BERKEY CHARGES
ARE DISMISSED
10 END APPROPRIATION ROW
Benator Woodward Moves to Have
House and Senate Chairman Assist
State Secretary — Governor Signs
Bills.
Harrisburg, Pa
{to
-The house passed a
dismiss the
petitions against Judge John A.
key, of Somerset county. The
was 110 yea, 86 noy.
The came on a Rep-
resentative Philadelphia, to
adopt the report of the judiciary gen-
eral previously submitted
Mlumberg, Phila
impeachment
Ber
volte
motion
vote motion of
Sowers,
committee,
resentative
J 3 committee of
the house brought in its report declar-
Ing Berkey had committed
impenchable offense. Its findings
were based on the minority report of a
sub-committee that spent several
weeks investigating the official conduct
of the Nothing was about
the majority report, which recommand-
«d that Berkey be {mpeached and call-
ed before the senate for trial.
general
TJudge
‘arist. said
Evidence “irrelevant and Hearsay.”
After presenting the resolution that
resulted in tha house ordering an in-
vestigation and declaring much of the
evidence “irrelevant and hearsay,” t!
report concludes:
“Upon careful consideration of
testimony presented and In‘accordance
the law. governing impeachment
the legislation of the
Pennsylvania, your committee
cludes, and therefore
there are grounds for the
meat against the Hon, John A. Berkey,
judg the courts of Som
10K
nty, and the committee, there-
e
the
with
under state of
con-
that
RENT -
present
reports,
no
president » of
orset co
fore
séninti
recommends to the house of repre-
further proceedings In
and the petitions
ves that
the matter
be
be stayed
disn.issed.”
Somerset
to
wash their dirty
Del
res
moved the
ask us to
resentat
gh
vile
entative H
should
was, Lehigh, de
word
the take the
the s
od
house
ub-committee and vote down the
‘The Republican parts
should be ah«
senate
! ania
et the
ke of decency
ve
to
ble between administrative
1 de
legislative
intro
'ood-
leaders over
wental appropriations was
duced in we senate by Senator
wii { hil: in. It
that ti
gen
provides
chairmen of the
to ald the see
he commonwealth, who un-
dministrative the
pre
house are
der 1
commonwealth budget
the haodget.
expenses
the code is
officer in
pn ri
] the
be paid out of the
contingent At pres.
chairmen have
preparing the . but
it ie subinitted to ise it
suit thelr own estimates on appro
nriations
t rintions made b-
men have
while
bndzet officer are to
assisting
legisiative
ent the appropriation
no say in
after
fund
budget
them rev
teductions in Cepartmental
the two chair
led to a serious row,
Governor Signs Bills.
Approval of five bills to provide in-
creased edueational faellitieg for blind
and deaf children was at
the gov
ernor's office,
The hills would provide for enumer.
announced
school enumeration, require school dis-
25 per cent and the state
of tuition and
schools, pro
tricts to pay
5 per cent of the cost
maintenance In
vide full-time
classes
special
teachers for special
chitdren organized
in districts, require their parents or
guardians to send them to school, au-
thorize Department of Public In-
struc to extend the time during
theye may be educated in whole
state and to ex-
annually blind or
student in the college or univer
state,
for these
the
ion
which
or
pend
deaf
pares at
expense
£500 on each
sity in the
The bills were introduced by Senator
Lanius, the blind member from York.
