The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-05-12
UTILITIES BILL
IN CONFERENCE
House Flatly Refuses to Ac.
Cept Senate Amendments.
RUSSELL LEADS FIGHT

Representatives OF Both Parties De.
nounee Changes inserted by Upper
Branch as Gross Betrayal OF Peo.
Plies Interests - Representative
Lanadon Declares Measure Worst
Ever introduced In ohio Leslsla.
turs Since He Became Member.
Columbus, o.. May 12.-By vote
ot S4 to II the house refused TO con-
cur in the senate amendments to the
public utilities bill. The measure
will now go to conference commit
tee,
Those who voted in favor Of con
curing were: Democrats-Behne OF
Williams, Donson and Gebhardt OF
Montgomery, Finley of Morgan. Good
bread OF Wyandot. Gotshall Of Knox,
Leathers and Thomas of Wood, Nye
of Pike, .Stambaugh of Hardin,
Warnes OF Holmes aud Winters OF
Erie. Repubhcans--G OF Cham
paign, jenkins OF Madison. Lowry OF
Lawrence, Ratlift of Hamilton and
Reid OF Fayette. f'f
When the bill came up In tho house
the progressives, both Republicans
and Democrats, opened 4 big fight to
put back some Of the teeth" which
the senate had extracted. The bill as
passed by the senate containing
more than 200 amendments that
we're put in. IL is alleged, at the so
hcitation OF public service corpora
tions. came up in the house for con-
currence in the senate amendments.
Representative Price Russell OF
Wayne county, Democratic floor lead
er, made the fight against the concur
renee. This bill is fraught with
great danger to the people of Ohio"
said Russell.
"The corporations have been here
with well.paid lawyers and lobbyists;
the people have not been represented
only as we are called upon to repre-
sent them today. A better bill can
be had by sending il TO conference
committee and, at least, we can not
get a worse bill"
Calls u Worst Ever. 9fr
This bill as II now stands'is is the
worst bill ever presented to-an Ohio
legislature since have been a mem
ber." said Representative Lartsdon OF
Warren county. Republican floor lead
er. THE basis on which the COM
mission must work damns the bill.
Back of the bill are powerful infiu.
ences to get mergers and issue mil
lions OF watered stock. We ought to
stand or fall on the proposition that
we won't see the people robbed. In
the senate nobody looked after the
peoples interests; they were looking
out for the other side nf the proposi'
ton. We are doing the people a
great wrong II we concur in the SEN
ate amendments"
Special interests forced those
amendments down the throats of the
senate" said Representative Kilpat'
rick OF Trumbull county ut Is bet
ter to have no bill at all than this
one in its present shape. It's a fight
now between the people and special
1
Representative Hillenkamp of Lu-
cas- county also denounced the bill
as an outrage
Representative Ratliff OF Hamilton
county and Representative Winters
Of Erie county urged the house to
concur in the senate amendments,
saying tho senate amendments did
not lessen the strength OF the orig
inAl bill.
Later in the session Speaker Vim
ing appointed Representatives Lang
don OF Warren, Fitzpatrick of Trum-
bull and Winters OF Erie county on
the joint conference committee to
consider amendments 10 the public
utilities bill. Lieuifnant Governor
Nichols named on the senate commit
tee Stockwell OF Cuyahoga, Mcclure
OF Tuscarawas and Bader OF Hamil
ton.
The Finnefrock senate bill prohib
fting students who are temporary res
idents OF college towns from voting
In the county in which the school II
located, was passed by the house by