Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-24

States Department of Agriculture, and
Dairy and Food Commissioner James
Foust.
DR.. Abbott is in charge of the uni
formity of law work of the govern
ment and has been in touch with many
States. He arranged with Mr.. Foust
for a number of moves which will aid
both the State and nation. Pennsyl-
vania has been working with the gov
ernment in large number of cases
| and has achieved excellent results.
More Chartcrs--Governor Brum-
| baugh signed over thirty charters yes
terday including eighteen electric COM
panies. Most of the other corpor-
ationS were for manufacturing.
After Dead COmpan1es-Proceed
to vacate the charters of sixteen trust
companies and banking institutions
which have either been liquidated or
| have become inactive were started by
the Attorney Generals department late
yesterday, the rules being returnable
| in the Dauphin county court in June.
/ The concerns which are required to
show cause why charters should not be
annulled are Dime Savings Fund and
Trust Co., Philadelphia; Mortgage
Banking Co., Pittsburgh; State Mutual
Savings Fund Co., Philadelphia; Graf
ton Trust Co, Grafton; Castle Shan
non Savings and Trust Co., Castle
Shannon; The Home Title and Trust
Co., Duquesne; American Deposit and
Trust Co, Pittsburgh; Dime Savings
! Bank, Philadelphia; Manayunk Penny
Savings Bank, Philadelphia; Pennsyl-
vania State Bank, Philadelphia; Ital-
ian Exchange Trust Co., Philadelphia;
/ Merchants Bank, McKeesport; Guar
antee Title and Trust Co., Pittsburgh; ;
& d.
Germantown Avenue Bank, Philadel-
phia; Blair County Trust Co., Altoona.
To Probe IncrcaSe.-The State Com
mission to investigate the rise in the
price of anthracite coal following the
coal tax will make efforts to ascertain
why middlemen and retailers have not
returned charges made for the tax to
consumers. This was announced fol-
lowing a conference of the commits
sioners, Robert S. Gawthrop, John S.
Langdon and C. Tyson Kratz, with At
torney General Brown. The commits
sioners discussed their Investigations,
which are SAID to have shown that
many operators have returned what
they charged for the tax after it had
been declared unconstitutional, one
company alone returning S500,000.
Ihe information received, however
said Chairman Gawthrop, was that the
consumers had not had the increase re-
turned to them by the persons, firms
or corporations from which they pur-
chased. The commission will shortly
begin hearings and is carrying on a
series of Investigations.
Meeting Tomorrow. The Public
service Commission will meet to-mor-
row for executive business. Local
cases and the Poor House lane matter
Will be taken up.
Governor Spoke. - Governor Brum-
ture at the Downingtown school YES
terday and returned late last night
The Governor highly complimented
the school and it's work.
The State Workmen's Insurance
Fund has written 1910 policies and
it is expected that it will pass the 13,-
600 mark soon. Albert l.. Allen, the
assistant general manager, is highly
complimented for the manner in
which the fund has grown.
UhIeF Spoke. - Chief Engineer w.
ID. Uhler, of the State Highway De-
partment, was the chief speaker at the
highway session of the State Board of
Agriculture at Reading last night He
discussed maintenance problems and
was the center of an interesting talk
on roads.
Butler in Washington. - Commits
sioner of Fisheries N. R. Butler is in
washington in conference with nation
al officials regarding fish work.
Attack State Fund. -. The State In
surance Fund came in for objections at
the general insurance meeting in Phil
adelphia yesterday. A fight in the
Legislature is forecast by the remarks
in Philadelphia.
Compensation Board. The Com
pensation Board is sitting in Johns
town to-day and will meet here to-
morrow for the Maulfair case.
Dennis Speaker. - l.. III. Dennis,
director of the agricultural education
bureau, spoke at the Bucks county
school directors convention on Mon
day He pointed out what the State
hoped to do.
Capitol Visitors. Among visitors
to the Hill were Congressman r. d.
Heaton, and Referee Paul w. Houck.
Schuylkill; Representative J. w. Wick
erman, Bellevue, and w. f. Hill, of the
state department of Agriculture,
Huntingdon.
Stern in Town. - Representative
Isadore Stern, of Philadelphia, who
made the charges concerning cam
paign contributions to Governor Brum
baugh, appeared before the State
Board of Pardons to-day, but said that
he did not expect to visit the Executive
Department. Mr.. Stern had a couple
OF lively cases before the board and
had a couple of tilts with the Lieuten-
ant-Governor and Attorney General.
Twenty-SiX In.-Official partial or
complete returns have been filed from
twenty-siX counties, fourteen having
arrived in a bunch to-day 1t will
take several days to tabulate the fig
ures, owing to the many candidates
The counties filing to-day were Lam
caster, Dauphin, Elk, Huntingdon, IY-
coming, Miffiin, Monroe, Montour,
Northumberland, Pike, Tioga, Warren
and Westmoreland.
Train Service Bcttcred.-The Public
Service Commission to-day got infor-
nation that the Buffalo" a train
arriving at Dauphin at 6.29 a. m. had
improved in it's time since complaints
had been made by residents of Dau-
phin who work in Harrisburg and who
have been made late because of the
train service. Several months ago the
train was late three-fourths of the
time. Between April 15 and May Is it
was late only fifteen days.
Governors Visitors. - Congressman
kiess, Williamsport; Representative s.
A. Whitaker, PhoeniXville, and G, ChaI
Port. Huntingdon, called on the Gov
ernor to-day.
Auto Receipts.-The receipts of The
State Highway Department from auto
mobiles to May 23 amounted to
$1,S90,000. The State will pass the
100000 mark in June. The total
last year was $1,665,O00.
Mr.. Scattergood Hero Henry