Other bills signed Included:
By Woodward, Philadelphia, prohib-
iting the sale of milk in eating places
and on dining cars except in the orig-
innl contalners,
By Williams, Tioga, requiring no-
tices of sales of unsealed lands to be
published for three consecutive weeks
in two newspapers In the county where
the lands are located.
lv Bonbrake, Franklin,
the Department of Forests and Waters
to necept gifts or donations
The house passed two bills sponsor.
ed by Senator Woodworl of Phila-
delphin, making changes in the state
retirement The first would
give teachers a year in which to de-
cide whether they will enter the state
retirement system or the teachers’ re.
tirement fund, and the other imposes
the duty upon recipients of annuities
be prepared to return to duty if
cirljed
The
system,
toy
senate by a of 28 to
prised Homsher bill repealing the
net requiring registering and licens
Ing of professional engineers and land
surveyors
Vole
the
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-le
PENNSYLVANIA :
BRIEFS
» 5
EE a a
John J.
in the Bethlehem Steel plant af
anon, lost right foot In a
gear conveyor
Hazleton bricklayers' “and masons’
unions announced that the old
of $1.25 an hour will be continued for
another year
After five
Seubert, aged 15 employed
Leb-
his worm
seule
months, Stanley Ulan, of
numerous
business
worthless checks
local men.
Bloomshurg in
ladder
‘
Federation of
injured at
I18-foot fall from a
The Pennsylvania
Music Clubs hold
Wilkes-Barre the
will annual con
of
is
week
260
Seltzer, a carpenter
Willian
ployed by
m
he Bethlehem Steel
Lebanon, fractured
when he fell 15 féet from a
J. Nevin Schaeffler, professor of
ancient languages at Franklin and
Marshall College, has selected
the Lancaster Bonr
skull
roof,
his
been
of
of Education
Kildo William MecPher
burned to dent
Clayton
fire
gumecocks seized
at U
Fayette
and
Were
¥
cabin at
Jesse
miners
S0n,
when their near
destroyed |
in »
niontown
Twenty-five
state troopers
were sent County
Home to
mates
Pottsville
Stew for the in
to continue to Work
cents
Schuylkill
present
scale of #0 an hour
County Fair
erect t
‘ teed
grounds
Asso
The
jiation decided {to Wo
bulldings on Its
Pottsvi
pan of water
large
miles below
Tripping over a
Matthi aged 8, of
wag so badly sealded that she
Hospital at Da
of Chester, 1}
HK, Law)
the Gelsinger
John Ciszek
¢
He l«
hoefore i
"iy
second-hand antomeoebile
’
for speed 1
a oon
machine and
rn down
flings
G28 Flower
[38%
A man
a 3
LIRze kK
and
fusion
Horrock hint
ITrockK, of 1xningi«
the
Dr
hut
to operation twie
rallied
Farrabee
i2 in an extremel)
torily,
condition
ler . rea
lodge hall 190d] for assemblage
to comply wi
laws requirh in emergen
ing Inces of asses
Attorne
Harrishurg advised
Industry R. H
¥ General Campbell
Secretary of
bor and Lanshurgh of
factories of P. Lor
Co., Lancaster, have been
i! will probably be ms
inte a warehouse The of
business of the compans
H
Pi
discontinued in Lancaster and
0 and
men
4
women have heen
work
two }
closed wut al
Land
small
weeks ago,
cigars then on
Sinee that time a
1.000 00K)
were unsold
factory to handle the output, but now
The joint convention of the Eastern
and the Pennsylvania
Association at
two meetings and a
Fort Pitt Hotel. Jo
the Duquesne Light
*ittehurgh, spoke on “Pow.
traced the development of
electricity in the operation
manufacturing plants,
when electricity was first
Association
Producers’
with
the
closed
*ittsburgh
in
Company,
He
fee
1910
Since
tried,
urglars looted the tore and home
the family away.
W. F. Brenninger, of Cressonn, was
was
The Northumberland
missioners were nsked
county come
to contribute
pure bred stock In that territory
Directing the clearing away of a
killedd hy na
Appointment
second fall
of Forrest PP. Kings.
