The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-02-12
SCHOOL BOOK IIAkI.IlS.
Deeply Interested in the
SentineIs Able
Article.
Tryius TO Agree on What to do With
The Liquor Question.

Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
COLUMBUS. Feb. 10. There was
a big demand for the Sentinel OF
last week both in the House and
in the Senate, to see the able eX-
position Ofthe school book qnes-
ton. The members had been
greatly in he dark Oh the sub
ject until copies of The paper
were passed around from one
member to another. Then they
uncertood the situation exactly
and went out and ordered stuffed
clubs, and hereafter each new
school book bill, and all the old
ones, will meet with ha!cyon
and vociierous reception.
By the time the janitors get
done carrying out The carrasses
of the dead bills they will be
ready to resign their Offices, and
give somebody else "A chance to
work" for living. The way
of the transgressor is hard, but
the way Of the State Hause jan
itor will be harder, if the mem
bers do their duty in the slaught-
er of school book bills for the
next sixty days.
The Legislature has got lis
work pretty we'll forward, for
with all the play The mhers
indulge in they get in lots OF
work. The result Of it is that
there isn't going to be very much
more done i'm a legislative way
until after Democratic Presi-
dent is inaugurated. 1t has been
a good while since Democrat
has been inducted into the office
of President, and as there is a
good deal of cleaning up and
cleaning ou. TO he done, the Ohio
Legislature can afford 10 take a
week or two and see that the
workris done thoroughly ard
promptly.
There is going to be a big
cleaning out of the post offices
of the land. not only in the little
Offices, but in he big ones, too
Those post Offices below the
grade of Presidential appoint
ment wifi all he vacant from and
after the 4th of March,. and will
be filled by new men as soon as
suitable selections can he made.
The others will become vacant.
without waiting for the long de-
Law of the tenure of Office act.
Under the civil service rules
anv man who-while holding a
post Office or any other Federal
office-took the nnSeemlv part of
a partisan to keep the Repubh-
can party in power, is subject TO
removal for "cause." DO you
know of any post masters down
the Hooking Valley who didn't
y hoop it up for Blaine and help
10 swelilhe Republican campaign
fund? Of course, not--and all
"sich' will have to go when
Cleveland comes.
The Democratic members OF
the Legislature will endeavor
this week to agree upon soma
plan for dealing with the liquor
question. What that plan Will
lie have ,io-idea. but it Is sug-
sested that one step will be to
re. enact the liquor laws that
were in force when the Kepubli-
cans passed the Scott Law, and
which were repealed by it, and
then submit a constitutional
amendment providing tor ii gra
ded license, under which the
next Legislature can pass laws
t!,a, will do justice TO all and in
Justice 10 none. Men who favor
this proposition say that the old
laws on the subject are better
than none, and they should be
restored until The Constitution Is
so amended as to allow The Ley
isiature to pass a sensible and
ins. act which can be enfor. ed,
But this. OF course is matter
of opinion, and can only be SET
lied after conference and mature
deIiberation. which L doubt not
it will receive in due time.
w. a. I.