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NEWS OF TIIE LEGISLATURE
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SNYDER TELLS
OF COLLECTIONS
Auditor General Says State Is
Not Getting All That It
Should Now
Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der, a former member of the House,
last night addressed the lower
branch upon the purposes of the bill
authorizing the Auditor General to
appoint cleiks in offices of registers
of wills to assist in collection of in
heritance taxes now on the post
poned calendar. Mr. Snyder said
the idea was to check up on deaths
and estates which are escaping tax
ation. Tweive counties reported no
estates of deeendents taxable last
year and he instanced Armstrong
and Beaver counties which required
to be lec ktd up.
Th State needs the money, said
Mr. Snyder, and while the receipts
last veai broke the record by $7,-
000,00(, there were many demands
for money in bills pending. Mr.
Snyder read lists of counties which
had returned small sums in taxeJ in
proportion to deaths, among them
Fine Spring Tonic Is
Dr. Carter's K. & B. Tea
Dr. cnrter* K. 11. Tea Most Spring
System Clenner—Make It at Home
\ oursolf—Costs Almost Nothing
After the long winter months,
nearlv evervone needs a spring medi
cine that will drive out accumulated
impurities and put the system in
good condition.
One of the best spring upbuilders
and regulators we know of, is made
of roots and herbs and is called Dr.
Carter's K. & B. Tea your Grand
mother can tell you all about it.
Get a package of this tea at any
drug store and brew a steaming cup
before you go to bed tonight you'll
like it.
It's splendid for the liver and
bowels, sick headache and bilious
ness. The kiddies like it too, and it
does them lots of good, because it
never acts harshly. You can get Dr.
Carter's K. & B. Tea at any drug
■jg|||^|!|py
Ladies' Nobby Easter Pumps,
gt 'TMade of Soft, Dull Kid.
1 Long Slender Vamps.
High Covered French Heels.
ivjftrAL <*" v M Flexible Turn Sole.
v* Newest, Correct Spring Model,
fit '"Wf $5.50 Values,
VK < Stern's Mid-Week Price,
VV> Watch For Stern's Mid-
Week Specials
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| "Harrisburg's Dependable Store."
| WHY do we advertise men's cloth
"• 4 ing to the women of Harrisburg? We'll
II tell you. Every mother, wife or "the only girl usually
knows qualities and tailoring much better than the men—
-1 And those are the points on which Wm. Strouse & Co. base
their claim of having Harrisburg's "most dependable mer
chandise " —lt is easy for any store to sell men and young
si * men clothing—for they haven't such a fine perception of
I workmanship and woolens—But we enjoy showing the "wo
men folks" the difference in the way a Wm. Strouse suit is
| trimmed, how the seams are piped with the purest silk thread,
and how the shape is worked into each garment by the most
| careful hand tailoring.
(In our furnishing department also the ladies realize the
meaning of sun bleached linen, or woven madras—-for ever
since they can remember they have been hearing > their
grandmothers, and mothers discuss the various qualities of
1 fabrics.
So you men and young men of this city bring your wives,
mothers or sweethearts to Wm. Strouse's —Then we know
our qualities and values will be appreciated.
! Stratford. Clothes
- Sk I $4545 $5O
v j M\T/ A Wm. Strouse Young
Men's Clothes
HWHS* $25 $3O $35
(y Metric Shirts - Vanity Hats
La Lewis Underwear
I V|ri| Trueshape Hose
Wm. Strouse & Co.
310 JHarket St. Harrisburg, Pa.
TUESDAY EVENING,
Lancaster, end urged favorable ac
tion o;i the bill as a revenue ineas
uie in tne long run.
The Auditor General is author
ized to appoint mercantile apprais
ers in all counties having less than
a m ilion population by a bill pre
sented to the House by Mr. Daw
son, Lackawanna, chairman of the
ways and means committee. These
officers are now appointed by the
county commissioners. They are paid
fees. The bill also authorizes tho
Auditor General to publish the mer
cantile appraisers' lists in not over
three newspapers in any county.
Thanks of the General Assembly
were voted by the House to the men
wno served as members of district
appeal, local draft and medical ad
visory boards under the selective
service law in Pennsylvania during
the war. This action was taken on
a resolution presented by Mr. Bei
dlespacher, Lycoming, who called
attention to the fact that the official
duties of the 344 men on the boards
ended to-night and that their splen
did services had not been recog
nized.
The resolution presented by Mr.
Glass, Philadelphia, providing for a
commission tc investigate the food
and fuel conditions in the State was
voted down in the House by 125
noes to "0 ayes, after Mr. Ramsey,
Delaware, had declared that the
Governor hat. under way an inquiry
of his own. Mr. Glass said he had
consulted the Governor and Attor
ney General and did not understand
that they had any objections. Mr.