the department of
wis announced
State
highwaye
hilghwny
for antamabile
enxtern end
patrolmehn
baw
of
mind 14
violations
Lancaster
county
View the
House, 2
14
White
Jancroft, ambassador to Japan, and
Tokyo, :
on
Spokane trophy,
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
German Parties Lining Up
for Second and Crucial
Election on April 25.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
ERMANY falled to Pres]
to succeed the late Herr
elect a
the seven tos
ive
the eld
Crown I'rine Fre
the throne In case n
didate 18 elected
Willian
Thix prospect
Frederick
is worrying the
press of Germany and also
of anxiety in |
rance
been offic
ERLIN
of the attitude
hns i
of the
the guarantee pact which Germs
What Englanc
gium have iy
known, but it
Herriot has sent
questions and mal
France insists
tiers must
the Rhineland and that
join the Leag {
ie oO
firmness should
offered
{to 8
that the eastern fron
be guaranteed the same as
do
anxiety of Poland
Poincare made
warning France
proposal and to declin reduce
Lorn
her
armaments while remains a
potential
France's
danger,
regard to the
limitation of ar
President
position In
new conference on
ma
de
ments whieh Coolidge
sires to call Is at this writin matter
of controversy, Dispatches from Paris
Ambassador Daeschner
structed to tel! the Washington govern
ment that France * not permit
any intrusion in her military forces un
til the security problem has been
solved.” On other hand the em
bassy in Washington denied that M.
Daeschner had received such instruc
tions, and at both the White House
and the State department it ns
gerted that official communication
concerning the proposed conference
had been received from the French
government, It was explained that
Secretary of State Kellogg was still
studying the situation and had not vet
taken up with the President the matter
of approaching other governments.
Senator Borah, who chairman
the senate foreign relations committee
should know what he Is talking about,
says the plans for the conference
should go forward and feels
any was In
‘could
the
was
no
as
exaggerated,
Recretary Kellogg, expressed the belief
that the conference would be held In
would take up
forces ax well as of naval forces,
«+ minister of finance,
Thursday night because of opposition
In the senate to his plan to add 6.000.
WO.000 paper france to the money cir
Senator de Monzle
He has
of aiding business
wae selected to succeed him,
Ph
Mass, that President Coolidge wi
been prominent In negotiations with
Soviet Russia » oppoRes the govern
{
nd
ment’'s Vatican policy, There
Herriot
resign, in which on
Calllaux migl
10 come
Were ri
ports that the entire govern
nent would
Briand
ber . ” ¢
147) expected
BOON
nieve, and
rances finand condition is
tedly
ial
desperate
i
indicted by na
Kpecin
an Ar ni
transfer tukes effect April
date Mitchell nuts
juariers
same
reverts to his former
Mitchell wanted
the
nily
colonel be as
signed 1 Sixth corps with head
but
Weeks decided otherwise,
quarters at
Tu Chicago, Secretary
“In select
Mitchell
consideration the
post for General sald
“1 took
! into
that bh
fact
i® rank as colonel in the alr sery
entitles him to the best air post in
area. I understs he wanted
hicago
for that
but |} lid not apply
post '
A vote of four to
nited
States shipping boar
aneek to sel] to the Iw
service The
is £5.68205. 000 Commis
hompson and Ben
on vigorously opposed the sale, point
ing out that the price was 825.000 000
inal cost of the ships
$15,000,000 less than it
this The Pa
y company has been
the
dder for their p
There are hints that thig concern may
trf to consummation of
carry the matter hefore
less than the or
would cost
them at time
Steamed
ir i
ii AER 3
operating these ships for board
and was a | irchase
prevent
and may
congress at the next session.
the
deal
“HE week In the United States was
marked by two huge financial
transactions In the first the Dodge
to a syndicate of bankers headed by
Villon, Read & Co. of New York. The
known to be more than £175.000.000
The sellers werd the widows of John
Some time ago It
was learned they were tired of busi.
ness cares and wished to sell their
and at once there began a
lively struggle among various interests
and the final contest wag hetween two
groups of bankers, one headed by Dil
Morgan & Co., who are largely Inter
ested in dhe General Motors corpora
tion. The company ig to be maintained
as on separate organization, but an en.
tirely new corporation will be formed,
000, Its backbone will be an Issue of
first mortgage bonds, probably of ahout
in common and
It ig not unlike-
public of
zation will be vested.
