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FINANCES OF PENNSYLVANIA.

STATEMENT OF GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS Continued.
JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT-Continued.

Purpose of Appropriation

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Common Pleas Court:

Salary of Common Pleas Judges,

$2,100,000 00

Salary of Common Pleas Judges-Deficiency,

$2,160,000 00

43,794 24

Expense of Common Pleas and Orphans' Court Judges,
Payment of mileage of divided judicial districts,
Clerk hire-Dauphin County,

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Orphans' Court:

Salaries of Orphans' Court Judges,

Municipal Court of Philadelphia:

Salaries of Judges,

Salaries of Judges-Deficiency,

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The County Court of Allegheny:
President Judge's salary,

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Salary of other Judges of county,

Judges' salaries-Deficiency,

64,000 00

80,000 00

11,551 99

Retired Judges-Salaries,

Retired Judges-Salaries-Deficiency,
Associate Judges-Salaries,

Associate Judges-Mileage,

TOTALS,

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General Appropriations,

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Deficiency Appropriations,

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in France and

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Erection of bridge over Delaware River connecting Phila

delphia and Camden--Reappropriation,

6,423,000 00

Commission to revise Penal Code of Pennsylvania,
Commission to codify and to revise laws relating

715,000 00
5,000 00

6,000 00

to

poor districts,

2,500 00

Fairmount Park Commission-Deficiency,

1,800 00

248 71

Fairmount Park Commission,

Commission to investigate condition of Disabled
War Veterans in Pennsylvania,

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Giant Power Survey Board,

Commission

to erect Memorial to Joseph T. Rothrock, Commission to study conditions relating to blind persons in

Pennsylvania,

Old Age Assistance Commission,

35,000 00 1,500 00

5,000 00

25,000 00

Commission

statutes

to suggest revisions relating to children,

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Commission to examine tax laws of Penna. and of other

5,000 00

States and Counties,

State Fair Commission,

Building Commission

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Selinsgrove,

Commission to examine judges,

cantile tax laws,

Commission to investigate alleged inequalities of

Commission to revise, amend, consolidate and simplify tax laws,

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1,500 00

5,000 00

Commission to revise banking laws,

Commission to revise banking laws-Reappropriation,
Commission to plan reorganization of State Government,

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Commission to arrange International Exhibition at Philadelphia,

10,000 00

Camp Curtin Park Commission,

2,500 00

Paoli Park Ground Commission,

15,000 00

Commission to select historical spot for burial of soldiers' bodies,

1,000 00

Commission to select historical spot for burial of soldiers'

bodies-Reappropriation,

Constitutional Convention,

State Truancy School Commission,

Gregg Monument Commission,

TOTALS,

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1-Includes $103,000 appropriated in 1921 to educational institutions ruled as sectarian not entitled to State Aid. 2-Includes $1,425,600 appropriated in 1921 to hospitals and homes ruled as sectarian institutions not entitled to State Aid.

3-Includes $1,528,600 apropriated by Supreme Court decision.

-No appropriations in 1921.

to

sectarian

institutions

to not entitled

State Aid

made in 1921, the

-After deducting appropriations amounting to $1,425,600, made to hospitals and homes ruled as sectarian, from the total appropriations of $7,395,100, appropriations granted in 1923, totaling $4,277,400, are 28.34 per cent less.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1923-1924.

SENATORS.

MAX ARON, Philadelphia, was born in Russia, October 15, 1885; was brought to this country when two years of age, and received his education in the Philadelphia public schools; in 1903, he was graduated with honors from the Central High School of Philadelphia, and, after receiving his diploma from the University of Pennsylvania, was admitted to the Bar in October, 1907; was appointed Assistant City Solicitor in 1910, and served until January, 1912; is a Republican and has actively participated in many campaigns of his party; elected to the House of Representatives on March 28, 1913, to succeed Honorable John H. Riebel, deceased; reelected in 1914, 1916 and 1918; elected to the Senate in 1920. FRANK E. BALDWIN, Potter County, was born at Duke Center, McKean County, Pa., June 4, 1866; attended public schools, ChamY.. berlain Institute at Randolph, N. St. Bonaventures College, Allegany, N. Y.; taught school three years; was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1893; located at Austin, Potter County, in 1894, where he has since followed the legal profession; is interested in real estate, banking and oil business; is president of the Bank of Austin; was mercantile appraiser of McKean County in 1893; served as burgess of Austin, two terms; school director, five years, and postmaster, seven years; was chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1902, was also delegate to Republican State Conventions; elected to Senate in 1908; reelected in 1916 and 1920; elected president pro tempore of the Senate at the close of the session of 1919, and served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the session of 1921.

