THE WEATHER
FAIR TO-NIGHT
AND TO-MORROW
Detailed Report* Pas* I
f,'T A ?.S" H « En VOL. 77—NO. 57
ATTACKS BY
GERMANS AT
WARSAW NIL
Fierce Assaults of Rai
ser's Troops on Po
land Capital Come to
a Standstill
RUSSIANS AGAIN
ON THE OFFENSIVE
Austro-Gennan Army Reported to Have
Met Reverses On Galiclan Side of
Uzsok and Bzid Passes —Russians
Lose In Bukowina
London, Feb. 9, 12.42 P. M.—The
fierce German attacks on the Warsaw
front are again at a standstill, accord
ing to reports received from both Ber
lin and Petrograd. On the other hand
the Russian capital reports that on eacn
■vring of the eastern battle line the Rus
sian offensive has been resumed.
An official Russian communication
claims that the Russians have made
. progress on the Hungarian side of the
■ -western Carpathians ranges, as well as
gained success in the direction of Mez
olaborz, which resulted in driving back
the Germans with considerable losses in
guns and prisoners.
Dual Monarchy's Reverses
The Austro-German army is said to
have met reverses on the Galician side
of the Uzoek'and Bzid passes. Balanc
ing these Russian successes is the Rus
sian admission of their retirement be-:
fore strong forces in Bukowina and the
Russian claim of having entered the
town of Kimpolung, in the crown land. I
In East Prussia the fighting appar
ently is assuming a more desperate
character. This may account for the
lull on the Warsaw front as the East
Prussian forces may have been rein
forced by some o f ' Field Marshal Von
Hindenburg's veterans.
Quiet on the Western Front
The fighting on the western front
lias been taking its usual inonotoucus
course, with sporadic infantry t ssaults
on the trenches to an accompaniment of ,
artillery firing.
The full text of the German blockade
proclamation, published in London to
d.iy, served as a theme for much com
ment in which the Lusitania flag in
cident figures largely. Most of the
papers defend Ihe use of the American
flag in this emergency, but some of
them express misgiving's as to the effect
of this course of action.
THE BELGIANS DESTROY A
FHAHUTBEFEK
Paris, Feb. 9, 2.45 P. M.—The re
port on the progress of the war given
out this afternoon by the French War
Office follows:
"In Belgium yesterday there were
intermittent artillery exchanges and
Yprea and Fumes were bombarded. The
Belgian artillery destroyed a farm, the
defenders of which fled.
"On the road between Bethune and
liji Bassee we yesterday occupied a
mill where the enemy had succeeded in
installing himself.
"Soisson was bombarded with pro
jectiles, the purpose of which was to
net the city on fire. On all the Aisne
front, and in Champagne, our urtiKery
effectively engaged the batteries of the
Germans. •
"In tihe Argonne the fighting which
lias developed and continued yesterday
in one of the most dense jiarts of the
forest, and consequently became quite
confused. Each side, generally speak
ing, was successful in maintaining its
lines. The men engaged in this figtot,
February 7, did nut exceel three or
four battalions on each side. During
yesterday only one French battalion
was engaged."
CERffIAN WOMEN WITH RIFLES
TAKEN FROM THE TRENCHES
Petrograd, Feb. 9, via London, 1.45
P. M. —The engagements are growing
in intensity at the two extremities of
the eastern battle front, ip East Prus
sia, as well as in the Carpathians, ac
cording to information reaching Petro
grad to-day. The same news sets forth
that on the Warsaw front the battle
has subsided. The fighting line from the
province of l'leck in Russian Poland, as
far north as Tilsit in East Prussia, is
very continuous. The Germans to-day
apparently are taking the offensive
from Gubinnen and the Mazurian lakes
as l'ar south as Lipno, in Poland, ou the
right bank of the Vistula.
A dispatch reaching here from War
saw says that among the prisoners
taken by the Russians in the fighting
at the junction of the Bzura river, were
a number of German women. According
to this message some of these women
were found with rifles in their hands
in the first line of trenches.
