Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-05-17
The Unespendsd Balance.

ceeding the estimated receipts by more
than that sum. The appropriation bills
therefore are sure to be within the actual
Seeipts, probably for each year separate
ly, but absolutely sure for the two years
put together. The appropriation bill for
the second year was considered by the
conference committee that had charge of
this years bill, so that the knotty prob
lens have already been decided, and it
is altogether likely that a conference
committee will not have to consider
The Second Years Bill,
but that tie house will concur In the
amendments made by the senate, and
that will end the appropriation bills for
the next two years, and the precedent so
far as being able to do that work salts
factorily will be set, and biennial ses-
sions in the future, so far as they depend
upon the ability to make the appropria-
tons properly, will depend largely upon
the success or lack of success attained at
this first attempt.
The fight that was precipitated last
year when
The Nichols Law
was passed by the senate to include
street railroad companies is again on.
and the shortness of the session is the
only thing that will now keep the fight
in the background. The senate has
passed bill to amend the Nichols law
30 as to include the street railroads, the
very thing that was taken from the bill
last year after the greatest parliamentary
struggle of the session.
This Taxation of Street Railroads
is the dream Of Thomas McDougall of
Cincinnati, who makes from So, ,00) to
to 5000 a year out of the state by aid
ing the attorney general in every case
that is brought to test any of the laws
drawn upon lines set forth by himself,
He dreams out the new plans, puts them
on paIer with the aid of the attorney
general, who IN tern gets them intro
duced into the legislature. McDougall
then appears before the proper commit
tees and argues for the bill under consid-
Grafton. If it is passed into law and a
contest comes he is employed by the at
torney general
| To Help the State Out,
and with good reason, for Mr.. McDou-
gall is an able lawyer and he ought to be
able to defend or prosecute under a law
drawn at his own direction. So the
great Cincinnati lawyer loses nothing by
his intermittent dreaming on the tax
question. His efforts, with the aid Of
the supreme court, are giving Ohio a
new constitution for taxation purposes
without 50 much as asking leave Of the
people.
The Redistribution of the Judicial Force
of the state has fallen by the wayside.
It was doubtful if 70 votes could be OBJ
tanned for the bill in the house and it was
found to be absolutely sure that 81 could
not be obtained for it in the senate, con-
seQuently it was decided to do nothing
with the bill at all, and it now lanquish-
es upon the calendar. When this was
decided ulon others who were waiting
for the disposition of that bill began to
work up an interest in two or three
special bills. One changing the district
in which Dayton is situated was passed
by the house and one additional judge
was provided for. A district in the east
ern part was so changed as to make Bel
mont county subdivision by itself and
one new judge was provided for. An
other bill which gives one addition
al judge in Cuyahoga county Is still
pending and will probably pass, thus
giving three additional Judges to the
force now in employ.
Let There Be Light
1t looks as II the state institutions In
and about Columbus would have to gel
along while longer without electric
, light. Because of the failure of the raise
Of the tax levy there Is not sufficient
money for the necessary new buildings
and for current expenses, and there art
three electric lighting plants needed first
and have been provided for first. Tht
Dayton state hospital gets its plant thii
year, the Boys Industrial home and tht
, Athens state hospital gets theirs mex
year. This is all the electric light
ing that is provided for for the next two
years. The sum of 800, 900 could be iu
diciously expended and with an eventua
saving to the state right here in Colum
a bus for central electric lighting plan
| b. 1~a ID ot
costs one-sixth of that sum to light th
!, statehouse each year, and there is pothin!
4 to show for it at the end of the year ex
q cept the usual deficiency bill. AS Their
:. are six institutions at Columbus, count
ing the statehouse as one, it will be seel
that the share chargeable to the state
house is just ons-sixth of the tota
: amount, so that 1t would cost to put Il
- plant sufficient to light the statehous
$ just what it costs to buy the light as it i
y used. To put separate plant in th
d statehouse would cost nearly $25, 900.
II Railroad Taxes.
IS A new manner of assessing railroad
- for taxation has been devised by th
house taxation committee, but 1t is 8
% late in the session that if is not hkel
s that it will pass. There is a feelin
n among many of the members that enoug
! new experiments in taxation have bee
= started and that it is time to call hal
It and see ''where we are at" This ne,
|. bill takes the assessing of the railroad
% out of the hands of the boards now CON
). posed of the county auditors along eac
. of the roads and places the matter in th
!. hands of a board consisting of the auditor
r the treasurer and attorney general t
gether with two other persons not COZ
nected with railroads, who are to g
81, 800 for their services. The length {
IS line, the number of ties, the number {
> tracks, the weight of the rails per yart
~ the age Of the road, the width Of th
= right Of way, the capital stock and tt
Is market value of the capital stock, the IL
le debtedness Of the road all these thing
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