The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-02-28

corporations, had many more friends
than the Willis bill, which is the gov
ernor's pet measure, and II passed the
house. The Willis bill, however, was
made the subject of another special
caucus. Tuesday night and after some
discussion Il was found that the party
whip had been welded quite effec-
tually. Messrs. Pollock and Metzgar
Of Stark, Crist and Buell., of Column
biana, and two MONTGOMERY, county
members entered protest against the
measure but 1t did no good and they
were the only ones Of the Republicans
in the house to stand up and say the
bill ought not to pass.
They are now in a peculiar position.
If they vote against the bill they will
have gone back on their party caucus
II they vote for 1t they will have votc1
against the expressed wishes of many
of their constituents. So they will
have to explain to their people just
how powerless they were in the mat
ter. OF course 1t is futile for them to
hold out. They can accomplish moth
ing, for party measure has much
weight on the Republican side and
whether the Stark and Columbiana
county members like Il or not the
measure taxing corporations one-tenth
OF one per cent on their authorized
capital stock will go through.
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Mr.. Crist and Mr.. Buell. said they
could not now see their way clear TO
do anything but vote with the major
ity They see that they are powerless
to prevent the passage of the measure,
hence say that to do other than vote
for 1t would be mulish, and they do not
want to appear in the light of chronic
kickers, and thus distroy their pres
tige to get through some other meas
ures in which their counties are in
terested.
1t is understood that Mr.. Pollock has
been relieved of some of his complaints
and that several of the corporations
that had protested the loudest had
written to him and said he might use
his own judgment. Now that the
measure has enough votes anyhow, he
may decide to vote for the measure.
He had not decided Tuesday night, just
what he would do. Mr.. Metzgar was in
the same frame of mind, but as he had
made no direct statement of his inten-
tions he is free to do rs he likes with
out present embarrassment.
Speaker McI<innon said to your cor
respondent Tuesday night that he
thought the bill might be pushed
through the house Wednesday on
committee report. Said he: 1--WE
might as well finish up and get it
out of the way and then let them fight
II out over in the senate"
II Is said here that Col. w. w. King,
of Alliance, is already laying his plans
for the Republican nomination for
county recorder next year. Col. King
is an old war horse and when he starts
to go he usually gets somewhere. His
friends here say that gentlemen with
ambitions will do well to get out from
under.
]. w. Taylor and J. M. Walker, of
New Baltimore, were here again to
see why the New Baltimore bill, that
has practically received the commen-
dation of the senate, has not been en-
crossed as law. 1t will be done in
a day or two, though.
The Seese normal school bill, calling
for the appointment of commission
to investigate where normal schools
should be placed and how many, pass
ed the house, Tuesday.
There will be no redistricting. The
senate passed the bill to allow the dis
tricts to remain as they are. Senator
Wilhelm voted with the majority
against n change The house IA al
most certain to concur.