The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-02-10
WHAT HAS IT DONE?
Review of the Work Of the
Legislature to Date.
OK. MASH MAY LEAD IN 1899.
arosvsnor's Ambition Very Likely, to
he squeIched by McKinisy-For-
aker to He One Termer-The
Passing of Hahn.

The first month of the legislative ses-
sion is past and it is not unfair to the
body to sum its work. 1t may be as
sumed that the session will not be
more than four months long That is
TO say a fourth of the session is his
tory. A joint resolution has been in
troduCed already providing for final
adjournment on April 4. 1t has not
been acted upon yet in the senate,
where it was introduced This is
about two weeks earlier than the date
OF the final adjournment of the Sew
enty-second general assembly II the
time of the actual adjournment Of the
legislature is two weeks later than of
the adjournment of the last general as
sembly, the supposition made above is
not an unfair one.
What has been accomplished? In
legislation of general Importance, not
much. The Rogers street railway
franchise act has been repealed. The
state game laws have been amended
so as to permit the killing Of rabbits
at any time and in any manner A
law has been enacted which authorizes
notaries public who are resident in
towns which lie in more than one
county to act under their commissions
in all the counties into which the
towns extend. The bills creating ad-
ditional common pleas judgships have
been passed. The law governing the
organization of the state board Of agri-
a hot
members of the board are elected now
for five years instead of two, as here
tofore. The Torrens land tenure act
which was declared unconstitutional
by the supreme court last summer has
been repealed. OF course there was no
opposition to this, as 1t was a dead let
ter, and simply an encumbrance to the
statute books. It's repeal simply gave
IL the rites of decent burial. General
Wylie Of Wayne county, who was the
author of the repeating act, was one
OF the strongest. opponents Of the
measure when it was up for passage
in the last legislature.
There have been other acts passed.
OF course, but they are unimportant;
most of them of purely local interest
Even the resolutions adopted have
been unimportant, excepting only that
declaring in favor Of the freedom Of
Cuba.
The cost OF legislative session is
usually about $4,000. That is to say
II costs to maintain a legislature about
81 900 for each consecutive day of the
session. The salaries of the members
alone is about $3.50 per day. The work
done so far by the legislature, there
fore, represents an outlay of about
$50 900. What do the taxpayers, who
foot the bill, think of it as an invest
ment?
1t should be said in extenuation,
however, that in many lines in which
the legislature has. been working, the
results have not been reached. With
many measures which have been un-
der consideration no decision has been
arrived at yet, while in other cases
the bills have been killed either in
committee or by general vote. In es-
timating the work done by the legis-
lature the election of Mark Hanna TO
the senate should not be overlooked.
Probably no more difficult job will be
met with in the course Of the session
than this was.
General" Grosvenor's Boom.
General Grosvenor has undoubtedly
begun a campaign for the Republican
nomination for governor next year.
The report comes from too many wide
ly separated sources to be untrue. The
bee is in his bonnet, and buzzing lust
lily. The "general'-when the title is
given to Grosvenor 1t should always
be put in quotation marks-gave a
dinner in Washington a few days ago,
and to the few chosen friends who
were reinvited he made statement of his
wishes. Newspaper men were strict
ly forbidden to pass the portals, but If
anything transpired that has not been
fully reported, It is an oversight and
it wlll be given publicity later on.
Grosvenor has an eye for the spoils
in all his political work, and now he
is preparing to make demand for pay
ment for his work for pushing the Nc
Kinley boom in 1896, in which he
stood as chief oracle and predictor
and in the Hanna senatorial campaign
The president and Senator Hanna
must now join in making him COVER
nor Of the state. Probably the anti
Hanna Republicans do not think worse
of Hanna himself than they do of
GrOsVenOr His nomination for Pov-
ernor would renew the factional fight
in the Republican party with all the
Vigor of the late senatorial campaign
There is an old grudge between Kurtz
and Grosvenor which dates back many
years, when both of them were active
There is little doubt that Foraker
would himself openly join in the oppo-
Sition in the Republican party to the
nomination and election of Grosvenor
In one of the campaigns in which For
aker was candidate for governor,
Grosyenor not only opposed him, but
secured appointments from the state
committee ostensibly to speak for For
aker-the committee supposing that he
would not dare to speak against the
head OF the ticket, though they knew
his hostility to FOraker-and then
made guerilla-like attack upon For
aker. 1t will be remembered that For
aker when he was governor demanded
Grosvenor's resignation from the
board Of trustees OF the Soldiers and
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