Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-08
COMMITTEES MAY
COME OUT ON 18TH
Capitol Gossip Is That They Will
Not Be Ready on the Night
of the Eighteenth
BRUMBAUCH TAKES A HAND
New Governor Wants Appropria-
ton Committees to Work With
Him in Their Line

According to word reaching the
Capitol it is possible that the an
nouncement of the appointments of
committees and of officers and en-
ployes of the Senate and House may
not be announced until Inauguration
day or maybe the following day. 1t
was said when the Legislature ad-
journed after organizing that the COM
mittee list might be ready for each
chamber on Monday, but this is now
doubted.
Speaker Amber has been in con-
sultation with Governor-elect Brum-
baugh about the committees, espec-
tally those which will handle the bills
in which the new Governor is inter
ested, and President Pro Tenn. Kline,
of the Senate, will see him within
few days.
The slate committees of the two
houses are at work on the allotment
of places.
The Philadelphia Record to-day
says: with the intention of enabling
| Governor-elect Brumbaugh to carry
out his plans of a more systematic
distribution of State funds for chari-
ties, Speaker Amber is expected to
appoint q House committee on appro-
priations in thorough sympathy with
the Views of the prospective EXecu-
tive. 1t is further planned to have
this committee keep the appropria-
llOHS WlJnln the income OF the COM
monwealth and thus relieve the Gov
ernor of the necessity of wholesale
| slaShing of items a custom in vogue
at Harrisburg for years. James r.
| Woodward, of Allegheny county. who
| is stated to be pledged to DR.. Brum-
baugh's plans upon State appropria-
| tions, is regarded as the probable Sc
lection of Speaker Amber for chair
man of this committee, a position he
| held during the 1911 session" The
| Record also says George W. Williams
will be chairman of the House law
and order committee and not A. c.
Stem, as reported.
| In the course of a speech at the
winter dinner of the Pittsburgh Credit
Men last night Senator Oliver de-
clared that there are so many laws
that they burden the people and in
terfere with business. AS in the high
cost of living. the burden ultimately
| falls on the consumer. The Senator's
speech made a notable impression.
Senator Penrose, who had been
| i'll in Philadelphia for week or more,
was about yesterday and said that he
proposed to make an answer to tho
statements of Congressman Palmer,
whom he defeated so siGnally for the
| Senate.
The appointments of the big rev.
enue officers under the changed
around plan are expected to be an
nounced by the Wilson Administration
within a short time. Warren Van
Dyke looks for the internal revenue
office.
Tonight the Philadelphia Dem
ocrats will celebrate Jackson Day and
men of both factions will get together.
| w. Horace Hoskins, who has been
| leading the fight against State Chair
Morris n
The counter charges of Congress
man-elect Beales against Congress-
man Brodbeck are not reliShed by
Democratic bosses here.
A good many people in Philadel-
phia are watching the development of
the fighting among the cabineteers of
Mayor Blankenburg and it is predicted
that there will be another outbreak
before long. Things appear to be fix
| ing themselves to make the etection
of Republican certain next time.
DIR. Richard G. Harte, who retired
when asked to do SO, is one of the
we'll known and influential medical
men of Philadelphia.
-Lackawanna county Democratic
politicians are in q disturbed state be-
cause cf a movement that is under
way to secure a reorganization of the
committees in that section.
And they say that Congressman
Rupley will turn his attention to run
ming for Judge in Cumberland after
March 4.
George l.. Haag, prominent in
Democratic politics in Milton, has
been named as an internal revenue
officer. Haag has been a county au-
ditor and was mentioned for the Mil
ton post office.
j. J. Heintz, well known to a
number of HarrisburGers, is a candi-
date for mayor of Williamsport.