LATE WAR NWSUMMARY
The German army In East Prussia,
reinforced with troops sent to help stay
the Russian advance Into Germany, ha 3
undertaken the offensive. Tbe Russians
also are beloved to have a large army
Comtl>u«<l ob KUtk Pace.
mt Sto- Iwitepcnktii
RIVER BREEZES TOO WARM
FOR SIR DOUCLAS MAWSON
Antarctic Explorer Makes Auto Trip to
Rockville Bridge Without Hat —
Meets the Governor at Oapltoi This
Afternoon
When Sir Douglas Mawson, the ant
arctic explorer #ho will tell of lids ex
periences in tlhe iSouth Polar region at
t'he Majestic to-niglit, was taken this
morning on an automobile tour along
the river front to Rockville bridge by
members of the Harristourg Natural
History Society, he found the river
breezes rat'her too warm for his com
fort and he did uot wear his hat at any
time during the trip.
Sir Poug'lns was interested in Rock
ville bridge and the other briUlgcs cross
ing the Susquehanna, since he is an en
gineer a.s woll as an explorer, and he
g|>eut some time in looking over the fil
ter plant. After the sight sening tour
the party went to the Senate for lunch.
"The South Polar region," said the
explorer while discussing his expedi
tion at the table, "is very much colder
than the region about the North Pole,
and what people need to learn is that
there is a continent about the South
Pole quite a« large as North America.
It is practi ally all land there, while
in 'he Nor . it is mostly water."
fter dinner, the man w»bo has put a
th --and miles of newly discovered I
coast on the map, was taken to the
capitol where he met Governor Brum
baugh and other state officials. The
Governor will introduce Sir Douglas at
tho Majestic to-night, and will occupy
a box (luring the le'tnre.
The valuable films which will be
shown to illustrate the explorer's talk
were run off this afternoon at the the
atre, SIJ that there may be no hai.ch iu
showing them this evening. In addition
to lour reels of pictures tfflwre wMI be
stereo'pticon views of the South Polar
region shown.
S'ir Douglas is visiting but two other
cities in this State, Philadelphia and j
Pittsburgh, and mil return to England
after less than two months' stay in this
country.
KREIDLBRFISB_LQSS $2,000
Flames in Cellar of Grocery Store Pill
Building With Smoke and Excite
Business District
A fire which resulted in a loss of al
most $2,000, was discovered at 7.10 '
o'clock last, evening in the basement!
of the grocery store of A. H. Kreidler .
& Brothers, Second and Walnut streets.;
Most of the damage was caused by •
smoke and water. The fire, occurring I
early in the evening, created a good ]
deal of excitement in the business dis- i
trict and attracted a big crowd. , I
The statement that Miss Clara Fred-!
erieks, who has apartments on the sec- j
ond floor of the building, was carried |
out in a semi-conscious condition, was
denied this morning by A. H. Kreidler
who said that all the occupants walked
out of the building before the smoke
got to the second story.
The fire started in a corner of the
basement on the Walnut street side. It
is believed it was caused by some pass
erby throwing a lighted cigar or cigar
ette through an open cellar grate. The
'blaze soon ate its way among boxes. The
canned goods that were stored in the
front end of the basement, and attack
ed the rafters. It wus only a few min
utes after an alarm was sent in from
Box 112, that six streams were playing
on the flames. Much of the work of di
recting the firemen was done personally
by A. 11. Kreidler, who is president of
the Hope Steam Engine Company.
Most of the damage in the store
room, on the ground floor, was due to
the effect of the smoke on cereals, as
the flames did not reach that far. T1143
building, which is owned by the Kreid
ler Brothers, was but slightly damaged.
The whole ioss is covered by insur
ance.
TWO J-'OUND DEAD IN RECTORY
Mystery in Death of Priest and His
Housekeeper
New Conn., Feb. 9.—Tho
Rev. Joseph Zebris, of the Lithuanian
church, and the housekeeper employed
at his rectory, were found dead to-day
on the premises, victims of either mur
der or suicide.
