| Show 1 P a LAWMAKERS C CALLED ED I FOR EXTRA SESSION l 11 t GOVERNOR PINCHOT SAYS MEET i is IMPERATIVE SAFETY OF INSTITUTIONS REASON I iii Regulation of The Coal Industry and the Enforcement of the Dry Law LawWill I. I Will Alto Allo be Con Considered Ide red Says Say Governor of Eastern State I I l' l I 1 J Pa Governor Governor Pinchot n. n lIed called an extra session of the f t i Pennsylvania general assembly for January 13 Two of the subjects to be bei i i i considered are regulation of the tho coal coat 1 mining Industry and prohibition ent enl en en- t l forcemeat Ir 1 I I i 1 The official proclamation summoning summon summon- 1 ing the legislature was wall undre date dute 1 1 1 of December 14 U It will be signed by bythe bythe I the governor shortly but was mader made r public before his hla signature was at at- ant b Cached together with a statement of oj the tho governors governor's reasons for calling colling the session I 1 have called the general assembly of Pennsylvania in extra session because be cause aulle the safety of ot our Institutions and the prosperity of our people imperatively im demand it It the governor said laId Abuses have arisen in this commonwealth commonwealth com corn so dangerous to our form of government and so threatening to the tho welfare of the tho people that they must be taken In hand with vigor and without delay Later in his statement he asserted d the session will not cost the tho taxpayers ers ere Ors a single dollar If it the tho legislature le will enact the legislation I shall rec j Although the section In tho proclamation procla r matlon mation dealing with anthracite asked only consideration of measures to reg reg- V tI l the industry through a proper x t state agency and authorization of at f J compacts with o other her states for the f 1 same purpose Governor Pinchot's 1 statement Indicated his Intention of asking that hard coal mining be bo declared de lIe 1 4 dared a public utility He Ito outlined i Ms his own efforts to bring about a settlement set Clement of the tho anthracite controversy t I j i through the submission of proposals fa which were accepted by the miners id t but rejected by the operators I i 0 The operators from first to last I JJ G be he said have refused to yield one f Jot or little of their original position li The future of the Industry he asserted assert assert- ed ed Is threatened by popular ro resent recent ent and the use of substitutes I and he said the public must either Buffer suffer In silence or It must take mea- mea ti eures Bures to protect Itself The governor term termed Ill I'll the Industry 4 a a and said the attorney general had advised him in that case it may be declared to be affected tie with a public interest and therefore subject to regulation as a public util- util I Ity Action by the legislature declaring the anthracite monopoly to be a pub public tic lic utility he said will supply some degree of public where none exists today will furnish information never before revealed and will exert I the most powerful influence the public pub pub- i lie lic can apply toward the settlement of the strike The governor proposed In his proclamation proclamation proc only lonal means for I enforcing the prohibition enforcement I I and anil In his statement he said he regarded re reo regarded this question as of fundamental tal tab moral Importance I |
