The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-06-22
MORE BILLS
ARE VETOED
GOVERNOR HARMON PUTS AK TO
THREE MEASURE IN INTER-
EST OF ECONOMY.
KILLS LAKE ERIE AND OHIO CANAL BILL
The Defects in the Kennedy Bill Per-
tanning to the Elimination Of
Grade Crossings Pointed
Out by Governor.

Columbus.-Nine approved and four
vetoed is the tally of the general as
sembly bills which were acted upon
by Governor Harmon. The subject
matter of bills which felt the ak in
most cases ran contrary to the gov
ernor's established policy of economy
to the end that the per cent tax law
may be successful.
Senator Isaac E. Huffman's canal
bill, carrying a $4,000 appropriation
for the8purpose of surveying the ca
nal systems of the state with view
to ascertaining the advisability of
constructing a ship canal from Lake
Erie to the Ohio river, was vetoed,
as well as the Kennedy bill creating
criminal court in Lima. Governor
Harmon explained that he has op-
posed increases in the judicial force
Of the state, except when there were
plain grounds of necessity.
In rejecting the Whiteemore bill,
which was passed in order to permit
cities to raise the salaries of police
llStig hAu OlHCl SlNI bClNASS
employees, Governor Harmon gives as
his reason the fact that while the bill
exempts them from the provisions of
the law which says that no city en-
ploye shall have his salary raised dur
ing his term of office, it also, through
defect, exempts them from further
clause which requires that all their
fees shall be turned into the city
treasury.
He points out defects in the Ken
nedy bill pertaining to the elimination
of grade crossings, also vetoed. Ex-
listing statutes permit city councils or
county commissioners to enter into
agreement with a steam railroad for
the elimination of grade crossings.
The wording of the bill, says Cover
nor Harmon, is such that while inter
urban roads would thus be included
in a few rare instances, steam roads
would be exempted from eliminating
their grade crossings save in connec-
ton with interurbans.
Bills signed were:
MISUNDERSTANDING additional pow
er upon the office of the chief in
spector of workshops and factories,
permitting him to require fire drills
in any factory or workshop and force
the erection of means of egress from
burning buildings.
Scott-Exempts a bank from liabil-
n nh nI
against against the account of one of
it's depositors, unless the depositor
serves notice within one year after
check has been paid.
Notwithstanding that when oil
we'll castings are drawn from a we'll
which has penetrated any of the work
ings of mine, the openings shall be
plugged with cement to prevent leak
age or dangerous gases into mine.
Welsh-Permitting construction of
joint ditch between Ottawa and Wood
counties.
Battlefeld-Giving juvenile court ju-
risdiction in all misdemeanors where
delinquency of a child is involved.
Irving-Restoring Israel township,
Preble county, to its original organi-
zation as one election precinct
Deaton of Champaign - Codifying
the law which stipulates that liability
of insurance companies for the out
standing losses which are to be set
forth in their annual report to the
state insurance department.
Muhlbach-Providing means for the
organization of mutual protective as
sociations.