Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
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By the Ex-Committeeman

Claims of Penrose men that supreme
court decisions cited by the Pittsburgh
GazetteTimes yesterday prevent the
Governor reappointing any State Off
cial rejected by the Senate on a vote
on confirmation were disputed by ad-
ministration people to-day who con-
tended that the questions lad never
been squarely determined and that
next summer would be a good chance
to try it out. This indicates that
chances for harmony in the Legisla-
ture are going glimmering, just as
the Democrats who got together in
Philadelphia yesterday expressed the
hope that the Governor will have
plenty to think about during and after
the next legislative session. On the
other hand the administration people
plan to make some wholesale re-
movals at the Capitol and say that
the Penrose organization will have
anything but cake walk in naming
the next Republican State ticket The
old Philadelphia fight is to be dragged
| through the Legislature and the next
campaign.
The Gazette Times article attracted
much attention at the Capitol and
there were many comments upon the
prospects for q fuss. The Philadelphia
Public Ledger says that the Governor
has apparently made up his mind not
to make appointments until the close
of the session and the Philadelphia
Record says that the Governor will
not be impeached because Republican
leaders know that would mean a
Democratic Governor.
Senator Penrose has decided to
ask the advice of Republican State
leaders as to legislative program and
has invited a number to meet with
him at Atlantic City Thursday. Re-
a i'm ,f
Board the Philadelphia Inquirer
says: Senator Penrose and those most
intimately affiliated with him have in
dicated a disposition to await de-
velopments in the call for impeacL-
ment proceedings, while the Demo-
Gratis have been demanding immediate
and drastic action. There is no doubt
that the call for an inquiry into the
charges that there have been delin-
quencies If not more culpable phases
of maladministration in several de-
partments of the State government
will be taken UP by the members of
the Legislature and others who have
been asked to meet Senator Penrose
at the seashore and that assignments
will be made of subcommittee that
shall formulate resolutions and pro-
pose acts of the Legislature which will
be part of a general campaign to
further the reform movement which
HeHTOS6 lnblSlS he Will press
to a successful conclusion"
Speaker Baldwin's mail is assum-
ing big proportions and the post Office
at Chadd's Ford is showing the effect
of having a prominent citizen in its
midst. Many of the speakers letters
come from members of the Legislature
seeking appointments on committees
or places for constituents in the legis-
latiVe patronage.
The selection of Representative d.
]. Neary as the member of the House
slate committee from the Ware district
has set the Ware men in Philadelphia
buzzing as Neary is not friendly to the
Wares at all and his selection is taken
to mean that they will not get muck
consideration.
The Philadelphia Democratic
Club had a grand time lambasting the
Republicans last night at the celebra-
ton of Jackson Day. Chairman Lank
said that because the election boards
in that city are Republican there were
something like $1,000 votes not
counted for the Democrats.
The battle between the Armstrong
and Magee factions for strategic posi-
ton for the Pittsburgh mayoralty con-
test has started off with the veto by
Mayor Armstrong of the $4,000 ap-
preparation for the Lake Erie and Ohio
Ship Canal. Magee project and one
doomed by the Governor. From now
on Allegheny county will furnish its
share of political fusses and they will
be reflected in the Legislature.
L. S. Slime of Pottsville, has been
reelected steward of the Schuylkill
county almshouse.
e. r. W. Searle, former clerk of
United States court, has decided lie
will run for judge in Susquehanna
county.
Joseph r. Grundy was almost as
severe as some of the administration
leaders in use of language about him
in his references to Governor Brum-
baugh yesterday at the meeting of
the State Manufacturers. The Bristol
man said that Brumbaugh dictator
ship had been overthrown. What some
of the administration people have
said about Grundy is plenty.
Speaking about the naming of a
McNichol man on the House slate
com mittee from the Ware district the