Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-21
GOAL TAX SUIT TO
Be STARTED HERE
First Steps Have Been Taken For
Test of Constitutionality
Of the Law
OLEO NETS MANY THOUSANDS
Party Name Pre-empters Are Get
ting Busy in the Philadel-
/. phia Districts
II is evected that

be made out and sent to n coal pro-
Queer. The coal operators have been
ming their reports and the clerks are
now calculating taxes
The action will be on the ground
that the tax violates the constitution in
that it is a special tax and imposes
an additional burden which is not
warranted. The case will be tried in
the Dauphin county court and prob
ably be appealed.
Name Pre-cmpted.-The name OF
the Anti-Penrose party was to-day
pre-empted for the Philadelphia dis
trict as follows: First congressional
and first legislative districts by J. E
Galen, Edward T. Shay, Peter ]. Karr
Ihomas j. MCGOWAN. Henry d. DAILY
for the Twenty-fourth legislative by
Henry Henderickson, John Wilson
Fred c. Weber. John Deck and John
j. Fletcher; Eighteenth legislative dis
trict. Frederick Miller. George Hatz,
Oscar Hay, Benedict and William
Martin; sixteenth legislative district
William l.. Smith, William w. Hutton
II. Zimmerman, George Gray. il. A.
Gardner; Twenty-siXth Legislative dis
trict by John T. McAvoy, Daniel Nc
Avoy, John A. Prosper, Robert B.
Sneak, Ralph c. Miller.
Postponed Again.-Some time age
the Susquenanna river was reported SC
full OF pollution that the fish were dy-
ing by the thousand and public meet
ings were held at Williamsport de-
manding some action by the State au-
thorities in the matter. The Pennsyl-
vania Department of Fisheries. after
an examination, brought suit against
all the manufactures along the Slime
mahoning, a branch OF the Susque-
hanna, the West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Company, ct Lock Haven, and
several manufactures at Williams
port. This is in accordance with q
plan adopted by the department to try
and clear up one water shed at time
and make a good job of it. The West
Virginia Pulp and Paper Company al
Lock Haven were convicted before the
alderman and took an appeal to the
Court of Clinton county. This appea
was to have been heard Wednesday
January 21, but at the request of the
counsel for the defense the hearing
was postponed until February. Dila.
tory tactics the department has found
is frequent resource with the de-
PENDANTS in the pollution cases.
Eight Fined.-Dairy and Food Com.
missioner Foust has been informed
that fines have been imposed on eight
persons in Philadelphia for sale OF
adulterated vinegar. About twenty
such cases are pending in other coun-
ties.
taken diagnoses fifty cases of small
pox are prevalent in North East, Erie
county. State health inspectors are
aiding the local authorities to check
the outbreak, which is one of the
most serious known in that part of
the State.
Governor to Speak. Governor
Tener left for Philadelphia to speak
at the Pierce School commencement
and at the dinner to the Supreme
Court.
Commissioner James Foust to-day
paid S166,000 to the State Treasury
as income from oleo licenses for 1914.
This is the greatest payment of the
kind ever made by the Dairy and Food
Division.
Investigations On.-The Fire Mar
SnaIS department has started in
quiries into several of the barn fires
that have been reported from interior
counties. The deputies are trying to
ascertain what proportions are due to
tramps.
Legislators Here. ,Among legisla-
tors at the Capitol were Senators c. A.
Snyder, Walter McNichols and James
I. Nulty, Representatives D. ]. Shern.
j. A. Dunn, Philadelphia; F. E. Gel
ser, Easton, and G. c.. Irwin, Holli-
daysburg.
Asks Names.-Commissio Jack
son has called on people who have
been charging wholesale violations of
the women's employment law in Pitts
burgh to geve the names of violators.
Mr.. Jackson says cooperation and
support and not criticism for the sake
of making a sensation will be benefi-
cial to the public.
Pottsville Case. - The hearing in
the Pottsville third class city quo war
ranto case will be held here on Janu-
ary 29. The case is returnable on
Saturday.