Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-15

haANAAAS N5 S0A GO
the legislature adjourns next week.
scores of clerks are now working in
rooms in the attic which was intend
ed for storage and where the heat in
summer time is intense and but little
time will be lost in taking possession
OF the committee rooms when the law
makers leave the city. A number of
the offices which are now occupying
quarters in buildings in the city will
be returned to the Capitol.
The attorney generals department
is being refurnished and arranged for
taking care of the additional deputies
who will be named under the provi-
sions OF the bill recently approved.
New desks are being placed and &C.
commodations made for the new
clerks and stenographers.
To Discuss Pension. The Senate
appropriations committee will deter
mine what to do in regard to the
mother pension legislation during the
coming week. Arrangements have
been made for a meeting on Monday
when estimates of the amount required
will be discussed. This is one of the
few important bills in the hands of
the Senate committee.
The compensation bills will be acted
upon finally Monday by the corpor-
atoms committee of the Senate.
Utility Charters. - Eight applica-
'tions for approval of charters will be
laid before the Public Service COM
mission at its meeting on Tuesday, in
the list being railway, light. water,
power and jitney companies, the list
being the most varied since the COM
mission began work. The commission
has several applications for approval
of propositions for abolition of grade
crossings in P~ottstown. York, Grove
City and in Cambria county. The
= n m m lesion will hnor ,rD,n,o.t lota -,
the week in the complaint of Frank
II. Hawkins against the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company over transfers
in West Philadelphia, which has at
tracted much attention among street
railway men. The Gratz water COM
pany is asking approval of a charter
and the two contracts of the borough
of D~uncannon and the Pennsylvania
railroad are scheduled to come up.
The Hershey Transit company wants
approval of a transmission line.
Standard BasketS.-James Sweeney,
the State chief of standards has issued
a warning that the new acts providing
for standard baskets for the sale of
fruits and vegetables and changing
the official bushels of apples, beets and
lime will be enforced. The latter bill
is an amendment to the commodities
act of 1913, which designated the
standards of over sixty articles in
common use. The new basket act will
require that there shall be -four stand
ard baskets which must conform to
certain dimensions. The notice says,
ANY container, basket or tray made
in conformity with the provisions
made need not be marked or branded
in Il a to indicate the quantity
of the contents" All other containers
must be plainly marked on the outside
to indicate the net quantity.
To let Contract. - Members of the
State Armory Board will meet shortly
to arrange the building program UNI
der the appropriation for the coming
two-year period. The bill has been
reported for $3.50, 900 and there are
demands for buildings that would
treble that sum. The contract for the
Lebanon armory will be let next week.
After a Jitney.-The Tarentum Auto
Transit Company has filed with the
Public Service Commission a complaint
against Merle Brady and Henry Hemp
hill. individuals. engaged in hauling
passengers for hire. 1t is alleged that
they have not received a certificate of
public convenience from the commits
sion. In the matter of the complaint
of Paul E.. Vol against the Philadel-
phia n Reading. in which discrimi-
nation Is alleged in rates and services
against Fern Rock station, on the
Third and Berks street line. the re-
%spondent advises that ii will arrange
to stop the train leaving Third and
Berks at ! y. m. at Fern Rock and that
there will be placed on sale 1OO-trip
tickets and 10-trip tickets at that sta
ton.
Full Crew Hearing.-Governor Brum-
baugh has set Wednesday, May 10, at
2 p. m. In the Executive chamber, for
the hearing on the full crew law re-
peaIer.