Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-02-21
HAS
MUCH WORK TO Do
Bills of Statewide Import
ance to Consider.
THE NEW LIQUOR LAW
Recall Amendment, Workmen's Com
pensation, Medical Inspection Of
Schools, and Many Others
Are on the List.
BY d. A. DONOVAN.
peolal Columbus Correspondent.

COluIiDuS.-lne elSnLleCn SeueTai
assembly plunged this week into
some OF the most important work that
confronts its session. Every hour
practically was filled with legisla-
tion of state wide Importance. The
week witnessed the consideration
Of the second big administration
measure, namely, workmen's compen-
sation. On Monday night the joint
temperance committee took up
final consideration of a liquor license
bill. At two o'clock on Tuesday the
senate took up the consideration
of the workmen's compensation, spon-
sored by Senator Green, the majority
floor leader, and warmly favored by
Gov. Cox. At the same hour the house
began consideration of the Tor
rens' system for registering land
titles. On Wednesday morning the
judiciary committee of the house
considered Bigelow's bill proposing to
natl Street Railway Co. On Thurs
day morning the same committee
had public hearing on Diser's reso-
luton, which proposes constitutions
al amendment allowing the recall Of
all public officers, including judges.
Meantime, the state administration
presented to the assembly its final
proposals, including taxation reform
and various members continued to
dump in prospective legislation.
New Liquor Measure.
1t is not likely that the new liquor
license bill will come before the as
sembly before next week. The bill,
now, practically complete, abolishes
any kind of gambling in connection
with saloons, divorces saloons from
questionable resorts. and prevents
saloon men from harboring disreput-
able men or women, from selling to
drunkards and from selling to minors,
except under rigid restrictions. The
anti-saloon interests are asking that
saloons be wholly divorced from bowl
ing alleys and billiard rooms, that no
liquor be sold in any concert or dance
hall or other amusement place, and
that saloon men be prohibited from
selling any goods on credit. These
provisions, however, have not yet
been made part of the proposed law.
There Is now almost no question but
that Gov. Cox will win in his conten.
ton to have the governor given the
right to appoint the three state H.
cense commissioners. Even the "drys''
have given up the fight to prevent
this and most of them have aban-
doned their plan to have the license
commissioners elected in the coun.
ties. Under the Cox plan, the state
commissioners would appoint the
county commissioners. The conces.
sion granted by the administration
is that there shall be only two instead
of three license commissioners in
each wet" county and that they shall
be of opposite politics.
Two Important Bills.
Two Ohio business activities are
threatened with destruction by bills
which will be considered by the as.
sembly this week. The liability in.
surance companies will be driven out
of business if the Green Workmen's
the same thing will happen to the
abstractors of titles If the Torrens
bill for registering land titles goes
through. The compensation bill
places industrial insurance wholly in
the hands of the state and thus leaves
nothing for the private liability peo.
pie. The Torrens bill does away with
hn Nf hdt trrr 1oy
titles and substitutes system where.
in the county recorder gives the pur.
chaser of land certificate of title
1t would place every recorder under
heavy bond.
Medical inspection in Schools.
Medical and dental inspection in all
the schools of Ohio is now being
warmly sponsored by the state board
of health and the Ohio Medical asso
citation. Bills are pending in the as
sembly seeking to compel the ap
pointment of medical inspector and
dental inspector in every school dis.
trict at the ratio of not to exceed
one inspector of each kind for each
1000 children. This, 1t is estimated
would completely insure the careful
supervision of the bodily condition
and the condition of the teeth OF
every school child in Ohio.
Hunters License Law.
In the expectation that the house
will concur in the action of the sen
ate in passing the Hunters License
law, the state fish and game commits
sion is preparing for new era OF
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Against Dangerous Drugs.