The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-02-06
MEASURES PASSED
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HOUSE.

Agler Of Stark-Requiring proceed
ings in error to be started within 60
days after judgment.
Reid of Fayette - Provides county
boards to manage memorial halls.
Black OF Hamilton-Establish a
legislative reference department.
Young of Cuyahoga-To make 81.
preme court clerk appointive in place
OF elective.
Bonnell Of Guernsey Protecting
quail until 1918; pheasants until 1917.
SENATE.
Hudson OF Scioto-Establishin reg
istration and examination OF civil and
mining engineers.
Hillenkamp OF Lucas-Making rail.
road mortgages subordinate to claims
for labor and personal injuries.
Dollison Of Notwithstanding So
licitation of money from prisoners to
secure their release, parole or pardon.
Beckett Of Pickway-To compel re-
moval of distractions from bitches
and waterways.
Green OF Coshocton-To permit use
Of acetyline gas lamps by coal miners.
Bernstein of Cuyahoga TO hasten
election returns as soon as precinct
vote count Is completed.
cinnati. The bill went flrst through
the house and then through the SEN
ate. The new department is designed
to collect general information for the
use Of legislators.
Through the provisions of the
Hillenkamp bill, passed by the senate.
first mortgages executed by any carry.
ing company In Ohio, become sub
ordinated to damage claims for in
juries or to claims for labor performed.
The author of the bill argued that rail-
roads often execute mortgages and
place themselves In the hands Of a re.
ceiver for the sole purpose Of evading
damage suits. The measure now goes
to the house for approval.
The senate passed the Hudson bill
providing for the examination and
registration Of civil and mining engi-
neers and surveyors. It exempts from
examination persons now in practice.
The senate passed also the Dollison
bill preventing any person from So
liciting legal business from inmates of
penal institutions. This measure Is
the outgrowth of the recent trouble
between Chaplain Richards of the Ohio
penitentiary and Miss Jeanette Coop
er, whom he accused of extorting
money from convicts for attempts to
secure their release.
The house passed the King bill pro.
viding for the sale by weight instead
of by measure of all food products un'
less there is agreement in writing to
the contrary between the seller and
the buyer.
Two Questions Bother Solons.
It's hard to say whether the
liquor question or the Cincinnati
traction franchise II causing the
more troubled sleep for members
of the Ohio assembly. Most peo
pie about the great state OF Ohio re
aliZe the bitterness Of that liquor Ques
ton, but few outside Cincinnati ore
able to know the tempest that is rag
ing within the historic boundaries o.
the Queen City over the proposed re
vocation of the franchise of the Gin
cinnati Street Railway Co. This ii
the famous "Fifty.Year" franchise
The tempest broke when Herber
S. Bigelow introduced few days age
his bill to revoke the celebrated Gin
cinnati franchise. Now Cincinnati IL
split into fighting factions. The leg
islature Is as hopelessly divided. Two
bitterly opposing sides are arrayeC
one against the other. A story O
bribery, corruption, arrogancy, wretch
ed car service and high fares is being
told by the supporters Of the Bigelov
bill. Cincinnati people pay straigh
five-cent fare. They are the only in
habitants of large city in the stats
that have such a fare. Now, during
the midst of the story, comes Mayo
Henry T. Hunt with compromise
He asks that the Bigelow bill be no
pushed. He says that if the Traction
company is let alone for the present
it will spend hundreds of Thousands
Of dollars for improvements and bet
ter service. He argues that by thi
plan the Cincinnati people will reall.
get speedier relief than if they hav,
to wait for the end of the inevitable
contest that must come in the court
if the franchise is revoked. But tn
Hunt proposition has given only nev
impetus to the fury of the tempest
Eiuht Liability Insurance.
Opponents of the plan to compe
employers in Ohio to adopt the state
scheme of liability insurance, that is
the plan to force employers to cor
tribute to the state liability insuranc
fund, have taken up the cry of "Sc
cialism!" in an effort to turn sent
, ment against it. They are arguin
that the new plan Is the first step i
a studied policy to have the state &
Ohio enter the general insurance bus
ness and drive the private companie
out of the state. This line of attac
was indicated when the house an
senate labor committee met joint
| to hear arguments for the first tim
, for and against the bill. The friend
Of the bill argue that 1t is the bus
ness of the state to protect thos
least able to protect themselves an
that in so doing the question of pol
: tics in any form does not enter.
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