The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-03-14

~ has evolved plan that. II
adopted, will get legislation
on local and other bills little closer
to the people. In effect his resolu-
ton, introduced Monday, provides that
at the next general election there shall
be submitted to the qualified electors
of the state proposition to amend
section 15 article IL, of the constitu-
ton of Ohio, so that said section when
amended shall read as follows:
Section Is. Bills may originate in
either house, but may be altered,
amended or rejected in the other.
Whenever 25 per cent. Of the electors
of the state, as ascertained from the
official report or abstract Of the then
next preceding federal census, petit
| tion for the passage of bill, the gen.
eral assembly shall either pass such
hill or shall submit the anne to vote
of the electors of the state, at the next
general election, and in case ma
jority Of all the electors voting for and
against the adoption of the bill, shall
vote in favor thereof, the same shall
become law. When alike percentage
of the electors of any of the civil sub
divisions of the state petition for the
passage of a bill, local in its applica-
ton to such civil subdivision the gen
eral assembly shall either pass such
bill or submit the same in like manner
to the electors of such civil subdivi-
sion, and in case a majority Of the
| ing for and against the adoption of the
bill, shall vote in favor thereof, the
same shall become a law. All laws
adopted by vote as herein provided,
shall take effect and be in force from
and after such election.
~ oLUMBUS, March 13.-Akron is
~ not going to get her municipal
bill through without a struggle from
the Youngstown people. 1t has been
held up in the house for amendment
and 1t is thought that the amendment
may get it friends. But this special
legislation for cities is hating some,
owing to the fact that the municipal
code, as it Is getting better understood
is gaining friends.
Everybody knows that many of the
municipal bills that have been passed
are unconstitutional and that there is
no use to pass them, save in tho in
terest of attorneys, who will get jobs
knocking them out in the courts.
there have been several hearings on
the municipal code lately, and 1t is get
ting more popular. 1t has not enough
friends yet to pass, but may yet have
enough. The substance of the bill
has been set forth in the News-Demo-
crat and the people are familiar with
it. When the municipal league con-
vention was being held here, the Can
ton delegation saw their representa-
tives and senator and asked them not
to support the bill. If the people are
still of the opinion that they do not
want it, 1t might be a good plan to
urge their representatives to vote
against it. 1t is becoming more and
more an administration measure every
day and If the administration once
gets squarcly back of it. it may be-
come law.
Senator Writ, of Youngstown, has
been called home by the serious illness
of his father. Before going he intro
duced an important administration
measure, Thursday morning, for a con-
stitutional amendment calling for uni
form taxation. There will be three
amendments voted on this fall, the
one mentioned, the one to relieve
stockholders of double liability and
the one granting the governor veto
power
In the investigation of the blind
asylum here, it has been found that
the institution Is in state of de-
mpralization. Joseph Biechele could
not attend the session, hence that Can
ton citizen can only take the news
paper reports. They are sufficiently
narrowing, however, to give anyone
an adequate notion that what is needed
at the institution Is somebody that
knows how to run 1t. The board will
censure the superintendent, will dis
charge n pupil named Mckinley, OF
Steubenville, and another named Dar-
ius Drake, of Ashtabula, and will re-
instate several that have been dis
charged. II requires general shak-
ing up. One witness testified that the
board was not in the habit of giving
the institution inspection, and had moi
been seen on the fourth floor for some
time.
Commissioner ]. B. Summer was 8