Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-24

! by all tne parties IN interest, which
means all groups of opinion in the
| city"
Congressman John r. Farr has
attacked the returns from thirty
eight Lackawanna county districts
and the courts will decide the con-
tested seat. The Scranton Repub-
lican looks for a lively hearing.
Reading firemen will ask the
Legislature to revise the third class
city law because of a row with
Ecouncilmen over the annual appro-
priations for firemen.
Ways have been cleared for
review of the legality of the soldiers
vote last month by the Supreme
Court, when two formal opinions
were filed at Wilkes Barre, one by
Judge Strauss for the majority of
the supreme Court, setting forth the
reasons why the vote from six mill
ltary camps were counted, and an
other minority opinion, by Judge
RULER, recording a disapproval by
a minority of the court of the ma
Jority decision, and giving reasons
why the vote from all military
camps should have been rejected as
| irregular and void The Wilkes
Barre Record says of the decisions:
In deciding to count the vote from
the six military camps that were ac-
cepted by a majority of the judges,
the controlling opinion bases the
decision on a clause of the act of
1864 which gives authority TO ten
or more soldier voters who are un-
asle to attend their company polls,
TO open a poll at such place as they
may select. Judge Fuller, in his
minority opinion, while not formal
ly dissenting, says that the minority
OF the court favored the rejection
OF the votes from all the camps. be-
cause the six accepted" returns
were affected with the same fatal
lniirmity which caused the reiec
! ton of the siXty-seven other re-
turns"
The Schuylkill county commits
! sioners yesterday reelected Auditor
General Charles \. Snyder as county
sohcitor, post he has held for
years. He was elected unanimously.
Philip Esrig, the chief of police Of
the nourishing metropolis of Tama-
qua, was selected as mercantile ap-
praiser.
Samuel Patterson has been
chosen the tax gatherer of Green's
/ burg, one of the best paying offices
in the capital of Westmoreland.
The Delaware county license
court granted all but one license in
thirty-nine minutes yesterday, es-
! tablishing a record
School directors all over the
state are reorganizing their asso-
| Citations and indications are getting
| strong that they will have some leg
| islative committees here.
/ Chester, which has been affect
! ed by the industrial boom as much
as any place in the state, has an
Increase of $175, 900 estimated for
1919 revenue. The total is given as
about $445.OO0.
The Philadelphia Record says
that four bills are being drawn to
take the Philadelphia police out of
! politics and also announces that
! Mayor Thomas s. Smith has his own
plan for charter revision. Mean
while several citizens and commit
| tees and one big committee are at
work on a small council plan and all
! fused up over boundaries.
Pittsburgh is having quite a
time over police protection. The
/ people of some sections are demand
/ ing better protection and newspa-
I pers like the Gazette-Times are in
1 clined TO be insistent about il.
George a. Comerer, the repre-
sentative elect Trom Fulton, was
! here yesterday visiting the Capitol.
! He is the first Republican legislator
I elect from that county in a long
time and it rather indicates what
| the people of the county, normally
T! Democratic. think about the man
! agement of their party.
At Scranton yesterday by vote
of ten to ten the Lackawanna grand
Jury whtewashed the charges
against close to 100 residents Of Car
bondale that they had their names
! illegally placed on the registration
lists so that they might vote at the
recent election. Twelve votes were
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