Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-03

QuesuOn.
One very odd incident is worth noting
further. Two of the constitutional"
lawyers made an attempt to show that
the proposed measure was unconstitu-
tional. They read law, quoted opinions
and decisions for some little time, and
then Representative Charles Griffin, of
Toledo, who is not a lawyer, proceeded
to knock the unconstitutionality that
had been alleged into cooked hat.
There was only on opinion in this; one
Of the lawyers who had thus been sat
upon said afterwards, that the only
thing he didn't like about the whole
thing was to have a man who wasn't q
lawyer prove thing constitutional
when he, who was a lawyer, was trying
to set up just the opposite.
Shaving ON Sunday.
It is very evident that the members Of
the house, or at least a constitutional
majority of them, do not go to the
barber shops ON Sunday. At any rate
they voted to keep the barber shops in
the state closed on Sunday. One advo-
cate of the bill, in reply to an argument
against it, said: 'I have the utmost
contempt for a man who can not shave
himself. He ought to go to manual
training school and learn to keep his
razor in proper shape. Why" he con-
tinued, ''at the present time men don't
get shaved on Saturday SO that they
may have an excuse to get away from
home on Sunday morning and go off up
town to get shaved, when they ought to
shave themselves at home and then go
to church with their families" So you
see he had several reasons for voting for
the bill
The ONCE Not the Man.
It's the office, after all, that makes the
man. During the past week ex-Presi-
dent Hayes, Ex-Governor Campbell and
Ex-Governor Foraker have been in and
out of the state capitol building, and
yet Governor Mckinley is the sought
for man. One can not help but taking
note of such phases of political life, and
yet we take them as matter of course.
When man is in Office he is every
thing, and when he is out he is nothing
at least nothing more than his own life
makes him-except in some cases where
prospective Office gives a man i'm
portance that he might not otherwise
have. The people who hang about those
in power can sing out, 1.-THE king is
dead long Eve the king !" with as much
alacrity as can school boy for red
apple or a blushing peach. The fellow
that's in is all right; the fellow that's
out can be easily passed by.
can note these things from the very
brief experience Of my own. am now
courted and looked up to by those who
will do well if they speak to me when
get out of the legislature; but none of us
if we look at it in the right spirit, will
have any resentment over this state of
affairs: we are. all nfUreN0r less guilty Of
doing the same thing; and we must re-
member that the mob is too busy
stretching out its hands and mouths for
the loaf that is more or less in sight and
that it is too eager to pay much atten-
tion to those that are to aid them or re.
tard them.
And we must remember that we are
all part of the mob.
| Ripper Bills.
One of the ripper bills showed its head
the other day. Mr.. Lutz's bill, reorgais.
izing the city of Chillicothe, was re.
| ported back by the committee on muni-
cipal corporations with the recommends
tion that it be indefinitely postponed.
1t was with difficulty that the author
rescued his bill from such fate, and
had il referred to himself as special
committee with leave to report at any
time. Political ripper bills will find as
tough shedding in the present house as
do manufacturing bond bills.
| The Columbus and Dayton rippers are
still struggling in the bowels of the
committee, and whether they will see
the light of day remains to be seen,
The presence of interested Columbus
citizens on the floor of the house almost
daily denotes that something is brewing
Will Be Slaughtered.
The bill introduced by member
from Cuyahoga to amend the present
law so that street car companies can &C
through streets without the consent OIL
the abutting property owners will fine
mighty hard lines when it is known, a.
it is fast coming to be known, that it i.
simply a bill to allow street railroad
to run through Euclid avenue in Cleve
land. Said a member from southern
Ohio to me the next day after the bill
was introduced: '1I have as much prid,
7 in the'fact that Ohio possesses the fines
streetin the world as Clevelanders arr
that their town possesses the sam,
1 thing. ] would never vote to allow {
street car line to run through tina
street any more than / would If iyet
on the street itself" tt
Several other members who do no
| live within fifty miles of Euclid avenue
kaON arv~N noI =.
way.
The amendment is only made to appl,
to Cuyahoga county, or in other word
1 is a local bill; but it will be the wors
slaughtered local bill that was eve
killed in Columbus if it comes up in th,
| open house. $500
Crafts Little ~ Local Bill.
Representative Graft, of Hamilton
county, is tall, good looking and milt
hammered. One would scarce accus,
him of being able to crack a Joke. Tn,
other morning he arose in his usua
stately fashion and said: "Mr. Speaker
would like leave to introduce a httl,
local bill at this time. When the clerl
opened the little local bill, he near,
tainted. 1t was bill to allow Hamilton
county to issue $6,000,000 worth O
bonds and to build water works.
/ Mr.. Crafts little local bill is destined
to have history.
A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE.
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