The dead priest was lying on tho
church floor. Apparently he had been
shot and strangled. The woman's body,
giving, the police say, indications of
stran/gling, was found in the rectory.
"Trackless Trolley" Company Appeals
Because the Public Service Commis
sion has declined to give the Perkiomen
Electric Transit Company, a Delaware
corporation, permission to do business
with a ''trackless trolley line" in t>his
State, the company to-day appealed
from the Commission's decision to the
Dauphin county court. The Service
Commission holds that there is no law
to govern the company or regulate its
use of the State's highways. The court
were allowed the appeal and will hoar
argument on a date to be fixed.
Tioga County Dry for a Year
By Associated Press.
Wellsboro, I'a., Feb. 9.—A1l applica
tions for liquor license in Tioga county
were ruled out of court to-day when
Judge Davis Cameron sustained the po
sition of attorneys for remonstrants
that tihe applications had not been
properly advertised. Tioga county will
be dry for one year as a result. The
defect in the advertisement was in not
designating the residence of tho ap
plicants.
Essig and Brady Admitted to Ball
John Essig and William B.rady, huck
sters, who yesterday appeared before
Judges Kunkel and McOarrel an't
pleaded not guilty to charges of false
pretense, were admitted to bail to
await the action of the March Grand
Jury. Newspaper reports yesrterday
hail it that these men were remanded to
jail to await trial. v
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1915 12 PAGES.
NO GENERAL FLAK
TO MSI BOEM
Bakers Meet But Leave
It to Individuals to
Decide on Price and
Size of Loaves
B. SCHMIDT HAS
MADE NO CHANGE
He Has a Supply of Flour and So Will
Not Increase Price or Reduce
Weight at Least in Next 4 Months
—Some Bakers Make Advances
There has been no general agree
ment among the Harristmrg bakers I
either to raise the price of bread or to j
cut. down the size of the loaves. This j
information was •obtained to-day as a I
result of inquiries made to ascertain the
situation in the local bread market as
Ii %' ;
I ** i
;% : <
BERNARD SCHMIDT
the result of the recent great advance j
in the price of wheat.
It was learned by questioning a num- :
ber of bakers that although they get
together recently to discuss the mait
ter of raising prices or cutting down
the size of loaves there was no agree- :
ment, and each baker, therefore was left
to decide for himself what to do in the j
matter.
There seemed to be a pretty genera]
opinion among the bakers that those
who are now compelled to buy flour at
the greatly increased market price are
entitled to a higher price for their'
bread or to cut down the size of their |
loaves, and this gome of them have i
done. Those bakes, however, who have
supplies of flour on hand, which'
were bought at the lower prices before I
wheat began to soar, have, for the moot
part, refrained from making any
changes, but will pro-bably do so when
their flour supplies run out if at that
time they have to [>ay the same high
prices for flour as are prevailing to-day. '
Some of the smaller bakers, whose,
sullies of flour have become exhausted
and who havo to pay the present high ■
prices for flour, have had either to
make four-cent loaves a little larger i
and charge five cents for them, or have
reduced the size of the loaves that they
regularly had sold for five cents.
Schmidt Makes No Change
Bernard Schmidt, one of the largest
bakers in Central Pennsylvania, was j
asked to-Miay what effect the increased:
price of flour has had on his loaves.
"J have had neither to change the j
Continued on Ninth Pnige.
ENDS HER LIFE AT MILL DAM
Lebanon County Woman Drown» Her
self in Tragic Manner
Lebanon, Feb. 9. —Isainella, aged 58,
wife of William Sittler, residing near
Bethel, this county, drowned- herself in j
the mill darn of Harry Zeller Sunday.j
Sittlcr had loft home on Sunday to at-.
tend a funeral and returned home about i
noon. He found dinner prepared and j
prejiarations for the evening's work i
completed. His wife left word that 9he
was going to the home of a friend.
When darkness sfettlej down upon, Mr.
Sittler feared that something had hap
pened to his wife.
