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

HON. GEORGE W. LAMB.
and can always be relied ON to vote on
the right side of any question in which
the interests of the people are involved.
Fairfield is one of the original coun-
ties Of the state, older, for the matter of
that, than the state as an organization,
and at one time embraced an immense
territory stretching in all directions
from It's present scat of justice, Lancas-
ter, which was located practically upon
the site of Tarre Town, one of the most
noted seats of Indian government in the
Northwest Territory century and a
half ago, and the scene of many an abo-
riginal council and pow-wow.
1t was organized into county in
1900, and four years hence will celebrate
its centennial anniversary as political
entity. Its predecessor in political or
ganization were Washington, in 1888 !;
Hamilton, in 1890; Wayne, in 1895 I;
Adams, in 1897 Ross, in 1898 Fairfield,
Clermont and Trumbull being the trip
lets which were ushered into existence
with the initial year Of the nineteenth
century.
Its senators and representatives were
the founders of the leading families
which still give Fairfield county its
high and honorable standing, including
such men in the early days of the states
history as Robert f. Slaughter, Elna-
than Scofield, Richard Hooker, John
CLANCY, David Reece, Philemon
Beecher, William w. Irwin, Samuel
Spangler and David Ewing. At later
date Jacob Claypool, William Medill,
John Brough, Edison B. Olds, Judge
Henry O. Whitman, M. A. Daugherty,
General Newton Schleich and General
John M. Connell. OF more recent years,
B. w. Carlisle, Charles s. Forseman.
T. w. Bigany, U. Q. Rutter and Rob-
ert H. Sharp.
Two of Fairfield county's representa-
tives in the state legislature, William
Medill and John Brough, subsequently
became among the most noted of Ohio
governors.
Five of her state legislators, John
Chaney, Philemon Beecher, William
w. Irwin, William Medill and DIR.
Edison B. Olds, distinguished them
selves on the floor Of congress.
From 1920 to 1880 Lancaster was the
real political center of Ohio, and its bar
was regarded as the strongest west of
the Alleghanies. This naturally gave
Fairfield county prominence over all
the other counties In the state for an en-
tire generation.
The flood of new bills which broke
loose last week while checked to a, con-
siderable degree, has not been shut off
entirely, for new ones are thrown into
the hopper whenever the opportunity
offers. The contents of them are not
known, save in rare instances, to any
one but the author of the document,
and probably not by him,
| No one cares much what they are
about, since they have no idea that they
will be passed. And yet some Of them,
and the very worst of them at that, may
be pushed through the legislative mill
to further some sort of scheme.
There is no collection agency which
can begin to compare with the desks Of
the clerks of the two houses, which for
weeks have been swamped with bills of
all sorts and sizes providing for pretty
much everything that is impossible.
1t is hard to account for the great
number Of trashy bills which some
members introduce during session,
and with alarming rapidity toward its
close, on any other hypothesis than that
the larger number Of bills member in
PRODUCES the more brilliant his record.
/
legislator this winter will probably be
10, but the more sensible ones have only
introduced four or five each, while the
"record makers" run up to 80 or even
90, and feel bad because they didn't get
O chance to introduce as many more.
The hunt for something to be taxed
and made to bring In revenue to meet
the enormous appropriations already
made is O hard and a hot one, and a
representative named Hard, from Soioto
county, has been leading the chase all
along. Among the more recent bills in
troduced by him Is one which provides
that all corporations doing business in
| Ohio, save and except banks, building
and loan and savings and loan associa-
tions and insurance companies, shall an
nually make a swora statement to the
secretary of state. In this shall be set
forth the name of the company and the
location Of its principal office, the names
or the president, vice president and SEQ
retary, with their mail addresses; the
amount of authorized capital stock and
the number of shares into which 1t is
divided the amount of subscribed stock,
the amount of paid up stock and the
names and mail addresses of stockhold-
ers, with the number Of shares held by
each.
The following fees are to be charged ;
For $4,000, 50; between $4,000 and
100000, so; between 500, 900 and
100000, $l6; between $780, and
$500, 900, SEQ between $500, 900 and 81
900. 900, $25; and for all amounts over
VI, 900, 900, $40. In order TO administer
this department the secretary OF state
Is permitted TO hire two clerks at 81 1850
per annum. The record thus established
IA TO be public one, open to inspection
at any time during ofiice hours.