Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-03-22
OUR COLUMBUS LETTER
The House Plays a Neat Trick
on the Senate
REGARDING BIENNIAL SESSIONS.

REGARDING BIENNIAL SESSIONS.
Now Figured Out That Adjournment
VIII he Taken Early In 1Iay-Appro-
prIations Within the Estiinates-wo-
mans Suffrage In School Matters-The
States Income Insufficient.
CoLUSBUs, o., March 20.
The house played a neat trick on the
senate in the passage of the biennial ses-
sion resolution. 1t will be remembered
that the house first passed what is known
as the Locke resolution, which named q
date for adjournment. The senate being
more pronounced in its. anti-biennial
views, thoughttto comp1icate matters by
pigeon-holing the Locke resolution and
passing one of its own. known as the
Avery resolution, which declared simply
for biennial sessions, but named no date
for adjournment. The ants in the SEN
ate had a secret hope that the house
would be apt to resent the seeming slight
placed upon their measure, but what
was their surprise to hear that the house
had suspended the rules and rushed the
Avery resolution right through without
the semblance of a fight or dispute;
More than all this, it is good thing al
around that the Locke resolution naming
date was not passed, as the houses
would have each other at disadvantage
when it came to final disposition of the
appropriation bills, for either one house
or the other might in such anevent, dog
Interchangeable, force the other house
to come to terms whether or no. The
usual proceeding in fixing time for ad-
journment is for the senate to pass the
resolution naming an early date and for
the house finance committee to hold on
to the resolution until the appropriation
bills are out of the way.
Adiournment.
+ Now, as to adjournment, when will it
likely show its welcome phiz in these
legislative halls? 1t can be figured out
something like this. The house has now
passed all the appropriation bills for the
current year and all the two-year appro-
priation bills. The senate has the gen.
eral and deficiency bills, they having
been sent by the house last week. If the
senate gets right at it the general bill
ought to be passed within two weeks
from the day it passed the house, or next
week Thursday, and the following We'd
nesday, or April 4, ought to see the bill
out of conference. II this comes about
in this way the second general bill could
be reported back April and reprinted
ready for passage by the house April Ii.
If the senate should again get through in
two weeks with one week for conference
would bring adjournment as possibility
about May 1. It is practical impossi-
bility before that day, and it would be
nothing discreditable if the date ran as
late as May 10. 1t all depends with the
amount of time put upon the matter by
the senate. Two weeks oughtto be long
enough, but that august body usually takes
four or five weeks in the consideration of
the bill, and that's the way the adjourn
ment matter sizes up at present.
Appropriation Bills.
The appropriation bills thus FAR passed
by the house are within the estimated
revenues of the state for the coming
year; not as much, perhaps, as they
ought to be, but still within by hand
some margin. The deficiency bill this
year is the largest for years-over $780,
600. The canals get about half of the
total, and over half of their deficiencies
are unauthorized by the emergency
board. Not quite half of the total defie
cheney bill was unauthorized by the
board, but besides the 900 in the
canals there is a single item of $40, 900
for armory rents, which was really au-
thorized by law; one other large item
was nearly $4,000 for compensation to
the tax commission that worked last fall
and made its report to the governor and
general assembly two months ago. This
makes the total expenses and compensa-
tion of the commission about $40, 700,
and the legislature has been in session
for IL weeks and has never yet enacted a
single tax law. There have been 33 tax
commissions appointed in different states
in the past few years, and never yet has
a legislature enacted single law recon-
mended by any of these tax commissions,
and Ohio has had two spasms of this
kind and the third one will probably not
come for good many years yet.
Woman's Suffrage.
Womans suffrage in school matters
"has came and went" again. Once more
tile women Of the state are refused ad-
mission to the polling places of the Aus
tralian ballot booths. The battle, as
usual, was field day, equal in oratory
and interest to the similar occasions of
last year and the year before. The ora
tors were all on the side of the ladies, but
the, votes weren't numerous enough,
lacking seven Of the necessary number.
Possibly with every member present the
bill might scrape through, for more of
those present were for the bill than there
were against it, thew standing against
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