A telephone message brought the
news that the woman was not at her
friend's home. A searching party was!
later organized. Men, women and boys, |
with lanterns and torches, tracked the;
woman across open fields until they
caino to the Zeller mill dam. Here the
body was found floating on the breast
of the dam. Mrs. Sdttler had not en
joyetf-good health for some time, and
this fact is thought to have preyed on
her mind heavily, causing her to com
mit the rash act.
HARD BLOW TO TIPPLERS
Only One Quart a Month Allowed By
Alabama's New Law
By Associated Press.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 9.—A bill
preventing any person from receiving
more than ono quart of liquor a month
from outside the State became a law
automatically to-day, Governor Hen'
derson declining either to veto or sign
it. It is effective June 30, when the
State goeL dry.
The governor vetoed a bill prevent
ing circulation in the State of news
papers carrying liquor advertisements.
OVERDRAFTS IN
11 TO MB
Startling Rumors in
Connection With Sui
cide of Schaeffers
town Bank Cashier
ARRESTS WILL
LIKELY RESULT
Checks and Notes of Men Involved in
Failure Have Been Protested —Ef-
forts of Men to Cover Paper and
Help Out
By Aldocuitcd Press.
Lebanon, Pa., Feb. 9.—To-day's in
quiry into the shortage in the affairs oif
t.he First National Bank, of Schaeffers
town, this county, and the causes otf the
of the cashier, Alvin Binner,
shows that instead of tfoe overdrafts
amourfting to 15,000, they will aggre
gate fully $ >i,ooo and there are re
ports that they will even reach $50,-
000.
To-day there are rumors of impend
ing prosecutions. President Urialh B.
Horst, of the bank, lias called a meet
ing of the shareholders and general
public to be held in the town hall at 9
a. m. to-morrow wh«n it is believed a
startling tale will be told. A full re
port of the discrepancies in the books
wiM be made at this meeting as the di
rectors do not wish to keep anything
from the public. Mr. Horst admitted
to-day that a proposition will be made
to asse&s the stock to raise cash to re
open the bank.
T'he bank has dupo'.ita of nearly $60,-
000, a surplus of $15,000 and undivid
ed profits of $2,800 ana it is the inten
tion of the directors to a.pj>eal to the
stockholders. Bank Examiner Logan is
still at work on t'h> books.
The intense and searching methods
used by Examiner Logan to-day
bro»jht to light still another source of
shortage which had heretofore not been
I considered, and which now justifies the
i estimate of from $50,000 to $75,000,
! as the amount of the loss. Ho asked
! that every depositor in Schaefferstown
j bring their bank books to be balanced.
Quickly it was found that some de
positors had been ■credited in their pass
: books with sums which do not appear
i on the books of the bank. In one case
! this amounted to an even SI,OOO.
All the checks and notes of the men
! involved in the failure have been pro
tested, and efforts will be made to
; realize on them. Some'of the men are
endeavoring to cover their paper and
J help out. There is much accommodation
I paper on which the endorser will be the
loser in many esses. The balance must
be made up by the stockholders and li
rectors if the bank is to continue.
PLAN TO AID UNEMPLOYED
Will Be Taken Up On Definite Lines At
Meeting of the City Com
mission To-morrow
Plans under which many of the
city's unemployed men wili be given
work and thereby relieved of depend
ing upon charity for the maintenance
of themselves ami their families, will
be offered to the City Commissioners
by Commissioner Lynch, at a special
meeting of that body to be held to
morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The subject was brought up by May
or Royal at this afternoon's meeting
of the Commissioners but he said he
could offer no solution to the question
of unemployment except to introduce
a resolution directing department heads
to start at once on improvement work.
That, it was argued, would mean that
the city would have to pay extraordi
nary prices for the work in view of
tiie prevailing freezing temperature,
and it was also said that only such con
templated improvements as arc not now
under contract could be started now.
Iu other words the Commissioners felt
their inability to compel contractors to
start before spring on jobs the contracts
for which have been awarded during
the winter.
The subject was discussed at length,
the Mayor contending that the improve
ment work could be started now, and
his colleagues arguing on the question
of cost. The discussion ended only
when Lynch offered to have a solution
of the problem to offer by to-morrow
afternoon.
