Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-23
PALMER MAY LAND
FAT FEDERAL JOB
New Trade Commission May Need
Expert in Making Political
Industrial Probes
ASK RICE TO RUN AGAIN
Judge Orlady Voices the Opinions
of His Colleagues and Himself
on Subject

| According to rumors which are in
the air at Washington, Congressman
A. Mitchell Palmer, whose term ends
March 4. will be in line for any of the
legal work which the new Trade COM
mission may have at its disposal. This
| is the commission with which the
President and the Democratic leaders
plan to turn up material for campaign
thunder and investigations" Will
probably be set afoot promptly.
! Palmer will be preferred when
any specially spectacular, and re-
muneratiVe work. is to be done, and 1t
is believed at Washington that he will
| be mighty we'll taken care of in the
| next few years.
The snarl over Pennsylvania post
offices has reached the ears of the
President, according to Washington
iadVices, and it is said that he is an
Inoyed over the manner in which cab
met officers and Democratic congress-
men-elect have come to disputes.
The Philadelphia Record to-day
prints the following about one of the
recommendations of the Economy and
Efficiency Commission with the
intention of wiping out the large num-
Eber of sinecures for lawyers, attached
to various branches of the State gov
ernment, and creating one general
bill will shortly be presented to the
Legislature for the complete reorgani-
Zation of the Attorney Generals De-
partment. This measure is now being
drafted under the personal direction
of Attorney General Brown and will
have the full backing of Governor
Rrumbaugh. The Attorney General at
present has only three assistants. and
his payroll does not aggregate $4,000
q year. The special legal help, on the
other hand, cost the State more than
100000 in the past two years, with
extra counsel attached to the Dairy
and Food, Health, Mines, Fish, Game,
Education, Insurance and other
branches of the government"
e. r. Wood, Philadelphian, active
in politics, says that ne is satisfied in
response to his letters to prominent
iprogressives that the return TO the
Republican party this Fall will be
even more pronounced than 1t has been
| in the last eighteen months.
1t is probable that the conditions
in the Philadelphia post office will be
brought to the attention of Congress.
An investigation is even now under
way.
-Congressmen Donahoe, Logue and
Edmonds yesterday celebrated their
birthday. They We're all born on the
same date as Washington.
Tho Supreme Court has decided
that j. S. Marshall was legally elected
tax collector of Uniontown and not
Charles Il. Cramer, Republican, in No
IVember 1913. This means that the
Democrat will get the commissions on
all taxes collected since Cramer as
sumed office.
Judge George b. Orlady, of the
Superior Court. in letter to AleX1
ander Farnham, president, and Joseph
| ID. Coons, secretary. of the Luzerne
County Bar Association, declares that
| he and his colleagues are satisfied that
! the reasons advanced by President
Judge Charles l.. Rice for retiring are
! not convincing, and urges the friends
| of Judge Rice in his home city to start
movement to induce him to with
draw his statement of retirement. In
! his letters Judge Orlady says in part:
Judge Rice has sat at the head of our
consultation table for nearly twenty
! years, and there has never been the
| slightest friction in our work under
! his administration. His loyal adher-
ence to duty, his alert mind, his untir-
| ing industry, his attractive judgment,
especially fit him for the office he has
adorned. The reasons he gives for
withdrawal from further judicial serv-
| ice are not convincing to any of his
colleagues. My confidential intimacy
with Judge Rice since the creation of
| the court warrants me in insisting that
he has not diminished in the least in
ability or usefulness .and 1t is my sim
cere hope that the friends of his home
will induce him to withdraw his
| statement. His opinions are more fire.
quently cited than any living or dead
Pennsylvania judge, and l regret his
present attitude. Every reason he sug-
gests continuing Judge Head and my
self applies with special force to him,
and his retirement at this time would
be an appreciable loss.