Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-15

MI murray has had charge of cor
poration tax matters for the last five
years and it is generally understood
that he Will specialize in corporation
practice, particularly in corporation
tax matters in which he is recognized
as one of the best posted men, not
only in this but in other states. He
will retire from office during the early
part of October after the settlements
for the current year are completed.
enjoying the respect and confidence of
everyone who has had business before
him.
Mr. Murray was named by Robert
X Young, when Auditor General, to
succeed Congressman ]. N. Iangbam
as corporation clerk and continued in
the place by Auditor General A. e.
Sisson, whose right-hand man he was
in tho notable increase of taxation
receipts, especially in corporation
taxes which marked the administra-
ton of the Erie man. This work at
tracted wide attention and was much
commented upon because of the man
ner in which the State benefited, the
National Transit, Pittsburgh and Lake
Erie and other famous cases being
pushed and state revenues increased.
General Sisson in an official state
ment near the end of his admins
tration, referring to MIR. Murray, said
among other things: His great
knowledge of the corporation tax laws
OF the state and his ability to apply
them practically to the working out
of the Just and equitable taxation of
the corporations of the Common
wealth. together with his integrity and
MI 1,f
valuable man in this department"
Auditor General Powell continued
Mr.. Murray in his reorganization of
the department.
AS an illustration of the way in
winch state receipts from corporations
nave climbed during Mr.. Murrays in
cumbency of the office he has held il
may he stated that in the first year
they aggregated $17,449,595.22 and i'm
1918 2l,975, ,O55.35. The increase in
capital stock tax alone in that period
was AZ per cent.
Justices Named.-Appointments of
Justices of the peace made to-day in
cluded: d. A. Hamilton, Perry town
ship, Jefferson county: William A.
Allabaugh, Silverdale. Bucks county;
T. L. Davis, Fayette township. Juniata
county; NJ. r. Shaffner, McConnells-
burg.
Thomas Quits.--John r. Thomas,
Nai'ulhdlt LOT congress In the Tenth
district, Lackawanna county, on the
Prohibition ticket, filed his withdrawal
to-day.
MIR. Bell Home.-Attorney General
John G. Bell came back to the Capitol
to-day for the first time since his re-
turn from Europe, where he was ma
rooned by the outbreak of the war
Il am glad l am back at work instead
of observing the attitude of people in
the midst of a crisis was his COM
ment on his travels. He did not say
aything more about the operations of
the national Department of State.
State Veterinarian c. ]. Marshall.
VINO was in Europe when war came,
is also home, but Commissioner John
Price Jackson, of the Department of
Labor and Industry. is still in Berlin.
Labor Department Active.-Forty-
eight prosecutions for violation of the
labor laws of the state were ordered
by the Department of Labor and In
dustry last week. OF these thirty were
for violation of the minor labor laws
and eighteen for violation of the
female employment law.
Attending Wedding.-J. L. Kendle-
hart of the State Department and
Mrs. kendlehart are spending the day
In gettysburg attending the marriage
of Mr.. Kendlehart's niece. Miss Helen
kendlehart. to Paul CARING, of Glen
Gardner n. Y.
Public Service HeaTings.-The an
thority of the Public Service Commits
sion to require one public utility to
give to another the use of its property
was raised to-day at the commissions
hearing of the petition of the citv of
Scranton and the Board of Trade of
that city to have an order issued for
the Jersey Central and Ontario Rail-
roads to permit the Delaware and
Hudson, Lackawanna and Erie Rail-
roads to unite with it in construction
of a union station. 1t was commended
that II would be a matter of public
convenience, but Jackson H. Reyn-
olds, for the Central. raised the oues-
ton Of jurisdiction. A prolonged ar
gument was heard.
The commission also heard obiec-
tions from Richard E. Cochran. of
York, and G. LaRue Munson, of Will
Transport, to the action of the citv of
York in enforcing an ordinance re-
quiring installation of meters. It was
asserted that the city's ordinances
would usurp the authority of the state
commission, which had established
meter regulations for the state. The
city was not represented.
Commissioners Here.-The commits
sioners of Lawrence county are at the
Capitol to arrange for hearing on
the New Castle bridge project They
called upon Governor Tener and Judge
Kunkel to-day.
HEARD ON THE "HILL'
Secretary Gather has returned
a Inv ak T.,