Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-02-28

er, Clement Baxter, who was accused
of taking $3,14O of the funds of the
defunct Columbus bank. Clement
Baxter had been acting as deputy
bank examiner under his brother
who was chief.
Forty-one New Bills.
The legislative committee named
| recently to probe state offices and de-
partments is slow in getting under
headway of steam. The committee
has done little but organize and the
fear still prevails that it will be able
to accomplish nothing of value this
session, although the resolution un-
der which it was named provides that
it must report back to present session.
Still DINNER grows the hope that
the present assembly will be able to
make record for expedition of work.
The biggest obstacle to short ses-
sion appeared in the house Friday
when that body introduced Al new
bills and reported 81 bills out of COM
| mittee.
First Charge of 'Sleepers.'
The first charge that real "sleepers"
are being injected into bills to destroy
their effectiveness, Is being made.
1t concerns the public utilities bill that
| is being drafted, and the substance
of 1t Is that somebody, desiring to aid
the public service interests of the
state, has succeeded in striking out
of the present public utilities Law that
provision which gives the state pub
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over telephone mergers. The omis-
sion of the important provision re-
lating to mergers was noticed by John
Stockwell, assistant city solicitor of
Cleveland, and he raised such howl
that 1t was Immediately re-inserted.
Stockwell charges that somebody
caused the omission to be made ma
liciously with view to aiding the
telephone companies, and preventing
the state commission from having con-
troll over rates after mergers had been
effected. Tha net result of the detec-
ton of the so-called Sleeper" is the
making of bad blood between those
concerned in the drafting of the new
bill and more trouble is feared.
Curative Measure.
bill introduced in the senate
seeks to cure the weakness in the
vital statistics law, under which the
clans and midwives could not be COM
PEELED to report births, and give Incl
dental information in connection
Herewith. The court held that this
would be demanding service without
pay. The curative bill provides that
physicians and midwives need not
give information other than that
which they possess at the time of
making reports. Other information
desired by the state board must be
gotten from local registrars.
The passage by the senate of the
workmens compensation bill and the
action of the house in passing to third
reading the statewide primary bill
were the important achievements Of
the present week. 1t will be noted
that neither of these very notable
measures was enacted into law. The
compensation bill now faces fight
in the house, and the primary bill
must get third reading in the house
before it can even go to the senate
for consideration. If the compensa-
ton bill gets before the house next
week, it will draw the attention of
the entire assembly. 1t is regarded
by the administration as the great
est measure of the session and Gov.
Cox is on record for demanding that
it go through the house without a
single change from the form in which
it passed the senate.
Gold Storage Men Argue.
Chickens and eggs would be driven
out of Ohio, the senate municipal af-
fairs committee is being told by rep,
resentatives of cold storage interests,
if the assembly passes the McDermott
BILL limiting the cold storage of per.
ishable food stuffs to 80 days. The
storage people argue that If storage
is so limited, eggs will be glut on
the market in certain seasons of the
: year and an unknown quantity in
, other seasons. They hold that the
result will make the chicken indus
try profitless one and that the farm
ers of Ohio will quit raising them
The committee has thus far taken nc
On thO Jill. bCioiC tohih6
vote it will hear the fish dealers.
Relief for Convicts' Families.
Something Of financial relief for the
: families of pententiary convicts was
t provided when the senate made into
/. law the bill which allows the state
/ administration board to use prisoners
: in the crushing of stone and othel
v | road material and of allowing the
: families of the prisoners SO employed
5 a certain portion of their earning!
t over and above the cost of food ant
3 maintenance.
. The senate committee on judiciar!
{ has struck blow against a form o
. what the committee deems to b.
Q petty graft. The alleged graft con
n sists of the appointment each year b.
1 the common pleas judge of each coun
h | Nv of ayaminarS m count the cash In