Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-22

The Attorney Generals Department
accepted the service of the SUIT
through Deputy Attorney, General w.
M. Hargest and will defend the action.
The proceeding is on the ground
that the tax violates the constitution
In that it is confiscatory and the onl-
GERS would not be doing their duty to
the stockholders or to the public,
which buys the coal IL they did not
test the law. 1t is contended that 1t 1s
a commodities tax, levied in one COM
modify and illegal and arbitrary and
that the distribution of the proceeds
| is arbitrary in that the State collects
the tax and without an appropriation
returns it to the counties which pro-
duce coal, but none to the coal min
ing districts The distribution is to dis
tricts of coal producing counties on
basis of population whether they mine
coal or not. AS an instance of this
distribution at large it Is stated that
| In Dauphin county three districts pro-
duce coal and all of the divisions of
the county get q shart of the coal tax,
while in Lackawanna county seven
districts will receive more from the
coal tax than they receive from all
other taxation.
! Appointed Ofiicer.-Paul L. Barclay
was to-day appointed a policeman for
! the Philadelphia division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
I Hotels Increase. - The Adelph1a
Hotel Company, Philadelphia, which
is building one of the big new hotels
has filed notice of an increase of stock
from $250,000 to 100000.
Appointed Justice. = Thomas r
Grady has been appointed justice IN
Fell township, Lackawanna county.
Complaints Made.-H. +. Shipton
of Petersburg, to-day informed the
Public Service Commission that the
Pennsylvania Central Light and Pow
|er Company of Huntingdon discrimi-
mates in rates to the disadvantage ol
1.-THE citizens of Petersburg, although
the latter town is nearer to the power
plant than is Huntingdon. e. r. Lau-
ler, of Dover, complains to the com
mission that the accommodations or
the line of the York Railways Com
pany, from York to Dover, are made
quate and that the fare is too high in
comparison with other places.
Commissions Meet.--Goyernor Ten
| er to-day met the members of the
new commissions in charge of the
Women's Industrial Home and the
Home For Inebriates at his Office to-
day, discussing their work. The mem
bers of the former commission were
his guests at luncheon.
| Armory Board Meets-The State
| Armory Board met at 8 a. m. to-day
and kept at it all day. Bids for the
Improvement of the Fourteenth Regi-
ment armory in Pittsburgh and the
new armory at Waynesburg were
opened.
Justice Named.--Thomas F. Grady
Fell township, Lackawanna county,
w. r. Kepner, Penn township, Lycom-
ing, and j. A. Shoch, Selinsgrove
have been appointed justices.
Will Make Fill.-The Water Supply
Commission has been asked to ap-
prove plans for a fill along the Sus-
uuehanna at Cedar street for the Har-
risburg Light and Power Company
which has a plant at that point.
Special EIectiOn.-Lieutenant Gov
ernor Reynolds has ordered a specia
election to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Senator John L. Fisher
of, Shamokin. 1t will be held in No
Ivember.
Big Bonus Paid.-The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to-day paid the
State Treasury 17,S3S.33 as a bonus
on increase of stock