The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-01-13

ed to be on the lookout for them and
not to be seriously alarmed over their
reports, as they have a financial inter
est to conserve in having the report
rejected.
1t is proposed to have the report
printed by state printers, II adopted,
and this would deprive the law book
concerns of a handsome income from
the sale of the books. Most of the at
torneys in the state would purchase
new volumes of statutes.
Beatty Would Hurry Probing.
Probing into state departments will
be begun this week by Senator Rich
ard A. Beatty, Democrat, Of Wood
county; Senator Sherman S. Deaton,
Republican, of Champaign county;
Representative Cyrus B. Winters,
Democrat, of Erie county, and Repre-
sentative William Fl. Riddle, Repub-
lican, of Logan county, who were
named the members Of the probe COM
mittee, if the wishes of Senator
Beatty, who will be chairman of the
commission, are concurred in.
Lieut.. Gov. Treadway and Speaker
Mooney, who jointly named the COM
mittee, acted with such promptitude
as to demonstrate they entertained no
! hostility to the projected investigation
of Republican officeholders, but neith-
er regard it as essential to the pur-
pose of the resolution for the probers
to plunge in at once, and think they
would accomplish fully as much by
waiting until the code work is at least
partially completed. Chairman Beatty,
who is as happy at the prospect ahead
of the committee as a boy with a $40
bill in toy store, will try to have his
colleagues begin in earnest next week.
Keep the Probes Distinct.
He planned to have the committee
insist that Gov. Harmon and Attorney
General Denman disclose all the evil
dence of graft collected by the gov
ernor. This plan will not be carried
out in the face of gentle hint from
Denman. Denman remarked: LAS
three members of the committee were
prosecuting attorneys, they will under
stand the value of preserving the evil
dence the attorney general has"
He added he was satisfied an ar
rangement could be made whereby the
Beatty probe would not interfere with
the governors suits, but he had no
suggestion to make to the committee
as to where they had best begin.
Senator Beatty would not say
whether the committee would begin
by investigating State Oil Inspector
Phipps and State Printer Sullivan. The
report that they had been singled out
with the intention of trying to show
that they were not giving the state all
their time, both being candidates for
nomination for secretary of state, was
taken as evidence that National Com
mitteeman Harvey c. CARRIER and DEM
ccratic State Chairman William l..
Finley were the real hackers of the
probe.
Republicans Won't Interfere.
Lieut.. Gov. Treadway and Speaker
Mooney did not bother to inquire what
particular Democrats were urging the
| probe, but took the ground that the
resolution emanated from the Demo
Gratis and had in view investigation of
Republican officials. Therefore they
made it clear that there was no desire
on the part of the Republicans to block
investigation of Republican admins
trations by naming first the Demo
cratic members, this priority insuring
the selection of Democrat as chair
man of the committee.
Senator Beatty, a banker and oil
operator is an expert accountant and
we'll qualified to cross-examine an Of
ticial regarding what his books show
or don't show. Senator Deaton and
Representative Winters and Riddle
have served as prosecuting attorneys
of their counties, and hence are famil-
lar with grand jury Investigations.
Both Deaton and Riddle, while county
legal officers, made records for investi-
cations of local graft charges.
| Chairman Ritter of the house finance
committee introduced, but did not
press to a vote the preliminary appro-
priation bills, comprising the partial
bill, $2,7S1,000; for common schools,
$2,470,000; for interest on the irreduci-
BILE debt, $325,000; for salaries and
mileage of members, $25O,OOO; for leg
islative contingencies, $4,000; for
emergency deficiencies, $15S,4S3.13.
D. E. OLeary, w. J. Broadly, Sam
uel Pentecost were appointed house
porters, and E. ]. Crebbin, house page.
To Probe High Living Cost.
Several legislators are considering
measures for a probe to ascertain the
cause for the increased cost of living
Their constituents are complaining,
while officials of state institutions have
presented figures to show that the cost
of maintaining wards has doubled in
the past 10 years.
The source of trouble is laid at the
door of trusts and there is sure to be
several amendments to the Valentine
antitrust law offered. Senator Yount
Darke, proposes to add a penitentiary
sentence as penalty for violation of
the law. Senators Phare and Gotshall
favor legislative probe.
Harmon Approves $4,000 Fund.
Gov. Harmon signed the Ritter BILL
appropriating $4,000 for Attorney
General Denman to aid him in his
graft prosecutions. This is the first
bill of the session to become law.
committee reDresenting the Ma.
tional Association of Stationary Fire
men, conferred with Attorney General
Denman about provisions of bill to
amend the license law so that firemen
may have examinations separate from
those Of stationary engineers. The ap-