Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-13

partment to have been SlSf, oSs.o1.
The revenue derived from licenses
issued in the same period is given
by the department as S4,392,236.
The license plates cost the States
S1O7, 7,353.09 and deliveries S3S,-
444.96, the salaries and other eS-
penses of the division are given as
$44,201,76. The Department claims
that the cost of operating the di-
United States
The division of the licenses is
given as follows: Motor vehicles
tors and trailers 2,77S; dealers
$3.50; drivers (paid), 0,565; driv~
ers (free), 11S,977, duplicates and
transfers, 24,9S7.
Since July /, many additional
licenses have been issued.
State to Answcr-Answer of the
state in the equity action filed nj
the Dauphin county court to re-
strain payments of appropriations
to &c hospitals and homes. on the
ground that they are sectarian in
| stitutions, will be filed early during
the coming week. 1t is possible that
fern of proceedings. The Attorney
General will appear for the Com
monwealth in the argument.
Governor Spcaks-Governor Will
liam c. Sproul will welcome the
members of the State Medical So
clety to Harrisburg for their annual
meeting in the week of September
~ The meeting will last several
days and there will be u number of
special meetings, including a confer
cnce of industrial surgeons to be adj
dressed by State officials. Compen-
sation. rehabilitation and similar
problems will be discussed.
Hunting Up Law-The legal and
banking departments of the State
government started to-day to look
up the powers of the common
wealth in regard to actions against
persons who wilfully keep houses
empty in the face of a demand for
dwelling places in order to manipu-
late prices and for control of at
legged unfair operations by building
and loan associations as a result oil
I. the complaints made yesterday to
Governor William C. Sproul by a
committee of Philadelphia tenants.
The inquiry will be of state wide
Importance as if it is found that
the State has authority it may IN
woke to correct the abuses they will
be applicable not only to Philadei-
phia but to Pittsburgh or any othel
place where a scarcity of dwellings
exists and houses have been found
kept idle for rent or price Juggling.
State officials regard the matter as
of not only economic but legal I'M
portance as it would involve some
laws passed for protection of prop
he 70 i
banking code the State has author
ity to examine into building and
loan associations and if any tranS-
actions which are not in accord
with law are developed the State
will prosecute them.
Bell Case Comes Up - The Bell
Telephone Company's application to
continue the wartime telephone
rates in Pennsylvania and the OBJ
iections of the city of Pittsburgh to
them as unreasonable will come be-
fore the Public Service Commission
next Wednesday by which time the
preliminary report on the investiga-
lion which the Commission has had
it's accountants make will be before
the Commission. The application is
TO make the rates effective from De-
cember /, as the Federal ruling was
that the wartime rates should be
effective until that time. There will
probably be further hearings in the
matter.
The Commission is scheduled to
hold an executive session and to hear
argument here Monday morning.
one of the cases being on demurrer
of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Co., to u complaint regarding dis
continuance of service on Thirty
third street and Thirty sixth street,
Philadelphia. Hearings will be held
IN Harrisburg Thursday and in Phil
ldelphia Friday, the latter list in
Guiding steam heat, trolley and cleo
.rlc and gas service complaints from
he Philadelphia district.
Nine Homicide CaseS-Nine of the
twenty eight cases listed for the
September meeting of the State
Board of Pardons, which will begin
the sessions after the summer ad-
journment, involve homicides of va
rious degrees, in the number being
an application for rehearing for
William Josiah McMeen, of Juniata
county, convicted in 1895 of murder
and committed the following year.
The McMeen case has attracted
much attention, as the trial was a
sensational one. In 1903 and 1914
he was refused pardon. Three men
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tation: Robert Loomis, Northamp-
ton; William Evans, Dauphin, and
Lewis Page, Fayette, convicted of
second degree murder in Somerset,
Allegheny and Lackawanna are ask
ing for pardon, one convicted in
1911. The others are manslaughter
cases from Lackawanna and Schuyl-
XII counties.
Mcadvillc Armory-The State Ar
mory Board has arranged to make
an extension and improvement of the
Meadville Armory and bids will prob
ably be asked during the fall. This
armory was originally a residence
and was concerted into an admin
istration building, drill facilities
being provided later. 1t will be one
of the first of the armories to be
improved following the war and will
house one of the companies of the
new National Guard.
THOUGHT SHE HAD MOVED
Mrs Clancy was very sarcastic
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