The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-01-28
PEANUT
Politics Again Being Strong
ly Played
By Majority Side OF State
Legislature
Some Information Given On
The Subject
That Is Not To Credit OF The
Majority
And Puts People Wise To
The Condition
(By Orwell @. Riddle)

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Columbus, o., Jan. 27.-Remem-
bering how the majority in the leg
islature played petty politics through
out the special session last year, at
the dictation of a coterie of Repub-
lican "1eaders", it is not surprising
that they resorted to their old tao
tics at the very beginning of this
session.
TO make this assertion plain it is
oecessary to cite, number of moves
SO far in their chronological order.
Before the session began it was
announced by the powers in control
that nothing but emergency" mat
ters should be considered until final
action on the revision of state laws
by the codifying commission.
In earnest of willingness on the
part OF the Democrats to "play fair,
Senator Huffman, minority floor lead
er in che senate, introduced the res
olution suggested by the Republicans,
| to defer introduction of all except
emergency measures until Jan. "a.
Under the resolution appropriation
bills were received from the house
finance committee and the senate let
in Senator Rathburn's bill co cor
rect omissions in the quadrennial ap-
praisement law.
When the house recessed last Fri
day 1t was to meet at 1880 D. m.
Monday, although the usual hour for
! Monday sessions is p. m. The rea-
son given for meeting earlier than
big batch of bills ready to be in
troduced.
The senate recessed, however, to
meet at p. m. Monday, and there
was q show of indignation" on the
part of Republican senators in pri.
vate conversation because the house
wouldn't wait until code revision was
out of the way for the reason 1t
might throw the code in the air"
and confuse legislation. They were
SO Indignant" that they would have
offered a resolution to extend the
time were 1t not that the house was
already adjourned for the week and
it was then too late, as they said.
But they put through resolution to
recess from Jan. "a to Jan. 81 and
left that for the house to act upon
Monday before bills were introduced,
which shows that the same plan
could have been followed In the in.
PRODUCTION of bills were 1t not for
the scheme afoot.
B efore the senate adjourned. Fri
day Senator Patterson, one of the
Republican leaders, deprecated
that bills were to be introduced in
the house Monday and declared the
purpose of the senate TO hold off til
after the code was finished. Merely
part Of the game.
So the house met Monday and un-
loaded its bills, among them the pres
ident's utilities bill introduced by
Woods of Medina and bill intro
duced by Langton of Warren county
to forestall Senator Alsdorf's taxa
tion board bill; adopted joint reso-
luton to print $500 extra copies OF
these two bills for general distrib-
ution, and adjourned until Jan. 81,
(according TO program) before the
senate went into session.
Joint resolutions must be adopted
by both branches to be effective
When the resolution to flood the
state with copies of the utilities bill
and tax board bill came up in the
senate the Democratic senators saw
at once what all the scheming and
maneuvering from the beginning Of
the session actually meant. For tha
reason they voted against the re
solution and defeated 1t.
Just as the special appropriation
bill of $4,000 to pay legal expenses
of the treasury suits rushed through
the first day was proclaimed by thu
Republican "leaders" as a shrewt
move to "steal the governors thun
der" notwithstanding recommends
tions in the governors message ant
: his Official letter to the attorney gen
erai) the "leaders'' had plotted AM
schemed and jugsled the whole leg