Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
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BY the Ex-Counaitteeman

VI Ilt0 SODhih6 Va
United States Senator. Boies Penrose
to Harrisburg Sunday night or Mon
day morning to take charge OF the
Philadelphia charter revision bills
and to visit the Legislature during
its sessions next week, furnished
Capitol Hill with a sensation on
the eve of closing the Capitol over
the Good Friday holiday and moro
men will come back to Harrisburg
on the evening of Easter Sunday
will be warmly greeted by his friends
be decidedly different than the visits
he paid here during the session OF
a few years ago.
In all probability. the Senator will
be invited to address the two Houses,
as he did in previous sessions when
he came to Harrisburg, although no
announcements to that effect have
been made. He is a former State
Senator.
Rooms for the Senator were en-
gagged at the Penn-Harris by w.
Harry Baker secretary of the State
Senate, and it was said that the
Senator might remain here until late
Wednesday. The two Houses will
be in session again on Monday night
and the House will remain here un-
til Wednesday afternoon.
Considerable uncertainty sur
rounds the return of Governor Will
lam c. Sproul to Harrisburg. IT
was thought he would return here
Sunday, but that is very doubtful.
Men in politics are greatly in
terested in the Allentown announce
ment that Lehigh County Treasurer
Dewill r. Sell has been surcharged
1000, representing the greater part
OF his remuneration for last year as
runner of the Emaus National Bank,
where he deposited the county funds
without interest. County Controller
Cyrus J. Dilcher filed in court his re-
port of the investigation into the
charges made by the county COM
missioners against the administra-
ton of the treasurer's office by Sell. !
1t was alleged the pay received by
Sell as runner for the Emaus bank |
was in lieu of interest on the coun- /
tvs funds and should have gone in
to the county treasury. 1t was re-
vealed at the hearings that Sell drew !
altogether during his three years |
in office over $4,000 as bank runner, |
but Controller Dilcher decided he |
cannot be surcharged for years prior
to 1918.
Indications of a fight by large
property owners of Radnor town
ship, Delaware county, against the |
proposed school loan, which goes be-
fore the people of the Main Line
township at a special election on
April 26, cropped out at meetings.
William Struthers Ellis, Bryn Mawr,
president OF the Board of Commits
sioners of the township, appeared |
to oppose the loan on the ground
that this is not a good time for the
school district to add $500, 900 to its
He was seconded in |
his opposition by Frederick r. Wal
lace, of Wayne. Fred F. Hallowell,
a member of the Board of Educa-
ton, which wants the money for
new high school and other improve
ments, urged its support.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
says in an editorial: 'The Legisla-
ture should not commit the folly of |
permitting German to be taught in
the public elementary schools. And |
vi NoAAlS bllS OldtS Ol |
Education should not allow Penn
sylvania Dutch" which is now but |
an attenuated ghost of what it was |
thirty years ago, when it boasted a |
number of newspapers long since |
dead, to be heard again in the pub
lie schools. Then when the lower |
schools are free of the German taint, |
the question of teaching foreign Ian !
guages in the high and normal !
schools should be made the subject |
of thorough investigation by COM
petent experts"
Senator Boies Penrose seems to !
have struck a pretty popular idea |
by his speech in Philadelphia and !
the vigor with which Democratic |
newspapers attack him personally, !
is proof that they are disturbed. !
The Senator is now being urged to |
speak in other cities and is due to /
address the national textile manu-
facturers in New York late this |
month.
Thomas Raeburn White and |
other Republican charter men are |
promising a campaign of statements |
on the recent hearing on the charter |
bills. Just so long as it is confined |
to Philadelphia no one here will |
worry much what either side says
about the other in that never end |
ing controversy. Up State legisla-
tors are more interested in how the |
crops are shaping up and whether |
the cost Of living is going down than
in who rules Philadelphia councils. |
Montgomery county has seven
candidates for county commissioner
on the Republican ticket.
John Magee, a Pittsburgh con-
stable, has been named by the State
Highway Department to prosecute
violations OF the automobile license
law in regard to license plates, their
display and use.
-Scra lton newspapers are in
clined to say things about uncer-
tainties in mine cave legislation.
Some hard coal region men do not
look for much definite action this
year.
LABOR AND CULTURE
con seeing a poet making a war
Qardenl