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APPORTION WORK
OF CONVENTION
President Will Have Naming Of
Nineteen Committees.
MEMBERSHIP IS TO Be LARGE

Recommendation TO Be Made That
Vice President BE EIected-Presl-
dent Feos Of Antioch College Gets
Early Mention For Place - More
Than 200 Men and Women Arc
After Jobs With Constitution Max.
ers-Work Three Days a Week.
Columbus, o.. Jan. 12.-Tne new
constitution of Ohio will be made
piecemeal by 13 committees of 81
members each, the committee on
rules having accepted the recommen-
dation Of President Bigelow that the
membership be made large, in order
that each delegate can get choice
assignment IL he so desires. There
will be six additional committees,
forming a total of 10, but the
tedious work Of whipping into
shape for adoption the separate pro-
posals offered by individual dele
| gates will be assigned to the 13 large
committees.
They are committee on initiative
! and referendum, short ballot Judi
ciary, woman's suffrage, good roads,
public works. municipal government,
taxation, miscellaneous subjects,
amendments, schedules, liquor traf.
| fic, labor.
! The additional committees will be
on rules, seven members; arrange
ment and phraseology, nine; en-
ployes, five; claims. seven; printing
and public procedure, seven; submis.
sion and address to the public, nine.
Few delegates were aware that
the employees committee was author
lied byresolution todistribute the pat
ronage, but the wording of it appear
ed to give the committee the patron.
age power, subject to the veto of the
convention. The committee assumed
it, though Mr.. Harris of Ashtabula,
member of the committee, disputed
its right to do more than fix the
number of jobs.
Many Seek Jobs.
According to member of the
committee, there are fully 200 appli-
cations for positions. Fathers are
here trying to get places for their
daughters, brothers, for their sisters,
bachelors for their sweethearts, and
one husband has been on the ground
trying to get a So day JOB for his
wife. AS usual, big majority OF
the applicants will get nothing.
President Bigelow has named Mrs
Ada Brown Pemberton of New Wen
ma as his secretary.
1t was decided to recommend to
the general body that the position OF
vice president be created. Dr.. s. d
Fess, president of Antioch college
and delegate from Greene county, is
prominently mentioned for the place
The committee has also tentatively
agreed that the convention will work
three full days a week Only one
session a day viii be held, that be
ginning at 1890 o'clock in the
morning on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays.
All officers and employees of the
convention will be subject to the re
call. This is provided in the frs
rule adopted by the rules committee
: Under it President Bigelow and tn;
= other officers already elected and the
employees 70 be appointed on recon-
mendation of the committee on EN-
ployes are to serve on good behavior
That the recall rule is not to bC
ornamental, but is intended to b.
2 used if there should be- need Of it, il
g indicated by the retaining Of {
: standing COMMITTEES, the committee
+ on employees. That committee, o
. which Judge Roehm of Montgomer!
il chairman, decided to create A
subordinate positions, including sev
en- clerks, 10 stenographers. 10 Gus
todiang and porters, and eight pages