The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-03-01
OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The Promise To Enact : Salary Law
VIII Be FULFILLED.

Columbus. Feb. 21.-After two hours
of dc5asc on the Me;zger street rail-
way bill the house voted to postpone
action on il for at leasJ one more day.
An ATTEMPT 20 Fir the hill by moving
adjournment before a report from the
committee OF the whole had been made
Go the house was caught just in time
by the friends of the measure and vOt-
ed down. The senate by unanimous
cote adopted the ORourke house joint
resolution requesting Ohio's reprcsen.
tatves in congress to vote for rail
way rate legislation desired by the
president. The senate also passed the
search and seizure bill. advocated by
the Ohio Anti-Saloon League and de-
signed TO aid the enforcement Of local
option laws. The bill Will become q
law as soon as signed by the gov
ernor.
when Gov Pattison signs the Howe
bill passed by the house Tuesday the
election polls in the cities of the state
will be open until 8 80 p. m At pres
ent in Cincinnati and Cleveland the
closing hour is p. IN. This has been
the rule for a great many years in
Cincinnati but was forced upon Cleve-
land unwillingly last year. The house
adopted the COnroy bill fixing salaries
for prosecuting attorneys. An effort
to increase the maximum salary to
$4,000 failed. Under the graduated
population plan the maximum in Cuya.
hDga county will be about S5.395. and
in Hamilton s5245. The bill abolshes
the Office of county solicitor and makes
the prosecutor legal adviser to all
county and township officers
Columbus. Feb. 22.-ln both branch
es of the general assembly It was
made clear that the members OF that
body intend to keep the promise OF
both the political parties that salary
bill for county officials will be enacted.
Not only that. but II was also made
apparent that there was to be no de-
lay In putting this promise into eXecu-
ton. for efforts to exclude from the
operation of the coming law the coun-
ty officers elect failed decisively Both
branches passed salary bills after long
and exhaustive debates. The entire
salary question will now go before a
Joint conference committee of the SEN
ate and house, with the principle
agreed upon that the salary law finally
adopted must apply to all county Off.
GERS elect. Senator J. p. Mahaffey. Of
Guernsey. offered a resolution provii.
ing that the representatives in con.
gress be pettioned to favor the pas.
sage OF law granting pensions 10 ne.
roic citizen teamsteTs hired during the
civil war
Columbus, Feb. 23.-The house by
a vote of 19 to 16 passed the Jones
bill, backed by the Ohio Ant! Saloon
League. which provides for municipal
local option by petition instead of by
election, places the initiative excu.
sively in the hands Of the temperance
people and II is claimed by the Anti
Saloon League that Il will enable the
people to drive saloons from all the
residence districts Of cities. Only the
main or central business section of
city Is exempted from local option IN
der the bill. The measure goes 10 the
senate. The house committees on f.
nance fayorably reported the Van
over senate joint resolution providing
for the appointment of comm ssiun
and appropriation Of $4,000 for tn
representation Of Ohio at the James.
town ter-centennial exposition. The
original resolution provided tor an ap-
propriatlon of 100000. bu, this
amount was reduced by the senate.
Columbus, Feb. 24.-The house ad.
Journed Friday morning until Monday
o. p. m. without doing any business.
The house finance committee has rec
commended $4,000 for the jamestown
(Va.) exposition.
In the senate, Senator Pollock intro.
duced bill increasing the townsh u
high school distance from three to FIVE
miles. The senate then adjourned
until p. m. Monday.