Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05


work, classed as temporary, in the
Auditor Generals Department. Lenk-
er was also routed last Fall when he
sought to be elected to the legisla-
ture on his own merits and with no
Roosevelt wave to carry him for
ward.
Mr.. Powell has been very kind to
these two erstwhile progressive lead
ers.
State civil service. to include
everyone connected with the State gov
ernment except elective officers, those
appointed by the Governor with the
consent of the Senate and labor with
possible clause permitting counties
and third class cities to have local op-
tion If they desire it, is proposed in a
bill which Representations of the State
Civil Service Reform Association will
submit to Governor Brumbaugh next
week. The bill will embody some of
the ideas of civil service bills of the
past with commission of three, the
chairman to get 200 a year with two
others and a chief examiner at $4,000
EACH The bill would affect about A.
500 persons il it included all medical
inspectors and employees of the State
Highway Department.
Governor Brumbaugh has been
studying the report of the Economy
and Efficiency Commission which
gives the name, position and salary of
every person connected with the State
government and has been having
heads of one or more departments
meet with him every day or SO. This
has given rise TO the quadrennial story
that probe" and a "shakeup" and
''cleanouts' of departments are un-
der way. This story appeared when
| William A. Stone took office after the
Hastings administration and has ap-
peared every four years since.
The Philadelphia Record of to-day
says: Governor Brumbaugh is eX-
pected to so unusually slow in max
| ing appointments to office under his
administration, and it is doubted if
there will be any serious shakeup on
Capitol Hill until the Legislature is
we'll under way. The Governor has
clearly indicated that he is far more
interested in legislation than in jobs,
for the present at least, and is Civ
! ing chief consideration to the passage
of his pet measures. Close friends
of the Executive declare that far from
| being "A woolly lamb, as he was term
cd by Colonel Roosevelt during the
campaign, the Governor is demon
strating that he is sufficiently familiar
with the political game to realize the
value of patronage and to postpone
all rewards and punishments of office
until the Legislature has acted"
-EX-State Senator William Finn,
head of the Bull Moose movement in
Pennsylvania, was in Philadelphia
yesterday on his way to Florida. He
said he was not there to confer on
politics or to discuss with local WASH
| ington party men the selection of a
new party name to be used by the
| Bull Moose followers in the next ma
HFfN aat
the likelihood of friction between Gov
ernor Brumbaugh and the Republican
leaders in the General Assembly over
promised legislation. Il have never
met Brumbaugh," said Finn, land
would not know him if he came in
here and / would not like to venture
a guess as to whether the Governor
will stand up for his views to the
point of fighting the Republican or
ganization."
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer,
| it will be noted, voted against the
President in the immigration bill bat
tie at Washington. Palmer's term as
congressman is drawing to a close
and it might be added that so is his
term as Democratic leader.
Congressman John J. Casey, of
Wilkes-B Barre, who has bucked the
Democratic machine in the matter of
appointments for his home county, has
been selected to take the place of
Palmer on the ways and means conf
mittee of the House at Washington.
Casey has never been one of the crowd
to gather around the windmill here.
up to date nothing has been ar
ranged by the financiers of the Cen
trail Democratic Club for jefferson
day banquet and some are wondering
| If the national administration has no
cabinet officers to spare for Harris
burg Democrats this year.
And now Senator Sproul is being
| trotted out by the Democrats as a
candidate for United States senator to
succeed Senator Oliver. Inasmuch as
Senator Penrose lives in the next coun-
ty to Senator Sproul the item has an
importance from a geographical stand
point if nothing else.