Ramsey sain an elaborate plan for
investigation was outlined but no
apprepriation carried. Mr. Williams,
Tioga, declared the commission un
necessary at this time.
Bolsheviks Attack
American Positions
Along the Dvina
Archangel, April I.—The Bolshe
viki carried out an intensive bom
bardment of the American and Brit
ish positions on both banks of the
Dvina, in the Tulgas district and at
Kurgoman Saturday afternoon. At
midnight a large number of the
enemy infantry attempted to attack
Kurgoman, hut were repulsed by
the allied •artillery.
Numerous direct hits were report
ed during the course of the allied
shelling of the village of Bolshoia
Ozera Friday. An enemy plane
which new over the allied positions
along the railway, dropped propa
ganda. but no bombs.
W.HARRY BAKER
GIVEN FLOWERS
Senate Honors Secretary on
His Forty-fifth Birthday
in Style
W. Harry Baker, secretary of the
Senate and one of the most prom
inent Republicans in the State, was
presented with a large bouquet of
American Beauty roses by the Sen
ntc attaches last evening, in memory
of his 4 sth birthday. Mr. Baker has
been in the Senate service thirty-two
years.
Senator Salus, Philadelphia, who
presented the bouquet containing
forty-five large roses, referred to
Mr. Baker as "one of the most val
uable employes of the State."
Mr. Baker, in accepting the gift,
said that he hoped that the friend
ship existing between himself and
the vat Sous Senators and Senate
emplojes. might be increased with
the coming years.
Senator Nason, Erie, introduced a
bill which would require cities of
the third ciass, under which head
Harrisburg falls, to maintain a city
employes' pension fund. All city
employes, under the provisions of
the plan, would be pensioned at the
age rf sixty years, providing that
they had served the city for twenty
years. The rate of pension would
be one-lialf of the average wage
for the five years previous to re
tirement.
All city employes woulil he com
pelled to pay toward the pension
fund two per cent, of their monthly
wajtc, not to exceed four dollars per
month, however. The fund would
he administered hy a board to con
sist of the mayor, the superintendent
of finance, and city controller, and
two members to he designated by
the contributing employes.
The Senate passed finally last
night, the administration bill reor
ganizing the Department of Agricul
ture and carrying substantial salary
increases, and the measure authoriz
ing the ;o:nt erection of a bridge
over the Delaware river at Philadel
phia hy the States of Pennsylvania
alio New Jersey.
The committee on appropriations
reported out a measure appropriat
ing J'o'i.OOO to the Public Welfare
Commission which will take over the
government employment agencies in
the State, and deal directly with
the Americanization of aliens.
Now hills presented included the
following:
Senator Donahue. Clinton—Rais
ing sheriffs' mileage fees from six
to ten cents per mile.
Senator Solus. Philadelphia—Re
ducing the indemnity bond required
by the State from those bringing
defective children into the State,
from $lO,OOO to $l,OOO.
Senator Herron. Washington—Ap
propriating $120,000 to raise the
salaries of the State Normal school
teachers.
Senator lleaton, Schuylkill—Au
thorizing counties with a population
of over 150,000 to establish a bu
reau of county highways, and fixing
the salary of the chief of highways
at $2,500 pet year.
Senator Daix. Philadelphia—Au
thorizing the Governor to employ
consultants, clerks, etc., In connec
tion with the work of the Common
wealth.
HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH
STATE CAN TAKE
BACK ITS LAKES
Eminent Domain For Fisher
ies Department; New
Bills in House
Power of eminent domain is con
ferred upon the State Department of
Fisheries for acquisition of lakes
under terms of a bill introduced by-
Mr. Powell, Luzerne, in the House
last night. It also forbids issuance
of wan ants or grants of patents to
lakes owned by the State without
approval of the department, while
the new Department of Conserva
tion or the Fisheries Department is
empowered to acquire any lakes or
land adjacent to them.
The bill providing for a Prohibi
tion Commissioner and eight depu
ties to enforce the prohibition law
was introduced by Mr. Vickerman,
Allegheny, while Mr. Woner, But
ler, presented a bill calling for con
servation and restoration of surface
where coal, clay, limestone or other
materials are removed in stripping
operations.
Mr. Schaffer, Schuylkill, intro
duced a bill establishing a bureau |
of highways in counties having over I
150,000 population.
A bill fixing salaries of officers
and attaches of the Philadelphia re- j
cordct of deeds was presented bv j
Mr. Glass, Philadelphia.
