful affa' -s,
| that minute they would stop tlie..i.
Personally, I think, tome few of
t!ose women have good sense and
the others are splendidly mannish,
and I always picture them mentally
as who must have mus
| cular arms and square Jaws."
! "I think the entire matter a
farce," said Mrs. Oliphant.
"My point is that the women do
■.ot want The ballot," concluded Miss
Armstrong. "They do not want to
be bothered. We will not discuss
mental qualifications property and
all the text-book arguments of the
big, strong suffrage women. It all
resolves itself into a women's ques
tion and answer proposition, pure
and simple. Tou might ask why
the women do not want it and I
could give many reasons, but ask
any woman, and. everything else be
ing equal, she would say, 'Because.'
Back of that line, the 'becauae' line,
there 13 no retreat."
The suffrage side of the question
will likely be here, in the form of
a working committee next week,
and then their answer to Miss Arm
strong's homespun argument will be
worth hearing. Miss Armstrong Is
| willing to argue the question and
wants a public hearing on the pro
posed Ramsay resolution.
Governor Sends in
His First Veto
Governor Sproul last evening an
nounced his first veto. He sent It to
the Senate just before It adjourned.
The message and comments are In
teresting. They are:
"I herewith return, without my
approval. Senate Bill No. lfl, en
titled, 'An act authorizing Katheryn
A. Seth, widow of James V. Seth,
deceased, late of the city of Oil
City, Venango county, Pennsylva
nia, to bring suit In the Court of
Common Pleas of Venango county
against the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania*
"This bill authorizes a sulf for
damage® for the death of James V.
Seth, caused by an accident on a
StAte highway in Venango county.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylva
nit has very recently declared the
act of May 10, 1917, P, L. 159, which
authorizes Ida Collins to bring suit
for the death of her husband, oc
curring on the State highway in
j Somerset county, to be unconstitu
tional, special legislation. Moreover.
I believe that actions against the
State should be tried in the court of
Dauphin county, in accordance with
previous practice and policy. For
this reason (ha bill approved,''
HOUSE PASSES
BANKING CODE
No Discussion of Important
Measures in the Afternoon
Session Yesterday
The State's new banking code,
which also reorganizes the State
Banking Department, was passed
finally In the House .at the afternoon
session and went to the Senate. The
House also passed the bill permit
ting building and loan associations to
invest surplus funds in United States
bonds and validating such invest
ments.
Other bills passed were: Author
izing courts to appoint interpreters
and to fix sainries and providing that
in Philadelphia the salaries shall
be between $2,000 and $3,000 and
extending "bank slander." act of
1909 to insurance companies.
The House debated for almost an
hour before defeating the bill to
make husband or wife a competent
witness as to an offense prior to
marriage. An effort was made to
send it to' the military committee to
which Mr. Dithrich, Allegheny, ob
jected, and the bill was then seri
ously discussed by Messrs. Walker,
Philadelphia; Simpson, Allegheny,
and Phillips, Clearfield, the sponser.
Mr. Wrflker charged that the bill
was to cover a rare case and Mr.
Phillips retorted that judges and dis
trict attorneys favored it
Two amendments to borough and
township codes were presented by
Mr. Kooser, both providing that bal
ances shall form surcharges after
auditing and regulating proeeedure
for collection. A bill similar to the
Sprouts bill regarding school equip
ment contracts, but applying to bor
oughs came from Mr. Jones, Lacka
wanna.
Institutions teaching chtropractics
would be relieved from control of the
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College and University Council by a
bill presented by Mr. Todd, Alle
gheny.
Mr. Sprowls, Washington, Intro
duced a bill providing that school
teachers' salaries may be increased
at any time deemed advisable and a
new contract entered into. The bill
also validates any increases made
without previous contracts being
cancelled. Another school code
amendment .presented came from
Mr. Kooser, Fayette, and regulates
advertising for school building
effuipment in excess of $3OO cost, re
quiring advertisements once a week
for three weeks.
Mr. Golden, Philadelphia, present
ed a bill appropriating $1,300,000
for Temple University, Philadelphia.
A bill making the president Judge of
Allegheny county courts a member
of the county salary board was of
fered by Mr. Stadtlander, Allegheny.
Mr. Bechtold, Dauphin, presented
a bill calling on counties to supply
county school superintendents with
office equipment.
A bill requiring counties to pay
cost of indexing deeds of county of
ficers to be paid by counties was
presented by Mr. Marshall, Beaver.