Ivy that an offering to the
made soon,
It was announced Wednesday night
that! pontrol of the Pan-American Pe
Ml .,.
le
White court,
Pennsylvania 3K. A
Imperial hotel,
| have from
battleship
summe
igriet
i given them In
| passed to a grou interests |
{ the Standard it Company
Blair
of the stock
The
organized
FOO0 O00,
| newly
Petroleum
Fed Judge George
VA/ BETHER
WwW. Engili Eastern dis
of Nino! hall be impeache
be know:
trict
not
nos
December wh
the congressional mittee that
has been investigating his a
to the full commit After a
is reports
lot
testimon)
excuse
of the
adisurned
HE sixt)
sian
ame to an end in New York last week
ifter ion
for
, among persons of superior stock.
“The said
resolution, “that whose prog-
give promise being of decide
| value to the community should be
couraged large fami
| properly spaced, as they feel they feas-
ibly can”
An international birth-control
| mittee was appointed, with England,
Scandinavia, Austria, Hungary, Hol.
land, Germany, Japan, China, Mexico,
Switzerland and America represented
The conference voted to raise a fund
to pay the fine of 37.000 francs to save
| Eugene Humbert and his wife from
| further imprisonment in France for
distributing birth-control pamphlets,
| The next international conference will
! be held in Geneva next August.
international
neo-1
and birth control conference
adopting a resolut providing
encouragement of large families
conference believes” the
pers: ms
| eny of
to bear a= jes,
com
RESIDENT COOLIDGE. it is an-
nouncdd, has selected White court,
at Swampscott, Mass, for his summer
vacation and he and his family will go
there on June 13. The residence was
leased recently hy Frank W. Stearns,
the President's close friend,
ECRETARY WEEKS has invited
7 bids for the purchase of power de-
veloped hy the Wilson dam at Muscle
Shoals, This ia in accordance with the
| plan of the army engineers to develop
and sell the power pending final dispo-
gition of the project hy congress,
{| About July 1 the Wilson dam will be
| gin the development of 100.000 horse
Bpower dally. It is not expected that
| high rates of pay will be obtalned
| since the contracts must be revocable
| hy the government on 30 days’ notice
THE
MARKETS
BALTIMORE wi
domestic, $1.65
domestic, $1.65%
Oats
spot
white,
Rye
Hay-
19.50;
mixed
Straw
P18 80@19
op Extra
27028
New
seconds
{"Theese
flats, held
Dressed
dry-picked,
weight, 254
fo
ens, in
@40; In barrels, ace
26@ 328; frozen chickens, in bh
cording to weight, 32@ 40
dry-picked,
medium size, 20622; turkeys,
42@ 45; fair to good, 256G 40
LIVE STOCK
BALTIMORE Cattle good
to choice, $9505 1025 ,
@925; common mediam
8.50; common, $6@ 7.50. Heifers
to choice, $868.75: fair to good
common to medium. 85.50¢
Bulle, good to cholce. $5.75G 6.50: falr
to good, $4.95@5.50; common to me
dium, $4G 4.50. Cows. good to cholce
$5.50@6.50; fair to good, $4.25@% 25
Sheep, $308.50;
weight,
boxes, accordin weight, 28
weight,
X08,
ording to
old roosters
Western,
iarge
Steere
fo
"me
fda,
Sheep and Lambe
lambs, $118017.25.
Hogs—Lights, $13.70613.50: heavy,
$14.10@14.20; medium, $1464.05:
pigs, $12.756G 138; light pigs, $11611.50;
roughe, $8612
Calves—Calves, 85612
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CHICAGO ~Cattle-
bandywelghts, $12.60; yearlings,
$12.50; mixed steers and heifers,
$11.50; stockers and feeders mostly 87
@8; strictly echolee meaty yearlings,
$8.75; bulls mostly $8.50 10.50.
Fed steers top