Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
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By the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The case OF Dr. H. A. Surface, the
State zoologist, who has refused to
resign at the request of the State Com
mission of Agriculture and who ap-
pealed his case to Governor Martin
G. Brumbaugh, who is in Maine on his
vacation, will be brought to conclu-
sion here next Monday night when a
meeting of the commission will be
! held. A formal call for the commits
sion was issued to-day and as that day
is the last of the month it is believed
that the commission will direct that
! the zoologist be ousted If he does not
resign. The zoologist was asked to
| resign to take effect on August l, but
demanding reasons for his retirement
and not getting them, took his case to
friends who interested themselves in
his behalf writing to the Governor,
Secretary of Agriculture Patton and
others. DR.. Surface also saw men,
bers of the commission and this, 1t is
believed, brought about the call for
the meeting.
The Surface case bids fair to be a
political issue as there are claims
made by friends of the zoologist that
he is being dismissed because he is
associated in orchard enterprises with
men who were not with the Governor
III the ldl6 unplGdSdHIleSS. 1ulSs IlON-
ever, is denied at the Capitol. No
reasons for the dismissal have been
given, but it is intimated that there
will be some forthcoming If needed.
DR.. Surface has challenged their pro-
duction.
Prof. ]. G. Saunders, Of Wisconsin,
who was here yesterday afternoon, is
generally looked upon as the man who
will succeed DR.. Surface.
Prof. Saunders is one of the ma
tional authorities on San Jose scale
and diseases of trees and the pests
which beset them. He is connected
with the Wisconsin department of ag-
riculture and has written a number of
books When he was in college he
played football. 1t seems to be pretty
generally understood that the man to
be appointed will come from another
State and up-to-date 1t looks like the
| Wisconsin man.
District Attorney Rotan, who has
! taken charge of the Philadelphia vice
probe, and Mayor Smith had another
conference yesterday. The probe is
being pushed and Gibboney is saying
things about the police.
Pittsburgh is enjoying a period of
! calm in politics for q change, the only
thing disturbing people out there being
the postmastership. The new post
! master, Alexander Guffey, has declared
that relations between him and DR..
Mcneil who was dismissed, are very
! pleasant.
Prof. ]. Louis Sewers, who will
walk the plank in the Compensation
| Board, will accept his dismissal, it was
said to-day. He is now on vacation
| but it is intimated that before he left
! he was told he would not be needed
after July 81. Reasons why he was
dropped differ. Some think that it is
! the result of his objecting to circulat-
| ing a nomination petition for a Brum-
! baugh delegate, others that he was in
comprehension the work assigned and
others that there is no fund left to
pay him. Nowadays on Capitol Hill
you can take your choice.
Signs of the big drive" on the
men who were mot friendly with
Brum mbaugh" in the late unpleasant
ness are appearing at the Capitol
Private Secretary William H. Ball is
gathering data about the men who
hold office and has each county listed
with the number of appointments and
the amount of salaries paid. This is
one of the fortunes of war for those
on the Hill. There will be a tremen-
dous outcry when the changes start
around August /, but such things have
| happened before and the people in au-
thority generally like to look after
their own.
1t is understood that more post
master appointments are to be con-
tirmed this month and that by August
l things will be in pretty fair shape
as far as the federal patronage goes.
There will then be nothing left to do
except iron out the 1000 fights over
post offices. The Democratic State ma
chine is holding up recommendations
for about 90 post offices so as to use
them this Fall
The borough of Greenville is to be
given a 100000 post office. The Flor
ida congressman, who is chairman of
the congressional post office commit
tee, is the only one to stand up for it,
1t is expected that the withdrawal
of j. V. Clark as candidate for State
treasurer on the Washington party
ticket will be followed by others with
in a week.
Repudiatine Americans