To W. H. Opperman was awarded
the contract for a sewer in Geiger
street and Henry Opperman got the
contract for another in a section of
Cumberland street. Contracts for
sewers in Market and Wiconisco streets
were not awarded because Charles E.
Elder, of Elizabethville, the low bidder,
'has not vet filed his bond.
City fiolicitor Seitz sent an opinion
to the Commission in which he holds
that trust companies, whioh sometimes
act as real estate agents and rent col
lectors. are exempt from a mercantile
tax. Thomas 11. Woods, an aged fores
ter, who long since has retired from
active work, in a 10-minute talk to
the Commissioners dropped a few words
of advice on the subjects of tree trim
ming and planting.
Ordinances passed finally to-day in
cluded these: Changing the names of
a dozen or more city highways and
providing a walk along the east side
of the wall on the eastern curb line
of Second street, south of Mulberry.
Senate Adjourns Till Mondty
After confirming the nominations of
several notaries and Justices sent in by
the Governor, the Senate at 2.30 ad
[journed to meet next Monday night at
' 9 o 'clock.
INVESTIGATING MYS
DEATHS IN ODD
DANIEL WOLFF,CHIEF OF POUCE
By Associated Press.
Yonkers, N. Y., Feb. 9.—lnvestiga
tion into the story of Frederick Mors
that he kiled eight «inmates of the Ger
man Odd Fellows Home where he was
employed as nurse, centered to-day in
efforts to obtain -sufficient corrobora
tion to warrant oxhuming tlhe bodies of
three of the alleged victims. These died
from poison before tlhe institnition
moved 'here from Unionport, according
to Mors, but the authorities said to
SHIP FILIBUSTER
TROUBLE STILL Oil
Another All Night Ses
sion of Senate Fea
tures Fight on Wilson
Measure
EXTRA SESSION
MAY BE RESULT
Senator Beed Proposes Order for Ar
rest of All Absentees arid to Keep
tbe Ninety-six Senators in Chamber
Until Measure Is Disposed Of
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 9. —Another all
night session of the Senate, threats of!
many more, and counter threats of
what is likely to haippen if there are
many more, found President Wileoo's
ship bill still being tossed about in a
sea of debate, with the Republican fili
buster again in full blast.
The President at a White House con
ference to-day said he had no intention
of dropping the bill and intimated he
would caJl R special 'session if it were
filibustered to death at the present one.
The Senate Republicans declared again
they were prepared to talk off a vote
until March* 4.
Reed's Proposal a Hornet's Nest
Some indications of the wearing ef
fects of the long hard fight were com
ing out in the Senate, however, and
Senator Reed, one of the administration
Democrats, proposed an orUer for the
arrest of all the absentees; in short, he
proposed to bring every one of the 96
Senators into the chamber and keep
them there until the bill was disposed
of. His proposal drew a roaring attack
and giave prospect of furnishing ma
terial for an all day's debate. Moan
while the ship bill itself was waiting,
practically where it has been for the
last two weeks.
At noon the Senate had been in ses
sion twenty-four hours and Senator
Continued on Ninth Page.
"QUIET ZONE" FOR HOSPITALS
Mayor's Bill Provides Fine for Unneces
sary Noises Near Institutions
A distance of >250 feet in all direc
tions from a'hospital in the city of Har
risburg is designated as a " zone of
quiet,'' within which noises which may
disturb patients in those institutions will
not be permitted, in an ordinance in
troduced at the meeting of the City
Commissioners this afternoon by Mayor
Royal.
The measure makes it the duty of the
superintendent of Btreets and public
improvements to have placed in con
spicuous places on streets leading to
the hospital, a sign displaying the
words: "Notice—Zone of Quiet." The
ordinance says further:
"The making, causing or permitting
to be made of any unnecessary noise,
or the playing, of itinerant musicians
upon the public srtreets or alleys within
any sudli zone of quiet that disturbs or
that may tend to disturb the peace and
quiet of any of the inmates of any
hospital is hereby declared to be a
nuisance.''
