Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-08

o T s snail be
made for the calendar year instead of
a year ending 1 n November. This was
an rchaic system which prevailed
from early times and successive
Auditors General have endeavored to
have 1t changed for convenience. The
law provides that corporations making
special reports for the federal govern
ment may be given consid GRAFTON, too.
The Auditor General will take early
steps to arrange for collection Of the
anthracite tax under the new act. The
blanks for reports will be prepared and
sent out and the bills for the half
year made up as has been done here
toTore. Under the provisions of the
new act nom of the accounts under
the act of 1918 will be interfered with.
Ihey Will stand as they are pending
the decision of the Supreme Court
which will sit to hear the argument on
July ! at Philadelphia. If these ac-
counts are collected all of Dauphin
oounty's municipal divisions will re-
ceiNe a share. Under the new act only
the coal boroughs and townships will
get anything.
Brosius in Town. - Representative
ii. II. Brosius, of Jefferson county.
came here to-day to look after legisla-
ton.
No Awards Observation-Disclosures
Pomeroy Will not make any awards
OF contracts for paper or cuts for
some time. The system he inaugural
ed W years e of testing materials
is to be carried out.
Muncy Home Bids.-The bids for
the construction of the new State In
dustrial Home for Women will he
opened on June 80.
Butler at TOrresdale.-N. r. Bull
Ter, commissioner of fisheries, was at
Torresdale yesterday looking after
matters connected with the shad
fisheries.
Ex-member Here. A. Schoheld,
former member from Warren, was at
the Capitol.
Commission Meets-The Public
Service Commission is in Pittsburgh
for a weeks hearings. No decisions
VIII be announced for a few days.
Pubnc Service CaseS.-The Eastern
pennsylvania Railways Company has
advised the Public Service Commits
sion n a the station to be esta blish-
ed at Coledale will be completed in
September. n complaint of the
borough of Mauch Chunk against the
service of the Upper Mauch Chunk
Water Company has been amicably
adjusted. The complaints of the John
Lang Paper Company and the Eddy-
stone Manufacturing Company against
the New York Central and Hudson
River, and the Spreckels Sugar Re-
fining Company against the Pennsyl-
vania, which concerned rates on coal
shipped to Philadelphia for delivery
at Port Richmond, have been with
drawn, the rates complained of hav-
ing been cancelled.
Killing Held Hearing. - Commits
sioner Killing held a hearing at Mt.
Holly yesterday in the matter of the
complaint of J. A. McGonegal against
the Cumberland Railway Company.
II urnC n11Aoa6 Thok 1rG - IL
bed were in an unsafe condition; hat
the cars were unsanitary and that
there was congestion during the morn
ing and evening.
Philadelphia Pays Blythe city
of Philadelphia to-day paid the State
Treasury $717,41S representing liquor
licenses. 1t was the largest payment
in weeks.
Chairmen Not Here. - Chairmen
Buchanan and Woodward, of the APP
preparations committees, are p
ed here tomorrow to meet the Gov
ernor. They did not get here to-
day.
DIR. Roger LeaveS.-Dr. B. F. Rover,
chief medical inspector. has gone to
the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Darby People Here.-A committee
day to discuss plans for sewer i'm
provements in that section with Com
missioner Dixon. Extensive improve
ments are under way in that section.
Working on BIight.@State Zoolo-
gist Surface has his force of men at
work studying the fire blight which
is ravaging many of the orchards of
the State in the hope that some NEAR
of staying it may be worked out. DIR.
Surface says that the blight is more
widespread than at first supposed and
coupled with the %frosts. may cause
serious trouble.