Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-01-25
PONDS NEW PLAN.
For CrucifJlng the Republican Party
His New Saloon Tax Law-What
He Says About 1.-THE Coming Cau-
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COLUMBUS, Jan. l6.-The statesmen
are beginning TO drop in from their tri-
weekly adjournment, and fresh from
the heavIng bosoms of their constitu-
ents are supposed TO be charged with
important information in regard to
what is wanted in the way OF legisla-
ton. To-dsy's session vii! probably
furnish an avalanche of bills, all the
way from providing for the trasfer of
fifty cents from the cemetery fund of
Podunk township to the sale of the
canal between Cincinnati and Cleve-
land.
The House will convene at half past
two o'clock and the Senate at three.
Among the new temperance meas
uers with which the present Legisla,
ture will soon be expected to cripple
is bill about to he introduced by
Senator Pond, the father of the now
celebrated Pond bill, who has again "ta-
ken his pen in bar d" and drafted an in
strument that he hopes to incorporate
into the fundamental law of the state
on the liquor qestion. 1t will be re-
membered that the late message of
Gov. Foster in its treatment of
this all important subject for discuss
ion, favored strongly the enactment of
law making the tax uniform all over
the state for saloons, the figure being
placed at $3.50, the tax to be lien
upon the real estate upon which the
saloon was situated, thus really max
ing the owner thereof responsible for
the tax of his renter. The new bill
that Senator Pond has evolevd, after
a prsyerful consideration of the liquor
question, covers substantially the
ground indicated by Governor Fosters
message, the only difference being
that the new Pond Bill makes the
stock and equipments of the saloon re-
sponsible for the payment of the tax,
in addition to the real estate upon
which the saloon is situated The ob-
jectional bond clause has been elm
mated from the new bill as well as
other features which the Supreme
Court pronounced unconstitutional.
This bill, Senator Pond believes,
would be constitutional, and Gov.
Foster takes the same ground. 1t will
be submitted to the Republican caucus
to be held Monday night, when 1t will
be determined whether the necessities
of the occasion demand its introduc,
ton. There seems to be consuming
desire on the part of sundry Republi-
can statesmen to introduce, and, if
possible, ingraft some additional tenn
perance legislation upon the statute
books, as if the drubbing received
last fall had warned them that nothing
of the kind is wanted by the majority
of the people of the State.
The Cuyahoga, Toledo and Cincin-
natl delegations will oppose this
scheme, tooth and toe nail, Speaker
Hodge says that if the Republican
party indorses any more Pond bills, or
does anything at all with the temper
ance question hut submit a constitution.
vi amendment, it will be beaten next
fall worse than it was last. 1t seems to
be pretty certain, however, that the ma.
ority of the caucus will 60 with Pond.
II believe that the bill l proposed
will be constitutional" said Senator
Pond, sand believe that it is right.
am not in favor of crouching to the
whisky power in'the state. The Re.
publican party cannot afford to take
my steps backward"
"Will you submit your bill to the
aucus?'
81 intend to do So"
"Will the caucus support your
"I do not know what the caucus will
o.
"What if it does not?'
II intend to offer my bill anyhow"
The caucus may develop into a first
lass free-for-all exhibition of fisti
uff.
In reform for the hypocritical reso-
ltion offered by the Republicans, :
banking Senator Pendleton for his ef-
orts in behalf of the civil service re-
orm bill, the Democrats have pre- !
ared pill for the Republicans. A .
esolution will be offered thanking s
Governor Foster for the noble stand
g has taken on behalf of temperance. :
will be a bitter dose, and it is not
elieved that Hodge will swallow it.
1t is not likely that the Greiner
esolution, thanking Congress for the
assage of the Civil Service Reform
ill, will ever again see the light of
ay, as the Committee on Federal Re-
ltions of the Senate now has the
antling in its fond embrace. The Re
ublican majority Of that committee
re not much in favor of civil service
eform-they never were.