The bill provides that persons violat
ing this measure may be fined from $2
to $25 on conviction, or in default of
payment of fine be confined to the Dau
phin county ja&y for a period not ex
ceeding thirty days.
Another Heir to Austrian Throne
Vienna, via London, Feb. 9, 4.47 A.
M. —Princess Zita of Parma, wife of
Archduke Charles Francis, heir appar
ent to the Austrian throne, to-day gave
birth to a son. They were married in
1911 and have two other children, a
son and a daughter.
v" M
OOfcONOR JAMES P. DUNN
day they would not act upon this state
ment until it was supported by other
evidence.
The otlher five victims were put to
death witih an anaesthetic, IMore says,
and exhumation of their bodies would
be of uo value.
Light on tihe question as to w'he.bher
Mors is mentally unbalanced wag ex
pected to-day from Dr. S. M. Gregory,
who has had fhe nurse ynder observa
tion at Bellevue hospital, New York.
OFFEB FBEE COAL
TO FILTER PLANT
Light Co. Interests Ask
in Exchange Right to
Build Wharf at the
Island
PLAN IN FORM
OF ORDINANCE
Introduced At Meeting of City Commis
sion By Bowman This Afternoon—
He Says It Would Mean a Saving of
$1,140 a Year to Harrlsburg
.River i'oal consumed at the city filt
ration plant, a'bout 1,200 tons annually,
hereafter will be furnished free to Har
risbuilg, a net annual saving of some
thing lige $1,140, if the City Commis
sioners pass finally an ordinance intro
duced this afternoon by Commissioner
Bowman, whereby permission is given
to the Harrisburg Light and Power
Company to build a coal wharf, hopper
and electric hoist on the island in the
Susquehanna river opposite the central
part of the city.
The measure authorizes Commission
er Bowman to i?nter into a contract, for
the city, with the Light Company, un
der which the city for fifteen years is
to receive without cost, all coal neces
sary in the operation of the filtration
plant. At the expiration of the fifteen
years it is provided that a similar con
tract may be entered into by the city
under the same conditions.
In return for that the city will per
mit the Light Company, the ordinance
provides, to utilize a 100-foot square
piot of the island grouml, directly op-
Contlnnrd on Ninth I'nxr.
STATE Y. M. C. A. TO CONVENE
Prominent Speakers to Address Meet
ings at Johnstown
A number of HarrisburgeTS will bo
in attendance at t'he forty-seventh an
nual convention of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Pennsylvania,
whiif h meets at Johnstown February 19-
22, inclusive. Speakers of national im
portance have been secured and the pro
gram as arranged for contains both
general and association themes.
Among the speakers arc P. S. Clax
ton, of tho National Education commit
tee; Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of ( loihns
Hopkins University, Baltimore; Prof. G.
Walter Fiske, Qberlin, Ohio, an author
and authority on boy life; Dr. Thomas
A. Storey, " director of hygiene and
physical training of the New York City
College, along with many Y. M. C. A.
secretaries.
Themes of great importance such as
"Why Christianity Did Not Prevent
the War," "Tihe Social Evil and Its
Cure," "The Conflict, Ita Cause and
Cure," and many others will ibe dis
cussed.
Poor Andy's Vacation Plans Spoiled?
By Associated Proa*.
New York, Feb. 9.—The war has
spoiled Andrew Carnegie's vacation
plans for this summer. For the first time
in many summers he will be absent
from- Skibo castle, his Scottish estate.
Instead he will occupy Point D'Acostie,
Mrs. George Vanderbilt's place at Bar
Harbor, the lease of which place by him
ihas just been announced.
Crippled For Life in Football
By Associated Press.
Washington, Pa., Feb. 9.—Britain
Patterson, left tackle on the Washing
ton and Jefferson College football team,
is probably crippled for life as the re
sult of an injury to his right knee cap
sustained in a game with Georgetown
at Washington, D. C., last season.
POSTSCRIPT 1
PRICE, ONE CENT.
