Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-04
BUT ONE SH0ESTRING
Included in the New Congressional
Apportionment of Ohio.
OTHER DISTRICTS ARE COMPACT.
There Will BE Some Republican Kickers
Against the Measure.
NEWSY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
COLUMBUS, Feb. 2.-The Republican
Senators have agreed upon bill for redls-
tricting the State for Congressional pur-
poses, and it will pass that body tomorrow.
1t gives the Republicans IA safe districts,
the Democrats five safe districts and two
doubtful districts which have nominal Re
publican majorities of 800 The are several
interesting features in the bill, and every
one will not fall in love with it at sight.
This does not refer to the Democrats, who,
of course, are expected will jump upon
it with both feet Some prominent Repub-
licans will also try to shatter the bill.
The bill will also cause Judge Thompson,
of Portsmouth, and General Enochs, OF
Ironton, to choose their seconds and go into
training. They are put in the same district.
The contest will be for the nomination,
which will amount to election. The Seventh
district is the only district on the shoestrlng
order put the other districts are compact
and contain the requisite population. me
Seventh runs from Butler to Clarke ana
Madison. If Representative McGreW, OF
Clarke and Hon. H. L. Morey, of Butler,
should both desire to go to Congress there
will be q great hustle fol the nomination.
Make-Up of the Proposed Districts.
Hamilton county constitutes the first two
districts, and the others as follows:
Thrd-Preble. Miami and Montgomery; Fourth
Darke Shelby, Mercer, Auglaize and Allen; Fifth
Erie. Ottawa Sandusky, Seneca. Crawford; Wy
Henry; Panlding, Putnam and van ,,,a,snI Mer,;
and Clarke; Eighth-Brown, Clermont, High
land, Ross, Fayette and Clinton; Ninth
npla war Tputh-I.uCaS. Fulton
Eleventh-Tuscarawas, Guernsey, Muskingqm ana
scioto, Pike and Adams: thirteenth Franklin,
Fairfield and Pickaway;, Fourteenth-HuTon,
Lorain, Ashland; Richlsnd and Morrow FL FIT
ing; Sixteenth-Wayne, Holmes. Coshocton; Knox
and Licking; seventeenth; yefer;9n
stark and Coumbiania: Nineteenth : Ashta-
hula, Geauea, Portage, Summit and d.. TrumE GIl;
Seventeenth, Eighteenth. Nineteenth, Twentieth.
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-ffth, Twenty-si1th and
Twenty-seventh wards, Cleveland, and the town town
Euclid. Independence, Mayfeld. Newburg,,
Orange, Solon and Warrensville. in Cuyahoga
county: Twenty-frst-County OF Medina and the
remainder of Cuyahoga not included in the Twen-
tieth district.
The annual legal Understanding bill
slipped into the House this evening, Mr..
Reeve, of Ashtabula. fathering the 92d effort.
1t provides that the legal rate of interest in
the State shall be reduced to per cent.
Punching Up tine Standard.
Senator-McConica gave the ''oil question"
a whirl to-day. He introduced resolution
which recites the fact that the lands leased
by the Canal Commission and the Board of
Public Works for gas purposes have pro-
duced oil worth many thousands of
dollars, for which the State has received
nothing. 1t provides that the President
of the Senate and the Speaker OF the House
appoint committee of three on the part of
the Senate and five on the part OF the
House to investigate and report the number
of leases made by the board and commission
for gas purposes to date; the number of
such leases on which gas is produced; the
number of such leases on which oil is pro-
duced: the amount of oil that has been proA
duced on such lands, and the disposition of
the same, and what, if any, compensation
the State has received for the oil which has
been produced and disposed OF by the leas-
ers Some of the resolutions read as fol-
lows:
Resolved That the committee is empowered to
subpoena and compel the attendance of witnesses
an TO call for and receive all papers and Jocu-
ments necessary TO make full and complete inyes-
tgation.
Resolved, That if the committee, after full and
thorough investigat ton, are satisfied that oil has
been taken from State lands without authority of
law and been disposed of without full and adequate
compensation TO the State, that they recommend
what. If any, steps should be taken by the State TO
compel persons or corporations who have produced
and disposed of the oil TO make settlement for the
same with the State.
The resolution is aimed at the Standard
Oil Company, and some rich developments
are anticipated.