CADWALLADER M. BARR, Allegheny County, was born at Parkers Landing, Armstrong County, Pa., March 12, 1876; was educated in the public schools and Washington and Jefferson College; taught in the public and high schools of Pennsylvania; since 1903 has been engaged in the investment banking business in Pittsburgh; resides at Aspinwall where he served for several years in council and on the school board; enlisted in the United States Army, having been commissioned a Captain in the Construction Division, Quartermaster Corps, and was honorably discharged December, 1918; elected to the Senate in 1918; reelected in 1922.

CLEON N. BERNTHEIZEL, Lancaster County, was born in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., October 13, 1874; educated in public and private schools; was graduated from the Dickinson School of Law in 1898, and is engaged in the practice of law at Columbia, Pennsylvania; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1913 and 1915; elected district attorney of Lancaster County in 1915; was a Major and Judge Advocate of the Seventh Division, N. G. U. S., Mexican Border Service; served in the World War as Lieutenant Colonel and Judge Advocate of the Twenty-eighth Division, U. S. A.; was elected to the Senate at a special election in December, 1920, to succeed Honorable Horace L. Haldeman, deceased.

WILLIAM IRVIN BETTS, Clearfield County, was born at Clearfield, Pa., June 3, 1870; elected to the Senate in 1922.

GUY WATSON BROWN, Fayette County, was born in Jefferson Township, Fayette County, Pa., March 23, 1884; reared on a farm and educated in the public and private schools

of Pennsylvania; entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1901 as ticket agent; in 1902 became bookkeeper in the Fayette City National Bank and is now its vicepresident; has been extensively engaged in the development of the coal industry in Pennsylvania and adjoining states; is interested in numerous other business enterprises within the State; elected to the Senate in 1922. as the successor to the late Honorable William E. Crow.

CLARENCE J. BUCKMAN, Bucks County, was born in Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pa., October 31, 1879; reared on a farm and attended the public schools, graduating from the Hulmeville High School in 1894; prepared for college at State Model School, Trenton, N. J. from which he was graduated in 1897: entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated therefrom at the age of twenty years in 1900; is a member of the Bar of Bucks and Philadelphia Counties, and of the law firm of Buckman and Buckman; director of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks County; member of the Washiington Crossing Park Commission; member of Joint Commission for Elimination of Toll Bridges over the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey; was a member of the Republican County Committee of Bucks County for five years; served as a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1907 and to the Republican National Convention in 1916: was a member of the House of Representatives, session of 1909; elected to the Senate in 1910; reelected in 1914 and 1918; served as chairman of Senate Appropriations Committee, sessions of 1915 and 1917; elected President pro tempore of the Senate at the close of the session of 1917, and served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the session of 1919; reelected to the Senate in 1922.

ALFRED M. CHRISTLEY, Butler County, was born at Moniteau, Butler County, Pa., January 13, 1869; worked on the farm in early boyhood, attended the public schools; was graduated from West Sunbury Academy; attended Grove City College; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1887; served as district attorney of Butler County from 1896 to 1900 and since then has devoted his time to the practice of law and business; is a director and treasurer of the Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, president and director of the Plumville Supply Company and a director of the Butler Steam Laundry Company; served several terms as Republican county chairman; served as state committeeman; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908: presidential elector in 1912; was elected to the Senate in 1920.

JOSEPH O. CLARK, Indiana County, was born in Montgomery Township, Indiana County, Pa., September 7, 1871; was reared on a farm and educated in the public and private schools the of Pennsylvania; engaged in mercantile, lumber and real estate business; since 1906 has been extensively engaged in the development of oil properties in Oklahoma and Kansas, and bituminous coal properties in Central Pennsylvania and West Virginia; has been president of the First National Bank of Glen Campbell since 1905; was nominated for the Senate by the Republicans of Indiana and Jefferson Counties to succeed the late Honorable Wilbur P. Graff, to which office he was elected in 1920; was elected secretary of the Republican State Committee in June, 1922.

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