The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-14
BILLS ELBowING FOR PLACE.
Democrats Declare Their Independence
MileaGe-i ook Hisis Hung Up--Burke
Dumps the Democrats-Mul-
tiplying the OfIices.

Is two weeks from next Monday. Mon
day is always taken for the day of
final adjournment for the reason that
1t is necessary to give the clerks the
time over the final Saturday and Sun
day to get the journals ready for ap-
proval before the gavel falls. Nothing
but the most urgent matters will be
able to command any attention after
the close of week after next.
A great deal of important matter
will be left as unfinished business, but
it would be so If the day of final ad-
journment were postponed to Aug. /.
After all It is not sign that meas
ure was killed purely for want Of
time to soncider it that it is left on the
calendar at final adjournment That
is one way to kill bill, and that it
was not pressed for consideration in
dicates that it did not have very many
or very influential friends to advocate
1t or it would have been considered.
If it had been pushed to a vote it
would probably have been defeated
Good measures, however, are often
strangled in this way.
Retaliation Declared.
A fight is on between the two
branches of the legislature now over
the preference of bills. Each side
claims that the other is holding UP its
bills in committee, and thus keeping
them off the calendar. Retaliation
has been declared, and that this is
being done is very evident in the COM
mittee reports when that order is
reached in the order of business. In
the senate Friday, out of nearly 80
bills reported back from the commit
tees, only five were house bills, and
those were measures that members Of
the senate had special interst in.
Those Mileage Books.
1t looks as though there would be no
legislation affecting railway fares and
mileage books after all. Everybody
seems to think that since the senate
expressed itself in favor of the re.
formed mileage book as the best thing
that could be had in this line now
in passing the substitute for the VAL
entine bill, and the house made sim
llar expression in passing the Bracken
bill, all was settled, and that legisa-
ton was secure. Probably many new
members Of the legislature think it is
all settled and that such legislation
has been accomplished. The fact is
that nothing has been done since
these bills passed toward agreeing
upon one of them. Each branch seems
to be inclined to stick for the bill that
1t passed, and there the matter stands
1t would not be surprising if final ad-
tournment found things in precisely
this shape, and there would be no leg
islation on the subject at all.
Burke Breaks Away.
Senator Burke has been put on rec
ord in the senate on the gold or silver
question When his leader, Mayor
McKisson, in the senatorial contest,
went before the combination of Dem
ocrats and anti-Hanna Republicans,
and declared that though a Republic
an in everything else, he was plainly
for the free coinage of silver, Senator
Burke's constituents began to wonder
very naturally, where he stood on this
important question. Now they know
Senator Burke is for the single gold
standard. The issue was presented
to him fairly and squarely in the Gin
cinnati bond refunding bill The
Democrats fought it as presented, for
the sole reason that they knew that
the Cincinnati sinking fund commits
sion, constituted as 1t is, would issue
gold-bearing bonds under it. The
amendment they proposed was voted
down, and the bill as introduced
passed, Burke voting AYE" with the
other Republicans.
His action might suggest 1t to some
Of the Democratic leaders that the
combination they made with the
Bushnell faction of the Republican
party during the senatorial contest
last January does not bind them to
vote for-ever-more and upon every
proposition, just as Senator Burke
wants them to.
; We Are Granted Autonomy.
Colonel w. A. Taylor, the executive
secretary of the new Democratic state
executive committee, states that the
new committee is organized for the
whole Democratic party of the state
and not for the exclusive use of the
'Holdup club of the Legislature" This
| ka tor hot hao Al
voutly wished for, by the Democrats
of the state for the last two months
The whole Democratic party makes
, rather a big tail to the little anti
. Hanna Republican combination, ant
the position is not one calculated t
inspire pride in the members of thu
Democratic party. Senator Finck o
the committee to investigate tn
charges of bribery against. Senate
nanna mas protested against lettlnl
, tho Democratic element OF that com
mittee lose its identity in the Re
publican antl-Hanna combine. TIL
Democratic members OF that commit
=. tee have done good work. and hav
I the right to expect that they will hav
, something TO say about what kind G
r a report shall be made. II his col
, leagues on the committee give hir
r the right kind OF support II is quit
certain that Senator Finck will sue
coed in having the report prepared a
q 1t should In the committee and by tn
|. committee,
/, Few Democrats in the state hay