The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-03-04
WOODS BILL IN
FOR hot FIGHT
Reported Back to House With.
out Recommendation
lean MEASURE FARES BETTER

10 Recommended For Passage by Sen.
ate Committee With Only Ono Dis
senting Vote - Freiner Promises
Sensation In Office Of Game and
Fish mmIssion-Dairymen Lose
Tempers When Assailina Bill to Use
oieomargarlne In state institutions.
Columbus, o., March with only
one dissenting vote the house COM
mittee on railroads and telegraphs
reported out the Woods public utili-
ties bill without recommendation
or amendment. Therefore 1t will bo
a fight to q finish when the measure
Is considered on the floor Of the
house
With recommendation for passage,
the Dean Rose option law amendment,
permitting cities voting wet to retain
their saloons when the rest of the
county goes dry, was returned to
the senate, Senator Lawyer cast
ing the only vote against the IA
ldDlC CGudUOl
Cetone made an unsuccessful attempt
to have the bill considered In execT
tive session The Dean bill has been
made a special order of business in
the senate next Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, and was put on the cal
endar for final consideration the fol.
lowing Thursday.
There will be an explosion in the
house and the farmers will have an
inning when the hunters license bill
comes up. Representative John K.
Freiner Is on the warpath after the
fish and game commission and the
game warden. He claims to have
some material that will call for an
investigation by the committee that Is
now probing the state fire marshals
Office.
Dairymen Show Their Temper.
A sizzling hearing on the Schurr
bill to allow state institutions to pur-
chase olea was held before the house
committee on dairy and food products
in State Dairy and Food Commission
er Dunlap's office. Dairymen from all
over the state were present to fight
the bill. They made a sensational at.
| tack upon the newspapers and the
legislature growing out of the pub
lished statements regarding the
causes Of high prices and declared
that the legislative food probe was q
joke, that the committee was n joke.
and that any bills which the latter
might introduce would be jokes. They
declared that this whole food :nvesti-
CATION was the veTiest kind of farce.
They denied that there would be any
thing like the saving claimed for the
state II the institutions were allowed
to purchase oleo instead Of butter.
The dairymen called tho other side
liars, though they did not use the
short and ugly term, but that Is what
they meant, all right, all right.
Representative Schurr was on hand
! to defend his bill and he gave as good
as he got. He quoted figures TO show
that the bill would enable the state to
save thousands of dollars each year
He also stated that tests in abou,
1000 cases by the city sealer OF
weights and measures showed that
the average shortage in one-pound but
ter packages az furnished by the
creamerics was one ounce. This
statement was not relished by the
dairymen.
The dairymen were represented In
the arguments by T. G. Laylin, master
of the state grange; A. 8. Neal OF
Macedonia, president of the State
Dairymen's association; John d. Mich
OILS OF Cleveland. former president Of
the association; Professor Oscar Err
of the Ohio State university. and l.
p. Bailey Of Tacoma, Belmont county
whom Governor Harmon did not re
appoint as member Of the state agri
| cultural board