The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-16
BIG INTERESTS
HAVE ADVOCATED
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FOr Economy and EHlelenoN.

TOT economy ana EUciency.
Bills were passed to give the state :
modern budget system under whict
the governor will call biennially upoI
departmental heads for the submis
sion to him of estimates of money
needed. The state executive will have
power to send into each institution
and state department a technically
equipped official for the purpose OF
verifying such estimates and investi.
eating the necessity thereof. This of.
ticer also may make recommendations
for changes in methods of administra-
tion for the promotion of economy
and the production of efficiency. The
governor will thus be able to scan all
estimates carefully, weigh the needs
of all departments and make the ne.
cessary recommendations to the gen.
eral assembly. Heretofore each head
of state department has submitted
his estimate directly to the general
assembly, and the latter body, accept.
ing these recommendations, appropri.
ated from S9,0OO,000 to $4,000. 900 an.
nually. With all state officials asking
for the maxims they believed the leg.
islature would grant, the aggregate ap.
preparations usually were more than
strict economy equired. There were
three bills passed for this purpose.
One changed the fiscal year ending
from Nov. 10 to June 80; a second
permits allowances by the state emer-
gency board to be taken from the
state treasury. Heretofore such money
was borrowed from private banks at
high rates of interest. The other
measure creates the state budget com.
mission, whose powers and duties are
indicated above.
A Modern School Code.
a mandatory constitutional amend. |
ment adopted last fall makes neces.
sary the complete reorganization and
rehabilitation of the common school
system of the state. Believing such
should not be undertaken without an
investigation, commission was ap-
pointed to make a complete survey of
conditions. This body will report to
the special session of the general as
sembly next January, and when the
new code of school laws is enacted II
will contain the best features of the
scientific codes of other states, and it
Is aimed to make it representative of
the best thought of educators on the
subject of administering the common
schools.
A coordination of the energies of
the state government and state mi.
versity was provided for in acts that
give the services of students in the
engineering class at the state univer.
sity to a state engineer entrusted with
the task Of valuing the property of
utilities, while the activities of the
college Of agriculture have been
placed under the supervision of the
state agricultural commission. Ex-
perts in the faculty of the state uni
versity also are to assist IN tho draft.
ing of proposed legislation, and need
ed assistance was given to the general
assembly by the establishment of a
legislative research bureau.
Protection For Investors.
INSCRIPTIONS dealers in fraudulent :
securities, stocks and bonds will find :,
that the field for their activities in
Ohlo has been considerably lessened, :
and Ohioans who are robbed of mil. !
lons of dollars annually by the =
takers" will discover the general as. G
sembly has given them needed pro- :
lection with respect to investments :
through the Clark blue sky" act The !
state superintendent Of banks and 9
banking was given the power to Ii. +
'ense or refuse licenses to all brokers. /
rhe same official must certify to the
of stock in all new corpora.
ions before it may be sold, and any M
'ody who wishes to sell land situated ba
outside the state to resident of Ohio --
must certify to the banking superin- .
endent full information about such :,
and. Violations of the law are classed <
IS felonies, with imprisonment and s
leayy fines as punishment =
Taxing Machinery Reorganized. q
The taxing machinery of the state <
vas reorganized and modernized so as y
catch the dodgers who have es- &
aped contributing their just share of 3.
Ak money by either hiding property (,
r getting inadequate valuations. In y
tead of electing local assessors. and \
hereby placing them under obligation y
the property owners for their posi- Sl
ons, law was enacted under which N
lese officials will be appointed There "
Ill be a deputy tax commissioner ap- y,
ointed in each small county, and two y
the larger ones. These will appoint "
isistants, and all may be removed "
T dereliction of duty. The work OF u
e old quadrennial appraisers will be s.
me by the appointive assessors and "a
'unty boards of complaint will re. y!
ace city boards of review n
The new local taxing assessors e
will be immune from all local in IN