Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
MONDAY EVENING,

diately after 1t organizes. The slate
committees OF the House and Senate
will Yin the interim hold meetings.
either in Philadelphia or Atlantic
City, and decide upon the committee
appointments and the Legislative
jobs.
The slate committee of the House
will be composed OF thirty-two MEM
bers, one from each Congressional
district. and will be appointed either
by the Speaker OF the chairman of the
Republican caucus. The slate COM
mittee of the Senate was appointed
at the close of the 1917 session. In
cluded in it's membership are Govern
or-elect Sproul and Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor Beidlcman.
Place Fer Gawthrop
Former Judge Robert S. Gawthrop
OF West Chester. is to be First Depu-
| ty Attorney General in the admin
istration OF Governor Sproul
under Attorney General William I
Schaffer, OF Chester.
Governor-elect Sproul said la 4
night that the position had been ten
cered to Judge Gawthrop and tina;
he has accepted il. Gawthrop is one
Hot the leading members OF the bar in
with District Attorney Rotan and
Assistant Taulane. of Philadelphia,
last summer in the prosecution OF
Ike" Deutsch. Police Lieutenant
Bennett and five policemen of the
Fifth ward at West Chester.
Two OF the Assistant Attorney
Generals now serving under Attorney
General Francis skunk Brown most
likely will be reappointed. They are
William NJ. largest. of Harrisburg.
and Emerson Collins. of Williams
port.
Place Fer Lancaster Lawyer
William H. Keller. of Lancaste-.
who is at present the First Deputy
Attorney General. some time ago
made known to Governor elect
Sproul his desire to retire and he
will not be given one of the places
in the Attorney Generals office.
Others who Will retire are Harry h.
Daugherty. of Grove City. Mercer
county. and Edmund X. Trent, of Sc
wickley, Allegheny county.
Bernard J. Myers, OF Lancaster, will
be asked to take one of the princip1!
places in the Attorney Generals Of
fce. He has been City Solicitor in
Lancaster for nine years. Another
appointment as an assistant. most
likely. will be W. l. Swope, of Clear
field.
No Governors STAFF Now
There will be no Adjutant General
and a Governors staff appointed by
Governor Sp-oul until after the
status OF the National Guard is de-
cided upon, the new Governor said.
Such Governors STATS, made up OF
fiH vii 10 a1 hp :
military camouflage," and. follow
ing the war. in which $4,000 Penn
sylvanians took an active part, the
Governor-elect believes, now is not
the time for the naming OF men for
the meaningless positions.
1t is possible when the boys come
Rome" and the status of the National
Guard or the Reserve Militia is de-
termined that Sproul may appoint q
STAFF OF real coloneis. men who have
en- service in France.
william Finn. former State Sena-
tor. OF Pittsburgh. long q leader in
public affairs in Pennsylvania,
strongly endorses the movement for
holding n convention to frame a new
Constitution for the state. In par
tieular, Senator Finn believes that
L4OdO BAONiSAOh pC IIAduC ia
the organic law to empower the
state to deal emphatically in crushing
Boishevism and other forms of de-
structive radicalism that have
ranged themselves against the funda-
mentals OF democracy in the coun-
try.
Among legislators from every Sec
ton of the state who had reached
Harrisburg to-day there were three
chief topics of conversation-the
death of Colonel Roosevelt, the va
cancy in the Superior Court created
through the elevation of Judge John