The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
RELIEF BILLS
PUT THROUGH
House Responds 10 Exigencies of
FIOOd-Swept SectiOns-A
Administration Ideas.

One Authorizes Unlimited Expenditure
by Political Subdivisions For Repair
Work-country Prison Site Assured
by Action of the Lower Branch.
Plan to XIII One Per Cent Tax Law
Upset.
Columbus, o., April 1O.-The house
passed the two principal flood relief
measures proposed by the administra-
tion, the Snyder bill enabling political
subdivisions to finance work Of recon-
struction of bridges, levees and other
public works, and the Vonderhelde
bill authorizing the state treasurer to
deposit an aggregate Of S3,000,000 in
building and loan associations to en-
able them TO aid home owners rebuild
and repair houses.
AS passed, the Snyder bill takes OF
the lid and permits unlimited expend-
iture to repair the flood damage OF
this year Reconstruction work Is di-
vided into three classes, temporary
repairs, permanent repairs, perma.
nent requirements. County commits.
sioners, municipal councils, township
trustees, members of school boards
and trustees of road districts may
make temporary repairs not costing
over $500. If the cost is greater the
approval of the common pleas court
must be had. Bonds or notes may be
issued and taxes levied without re-
gard to the debt or tax limits.
For Prison In Country.
Carrying s25O,OOO as a preliminary
appropriation for a site, the admins
tration bill for the establishment Of 4
new penitentiary in the country was
passed by the house. This action by
the house practically assures the
abandonment Of the present prison
and the transfer of 1000 to 1900 con-
victs, many of them held in idleness,
to a farm prison.
Samuel ]. Black of Wyandot, author
Of the bill, sought to demonstrate that
by use of convict labor the new prison
will not cost as much as it would to
the reconstruction of the
old prison, as urged by Ex-Governor
Harmon.
The bill creates a commission Of
four members, with authority to buy
$500 acres or less and make plans,
the work of building to be done by the
state board of administration. The
state prison farm at Morgans Station
1865 acres.
The house also passed Senator
Moneys bill authorizing the transfer
Of prisoners from one penal institu-
ion to another and of insane patients
rom one state hospital to another.
The Black bill, authorizing the state
BOARD of administration to pay a por-
ion of the earnings of convicts to
heir families, was ordered to the final
yote calendar. Cost of maintenance
must be deducted from earnings be-
ore paying them to the prisoners
amily.
Screen Bill Again Delayed.
Though Senator William Green OF
Joshocton, floor leader of the Demo-
ratio majority and author of the coal {
Green bill, branded the Thomas reso-
Ition, calling for the appointment Of
commission to investigate the prop
sition, as a "subterfuge" to kill his {
which has passed the senate '
nd now is on the house calendar for {
assage, the senate adopted the reso-
ltlon by a vote of 21 to H. 1t was
dopted by the house Tuesday. SEN q
tor Green paved the way for heated :
when he declared that
9th branches of the assembly were +
ledged to the support of his bill
Representative Lowry of Henry,
floor leader, led sortie
the head of the school board brig
lie and upset the program to modify