Show r PENXYLYANIA HAH bo asted ISt t much lately of tho improvement in her J legislators It has been claimed that a great reform movement had ft A been at work in the state and the I f result was an altogether better class 4 I of menj than had done the lawmaking law-making in the past There was an I I exhibition on the part of the good men the other iight on the occasion j r of the close of the session Many of 1 J r the members were drunk and they amused themselves by throwing 1 books at the head of the speaker pro tem and pouring water on his f head from the gallery A fight ensued en-sued and injtthemelee the speaker bit the thumb of a member severely se-verely file circus closed by locking I i the wounded statesman to keep j him away from the speaker Oaths and profanity ruled tho house and i for a time the state house cuts a bedlam If the affair is a sample of j What reform will do for Pennsylvania t Pennsyl-vania statesmen the law abiding l 1 citizens should petition for the continuance 6 jI con-tinuance of the boss system |