Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-24
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Exclusive of appropriation bills
only eight bills of general character
premain on Governor Brumbaugh'
desk and they will probably be dis.
J., posed of before Saturday night, wher
the Governor will leave for a vaca.
tion trip. The appropriation bills
are listed and the amounts are beinI
gone over by the Governor in con
sultation with Chairmen WOODWARD
and Buckman and Secretary Whar
ton.
The general bills in hand include
the judges salary increase measure
which affects eight or ten counties
the bill to suspend the full crew Law
during the war and the fish code
The Governor has given no intima'
| tons as to what he will do with any
of these bills and he is receiving
considerable mail about the latter
two.
| Harry S. McDevitt, who will be-
| come Deputy Auditor General next
month, to-day practically closed up
| the work of the Economy and Eff
| ficiency Commission, whose elaborate
| dcild anu IGpOllS Will bC lllGu dJ lllS
| Capitol. The name of the first
| deputy has not been disclosed by
| Auditor General Snyder, who will
| name him in September.
Mr.. Snyder is getting ready for
anything that may turn up in the
controversy over his refusal to recog-
nize the reappointed officials. He
declared to-day that he would await
any action taken by what he termed
H. 4 ,.%y Go I've hn
tive and Attorney Generals depart
nents being located on the second
floor of the Capitol.
An interesting announcement in
Pittsburgh is that Joseph A. Her
ron, prominent in the Monongahela
Valley and we'll known here, will be
candidate for senator from the
Washington-Green district. Ths
Democrats have had this district for
several,eyears, the last Republican
senator from Washington having
been Senator Burke. Mr.. Heron
will enter the lists early and will be
strongly backed.
Elk Senator Ben Jarrett, of Mer-
Ger county, is being strongly favored
for the Republican congressional
nomination in the Twenty-eighth
district.
-lne tuDllC oeTNlCe SOlllullSSlOl ,
approval of the Philadelphia transit
applications last evening will end a
situation which threatened to mako
trouble. Mayor Smith was urging
the state commission to act and re-
scnted the refusal some time ago
when Commissioner. Hagee opposed
the issuance OF the papers. Now the
commission has put the whole mat
ter up to the mayor by approving the
applications. II is understood that
last nights vote on the approval of
the plans was not unanimous.
The Scranton Republican says:
That Mayor E. B. Jermyn may
throw his hat into the ring in 1918
for the Republican nomination for
state senator to succeed Senator w.
NJ. Lynch, now superintendent OF
the Farview Hospital, was the state
ment made by one during the week
who is in close touch with the local
his friends believe, would make a
formidable candidate. 1t is early
for anything in the way of candi-
dates. but Albert Davis, who tried
for the nomination against Senator
Lynch, Attorney c.. P. O'Malley and
Representative Hugh Dawson have
been mentioned as possible candi-
dates"
-schuylkin Democrats, through
the executive committee of their
marty, and the Republicans, through
their committee, have indorsed the
candidacy of H. o. Bechtel and Of
c.. E. Berger for judges of Schuyl-
kills court of common pleas and
other aspirants are practically out of
the contest. This was made the
more emphatic when John F. VIVA
len declined to permit petitions to be
circulated for his nomination. Mr..
Whalen, who is the solicitor for the
Reading Railway in this region, is
member of the Democratic ex-
ecutive committee. Bechtel is a
Democrat and Berger is Repub-
lican. Their Endorsements are made
without party preferences, but are
given in accordance with the prin-
ciple of a nonpartisan judiciary. Et-
forts made to defeat these indorse-
ments fell to the ground. Berger
was recently appointed judge by Gov
ernor Brumb baugh. Judge Bechtel
has been on the bench for years.
The Philadelphia Ledger, in a
Washington dispatch, says: "A.
| Mitchell Palmer and Vance G. Nc
! Cormick, recommended by Governor
Brumbaugh as members OF the EX-
emption Appeals Boards in Pennsyl-
vania, have not yet indicated wheth-
er they will accept the honor. This
was announced to-day by Secretary
| of War Baker. Both these Demo
Gratis strenuously opposed the four
Republicans serving on local eXemp-
| ton boards on the ground that they
would be candidates for office in No
vember. They carried their protests
| to Secretary Baker, who has not vet
acted on their cases. In the mean
| time Governor Brumbaugh sent the
names of these leading Democrats
| to the President for the appeal
| boards. 1t is believed that Mr.. Nc
Cormick will decline on the ground
| that he is a member of the Export
| Commission and that his duties here
| will prevent him acting in Pennsyl-
vania as member of the Exemption
| Board"
According to administration in
| spired rumors there will be changes
in the State Commission of Agricul-
ture and probably a change in the
| chief of the Bureau of Mines before
the end of the year..
Governor Brumbaugh last even
ing named four more members oi
the Monroe County Committee oi
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