Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-17
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| filed this year at the state capitol
than In any recent year, because of
the unusual circumstances attend
ing the supreme court elections. In
the year ending with November fifty
| four were filed, while the largest
number recently was in 1916, when
thirty-eight were filed. The num-
Der of nominating petitions filed in
the two-year period ending Decem-
ber was 1864, against 2,5s4 in the
previous two-year period.
In the last two years 1S5 pre-emp-
tions of party names have been filed
against 145 in the previous two
years, and the records also show
Ia expense accounts filed in two
years, against s25 in the previous two
years.
The Dauphin county court set
aside three petitions for nomination
in the. last two years. Nine were get
aside In the previous two years.
The Philadelphia Record to-day
gives considerable attention to the
legislative situation and says that
with everyone among the Republi-
cans agreed upon Robert S. Spang-
Ter. of York, for speaker, there is a
rush for chairmanships. Senators
Daix and Salus, of Philadelphia, and
Baldwin, Potter are mentioned for
the Senate appropriation chairman
ship, and Representative McCaig.
Allegheny; Cox, Philadelphia; Sin
clair, Fayette. and Ramsey, Della
ware, for the House post. John r.
X. Scott, of course, is candidate for
chairman of judiciary special, which
he has headed in tumultuous years.
Reading legislators will sponsor
a bill for central tax receiving sta
tion.
Senator -elect Max G. Leslie, of
Pittsburgh, is out against a consti-
tutional convention.
The Philadelphia Bulletin
strongly praises the selection of
commissioner.
Wilkes Barre school directors
are in a row over the closing of
schools because of influenza. There
is a clash of authority between the
city and school administrations
which may be reflected in legislation.
Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia,
is out for a single council of forty
eight members for his city.
At Scranton yesterday President
Judge Edwards directed the grand
jury to investigate charges that the
registration lists of voters in Car
bondale were padded in the interest
of Congressman John r. Farr and
other Republican candidates in the
November election. The court also
directed the jury to probe into the
charges made against six election
boards and Representative w. w.
Jones, of the fifth legislative district. !
Charges against them are that they
engineered fraud in the primaries
in the interest of Professor David |
Phillips, candidate against David Da- |
Wis for the Republican nomination
for senator. The last grand jury
failed to return any indictment in
these cases.
The report of the grand jury
to Berks Quarter Sessions Court
recommends the removal of the
county Jail from the city park in !
Reading. outdoor exercise for pris-
oners is also urged.
Coal companies have started to |
fight the new coal land assessments |
in Hazleton. An increase was made. |
The Philadelphia Press calls the |
Moore dinner at Washington Sena- |
tor Sprouts introduction to national |
politics, and says: The occasion |
inevitably recalled the dinner given |
hanuh ilct aftar |
he was elected, when Representative |
William S. Ware was the host. That |
dinner gave notice that the Wares |
had captured him. He was then |
being doomed as a candidate for |
the Republican Presidential nomi- |
nation. Nobody has offered to boom |
Senator Sproul for President. They |
know better. He was dining there |
under different conditions than his |
predecessor. His position was that |
of the man elected Governor by the !
largest majority ever given in Penn |
sylvania, strong enough in his own /
right to maintain his announced |
neutrality between the two factions"
Although Francis L. Klemmer, |
Readings plumbing inspector, was
suspended last week for thirty days !
by city council for ''joy riding" in
city autos, he is given an increase
of 5000 a year in the new city bud
get.
The Twentieth Congressional |
district, comprising York and Adams
counties, will no doubt give The ma
tional prohibition amendment more !
votes than any other single congress
sional district in the commonwealth. |
In addition to the votes of Senator |
George S. NARROW and Representa-
tive Robert S. Spangler Representa-
tives c. e. Cook, I. E. Brooks and |
Henry E. Lanius, of the Second, |
Third and Fourth Legislative dis |
tricts, respectively. of York county, |
and Representative C. Arthur Greist,
of Guernsey, Adams county, have all |
reaffirmed their promise to and will |
support the national prohibition |
amendment when the vote is taken |
by the next Legislature.