Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-08
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SHOOTS BIG MONEY MEASURE
FULL OF HOLES AFTER
LONG FIGHT.
ASSEMBLY THEN PASSES BILL
spssms Of Economy Results in Re-
duction Of Salaries of Many
officiaIs-other Capitol
News of Interest.

Columbus, O.-The house of repre-
sentatives has stripped the gen
eral appropriation bill of every dollar
allowed for canal improvement and
maintenance. In cutting out every
item carried in the bill for canal i'm
provements the lower branch of the
assembly in effect declared for the
complete abandonment of every di-
vision of the inland waterways of the
state and repudiated a state policy of
so years standing.
After bitter discussion. during
which the big money bill was shot
full of holes, the house passed the
| struggle over state finances to the
senate by vote of S4 to 0.
In shutting off all appropriations
the house advocated no new policy.
The canal problem is more than ever
confused. Included in the items cut
out of the bill was S125,OOO to COM
plete the northern division of the
canal from Cleveland to Dresden and
| $4,000 to complete the reconstruction
Of the Miami & Erie canal between
| Cincinnati and Dayton.
|
of the protest of the special Joint
legislative committee named to study
the canal question. This committee
in its report urged the completion of
the northern division of the canals
particularly. In denying the appro-
priation, the house advisedly broke
faith with the national government
which has expended $50O,000 in max
ing improvements from Dresden to
the Muskingum river as a means of
opening up a waterway from Lake
Erie to the Ohio river.
The state recently has expended
more than S2,000,000 OF the northern
division of the canals The $125OOO
asked for in this bill, the engineers
reported, would complete the i'm
provement and enable the opening of
the canal from Cleveland to Dresden
this year.
In the same manner the house
seems to have taken remarkable ac-
tion in connection with the refusal to
appropriate $4,000 for the canal be-
tween Cincinnati and Dayton. At a
tremendous expense modern locks
| anu diuSuutlo nave JuSI DbGH
pleted on that division. All that re-
mained before the canal could be
opened was dredging. The house,
however, refused the $4,000 neces-
sary to make available the improve
ments just completed at cost of
close to $2,00O,000. In its report the
special canal committee urged the
abandonment of good portion of the
canals but the completion of the
northern division as sane business
policy
The solar plexus blow to all the
canals was delivered over the protest
of both the Republican and Demo
, cratic parties, expressed in state con
I ventions, and the emphatic protest OF
Gov. Harmon. The action was made
the more emphatic by the elimination
of $4,000 for the maintenance of the
northern division of the canals, $40,
, 600 for the Miami and Erie and $40,
900 for the southern division. The ar
, gument that the canal lands should
, not be turned over to be looted at vii
| and that at least enough none.
, should be granted to enable the stat,
W 6udi u ilS pioPclty Was lSuOTeu
, Not penny of the S235, 900 demanded
: for the canals was granted.
: The bill carries total of $5,317,
: 941.99 as passed by the house. 1T
: consideration was marked by a spasn
. of economy that has not been equale,
3 In 20 years. Salaries of state em
D ployes were cut ruthlessly, many o
c the items being acted upon withou
= any discussion as to the merits of tn
1 proposition. An effort to work II
$115,000 to be used in remedying tn
wretched conditions at the Girls In
= dustlial home at Delaware, produces
i lot of verbal fireworks, but n
o money. The $4,000 item for the pui
q chase of a site for woman's peniter
d tiary was cut out of the bill. TIL
d house decided that women convict
n must be cared for at the present pei
itentiary and allowed 100000 for
q woman's annex, cutting the item froI
a 100000.
II The farmers got action by increal
v Ing the appropriation for agriculture
!. schoals from $4,000 to $4,000 to pc
N nit schools in at least go of the 8
q counties. The bill provides little NOR
q than current expenses for state inst
n tutions and departments and these ar
q cut to the limit. The Cleveland Stat