Salaries of treasurers were fixed at
not over $4,000 In counties having
between 20,000 and 50,000 popu
lation in a bill from Mr. Hampon,
Greene. Speaker Spangler intro
duced a bill appVopriating M.3GB for
relief of county farms whose exhibi
tions were forbidden by the De
partment of Health during the in
tluenza outbreak.
The bill abolishing the distinction
between an appeal and a certiorari
was sent to the Judiciary local com
mittee for a hearing and after pass
ing the Senate bill amending the
school code provisions on debts of
annexed districts, the House
adjourned at 6.10 p. m.
MIDDI.ETOWN PROPERTY SOI.D
Walter Fuerneisen, owner of the
two-story brick building in Union
street. Middletown. used for a motion
picture theater, sold the property to
Mary McCreary, it was announced to
day. The deejd, filed at the office of
Conty Recorder James E. Lentz, gave
the consideration paid for the prop
erty as $5,750.
GAME AND FISH
HOLD ATTENTION
Joillt License Idea Gets Hard
Bump in the Con
ference
Representatives of several fish
and game associations from all parts
of the State discussed game and fish
btlla at a joint conference of the
Senate and House Committees in
charge of such measures and it was
decided that all changes in the
bounty law should be incorporated
In one bill and that the bounties
on wild cats and weasels should
be increased. The measure provid
ing for the State Game Commission
to accept gifts or buy land for game
preserves was hotly debated. Later
on a sub committee henrd argu
ments on the fishermen's license
law.
At the first hearlngeE. L. Henlino.
Bradford; E. W. Kelley, Dul'ois, and
F. A. Godcharles, Milton, represent
ing the State Sportsmen's Associa
tion; Dr. C. T. FMlton, Philadelphia,
State Fish and Game Society; James
E. Sanson), Pittsburgh, and others of
the Wild Life League; David Pritch
ard, Scranton, United Sportsmen;
Joseph Washington, Cresson, Key
stone Hunters' Association; and
members of the State Game and
Fisheries Commission and legisla
tors. spoke. One of tho objections
of S. H. Garland, Harrisburg was
that the hunters' license provided
too*much money and that the State
could not spend it, resulting in as
surance by Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, sec
retary of the State Game Commis
sion, that the commission wanted
to spend money for preserves and
other objects which it could not
now do under the law.
The sub committee will recom
mend the fishermen's license law
which calls for a one dollar license.
Representative Richard Powell, Lu-
zernc, tho sponsor, said that the
Fisheries Department needed $300,-
000 to complete hatcheries and
_much more for stocking streams for
which tho proceeds of the license
would be used. Mr. Pritchard
urged a combination license of one
dollar which was not agreed to by
any of the other speakers.
The bill forbidding horse races
at county fairs was returned to the
House by the committee with a
negative recommendation. The
committee ulso negatived the bill
requiring owners of dogs to pay for
damages done by the animals and
for special reports by assessors on
§rops, etc. The milk standard bill
with be recalled from tho House for
. amendment.
I The Bolnrd bill providing that
legal advertisements and official no
' ticcs shall be published only in
I newspapers printed in the English
i language was ordered affirmatively
reported by the House Judiciary
Local Committee after an extended
discussion. The vote was 10 to 3.
The bill was opposed on tho ground
that it eliminated requirement for
advertising in Italian,, Yiddish and
other newspapers.
The principal argument at the
hearing Of the House educational
committee on the Sterling bill to
provide for an elective school board
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh was
that appointments had been in the
hands of the judges for years and
that the same men had been re
appointed year after year, resulting
in a continuity of directors. Com
plaint was also made that the Board
was not energetic enough. Tho com
mittee will have a hearing for the
Pittsburgh people on the bill next
Tuesday. The speakers today were
Mrs. S. Jardcn, Mrs. Joseph P.
Mumford, Bruce M. Watson. Penn
sylvania Education and Child Labor
Association, and Fred J. Gruenberg,
Bureau of Municipal Research.
A. It. 7.00K OIKS
SbrphrrilKiawii, Pa., March 12. A.
R. Zook died at his home. here, late
last night, after a long illness, aged
S3 years. Funeral services will be
held Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock,
and burial will be made in Chestnut
Hill Cemetery,
Fl'XKIt Al. OF WBKCK • _
\ ICTIM OX FRIDAT
Funeral services for Willis Wj
Flora, who died Monday from injuries
received in the Pennsylvania wreck
at the Trenton cut-off, last week, will
be conducted at his late home, 2tS
Cumberland Rond, Enoln. Friday aft
ernoon. at 2 o'clock. Burial will be
made in the lCnola Cemetery. The
body may bo viewed at the residenca
to-morrow evening.
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