Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-27
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Pss~o4tsania
By the Ex-connmitseenaaz

Penrose men contend that there is
posed investigation of the conduct of
the State government being given up
and at Philadelphia to-day the final
plans will be made to put through the
Sproul resolution in the upper house.
fhe idea is to have it reach the lower
house of the General Assembly by
Wednesday. The House would act on
1t finally u week later. A joint reso-
luton takes the same course as q bill
ana the Governor has authority to
| veto 1t or to reduce the appropriation.
1t has been intimated that Mayor
smith, of Philadelphia. has been en-
deavoring to obtain harmony and that
| some upstate leaders are opposed to
the Penrose course. Neither seems to
be correct. The Penrose people are
preparing to put through the reso-
luton with the Salus amendment and
the administration is planning other
amendments and sounding out Demo-
Gratis. Its present plans are to combat
the resolution, but they may be
| changed to-day. The Democrats will
naturally support an investigation.
III any overtures to head off the
investigation had been made, the dis
closures about the expenditures of the
| Governor and the charges relative to
other departments by the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, the Evening Bulletin.
| the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and
other newspapers have destroyed the
chance, declare Penrose men. The
Ledger, which is certainly not a PEN
rose newspaper, and more against than
Tor the Republican State organization,
has done more in the way of criticism
OF the Governor than anyone else.
The Philadelphia North American
to-day belittles the probe and that is
about as far as it goes. The Philadel-
phla Record says that Penrose men
declare they have two-thirds of the
two houses favorable to the probe and
that the resolution will get to the Gov
ernor on February 6. 1t also says that
the Snyder public service ripper" will
pass the Senate. The Ledger SAYS that
the Penrose- McNichol people have de-
fed the Governor to veto the probe and
that they are ready for a battle for
political supremacy in Philadelphia,
which is at the bottom of the whole
row.
According to Washington dis
patches. the national administration
has determined to get into the lime
llsht again and to put forward few
prospective candidates for state offices
and Congress by launching its probe
OF election methods in this and other
states. Soon after the election the
Wilson administration threatened to
investigate election frauds in Pemsyl-
vania, notably Philadelphia, but the
soft pedal was put on by some Demo-
Gratis who were rather fearful of start
ing something. There were also inti-
nations that the Wares did not want
the probe started in their bailiwick
Now the word comes from Washing
ton in the following dispatch "The
inquiry in Philadelphia. it was learned
IN 10 ,NH L..
progress in Pennsylvania, although
nothing i'll detail was given out as TO
the scope of the inquiries in other
parts of the state. nor is any in
formation obtainable at the present
time as to the outcome of the investi-
cations in Philadelphia other than
that the evidence accumulated points
to infractions of State laws and not
the Federal law. A conference be-
tween National Chairman Mccormick
and Attorney General Gregory to-day
is of interest in this connection,
through the known fact that Mr..
Mccormick had laid before the de-
partment the charges of election
frauds in Philadelphia"
Congressman w. s. Ware was
styled the good angel of education"
in South Philadelphia yesterday by
Judge John Monaghan in a speech de-
livered in Philadelphia. The congress-
man s'work for schools was referred to.
During the first of series of con-
ferences to be held between Mayor
Smith and the members of the Phila-
delphia Charter Revision Commission
the attitude of the administration
toward the proposed charter was out
lined yesterday by the mayor to men,
bers of the subcommittee of the re-
visionists. The mayor has pledged his
SllnnOrt n of
are destined to give the city more
home rule, while others will not in
vite his interest, although he may not
oppose them.
Plans were completed last night
for large representation of Central
Democratic Club members at the coro-
nation pageant at Washington in
March and some inquiries We're being
made to-day by West End Repub-
licans where they were going to come
i'll. The West Enders would like to
maintain their club identity.
The Democrats of the city will
have q big time on Jefferson Day if
someone does not forget the date
again. Next Wednesday legislators of
the Democratic faith will be invited to
the clubs annual pigroast.
Auditor General Powell says any,
one who wants to throw rocks can
do so.
-.NO Ont dbOuL 1apltOt Hill can be
found who will sponsor the report that
a bill to increase the Governors salary
to $4,000 is to be put through this
session. There is more interest in who
is likely to be the next Governor. Un-
der the law. Governor Brumbaugh
could not participate in any salary in
crease and the fund for his travelling
and incidental expenses is likely to be
cut down.
philadelphia is now going through
another transit row. II involves the
future of the city and the usual pull
ing and hauling is under way.
--Wilkes-Barre officials have de-
clined to get behind the mine cave"
proposition and it looks as though the
Lackawanna delegation would have to
to bear the hrunt. Unfortunately, the
situation in Scranton is different from
any other part of the state and not
well understood.
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