Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

The final lists of the committees of
the Senate and House will be discussed
by Republican State leaders in Phila-
delphia within few days and it is
probable that they will be announced
next Tuesday The Legislative leaders
are now discussing the patronage of
the two houses and the plan is to
make fair division, considering the
terms of the organization, Penrose
men to have the first claim, Ware men
second and Democrats third. The
Democrats will probably fare better
than usual.
While the lists are being made up
much is being discussed regarding the
Penrose legislative plans and 1t is
stated by some of the newspapers that
the first move to discipline the Brum-
baugh administration will be in the
form of presentation of the oft-threat-
ened bill to place the Public Service
Commission under the Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, as constitutional pro-
position, taking from the Governor the
power and ripping certain commits
sioners out of office. The next move
will be to repeal some of the acts rela-
tive to the Attorney Generals depart
ment passed last session, notably that
making the Attorney General legal ad-
wiser of all heads of departments and
for inquiries into expenditures.
The deficiency bill, which will be
made up next week, will furnish the
way for the firing of the first gun and
the administration can look forward to
much the same sort of treatment that
John r. K. Scott gave the Tener ad-
ministration in 1913, according to cur
rent rumorS.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
to-day prints three column article
declaring that William II. Smith was
removed as banking commissioner be-
cause of his assertion of political in
dependence. The Ledger says that
Governors Stuart and Tener made but
one request of Mr.. Smith when bank
ing commissioner which was that
he should keep politics out of the
banking department. The Ledger also
says that the commissioner was told
by Governor Brumbaugh to do your
duty and fear no man" and that the
Governor blamed the loss of Chester
county upon the commissioner after
one of his political fights Many Incl
dents are related in detail in the
course of which it is asserted that
Public Service Commissioner Magee
Insurance Commissioner O'Neil and
others endeavored to play politics and
that Senator Ware is reported to have
told the commissioner that Philadel-
phia needed bank examiners and that
he could get men good enough at SO
day apiece. The Ledger says that Gov
Brumbaugh's followers, lieutenants,
| committees and captains made q raid
on the banking department and would
have turned it into a vast political ma
chine had it not been for the strong
front Smith presented"
Thomas Raehurn White, promi-
nent in reform affairs at PHILADELPHIA
has come out with declaration in
favor of single council for that city
holding that sixteen members are
enough. He also raps dual office hold
ing.
A dispatch from Pittsburgh saws:
Holding majority, but lacking one
member necessary for q two-thirds
vote, friends of eX-Mayor William A.
Magee in Pittsburgh's City Council of
nine failed to-day to override Mayor
Joseph G. Armstrong; veto of Coun-
CHS $4,000 appropriation toward the
preliminary surveys for the proposed
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Canal. The
Mayors veto was sustained by four
to-fve vote, DR.. CT. A. Dillinger, politi
cal associate of ]. Denny O'Neill, State
Insurance commissioner, joining the
Mayors three supporters in Council
Robert Garland, Enoch Rauh and w.
IL. Robertson. 1t was the first clash
since the speakership contest between
Mayor Armstrong. one of the Penrose
the Governors fight in Allegheny
county in behalf of Edwin R. Cox.
The Young Mems Republican
Club of Chester is planning to burn
its mortgage. 1t is out of debt and
has a waiting list.
Lieutenant r. J. Graft, who has
just returned from the border with his
regiment, will be a Republican candi-
date for the legislative seat vacancy