SUFFRAGE BILL IS
PASSED 1 HOUSE
Approved Finally by
Lower Branch and
Now Goes to the Sen
ate for Action
VOTE ON MEASURE
IS 130 TO 71
Lobbying Against the Amendment by
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Poli
ticians Is Unavailing—Spirited De
bate Before Adoption
The bill to submit to the voters, next
November, the question of women s
suffrage was passed finally in the House
of Representatives this morning. It will
now go to the Senate. The vote -wad
130 to 71 and the measure called out
the ofily debate of any consequence
that has been held in the House since
the start of the session. Mrs. Frank
Roessing, president of the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Assooiation, lead a
group of prominent suffragists who
went to the House to watch the pro
ceedings.
The measure lost one friend during
the interim of the two years since the
last Legislative session, when the House
passed it by a vote of 131 to 70. Thoso
on tho "inside" on Capitol Hill believe
the measure will pass in the Senate
with a greater vote than iu last ses
sion, which was 26 to 22.
William H. Wilson, of Philadelphia,
who sponsored the resolution in tho
I House, this morning opened" discussion
on the measure, placing stress on the
fact that all of the dominent political
i parties in the state had made it a plat
jform measure and warning the Assem
blymen that they are bound by their
' pledges to support it.
| The principal speaker against the
! resolution was Representative Beyer, of
Philadelphia, whose argument was that
the menArrs were acting on a definite
proposition and not on a referendum.
He warned each member that he must
stand for his vote. Representative Cro
mer, of Allegheny, and* Representative
Roney, of Philadelphia, both spoke on
the bill. The latter said he felt as
though the question should go to tho
people at this time as the f delegates to
a constitutional convention, to provide
which a t>ill has been introduced, can
act intelligently on this phase of the
new constitution if the electors pass or
defeat the suffrage amendment before
the convention. Roney voted against
the suffrage amendment last session.
Mr. Unclb, of Lebanon, in speaking
against tho amendment, said he did not
Continued ou Seventh Page.
SENATEBOWSTO THE BOUSE
Twice Recedes From Amendments to
General Deficiency Measure to Pay
Back Bills of State
The Senate twice receded from
I amendments to the general deficiency
! bill, appropriating moneys to pay back
1 bills of the state, before the House
j would consent to pass the bill to-day.
The first was appropriating inouey to
i pay the expenses of the Cat Id n com
j mission and the second was the insert'
i ing o<f the woiMs "as shown by bills
j rendered" in the section of the bill
! appropriating SIOO,OOO for the pay
ment of publishing advertisements of
constitutional amendments.
Both were stricken out by the Sen
j «.te and the House was ready to pasi
I the bill when Mr. Haibgood, of McKeau
county, precipitated an argument by an
attack of the Auditor General who, ho
claimed, was unfair in tho matter of
cutting some bills for advertising.
Haligcod's effort to have a confer
ence committee appoiuted was declared
to be out of order and the bill was
passed. The bill carried $638,000 when
it reached the Senate where amend
ments were added totaling SIO,OOO
which were concurred in by the House.
This measure now goes to Governor
Brumbaugh for his signature.
RESENT SUFFRAGE PRAYER
j Antis Not Pleased With House Chap
lain's Supplication at the Session
Last Night
Tho chaplain of the House last
night prayetj for the success «f the
woman suffrage measure at a time when
there were present a number of women
representing the anti-suffragists and the
latter were dis|wsed to resent the chap
lain 's getting into the game.
Fearing that the chaplain of the Sen
ate might offer up a prayer in that
body for woman suffrage, representa
tives of the antis called on him with a
request that he should refrain from
boosting suffrage in that way.
Chaplain Davis informed them that
no matter how he felt on the matter of
woman suffrage, he certainly would not
refer to it in his prayer, and further
more he did not propose to refer to any
legislative matters in his prayors as he
did not consider that within the pro
vince of his duties.
WALL STREET CLOSING
New York, Feb. o.— Reading, Penn
sylvania and St. Paul were sold in the
final hour, when New York Central was
weakest. The closing was heavy. Ir
regularity attended to-day's operations,
the stock market sagging in the lattei
dealings on general selling of prominent
railway issues.