Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31
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| SO little has been said about the
plan for State Commission to study
anu recommend revision of the Con-
stituuon OF Pennsylvania that the
| average man does not realize the i'm.
poftance of the body which is to be
appointed shortly by Governor Will
IA i.ahn Y; Sproul and which will hold
10 10 sessions In Harrisburg. For years
there have been discussions and
! pians to revise Pennsylyania's con-
| stituuon and there are persons who
are as insistent upon changing its
PROVISIONS as there are folks who
hold That it meets all requirements
tne way 1T is, although the number.
OF the latter is growing less and less
a.. al Ine titne. In the last five legsla-
! 1--WE sessions efforts to secure a new
constitution have been made. but il;
was felt last winter because of condi-'
tlons following the war that instead
| OF providing for convention that
! a commission be selected to make
study of the organic law of the
| commonwealth just as commissions
nave peen named to study work
| mems compensation old age pen
sions and health insurance for Penn
isyiVanla. The members of the COM
mission Will have only recommended
| tory powers and serve without COM
! pensatlon. 1t is the Governors plan
to select thoroughly representative
| pody, which is one of the reasons
why the appointments have not been
MADE. The idea of having the com
mission meet here, except for such
/ committee work which may be
necessary, will bring it's business un-
der the dome of the Capitol. The
| fact that the convention which
drafted the constitution of 1873, a
different form of body than that to
be named this year, met in Phila-
delphia caused some criticism to be
leVeled against it. The convention
| OF 1885 met here and also held some
meetings in Philadelphia, but the
bodies which framed the constitu-
ton of 1776 and 1890 met in Phila-
delphia, as did the State convention
which ratified the Federal Constitu-
ton.
There appears in some quarters
to be considerable misapprehension
regarding the program of entertain
ment incident to the reception of
King Albert and his party the other
day. One of the Philadelphia news
papers says state officials were sur
prised when they learned that the
program did not include a visit TO
the Capitol" So far as the Cham
Der of Commerce was concerned the
program from the outset contem-
plated visit to the Capitol, the
: planting of trees on the Capitol
grounds as a memorial of the visit,
short street parade in order that
the party might gather some impress
sion of the city and finally an in
spection of the great industrial plant
> at Steelton. OF course, the program
was in danger of breaking down sew
eral times and up to the last minute,
owing to the shifting orders from
| the Department of State at Wash
1 ington and the party en- route, but
through the cooperation of Cover
nor Sproul and Colonel Charles H.
Patterson, a Harrisburg boy accom-
panying the party on it's tour, the
; tentative program was finally ap-
proved by King Albert and carried
out as originally intended with one
or two minor exceptions. AS a mat
ter of fact, no official program of en-
tertainment in Harrisburg is COM
plete without the inclusion of visit
to the Capitol and, If possible, a re-
ception by the Governor. The Capt.
!, tol is the great outstanding feature
i of the city, and how the impress
= sion could have gained currency that
D King Albert was not expected to
: look over the great building is a
y matter of speculation among those
: who were on the inside of the ar
4 rangements.
4 Harrisburg people have been con-
siderably interested by the testimony
given by II. S. Kerbaugh, the con-
: tractor, before the United States
= Commission investigating the air
. | craft production. Mr.. Kerbaugh,
= whose firm built Enola yards and the
Il Market street bridge piers, had
charge of construction of the Gov
/ ernment spruce production railroad
s in Olympia Peninsula, Washington.
d One of his statements was that SOL
1t diers were paid $S a day for work
# on the railroad, the Government off,
u cials insisting upon soldiers being
l. employed. Drafted men were en-
ployed.
" One thing the wet October with
# it's periods of warm weather has pro-
9 duced and that has been q plentiful
crop of late bugs. Ordinarily at this
season of the year few bugs are to
be seen about the electric lights, but
almost any night they are to be seen
buzzing near the lamps and butting
:, their heads against the glass. Mos
- quitoes and similar insects are also
- more aboundant than usual at this
y time.
y Many expressions of sympathy for
J. "Tony" Frenie are being heard in
= the city because of the illness of a
ID Senate attache whose length of serv-
If ice goes back a long time and whose
acquaintance among men of affairs
is in Pennsylvania is most extensive
he Mr.. Frenie is said to know more
l. and say less about the men who
sr have run politics for generation
1t than any one on Capitol Hill. He is
lie well known to many Harrisburger
er as he came here from Baltimore al
g most forty-five years ago and in the
20 days when he was proprietor of the
- Lochiel barbershop he shaved states
= men of every rank, was the mar
j., whom Quay sought, Hartranft called
- for and other noted men insisted
y upon his personal care.