The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-06

" w fSAy serve the rules re-
S4y3lN garding senatorial
---YSS courtesy, for it
rode rough-shod
over the arguments and the pleadings
of the young senator from Akron, Will
liam F. Potting, for delay. Only two
senators voted with Potting against
the probe resolution, Beman, Repub-
lican, of Gallia county, and Weygandt,
Democrat, of Portage county.
Three to Investigate.
The probe resolution calls for the
appointment of a committee of three
senators to investigate the strike con-
ditions and the operations of the rub
Der plants. 1t declares that the rub
Der manufacturers have been the ben
eficiaries OF a high protective tariff,
declares that they have been over
capitalized, contends that they have
grown arrogant through great wealth
and are now refusing to arbitrate
their differences with their workmen.
The present investigation is the first
attempted by the senate alone since
the memorable Drake investigation Of
the city of Cincinnati, which was halt
ed by a decision of the supreme court,
that one body of the assembly, investi-
eating alone, had not the right to COM
pei the attendance of witnesses. An
amendment to the continution, adopt
ed by the people with other amend.
ments last fall, makes a probe by
either branch of the assembly fully
valid, and gives the investigators alb
solute right to compel the attendance
Of witnesses, and the productions of
books and papers. By the provisions
of the present resolution, the probers
are to be named by the president of
the senate.
In arguing for the resolution, Sen.
ator Green denied charges made by
POtting that the Industrial Workers
of the World were behind it. IL have
beon fighting the so-called radical
branch of labor for the last ten years, u
| declared Green, "and yet l see now
these people preaching their seditious
doctrines through the land, undis.
turbed, while great manufacturers are
trying to put behind Jail doors con.
RervatiVe labor leaders like Samuel
Gompers and John Mitchell"
Must Serve Sentences.
Edward Frey, contractor, and Perry
l.. Turner. court house janitor, con-
victed of graft in the Darke county
investigation, must serve the peniten.
tiary sentences imposed upon them,
according to the decision of the su,
preme court. The highest tribunal
upholds the rulings of the lower
courts. Frey will serve two years for
getting money from the county on
false bills. Turner will serve one
year for being implicated in the pres
entation of false vouchers to the
county treasurer. Both men appealed
to the supreme court in the hope OF
getting their sentences annulled. They
were caught in the dragnet which re,
suited in several county officials be.
ing sent to the penitentiary for loot
ing of the public treasury.
A SAL 41,S92-verdict given the Expand
ed Metal Fire Proofing Co. against the
Noel Construction Co., by the Mont
gomery county courts, was modified
by the supreme court. The Noel com
pany contracted with the Expanded
Metal Co. to construct cement work
at the National Cash Register plant
and the controversy between them
grew out of suits filed by laborers and
material men as mechanics liens.
Mrs. Sarah v. Palmer was given a
$5,000-Verdict against DR.. William H
Humiston of Cleveland, because a
sponge was left in her body after she
was operated upon, necessitating a
second operation. The defendant
claimed that the hospital people were
to blame for the non-removal of the
sponge.
Anti-cigaret agitation is not popu
lar in the present general assembly
The solons treat it with playful dis
dain. Whenever Senator Dollison ot
Hooking county, author of the anti