Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-03
MANDAMUS CASE
ISDUE TUESDAY
Dauphin County Court Will
Give Hearing Next Week in
the Wasson Proceeding

The Dauphin county court to-day
fixed Tuesday, October as the time
for hearing the mandamus proceed
ing brought by counsel for Judge
Henry G.. Wasson, of Pittsburgh, to
require his name to be certified by
the Secretary of the Comm onwealth
to the Allegheny County Commission
ers for printing on the nonpartisan
judicial ballot. The officials of the
State department have stated that
they will certify only the names of
the five highest candidates for the
five places on the Allegheny common
pleas bench. Judge Wasson stands
sixth on the list. The petition flied
attacks the construction placed upon
the provisions of the act of 1919 for
computing sole nominee"
The State department to-day re-
ceived the official returns of Brad
ford, Bucks, Montgomery, jefferson,
Potter and Sullivan counties. There
are sixteen counties to be heard
from.
Preliminary steps for the invcsti-
cation of the rent profiteering and
food gouging problems in Phladel-
phia were inaugurated to-day by Di-
rector Frank B. McClain, of the State
Welfare Commission, who will spend
going over the situation. Attorney
General William I. Schaffer will give
him such legal advice as is required
Late returns from Media indicate
that Representative William T. Ram
sey, of Chester, has won the Re-
publican mayoralty nomination in
that city over Mayor w. S. Mcdowell
by about 125 majority. There are
still some chances of a contest it is
said.
Ebcnezcr Adams, a former MEM
Der of the House from Philadelphia
and we'll known to many Harrisburg
ers, is dead at the age of seventy-six
He was a member of the House dur
ing three sessions and was a local
preacher of the Methodist church,
being also active in the G. A. r.
The Automobile Livery Protective
Association of Philadelphia, to-day
MED statement with the Public Ser
vice Commission that its members
were mainly engaged in furnishing
automobiles for funerals and were
not common carriers. The organiza-
tion asked to be heard in the hear
lnGs in the Philadelphia taXicab
SITUATION so that its position could be
made clear. Leonard j. Monville is
the president of the association.
Inspectors of the Eastern Pcniten-
tldFy were to-day informed in an
opinion from the Attorney Generals
Department, that they have no power
to re-parole a prisoner who was con-
victed of crime outside of Pennsyl-
vania while on parole.
The Penn Central Light and Power
Company, operating in Huntingdon,
Blair, and Cambria counties and the
Cambria Light, Heat and Power Com
| pany, operating at Patton, have filed
notice of new power rates with the
| Public Service Commission.
The State Forest Commission spcnt
| most of to-day in executive session
considering forms of leases and the
manner in which provision is made
for reforestation. 1t is probable that
steps will be taken for closer inspec-
tion by state of timber cut and also
| that better arrangements made for
| reforestation. Officers for several
tracts of land were made and some
purchases in the central part of the
State may be made.
Among Capitol visitors were .Ex-
Auditor General \. +. Sisson, of Erie
| EX-Judge w. e. Rice of Warren;
Judges James B. Drew and Henry G..
WaSson, of Pittsburgh.