Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-13

ends with November and the reve-
nue. already in hand is within few
hundred thouand of the total for the
whole of the last fiscal period.
A number of large payments on
account of corporation taxes and
settlements on inheritance taxes are
still to be made and there is always
activity in payments late In Novem-
Der.
Large payments have been made
TO the State hunters license, fire in
surance and school funds which re-
ceive moneys from certain sources
and considerable investments are
about to be made of the cash, most
OF them being put into the States
own road bonds.
State Fishery authorities say that
1t is their plan to continue the
planting" of young trout in the
streams of the State as long as the
weather permits and If the work is
carried on as successfully as it was
last fall and winter they predict that
the aggregate of the fish put out
Will break records. The State is
also distributing many bluegills and
catfish.
Hearings are being arranged by
the Public Service Commission for
applicants for certificates for opera
ton of jitneys in the Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh districts and also to
cover taxicab cases. Numerous ap-
plications have been filed by per-
sons who have been operating with
out permission and who have been
notified that they must comply with
the State regulations.
The Pennsylvania State Telephone
and Traffic Association has filed a
new tariff of toll rates for its MEM
| bers which consists of the so-called
Independent concerns operating in
many counties of the State. The
| new tariff is effective December 1
and continues rates in effect during
federal control.
George r. Norman, Arnot, has
| been appointed superintendent of
State highways in Tioga county sue
ceeding w. H. Hatfield, Mansfield,
who resigned.
Meter systems work no hardship
| upon patrons of water companies,
but place them where they are called
upon to pay only for what they re-
ceive and there is no general prin-
ciple of equity that would warrant
| excluding such an item Of equipment
from a valuation of property of a
| company declares Public Service
Commissioner Milton J. Brecht in
dismissing complaints against the
Fayetteville Water Company, which
operates in Franklin county. The
Commissioner, however, calls for
certain revisfons in the rules of the
company while he sustains the rates
charged.
1t is improbable that the Public
Service Commission will hold any
more hearings in regard to the tele-
phone rate applications. Argument
will be heard on November "a.
Details of State Policemen from
three troops were to-day withdrawn
from the Western Pennsylvania dis
tricts where they have been on
strike duty and returned to their
barracks. Recruitment of the new
troop and filling up of the other four
is progressing rapidly.
Forty counties of the State have
filed their judicial election returns
and word has been sent to others
to expedite filing as the counts have
been completed.
Representative Harry j. Scott of
Phillipsburg, was among visitors to
the Capitol.
Senator William Q. Mcconnell, of
| Shamokin, called at departments at
| the Capitol.
According to Philadelphia news
papers Mayor-elect ]. Hampton
Moore is not very much pleased at
the manner in which Chairman Wal
ton, of the committee of 100, has
been talking about what the Inde-
pendents would approve for his cab
met. The mayor-elect says that he
will select his cabinet himself. This
| is the attitude which Capitol Hill
| expected from the new mayor. Gov
evrnor Sprouts interview in last
evenings Philadelphia newspapers
in which he denied deals is also
interesting the Hill.
The Governor i'm an interview in
Philadelphia yesterday again dis
cussed possibility of James T. Cor
telyou, the famous postal inspector,
record bureau of the State Police
Department. This possibility was
much discussed during the closing
| days of the Legislature.
| Adjutant General Beary, q speaker
at yesterdays exercises at Hazleton,
made a strong speech for law and
order. He declared that the unrest
was part of big war and that 1t
was the duty of every man to make
the constitution supreme.
Director James FouSt of the State
Bureau of Foods, says that the num-
Der of fancy drinks put out is amaz-
ing since prohibition came in. Some
of the concoctions have the State
chemists guessing.
William j. Tracy, of Philadelphia
former magistrate in that city, has
assumed his duties as chief of the
bureau of mediation of the State De-
| partment of Labor and Industry
He will make a tour of various in.
dustrial districts.
A committee of members of the
House of Representatives from
eastern counties will be named tt
attend the funeral services of Rep.
resentative William II. Krause, o.
Bucks county.
Ex-Governor Martin G. Brum.
baugh will shortly begin a series o.
lectures in Juniata College.
II Public Service hearings are beinl
held in five places to-day, the jitney
situation in Philadelphia receiving
special attention.