Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-13
'Pesascs It,
Ps~'sa4ssania
BY the Ex.Committeeman

| NAAst-A Ashll VI l1G VI
the House of Representatives have
asked Speaker Robert S. Spangler
70 appoint them as members of the
SSommittee on Appropriations. The
cpSaker In accordance with custom,
Seht out letters imm ediately after
ms election. requesting the men,
pers 10 express their desires in re-
garo TO committee assignments.
1his mas been done by speakers for
sass SO that they may know the
preterences of the lawmakers.
Mr. Spangler has found the mem
pers OF the lower house very prompt
anu explicit In their replies. There
are z0I members in the House and
more than half are willing to serve
on the Appropriation Committee,
Whlcn contains something like forty
| seats.
Next in demand appear to be
places on the committee on public
ROADS which has been for several
years a popular committee. There
have also been made requests for
places on the committee on educa-
ton, while the lawyers of the
aouse are asking to be named to
the judiciary general committee.
Many members from cities are de-
Slrous OF places on the municipal
corporations committee, while there
are many requests for assignment on
judiciary special, manufactures, la
Dor and Industry, mines and mining,
agriculture, public health and insur
ance, while law and order also seems
to be a popular committee in the
minds of some legislators.
The committees will be announced
next week.
Philadelphia newspapers are
commencing to print what has
been long waited about the Capitol
corridors to the effect that Public
Service Commissioners Michael ].
Ryan and William A. Magee will not
| be retained under the new admins
trauon. Mr.. Ryan's term will ex-
pire before long. and for a year it
has been believed that he would not
stay. The prediction was made
when Sprouts candidacy was an
nounced that the former Philadel-
phia solicitor would leave. The re-
ports that Commissioners Harold
NJ. Mcclure, John S. Killing and
James Alcorn would remain, current
for some time, are now commencing
to get into print. 1t is also of inter-
est to note that Philadelphia news
| papers are announcing the retention
of Commissioner of Fisheries Ma
than r. Butler, which was printed
here weeks ago.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
says that George A. Schreiner, SUI
| perintendent of public grounds and
buildings, will be replaced, but that
Dauphin countian will not get the
office. There has been talk of Sam
uel S. lewis, of York, in connection
with the place, but no one in author
ity has said anything.
| According to the Philadelphia
Press the project referred to in this
| column weeks ago for the consoli-
dalton of all state police activities,
game, forestry and fishery, under
the state police department is "being
actively considered" by the new gov
ernoF. This carries out the old de-
| partment of conservation idea as far
as the outdoor forces are concerned.
However, there may be some COM
plications as under the act estab-
fishing hunters licenses the state
game commission has sole disposal
of the funds and has authority over
the game protectors. 1t is proposed
to enlarge the game force until there
is one man for each county at least.
The Press says that the scheme has
not been worked out, but that it is
being studied and that If it comes to
anything Col. John c. Groome will
have charge of all police activities,
which will be co-ordinated.
In announcing the retirement
OF c. L. O'Nejl as a major general
of the National Guard, Allentown
newspapers and dispatches say blunt
ly that the general did not get a
square deal in army matters and
that he should not have been mus
out of service, but given a COM
mand which his record justifles.
The colonel was formerly superin-
tendent of the State Arsenal under
Pattison, and q we'll known Demo-
crat. There is q disposition among
Lehigh Democrats to ask questions.
delaware county political lights
say that EX-Speaker Richard j.
Baldwin will succeed Governor
Sproul in the upper house. While
here last week Mr.. Baldwin told
friends he did not think there would
be much opposition to- him and the
Philadelphia Inquirer makes the
very definite statement in a Chester
dispatch that the versatile ex-speak-
er has been selected" by the lead
ers. Another dispatch says that ex-
INSheriff Everitt Sproul, a brother of
the new governor, is talked of for
senator.
Media dispatches say that Del
aware county will have over 1000
men in the inaugural parade.
Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, who will have a good bit of a
say about the next commissioner of
labor and industry when the term
of Col. John Price Jackson expires,
saw the new Governor at Philadel-
phia Saturday.
Altoona newspapers say that Ex-
Representative James h. Rininger
and and Edwin M. Aimes aspire to
succeed Compensation Referee ia
cob Snyder, who wants the job
again. Snyder was a personal Sc
lection of Governor Brumbaugh and
once remarked when some of his
decisions were criticised that the law
needed the gospel every now and
then.
-WiIkes-Barre is going to give a
great welcome to Col. Asher Miner,
commander of the 109th artillery,
the old Ninth Pennsylvania, tomor-
row. The colonel served in the leg
islature a couple of yeras ago.
Reading is commencing to take
the place OF Erie and Meadville as
place where suggestions for
changes in the third class city law
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
praises the selection of Ex-senator
John S. Fisher, of Indiana, as bank
ing commissioner, and says that he
has been connected with successful