Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
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/ ChDSN ihdilld Will
adopt the budget system for the
ohduct of its State government, ac-
cording to high State officials who
are interested in having the subject
debated in the Constitutional Revi-
sion Commission so as to develop
Ideas and public sentiment on the
question. There is a growing belief
mere that instead of a budget system
being advocated as part of the new
| constitution which everyone expects
TO be evolved from the deliberations
or the Commission and the ensuing
proceedings which the Legislature
VIII probably authorize. there will be
more of an effort to remove from it
any disability of trying "a budget for
the State.
The fact that almost all of the
| cities and virtually all of the
Doroughs of the State operate under
a budget system has led to the sug-
gestion that the Commonwealth
should do likewise and the matter
| De left to the Legislature to inaueu-
rate. Rather than make hard and
IaSt rule for budget, the suggestion
mas been made that it be left to the
Legislature so that an agitation to
change the Constitution will not start
anew when some new financial idea
comes along.
A shake-up in the State Depart-
ment of Forestry is being predicted
Tor next spring. Steps for overhaul
ing the business system of that
branch of the State government are
under way and the budget plan
which has been tried in the Depart
ment of Agriculture and other de-
paruments will be adopted. Recent
proceedings at the meetings of the
state Forest Commission have been
lald before Governor William &
Sproul, who will likely take mn mat
ters connected with the department
early in the new year
appointments of mercantile an
pralsers under the act of 1919 for
the various counties will not be made
until next week, according to an an
nouncement by Auditor General
charles \. Snyder. to-day. Mr.
snyder said that he had been unable
TO complete the list, but that when
announced it would care for every
county. There will be no piece
meal announcement in this matter"
said he.
Captain Lynn G. Adams. an
pointed acting deputy superintend-
ent of State Police until January /
when ne will become deputy. has
been member of the force since
IL was organized in 1905. He served
IN the army and was enlisted as n
sergeant. During the great war he
was in the United States army in
france. 1t is believed he will
eventually become superintendent
He has been in command of the
troop at Butler.
Col George Nox Mccain writes
this way in the Evening Ledger
about former State Senator and
man we'll known here: The new
pfohlDltlon enforcement officer for
the State, ex-senator William
Wayne Hindman, is. at least bv
family tradition and ancestry, pecu-
liarly fitted for the office. He is a
native of Clarion county, where his
father was leading member of the
bar and prominent figure in
Democratic politics for years prior
to his death about four years ago.
His mother was Miss Margaret Shall
lenberSer, member of an old
Westmoreland county family that
reno owed to Clarion county about
1879. The head of the family was
Lloyd Shallenberger, consistent
churchman and temperance leader
IN his community Ex-senator
Hindman is a member of the
younger and dominant element in
Democratic State politics, the Pal
mer-McCormick faction. He was
until 1918 State senator from the
Twenty-siXth district"
james G.. Connor. formerly in
the Auditor Generals office and
lately connected with the PhiladeI-
phia mercantile appraisers, is said
to be slated for removal. He is O
protege of Senator David Martin,
who has defied Mayor-elect J. Hamp-
ton Moore.
The Evening Bulletin advances
this thought editoriaIly: Whatever
may be the personal results of the
present and prospective inquiries, it
Will be gratifying if one of them
shall be the ultimate removal of the
Eastern Penitentiary from Philadel-
phia: Even if Warden McKenty
shall be entirely vindicated, as we
hope that he will be. the prison
| ought TO be an inland one, admins
tered along modern line of penal. dis
cipline. 1t is nearly a century since
the Penitentiary was laid out on old
Cherry HILL" and the time is at
hand when it needs. at least, to be
moderniZed in situation, if not also
in methods and in management"
s-App0lnlnen or an orphans
court judge in Westmoreland and a
| county court judge in Allegheny will
be made soon by the Governor.
James S. Beacon, former State
Treasurer, is the man most spoken
| of for the former place.
1t is believed the coming veor
will see some changes in the staff
| of the Public Service Commission
and another water supply commits
| sioner in addition to General G. G.
| Richards. of Oil City soon to he
named to succeed Commissioner II
| A. Zentmyer.
| George ]. Brennan. the arcbi-
| tect of the who's Who" column of
the Philadelphia Inquirer. has this
to say about IA big figure in the
/ State Judiciary: ''Chief Justice ]
| Hay Brown, of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania. whose term expires
next year. is the last survivor of the
delegates-at-large from Pennsyl-
vania who formed part of the IA
nous 500 who voted for General u.
s. Grant for a third term in the
Presidency of the United States in
the Republican National Convention
in Chicago in 1880. Justice Brown
in his early days took an active in