The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-20


Der of the committee now InVestlsat.
ing the Rubber strike in Akron.
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which must not only pass the house
but must then go through the gaunt.
let Of the senate committee and sen.
ate body. If the senate committee ad.
heres to its determination, the idea
Of bringing the session to an abrupt
close as soon as the appropriation bill
is finally ready, will have to be
abandoned.
Would Change Industrial Commission.
Dangerous reefs are found to
be strewn in the path of the
industrial commission bill which
went sailing through the senate
so smoothly. The bill finds itself
now tossed and turned in churn.
ing seas. 1t had hoped to find refuge
In the house committee on labor, but
there the menace is especially great
and what looked like a peaceful har
Dor has become the precise opposite
The industrial commission bill is the
one which proposes to amalgamate all
state departments having to do with
labor and make them simply bureaus
under commission appointed by the
governor. Union labor is finding Sc.
rious fault with the proposition, not
with the principle ITSELF but with the
idea that the new commission with its
sweeping powers may have the right
to force arbitration in labor troubles,
and this right the labor union element
opposes strongly. The proposed law
does not specifically grant the author
ity to forcibly settle labor troubles,
but it conveys such tremendous pow
ers upon the commission that many
people believe the right to force arbi.
tration would necessarily be involved.
One big change is being suggested by
the labor people as solution to the
difficulty They want every statewide
ruling or order that the commission
may issue made subject to a referen
dunn vote of the people. If this change
is made they contend that they do not
care how sweeping may be the au
thority of the new state body Their
demand for the right of referendum
is based on the assumption that the
new commission is to be given legis
lative powers and that a referendum
should be the natural sequence in
view of the fact that the acts of the
general assembly can be reviewed by
the-people.
Next to the question of the indus.
trial commission and OF license, taxa,
tion is causing the most acute trouble
in the assembly. There are many
who contend even that the state ad.
ministration is more perturbed over
the tax question than any other and
there are indications that give color
to this view One big taxation bill al.
ready has been recalled by the gov,
ernor before even reaching the |
threshold of the general assembly and
one or two other smaller ones shrank |
away in fear after they had poked |
their noses in at the assembly doors
and had met such a cold reception.
Another measure has now been pre-
pared and Representative Warnes OF |
Holmes county is the sponsor. II |
is simpler than the rest apparent |
ly. Besides making changes in
the general tax laws as at present
drawn, the new bill allows the gov.
ernor to name county tax commission,
ers, who in turn name assessors and
who bear the full responsibility for
the tax system in their respective
counties. The bill wipes out all local
reviewing boards and bodies and pro.
vides that appeals from the tax com.
missioners shall go straight to the
state tax commission and from there
if necessary, to the courts.
Bank Superintendent Resigns.
The resignation of State Bank Su.
perintendent e. e. Baxter of Lima is
causing wide spread comment. While
1t is not thought that anybody in auD
thority directly asked for the Volun,
Lary retirement of the banking head
Of the state, it is intimated that strong
hints were thrown out that the Lima
nan had best quit. He was charged
some weeks ago with having paid one
of his private loans with $37 900 taken
rom the funds of the defunct Colum
1us Savings & Trust Co. He was in
charge of the institutions affairs at
he time. He has up to this time
his innocence.
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