The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-16

lDT NlOlbllOuH VI law. lb hu-
thorizes magistrates TO plead for cor.
porations in criminal actions, and pro-
ceed with the hearing of the case in the
event of the defendants refusal TO re.
spond to service, as is now frequently
the case. The bill provides further that
in the event of Judgment being found
against the corporation and it refuses to
pay the Judgment and costs, the court
may at once issue an execution, and
property found in the state can be
s'a7od and sold to satisfy the same.
The most striking omission In this
bill is that it fails to levy some sort of
tax upon the corporations or upon some-
body else, for bill Of any magnitude
introduced into the present legislature
that doesn't have tax "stinger" con-
cealed in its tail is curiosity indeed.
The festive commercial traveller had
better "look leedle oudt" for the bill
which DIR. Shuler of MOI tgomery hopes
to get through, and which provides for
the promotion of medical science by dis
tribution and use of unclaimed human
bodies for scientific purposes through
board created for that purpose and to
prevent unauthorized uses and traffic in
human bodies. The bill constitutes the
professors of anatomy, professors of
surgery and demonstrators of anatomy
and surgery of the various medical and
| dental colleges of the state, members of
what is to be known as the Estate ana
tomical board" which shall have full
charge through its officers of all the un-
claimed human bodies in the state.
1t also requires all officers and author.
| lied persons in the various cities and
| townships of the state whenever they
have an unclaimed body to notify the
state board thus created, and to turn
such bodies over to the representatives
of the board to be distributed among the
various medical schools and colleges for
scientific purposes. Certain restrictions
are provided, however against the abuse
| of the power, one of which is that when
@ traveller, unless he be tramp or va
grant, dies suddenly the body shall be
buried instead of being turned over to
the board, so that relatives who might
afterward claim it might not be de-
barred from taking charge of it even
after interment.
1t goes on further and provides that
the board shall provide suitable means
for conveying the bodies to the destined
dissecting table, the nearest medical
college having the call for it, unless it
happens to be well supplied already.
And to keep the doctors from cheating
each other fine of $500 is provided for
sending it to the wrong place.
Such law would send many trav-
cling man to the dissecting table, for it
is q rule with them that if one misrepre-
sents his samples, or overstates or un-
derstates, by accident, of course, the
amount Of his sales at the last town, he
proceeds at once to destroy all evidences
of his identity and lies down and dies.
And yet some people affect to believe
that the legislature has nothing 60 leg
islate about since it bereft the ladies of
their big hats.
Brother Elder of Clarke doesn't want
the legislature to adjourn until it makes
additional provisions to the Sunday
closing law. II, for instance, man is
arrested at 10 a. IN. for sellinga glass of
beer and gives bail for his appearance
the next day, and at 10 80 is found sell
ing another glass of beer, he shall be ar
rested and sent to Jail without bail to
make sure that he doesn't sell third
glass of beer half an hour later
There is one of the later bills, provid-
ing for the issue of $500, 900 in bonds,
| WulCH is pISJJJ SuIS W ~ luIOuBuJ GNbu
II it does meet with rough shedding
in some of it's stages.
This is the bill to erect new water
works for the city of Cincinnati, and
thus increase the supply of natural lager
beer lin color at least) for that empori-
um. Cox and Foraker and Garry Her
mann are for the bill, and that is Just
about equivalent to saying that it is as
good as passed. Nothing has escaped
them so far during the session.
The fate of the Fleischmann senate
bill to appropriate $4,000 for the erec.
ton of governors residence is obscure
and uncertain, but it will no doubt have
to travel a rocky road before it reaches
its final destination, which may, after
all, only be hole i'll the ground.
But whatever may be its final fate,
there is no gainsaying the fact that
when man is elected governor of Ohio
he and his wife, unless he is bachelor,
have large and generally a fruitless
job of house hunting on hand.
The friends of Governor Mckinley
hereabout, who consider his chances for
nomination from an intelligent stand
point, are very much disquieted over
the news that reaches them almost
directly and officially from Indianapolis.
This information, in substance, is to
the effect that the friends of General
Harrison have arranged a Spontaneous
uprising of the people" in his behalf,
and will undertake to stampede the con-
vention to him soon after the balloting
opens. He is in receipt Of letters from
prominent Republicans from all over
the country appealing to him to permit
the use of his name to avert crisis
which threatens the solidity of the Re-
publican party growing out of the tariff
and financial questions
1t is said that these letters will be
printed broadcast at the opportune mo-
ment, and they are pretty sure to create
great sensation on the threshold Of
the convention. w. A. Il.