Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
mo POLICY YET ON
REAPPORT|ON|MENT
Republican Leaders Say That the
Matter Has Not Been Given
Consideration at All
AT LARGE SYSTEM DOOMED
Governor Working to Clear Up
All Appointments; Amber
Candidate For Speaker

!
ment in regard to reapportionment of
the State into congressional and legis-
lative districts is going on among State
officials and men who will sit in the
next general assembly and in all prob
ability several bills Will be drawn for
submission, but it is stated at the
Capitol that no pollcy has been out
lined. The State has not been appor-
toned since 1906, the pressure of so
many bills last session preventing con-
| sideration in 1918.
| While 1t has been stated that the
| Republican organization prefers to
maintain the at-large system of elect
| ing the extra four members, just as 1T
| did for ears prior to 1906, some OF the
leaders are not disposed to invite criti-
cism by falling to apportion the State
| five years after the census has been
taken and especially when conditions
in some districts show inequality of
population.
Elaborate calculations and maps
were worked out last session and arc
on hand for the assistance of the law
makers in taking up the subject.
Governor John X. Tener is plan
ming to complete all of the appoint
ments he has to make within the next
three weeks and on January 2 or he
will announce the name of the man he
will appoint as judge to succeed Rob
ert S. Frazer on the Supreme Court
bench. If Justice John Stewart should
resign by that time the Governor viii
name President Judge George Kunkel,
of this county. to the place. The Gov
ernor is having lists of trustees and
other appointments gone over so that
he will be in shape to make all ap-
M nj qnlanftOn
lie services commissioner will come
about Christmas time.
Representative Charles A. Amb-
ler, of Montgomery county, local op-
zionist, Penrose leader and legislator
of long experience, has been sprung
as a candidate for speaker of the
House by Senator elect Frank p. Croft,
of Montgomery, IA personal friend.
Amber has been a member of the
committee on appropriations for sew
eral years and Is also an authority on
roads. The entrance of Amber and
the declaration of the Wares that IL
Wilson announces his candidacy they
will be for him has started the friends
of r. j. Baldwin to working hard. IIab-
good is also getting buster than ever
and friends of George w. Williams, or
Tioga, have their coats off for him.
-Hazleton people who are opposed
to State Chief of Mines James b.
Roderick are working out a bill to
require the chief of mines to live in
Harrisburg and to have two assistants,
one for the hard coal field and one FOR
the soft coal basin.
A dinner is to be rendered to Gov
ernor- Martin G. Brumbaugh at
Philadelphia on Wednesday. Promi-
nent residents of the State Will speak.
Men all over the State are inter-
ested in the contest for the election of
president of the Union League at Phil
adelphia tonight. The candidates are
Senator w. c. Sproul and John Crib
bel.
The Democratic State headquart-
ers was formally opened in Philadel-
phia to-day. The people there say
that the move was for the convenience
of State Chairman Norris.
Prominent Democrats in Philadel-
phia, who had hopes of averting
war between the Morris and Hoskins
factions Of the reorganization wing
| have given it up. There will be a
three-cornered Democratic fight un-
less the president steps in and shuts
down on some of the brawlers.
Senator elect Horace w. SchantZ,
! of Lehigh, is out with n declaration
that he proposes to offer bill to rid
the State of the nuisance in election
| laws He is against personal registra-
| ton and enrolment and thinks that
the time has come to simplify the bal
lot. He is also against the nonpartisan
act the hunters license and mercan-
the appraisement. The senator will
/ take his seat next month ana have all
his bills ready. Then they will go to
com mittee.