After the German
Mr. Boland, Crawford, introduced
I a bill to repeal a special act of
IS7I, relative to sheriffs' advertis
ing in German newspapers in Alle
gheny county, and Mr. Quigley, Clin
ton, one to regulate rebuilding of
county bridges over 800 feet in !
length on State highways which I
have been burned.
An appropriation of $500,000 for I
the construction of buildings for tho I
new Eastern State Hospital at Se
linsgrcve with an allowance of $45,-
000 tor grading is provided in a
bill presented by Mr. Woodruff, Sny
der.
Other bills presented were:
Mr. Davis, Indiana—Establishing
fees of justices, aldermen and mag
istrates.
Mr. Dawsdn, Lackawanna—Re
lieving from State taxation bene
ficial and other associations re
ceiving voluntary contributions.
Mr. Ehrhardt, Lackawanna—Re
quiring petition for change of venue
in civil cases to be supported by af
fidavit of three citizens.
Mr. Woner, Butler—Regulating
duties, salaries and clerks of offi
cers of counties having between 70,-
000 and 150,000 population.
Air. MacCallum, Luzerne—Author
izing payment of $5O to each sol- I
dier and sailor front Pennsylvania !
upon his honorable discharge from
the army or navy.
Mr. Rhoads, Lancaster—Allow
ing fishing in tho Susquehanna up
to the lower end of the AlcCall's
Ferry dam.
Mr. Alexander, Delaware—Ap
prop.iating $6,000 for purchase oL
medals for members of the Reserve
Aliktia.
Air. Millin, Jefferson—Regulat
ing suspension from school of pupils
reported as unvaccinated.
After an explanation by Mr.
Walker, Philadelphiafi the House
passed the bill providing that pris
oners serving one third of a sen
tence shall be eligible to parole and
that minimum sentence shall be
one-third of tho maximum.
The Dunn bill refunding liquor
licenses to holders whose places
were closed by order of the Presi
dent cr Secretary of War because
of proximity to arsenals or other
establishments was passed 185 to 4.
Others passed were:
Establishing an eight-hour day
for prison employes.
Reorganizing forestry department.
Bowman game preserve bill.
The Stadtlander sales in bulk
; bill.
Regulating disposal of unelaim
' ed bodies after forty-eight hours.
Codifying Lake Erie fishing laws.
Providing a $5 fish basket li
cense.
Bills recommitted were: Appro
priating $1,500,000 for construction
of county bridges on State high
ways; establishing new bounties on
wildcats and weasels; amending
osteopathic law to allow certifi
cates to have same standing as those
of medical doctors; regulating re
turns of constables and forbidding
using live pigeons as targets.
The Woodruff minimum salary
! bill for teachers was also recom
! mitted, going to the education com
mittee.
Sproul Vetoes a
Salary Raiser
Governor Sproul sent to the House
last right a veto of bill increas
ing the salary of tv otary of the
Philadelphia Civil rvioe Board,
dated last Saturday. The veto,
was laid on the table on motion of
Mr. Ramsey, Delaware.
Tho veto says: "This measure
provides for an increase of the sal
ary of the secretary of the Civil
j Service Commission of the city of
| Philadelphia from $3,000 to $5,000.
j The three Civil Service C'ommission
| ers now receive an aggregate sal
j ary of $11,000; the chairman draws
1 $5,000, and the other two members
i each $3,000. From all that I can
I learn, the duties of the office are
j not unduly onerous, and considering
! the difficulties which confront Phil
j adelphia's municipal finance I do not
j consider it wise to place additional
| burdens 11 pen the taxpayers of the
city except in cases where the need
or the juctice of such increased ex
penditures are most clearly shown.
When the city government has funds
I to spare for increasing salaries, at
| tenticn should be given to those
| essential employes who have to work
| hard for small wages. For these rea
j sons the bill is not approved."
Governor Sproul
Will Be Honored
Governor William C. Sproul will
' be the honor guest at a reception
in the Union League, on tho night
of April 11. The function is being
arranged by the Guest Committee,
of which the Governor was presi
dent when he was elected chief
i executive of tho State.
| Former Governor Charles R. Mil-
I ler, of Delaware, chairman of the
Guest Committee, and former Gov
; ernor Edwin S. Stuart of Pennsyl
vania, who is president of the Union
I League, held a conference, yester-
I day, to discuss tho arrangements,
i The reception will be limited strictly
;to members of the Union League,
i It will be a return to the traditional
j "walk around" of the kind famous
the land over, n decade ago. A
i dinner of the officers of the Union
i League will precede the reception,
j the features of which will be a buf
. fet luncheon andj' music. There will
Ibe no speeches. J
NO WITHDRAWAL, 1
OF U.S. TROOPS
Action of Canadian Authori
ties Docs Not Imply
Yanks in Siberia
Washington. April I.—Withdrawal
of Canadian troops from Siberia, an
nounced in the Canadian House of
Commons yesterday by Minister of
Militia Newburn as imminent, does ]
not imply also the return of the
American expedition, it was said last
night by the War Department offl
cials.
