The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-23
COLUMBUS LETTER

signature, and are now laws The
list of "a laws is:
Conferring upon school boards the
exclusive right to make their own tax
lcvies.
Making term of judge cf insolvency
court in Cleveland four years.
Making term Of judge of insolvency
court in Cincinnati four years.
Making salaries of members OF
the general assembly, 5000 a year in
stead of $1,000 a term.
To enable religious or benevolent
societies to transfer burial grounds.
To abolish county auditors-fee of
one per cent. on the school fund.
Two-cent railroad fare law.
Providing for completely closed
street car vestibules.
A local bill with reference to a
cemetery in Montgomery county.
Authorizing city councils to com
pei street railway companies to sprin-
Ble rights of way.
Making sundry appropriations, m
cluding salaries of the members.
Reducing minimum penalty for
burglary of an uninhabited building
from five years to one year.
Providing that county commission
ers shall furnish quarters for law Ii
brary, either in court house or some
other building.
Making terms of state officials and
members of the general assembly
elected last fall three years.
Authorizing state board of charities
to publish biennial reports.
Authorizing attorney general of the
state to appear before grand juries.
Authorizing county commissioners
to issue bonds to refund Indebtedness
of road commissioners.
Providing for removal of timber and
drift wood from streams.
Providing that agents of humane
societies may draw limited compen-
sation from cities and counties.
Prescribing notices for proposals
and letting of contracts for county
buildings and bridges.
Appropriating $500 for use of state
| board of health in investigating water
and sewage publication plants.
Adding reinforced concrete to the
| list of materials of which substruc-
Acting upon the opinion furnished
| by Attorney General Wade Ellis to
| the state board of agriculture, which
was to the effect that the board could
not recognize more than one agricul-
tural society in any county, Secretary
Miller has advised the Carthage.
! Hamilton county. agricultural society
that the board can extend no financial
aid to it. For many years all of the
Hamilton county fairs were held
there, but recently they have been re-
moved to more desirable grounds and
the Carthage citiZtns think that they
are entitled to aid from the state
board to carry on a fair of their own.
However anxious the Republicans
may be to reach an early adjournment
Of the legislature, it is not at all prob
able the Democrats will permit any
| joint resolution to go through until
some important laws, which the peo-
pie have demanded, shall have been
placed on the statute books.
No serious thought is given to an
adjournment so early as the middle
Of March. Neither general appropria-
ton bill has yet been reported from
! the house finance committee. Even
| the partial appreciation bill still is in
| the hands of the senate finance com
mittee, where amendments have been
engrafted that doubtless will lead to
disagreement between the houses save
| for 2-cent railroad fare.
None Of the more important general
laws, such as the salary plan for all
county officers, to which a majority
of the members of both branches are
committed, has been acted upon def
initely by either branch.
Il am no more anxious to stay in
Columbus during a prolonged session
of the legislature than are other mem
bers," said Senator Beatty, Democrat
of Wood, but / will not agree to an
adjournment until we have accom-
| plished some of the important things
for which we were sent here by our
constituents
II do not believe we will have any
right to close this session of the gen
eral assembly until a law has been
enacted putting all county officers on
salaries. The people ought to have
more information of the manner Of
conducting some of the state depart,
ments. The direct Inheritance tax
ought to be repealed. A primary cleo
ton law should be enacted, and there
are other important matters that
ought to be definitely settled before
we quit
THE people didn't elect us to jam
through the appropriation bills, pro,
vide for the extension of our own
terms, draw our salaries and scamper
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