Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

BY the Ex committeeman
A recommendation for a complete
revision of the Constitution of Penn
sylvania, which would mean that the
| next Legislature would he asked to
! call constitutional convention, is
3 likely to be made by the Revision
Commission, which resumes its ses-
slons to-day after a recess since
/ Thursday. Some of the members
/ who opposed such u course are now
understood to feel that there will
be so many amendments, without in
( Guiding what may possibly be sug-
Sested by the committees on taxa
( tlon and corporation and on cities,
that the list will be longer than could
be handled with any degree of safety
! by the amendment methods followed
! in 1909 and other years. However.
there are some who oppose even con-
sldeflnS Il convention until the work
/ of the Commission is in hand.
The committees on taxation and
cities have arranged to secure much
j data and will also have hearings
! of State officials. The committee in
charge of militia matters has asked
Z Adjutant General Frank ID. Beary to
appear before it to outline his ideas
3 iii it5iIu 10 liltlllaTN HldIlBTS anu
I Auditor General Charles A. Snyder
( intends to appear before the taxa
ton committee early in January. The
investigation to be set afoot by the
I cities committee into municipal in
4 debtedness, expenses, budgets and
, other matters will probably he eX-
/ tensive.
1t is not probable that the sug-
ion
| lature based upon the council plan
in the cities, with members paid ST.
/ 900 Il year for sitting in practically
| continuous session as is done by
councils, will get very far. The dis
/ position of the Commission is not to
materially change the scheme of
/ State government and in any event
/ the Legislature, which will consider
! all recommendations, would hardly
regard the suggestion favorably. This
! suggestion contemplatcS one mem
Der for each 100000 of population,
/ every county TO have at least one
| representative. Under the census of
! 1910 IL would mean almost 100 mem
/ bers and three-quarters of Il million
! salary roll, without counting in at
/ tachCs,
Members of the PENNSYLVANIA
| congressional delegation will be in
Vited to be guests of Governor Will
liam c. Sproul at dinner at the eX-
! ecutive mansion in January. This
VIII be the first dinner of the kind
given by Governor in years. The
! Governor was recently the guest of
/ the delegation at dinner in Washing
/ ton. Governor Sproul will also give
/ q dinner to the members of the Con-
I stitutional Revision Commission in
, January.
! Changes in the membership OF
/ the State Water Supply Commission
+, are imminent and Thomas j. Lynch,
! of Bethlehem. the secretary. will be
| the only member TO stay. The mem
! bers who are booked to retire are
| Il. A. Zentmyer, of Tyrone. and q. S.
/ kelcey. of Lock Haven. both Brum-
/ baugh appointeeS.
/ Auditor General Charles \. Sny-
der will probably not announce the
| appointments of the mercantile ap-
| praisers FOR several days. He had
hoped to complete the list tom orrow.
hut will not he anle &c DO SO. 81 did
not know so many people had eyes on
the places" remarked the Auditor
General. There will be about 100
appointments, first and last.
John l.. Gutshall has been
! Nlttttu county SOItllOT OI Icing II.
He succeeds a Republican.
r.. l.. Schroyer will remain as
burgess of Selinsgrove. There was
an election held this year and when
it was all over there was a contest.
! Then came doubts as to whether an
election should have been held. 1t
has been decided that the present in
cumbent shall hold over, II method
of settling the dispute which was
-. T@l,,
and seems to have given consider
able satisfaction.
-Judge-elect q. w. MaXcy and
Mayor \. r.. Connell will be candi-
dates for Republican National dele
gates in Lackawanna.
--Lehigh's three representatives in
the General Assembly are candi-
dates for denomination.
congressman Il. h. Focht writes
i'm the Lewisburg News about Gov
ernor Sprouts visit to Washington:
In the absence of Senator PenroSe
as National committeeman from
PENNSYLVANIA. on account of sickness.
our own great Governor represented
Pennsylva mia. and to say that nc took
the meeting off its feet in "a ringing
Republican speech is but modestly
expressing the enthusiasm of Iepub-
! lltdllS dbOul lllt Slt Gets, libttiS anu
the Capitol over the Jingle Governor
Sproul injected into his deliVerance.
There was no pussyfooting about his
declarations, and nothing recently
spoken has been quite so truly Amer
lean and Republican, which sent "A
thrill of confidence and revived party
spirit all down along the Republican
line
The Washington Star. which fol-
lows National politics closely. says:
'rPersistently recurring reports that
Secretary of Labor Wilson is about
TO resign were stopped yesterday by
announcement from the Secretary
through Hugh McGraw, hls private
secretary, that Mr.. Wilson will re-
tain his cabinet post. These reports
have been inspired, Mr.. McGraw
said, by rumors of friction between
tDr. Harry A. Garfield, fuel admins
/ traitor. and Secretary Wilson. over
the wage scale to be offered the
: striking soft coal miners, and have
become so widespread that the Sec
rotary yesterday received II telephone
call from n man in Pennsylvania,
urging him for the good of the coun-
: Iry not to resign at this time"
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