Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-06
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BY the x-Committeeman

pan Luz taxing OF the soldiers votes
In November next week Governor
Brumbaugh is planning to name the
members of several of the COM
missions created by the General
Assembly of 1917. There are sew
eral OF these commissions in which
the presiding officers of the two
branches of the Legislature will
nave power to name members and
they will notify the Governor of
their selections.
The commissions to be named
viii include several which will pre-
pare Qualifications of laws, among
them the statutes relative to insur-
ance and banking. Another COM
mission Will arrange for acquisition
of land where Washington crossed
the Delaware for purposes of state
park. Commissions will also be
named to Investigate accidents and
sickness, old age pension systems
and health compensation, to revise
the penal code and to study prisons.
These commissions are to report
to the next Legislature.
Immediate steps are to be taken
to issue the commissions for the
first of the volunteer police to be
iitNA'ANN 1OA SAhGl 6SllCg SClNlCG
ing the present war. The act es-
tablishing the police was signed
July 20 and provides that commits
sions shall end with the war vita
Germany. The men will be sent COM
missions from the Capitol signed by
the Governor empowering them to
make arrests and preserve the peace
when called upon. These men are to
be organized through the State Com
mittee of Public Safety which re-
commended them. The men are to be
provided with a badge, club and
whistle and will be formed into
county units for service when called
upon.
Frank NJ. Eastman, attorney of
this city and for years connected
with the Auditor Generals Depart
ment as a state taxation expert, has
been named by Attorney General
Francis Skunk Brown to have charge |
of escheat cases arising in the At |
torney Generals Department. No
formal announcement of the selec- |
ton of Mr.. Eastman has been made, |
but it is understood that Mr.. Brown |
consulted with Auditor General |
Charles A. Snyder and informed him
Eastman, who has not been con-
nected with the state government for
years, is the author of books on tax
alton and an authority on taxation
procedure. Several years ago he
took up escheat cases and made q
study of the problem in the state
and is engaged in working out
system to be applied under recent
acts.
The Auditor General has not
been losing any sleep over discussion
of his right to name attorneys and
clerks under the inheritance tax
laws and says that they will be chos-
en- and assigned to duty as occasion
arises. Thus far there has been no
at the capitol to question
any of his acts in the matter.
Mr.. Snyder is arranging for a
of prominent publishers
here next Tuesday to take up the
whole subject of advertising of pro-
posed amendments to the state con-
over which A. w. Powell,
his predecessor, fused for months.
Judging from comments made ,
his week by visitors from various I
sections of the state here on business
- lilt ottlt SdDllOl anu LOT meetings.
he revelations regarding conditions I
n Philadelphia as brought out by |
he hearing in the conspiracy cases i
ire the topic of talk in their home {
and are bound to have
heir effect on the November cleo
ions. Some administration parti-
sans frankly admitted while here
hat if the factional fight went on
hey would have their own troubles
leXt month.
The Penrose people are await
ng developments in Philadelphia,
'ut al the same time lining up their
orces throughout the state to make {
he most of the discontinue which
hey think will fall upon candidates !
nown as state administration or
'aro men. Penrose leaders are nearly i,
I'll at the national capital to-day to
ak over the situation and to plan ,,
or the next move. That the Pen :
rose people intend to be conserva-
i've is foregone conclusion.
While the Penrose men are in {
Sashington the state administration I
eaders are at Philadelphia except ;
or men who have fights of their own Z
It home, like those in Pittsburgh and l
scranton. {
The Town Meeting Committee S
s going ahead with the making up {
# ticket for Philadelphia and it l
s expected that an announcement '
will be made soon. The organiza- I
ion or ward committees is in pro- '
;ress.
Senator James P. McNichoPs
is reported to be of such
/ chara cter that if he RECEIVERS his
trength in n month he will be lucky.
rhe Senator was examined by three !
loted doctors who reported that his 6
presence on the witness stand might I
lave serious consequences.
Thomas d. Shea spent $500 in
lis judicial campaign in Luzerne
md then got defeated.
S. S. Lewis, of the Auditor Cen
rails Department, has been asked to
erve as one of the York city civil
ervice commissioners.
The Philadelphia Record in q
scranton special says: Ever since
'Iayor e. b. Jermyn spent $4,000
. be elected, the cost of politics has
,een going up in this city, and the
Expense accounts filed this week
how that political office is a lux
Try. Candidates Connell, Vosburg
nd Durkan spent $4,000 between
hem in the fight for the Mayoralty
lomination, while District Attorney
Iaxey and his opponent, Mayor
spent $4,000 between
hem. The sum of $4,000 was spent
IN the Treasurership fight, and the
candidates 1oosened up
or about the same, while candidates
or lesser nominations spent about