The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-18
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who has violated laws wild have TO
declare himself. The courts are given
power to close the places OF yiolators
as nuisances. ln Deans bill, as draft
ed. fine Is dhe only penalty for
mailing a false statement. thu
amendment will provide that saloon-
lists convbuted of PERJURY under the
act shall be sent TO the pen for FIVE
years
The hcJse temperance commdteu
pot into tihe game of playing foot
ball with the liquor interests by
reporting and recommending for pas
sage the Crist bill aosoNtely to pro-
hibt the sale Of liquor in 'dry' ter
rit0ry. The bill provides q 81 900
fine for any pereon, company or cor
pUlation that even solicils orders for
liquor and gives officials the right to
employ secret service agents to
ferret out law violators. 1t is the
Ant-Saioon leayite measure to kill
off the bootlegger and the mail order
liqour sales
of liquor on Memorial day was also
recommended for passage.
Representative Woods himself pre-
serted the amendments taking all
the teeth out of his governors probe
bill. After shouting from the house
tops that he would not change his
ATTITUDE he was brought into line BY
the threat that the bill would be
killed entirely unless he agreed to
the program adopted by the party
leaders. The bill as 1t PASSED pro
vdes that the governor may order
an Investigation. If he does 50 he
must name a comm.ttee Of one
Democrat and one Republican. He
can make no move in the matter
without the consent ana advice of
the Republican SENATE.
The heads of all departments in
ve,tigated, under the bill, may EN-"
ploy lawyers to SHE'D them from the
probe, and, it was repeatedly challged
on the floor, hinder the investigation
in every way possible The Demo-
cllsts objected particularly to the
amendment requiring the approval OF
the senate to every move made by
the governor. 1t was pointed out that
this would simply open the way for
an injunction the moment the gov
ernor attempted to investigate and
that lit would prevent any action
drring the long summer recess, dur
ing which time Gov. Harmon had
planned to prosecute the investiga-
tlon.
The action forecasts the death of
the resolutions TO probe the cities of
Cincinnati and Cleveland Senator
Paterson, chairman of the judiciary
commttee which is sitting tight on
the Cincinnati investigation resolution
is emphatic in his oppos tion to all
probes. He Says they are "tommy
ret and nothing more.
Dcmoc.ab.c house members moved
10 the front 10 kill the bill Of Rep.
resent atlve Brenncr or Springfield.
for the rCIgistration of all
lobbyists which was an exact CODY
Of the New York law AS a means
of dodging a vote Elson of Tuscara-
was, after dtlatlng on the great ser-v-
Ice rendered by the professional lob
byists, moved the inedfnite postpone
ment Of the measure. This was ca.
while the members lolled back I'm
their seats and shouted with glee.
The house passed the Bremen bill
prCUld ng fen an inventory of ali
state prope.ty after a long and tire
come debate. The inventory must be
completed by June
Senator James r.. Mathews of
Cleveland presented bill, which Is
copy of the law President Roos>
yet forced upon congress relating to
employers liability 1t provides that
negligence, knowlecge OF defect or
membership I'm a relief association
rhall not be a bar to employees ian
bringing action against the employer
in case he in injured or killed Ac-
tion for damages must be brought
within a year from the time the ac
cldent occurred