Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-18
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By the Ex- Committeeman

"Governor-elect Sproul is being
doluged with letters from persons
who are interested in the selection
OF men to fill the three court va1nh-
c.es In Pennsylvania" says the Phil
adolphia Record. Because of ,he
election of Judge John w. Kephart
to the Supreme Bench there is n va
cAncy in the Superior Court; there IS
vacancy on the common pleas
berch of Westmoreland county and
n municipal court judge to be named
in Philadelphia because of the dea:h
| recently of Judge Bernard Gilpia."
The Record points out that 1T hes
been always customary for the re-
/ tirjnS Governor 70 permit his sue
cessor to fill vacancies occurring at
| tuo end of a term, as explaining WHY
the appointments GIe being left to
tho new Governor, and adds that
friends of Judge John \. Evans, of
| Pittsburgh, is mentioned as q likely
candidate for the Superior Court
bench. Judge Charles D. Copeland
OF the Orphans Court, Westmoreland
county, q Democrat, is the Records s
choice for elevation to the common
pleas court of that county.
--Senotor Augustus i. DaiX, Jr.,
Philadelphia, yesterday came out for
q general increase Tor school teach
ers and following this the ~hiladrl-
phia members of the Legislature
were invited to meet Il delegation OF
teachers of that city to-day at the
Republican headquarters to hear
claims for higher salaries.
---l .nN ernnr-olnpt CnronI ,aft D1,it
;tdclphia yesterday to attend con-
fcrcnLe of Governors and Governors
elect ut Annapolis, Md, and before
going announced that Lewis s. Sad
Ter, OF Carlisle. had accepted his ten
der of State Highway Commissioner,
and that DR.. Edward Martin, of Phil
aTclphia, had accepted hn State
Health Commissionersl,ip, but he de-
EiCd that Lieutenant Governor frank
T.. MrC1ain, of Lancaster, either
sought oil was offered the place of
SerI etary of Agriculture, although
there are strong intimatio1s, accord
ing 10 reports from Philadelphia this
IncrI.:ng that the Lancaster county
man will be given an important as
sigrmchT in the state .ervfce.
More than 800 Will come from
Scra'C" for the inaugufo ton, accord
inS to State Senator-eteet Albert 4.
Davis, who is making the arrange
meuts, ond the delegation will in
cludc chorus of Hungarian choral
singers.
The Wares will make a drive for
Representative Edwin r. Cox, of
Philadelphia, for chairman of the
House appropriations committee, but
1t is not believed here that he will
get 1t. An upstate man may be
chosen.
After two months of military
duty Judge James B. Drew surpris-
ed his fellow jHrists by walking into
the Allegheny court and taking his
former seat on the bench of the
county court. He announced that
he had secured his honorable dis
charge last Wednesday and that he
proposed to resume his duties on
the bench where he had left off. He
made good by at once taking up
case that was all ready for judi
cation.
Appointment OF a commission
of representative citizens of the
state to draft n new constitution to
be submitted to q constitutional con-
vention apparently has been agreed
upon by all of the Republican lead
ers, members of the new Legisla-
ture and the incoming administra-
ton, as q result of recent discussions
of the need for new constitution,
says the North American. IT is most
probable that bill will be introduc-
ed in the next session of the Legis-
lature for the appointment of such
commission, composed OF perhaps
twenty or twenty-five members.
Scranton has voted SIS raise to
policemen and firemen.
Reading people will memorialize
the Legislature for a central tax
office to take in all taxes.
An act of Assembly providing
! for the payment of county employees
| twice n month and which has been
! inoperative since it was passed in
April, 1915, is about to be put into
effect in Allegheny county about the
first of the year. Heretofore all
county employees have been paid but
once a month.
Ralph z. Smith appointed one
Of the Pittsburgh registration board
to succeed the late William L. Nc
! Cullagh, is an active Democrat and
was formerly president of the North
Side Democratic Club. He is a mem
ber of the Democratic state COM
mittee. The appointment places two
Democrats on the commission which
is commonly understood to be the
intent of the law. The other Is Da-
vid L. Lawrence. Mr.. McCullagh
was q member of the defunct Wash
ington party.
The Philadelphia Press says edi-
torially: with the approach OF the
Legislative session Lackawanna
county is preparing to put in claim
for another common pleas judge.
The county whose population at the
last census was some two hundred
and sixty thousand, now has three
common pleas judges, and an or
phans' court judge in addition. 1t
NAV need another judge, but the
experience the state has had in the
easy creation of new judgeships
when in many cases they were not
needed, has made it desirable that
there should be an impartial exami-
nation in each instance. This has
been generally neglected in the past
and only the veto of a governor who
has informed himself-as Governor
Pennypacker did-has served to halt
the business of overlooking the jul
dietary. A judicial reapportionment
of the state, which, like all other APP
nortionments, has been neglected
since the latest census was taken
would adjust the matter. and 1t Is In
that way it should be adjusted once
IN fen years, and not oftener, as the
constitution provides"