Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-18
JUDGE RICE WILL
LEAVE THE BENCH
Superior Court Head Announces
That He Will Not Seek Re-
election This Autumn
TRIBUTE TO COLLEAGUES
Judges Orlady and Head Are
Commended; Crow Doubts
Early Adjournment Date

| Announcement was made last night
from Wilkes-Barre that President
Judge Charles e. Rice, of the Superior
lCourt of Pennsylvania, will retire and
not allow his name to so before the
voters in the coming campaign. This
announcement is made in letter
written by Judge Rice to Joseph ID.
ICoons, secretary of the LuZerne Coun-
ty Bar Association which recently in
dorsed him, along wIUn judges Orlady
and Head for reelection.
| Judge Rice in his letter pays tri-
butte to Judges Head and Orlady, his
associates, and declares they were fit
for ten years moro work. He refers
to them as liable, high minded, honest
and fearless judges. They have dem
onstrated by their work their keen ap-
Ipreciation for the responsibilities of
the office ana their fitness to discharge
them. Much of the usefulness of the
court has been due to their loyalty to
1t and to their interest in the work it
was created to do and to their fidelity"
Concerning himself, Judge Rice
says:
L would like to remain in the
judicial service as long as 1 can
do the work. l have no wish to
leave 1t to enjoy the ease that
would follow. No feeling of that
! kind enters into the determination
of the question of my candidacy
for. reelection.
But, although l am in fair con-
dition now, my bodily health, as
| has been demonstrated, Is unre-
| liable. Taking this into consider
alton with my age, the probabil-
ity of my being capable of long
sustained mental effort as a judge
ought to be, for any considerable
| part of the new term, to speak
within bounds, not strong.
1t is enough to say they have
led me to a definite conclusion as
! to what my duty to the court and
to the people OF the Common
wealth, who have so generously
honored me, requires.
These postmasters have been
named through influence of the Demo-
cratic machine in Pennsylvania:
James G. Jacobs, Burnham; William
Fairchild, Sr., Dawson; Daniel J.
O'Brien, Everson Joseph G. Lesher,
Huntingdon; NJ NJ. Maginey, Milroy;
Nathaniel S. ByerSs, Perryopolis; ori-
gen X. Bingham, Slippery Rock; John
p. Hines, Stoneboro; j. w. Heating,
iTowanda: Thomas p. Mccormick,
Forest City; l.. b. Rowley, Greenville
Grover G. Boozer. Hummelstown
Ralph w. SimcoX, Sandy Lake; Otis
II. Davis, Bellsboro; Edmund j. Raf-
lferty, Conshohocken.
Senators McNichol. Ware and
Crow leave to-day for Florida where
they will spend a week. Senator Crow
has not been in the best of health, but
hopes to get good and sound again
for the hard work of the session.
| The Suntingdon County Bar AS
lsociation has strongly endorsed Judge
George E. Orlady, of the Superior
court, for reelection. The judge ap-
pears to be strongly backed in every
county in the State and his renomina-
ton is regarded as a foregone conclu-
lsion.
The indications are the Governor
| will have difficulty In getting an
amendment through the Legislature
eXempting boroughs from the opera
tions of the public service law. Some
of the legislative leaders say that they
will not stand for this enactment.
They might agree to some modifica-
tions, but will fight any attempt to
take all supervision of borough utili-
ties away from the commission.
Bills to strengthen the hands OF
the State censors of moving pictures
and to repeal the act creating the SUI
lpervision of films and pictures will
lprobably appear in the House next
Iweek. A. c. Stein, of Pittsburgh, will
Ipresent a bill for repeal of the censor
necessary, this being the contention of
Exhibitors. The State Bureau is pre-
,paring to meet this by bill increas-
ing the force of inspectors and max
ling more stringent regulations. The
difficulty, from the standpoint of the
officials, is that the output is far be-
yond the ability of the force of the
bureau to handle.
| Senator Grow had hoped to see
the Legislature complete it's work by
April Is. ''I am now doubtful
whether this can be DONE" he said.
THE Legislature will really begin to
work on March l and we may not be
able to get everything through in six
weeks. 1t is to be expected that many
people will want to be heard on the
big legislation which we will have to
consider. When we come back here
on March 1 the new election bills will
be ready for introduction"
democratic leaders yesterday con-
| firmed the report that the Rev. Riley
NJ. Little secretary of the Society for
Organizing Charity in Philadelphia,
had been selected as warden of the
Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga. State
Chairman Roland S. Morris said that
Mr.. Littles appointment was not a
political one. "He was chosen solely
because of his attainments," he said.
There is no politics connected with
it."
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