The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-22
WILL ADJOURN ON MARCH Il
OHIO LEGISLATURE FIXES THAT
DATE AS FINAL LIMIT.
Three Probe Resolutions introduced
Senate Confirms Two Harmon
Appolntees.

Columbus, o., Jan. 22-Thursday In
the Legislature was signalized by the
action of the house making adjourn.
ment certain for March 10 by the in.
PRODUCTION of three probe resolutions
in the senate and by the confirmation
by the senate of two appointees of
Gov. Harmon, which forecast whole
sale changes in the state department
of agriculture. The governor ignored
the recommendation made by the
agricultural convention held here last
week and appointed as members of the
board ex-Congfessmafi Jacob Beidler
Of Lake county and J. O. Cross Of Fay.
ette county, Republican and Democrat,
respectively. With the confirmation Of
these men the board is taken out OF
the hands of the Republicans and
made bipartisan. Simultaneous with
the action of the governor in sending
these appointments to the senate was
an interesting action of the Republi.
cans members OF the committee on
judiciary, who agreed upon reoly tc
the governor to his recent letter Of
protest against the confirmation OF the
Harris recess appointees. The Repub.
licans justified their action in regard
to all the Harris appointees, including
that OF j. G. Norris as railway com.
missioner, which was the object OF par.
ticular protest from the governor The
executive sent to the senate the ap.
pointment of John Sullivan of Butler
county, Democrat, to succeed Morris,
Republican, on the expiration of his
term in February. The appointment
was referred to the committee on rail.
ways and telegraphs, where RepublL
cans say II will die.
The house adopted the senate joint
resolution, providing for a recess be.
ginning Friday and continuing until
February 15 with adjournment on
March ~. A brief recess may be taken
just before the latter date in order
that the preparation OF bills may be
had without the confusion often at.
tending the last days of a session.
The anti-Cox members of the senate
secured the addition of four new mem.
bers to the finance committee, Sena.
tors Tod and Tuttle, Republicans, and
Senators Alsdorf and Gotshall, Demo.
Gratis. Thus, they say the committee
is so constituted as to prevent any
criticism of playing into the hands OF
the Cincinnati political leader.
The resolution of Senator Clevenger
OF Clinton county offered yesterday,
providing a probe In the city of Gin.
cinnati and Hamilton county, was re.
ferred to the Judiciary committee.
Senator Young OF Darke county of.
fered a resolution authorizing investi.
cations Of the city of Cleveland and
county of Cuyahoga and Of public con.
tracts by n bipartisan commission Of
four. Senator Mathews of Cuyahoga
county presented a resolution provid.
ing for bipartisan commission of
four to Investigate departments and in.
stitutions.
The senate adopted the house bill
making February 10, 1908, the hmm.
dredth anniversary of Lincolns birth, a
legal holiday.
Although the house viii recess Fri.
day until February 10, the finance
committees will not enjoy vacation.
Instead they will take up even more
work than anticipated, for the expecta.
tion is that appropriations for two
years instead of one, as originally
planned, will be authorized before the
solons adjourn In March.
One OF the interesting bills adopted
in the house was by Representative
Garfield, which If passed would mean
the establishment of connections be-
tween telephone companies Compul.
sorry connections are provided for, as
Is also rate of half cent mile for
five minutes conversation on long dis.
tance lines. Provision is also made
that the cost of telephones In cities OF
not to exceed 100000 people is to be
$24 each annually, with SO added for
each additional 100000 population.
To prevent the use OF the site OF the
Collinwood school disaster from ever
again being used for school purposes,
and to dedicate II forever as a me.
mortal to the 1872 tots who lost their
lives there in fire, is the purpose of a
bill introduced in the house by Mr..
Schaefer OF Cuyahoga county
Regarding Gov. Harmon's contention
that Gov. Harris should have added
one year to the term OF all OF Gov.
Pattison's appointees, a report made
by the Republicans OF the senate
judiciary committee declares that the
extension of terms did not apply to ap,
pointive Offices in any case, being re,
stricted entirely TO elective offices. No
cause can be shown why these appoint
ments should not have been made
Now that the senate has confirmed
these appointees, and Gov. Harris has
issued commissions to them, II is i'm
possible, the committee holds, for the
senate to reconsider it's action of con,
firmatlon.
This report was accepted In face ol
the Democratic protest by a strict
party vote in the senate.