The question of early withdrawal
of the American troops at Vladivos
tok was referred to Secretary Baker
in a conference with newspaper
men a few days ago and at that
time the Secretary was emphatic
in his statement that no ruch plans
were under consideration. Tho
American troops, Mr. Baker said,
were sent to Siberia to assist the
Czooho-Slovak forces and to pro
tect the military stores at Vladi
vostok, from the Bolshevik armies.
The need for the troops still existed,
he said. *
M iddietown ]
Red Men Elect; to
Entertain Soldiers
At the regular meeting of Pokekto
Tribe, No. 315. I. O. O. R., held in
the lodge room in Ann street, Sat
urday evening the following officers
were elected; Prophet, Fredrick
Jlouser; sachem, J. B. Deimler: sen
ior saginaw, Herbert Drayer: junior
saginaw, Howard Rehrer; chief of
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records. W. H. Walton, who has held
this position for twenty years; col
lector of wampum. William Hatfield;
keeper of records. .T. 11. Inley; trustee
for eighteen months. J. 11. Reedy;
representative to great eouncil, J. H.
Rudy, Sr.; alternate, J. H. May. The
local lodge, is preparing to entertain
the home coming soldier boys who
are members of the lodge.
Mrs. William Brady of East High
street, was tendered a handkerchief
surprise in honor of her twenty-ninth
birthday. After a social hour had
been spent refreshments were served
to the following guests; Mrs. Kate
Brady, rulmyra; Mrs. Annie Hawk,
Royalton: Ward Deimler, Mrs. Mary
Baker, Miss Mary Flanagan, Mrs.
Howard Itehrer. Mrs. George Sheets, |
Mr. and Mrs. llarry Clouser, Mr. and i
1 Mrs. Harry King, Miss Anna King,
J Gilbert Young, Jerome Brady, Kath- |
| ryn Boyer and William Brady,
j Mr. and Mrs. John Books and fam-
I ily who resided at Sharpsburg for the
j past several years, have moved back
j to town in their property on East
I High street.
Philip Eisemann, of Lancaster spent
yesterday in town on business.
The Boy Scouts of town, will hold
a meeting in the market house this
e< Cuing when business of importance
will be transacted.
The Hoyalton Borough council will
meet in regular session this evening.
Mrs. Kathrwn Nauss was called to
Falmouth, yesterday morning, on ac
count of the serious illness of Mrs.
George Bloteher, who is in her eight
ies. She resided here for many years.
The eighth annual .1. G. Hat* Ora
torical contest of the senior cl ass of
the Middletown High school will be
held on Friday evening in the High
school room, and the following mem
bers of the senior class have entered
the contest, which is $lO for llrst
anil $5 for second prize, Edmund
I Yost, Harriet Swartz. Helen Croll,
, Betty Croll, Esther M. McCluro and
i C. J. Nissley.
The Woman's Bible class of the
First United Brethren church held
its regular monthly meeting at the
home of Mrs. 1). W. Gingrich, Pine
street, last evening.
The mite Society of the Church ofi
God, will hold its regular monthly
meeting at the home of the Misses
Sara and Agnes Markley, East Main
street, this evening.
The Middletown Prayitg Band will
meet this evening at the home of
Mrs. Mary Brown, Keystone avenue,
at 7:30 o'clock.
James McManus who spent the past
APRIL 9-
several weeks In toX V- ft, "latlveg
returned to San FrB ,Ti® l ?L '•
Oscar Hrlnsur, of IRlchfnond, Va.,
is spending sonietio 111 Ifwr as the
guest of his >father,| I- |t'. Brinser
North Union street- _ i
Mr. anil Mrs. Reuben fniile of Ly-
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Constipated Children Gladly Take
'Ca!ifoni!a Syrup of Figs"
For the Liver and Bowels
Tell your druggist you want genuine
"Califorua Syrup of Figs." Full directions
and dose for babies and children of all ages
who are constipated, bilious, feverish, tongue
coated, or full of cold, are plainly printed on
the bottle. Look for the name "California'®
and accept r.o other "Fig Syrup." '
tens, are spending some time in tow ,
ith relatives. 1
Mrs. W. S. Musser of Pine strert
has returned home from York, when
she was called on account of ttv
death and funeral of her cousin, th
late Elmer Gensel.