Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-21

1907 was provided with suites for
the judges, and q chamber of un-
usual beauty, but the headquarters
have been at Philadelphia.
The Courts of Other States
1t is an interesting fact that while
q Pennsylvania highest court has
been gradually getting away from
the State Capitol as it's permanent
seat, the disposition has been all the
other way in other States. Washing
ton, it may be said, has become the
National Capital in an unusual way
as "a result OF the war. In New York
state, the appellate courts sit en-
tirely at Albany. The situation as
regards Philadelphia and Harris
burg, 'and New York and Albany,
is much the same. Albany has been
the seat of New York's court and
some of the foremost lawyers of
the Empire State, if not of the land,
have achieved fame as practitioners
in that city. In other states, in
Guiding Ohio, the state capital is
the permanent headquarters of the
Supreme Court.
Certain commemorative have got
ten away from the circuit idea, al
though in this State it will always
prevail, and sttings will be held in
AllC NlNltS SDCCIltu Ill tlNlS, dllllOub
the truth is they are often brief.
The Public Service Commission
maintains it's headquarters here with
hearings held in various cities and
when Governor William G. Sprouts
plan for concentration of the State
Government here are worked out,
the State Compensation Board will
have it's headquarters here, in fact
as we'll as name, and continue its
travels around the Circuit.
sas The Concentration Idea ems.
Harrisburg is so we'll recognized
as the official center of the State,
that Legislative sittings are provided
by statute and organic law. The
Governor is working out a plan for
concentration of all Executive
branches. The permanent location
here of the Supreme Court, and then
the Superior Court, the highest
courts of the co-ordinated branch
of the Government, would seem to
follow naturally.
To establish the permanent head
quarters of the Supreme Court here
would require an act of Assembly,
and if the rising sentiment in re-
gard to concentrating governmental
activities, amounts to anything it will
probably be reflected in a bill to
designate Harrisburg as the per-
manent home of the Supreme bench.
Should this come about it would
mean the eventful erection, as part
of the Sproul plan, for the State
group of buildings, a distinctive
building of classic type of architec-
ture in Capital Park extension, dedi-
Gated to the highest tribunal of the
Keystone State.
While neither Governor Sproul
nor CHIEF Justice j. Hay Brown has
made ANY public expression on the
application of the Governors idea
OF concentrating the State Govern
ment in all it's branches, at Harris
burg, and building in such manner
as to house them tittingly and in ac-
cord with the standing of the Com
monwealth, it is, believed that they
have the same idea as many Legis-
lators who have remarked upon the
propriety and advisability of such
Capitalization.
On. of the greatest drawbacks
has E~en the lack of hotel accomo-
dations, but this has been provided
by the citizens of Harrisburg and
the whole trend of material improve
ments here has been on scale dis
tinctive among state capitals.