The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-02-13
, THE DRYS ARE IN
THE MAJORITY
As Shown by the Poll Of the
temperance Committee.
UNCONSCIOUS SLIP MADE
Thos. (. DaVey of Youngstown Is Sc
lected President Of State Board
Of Administration to Sue
ceed A. w. Thurman.
BY o. A, DONOVAN,
n.oial columbu. corr..nond.n,.

Special Columbus Correspondent.
Columbus, O.-An unconscious slip
on the part of Chairman Smith
Welsh Of the house temperance COM
mittee may have far-reaching effect In
the framing of the important liquor
traffic license bill. Mr.. Welsh, in max
ing up the house portion of the sub
committee which will draft this meas
ure placed thereon two representa-
tives of known wet" tendencies and
two of opposite belief. He did this
under the supposition that Chairman
Greenlund of the senate temperance
committee had placed Senator Hud-
son, "wet," among the three mem
, bers of the subcommittee to come
from the upper house. It developed
that Senator Howard Of Belmont coun-
ty, pronounced dry" and not SEN
ator Hudson, was named by Chairman
Greenlund, thus making two dry"
senators and one wet" senator on the
senate's part of the subcommittee.
With the house members equally di
vided, this gives the "drys" majority
of one in this committee, the same
majority which the "wets" had intend
ed to have.
Civil Service Bill.
Mayo Fessler of Cleveland, secre-
tary of the municipal association; r.
w. Belcher, secretary of the National
Civil Service Reform league; Louis
H. Paine of Toledo; Stuard R. Bolin,
city solicitor of Columbus, and other
interested parties appeared at the
Joint meeting of the senate judiciary
and house civil service committees,
when the Friebolin civil service bill
was given a public hearing. Mr.. Bel
cher gave 1t as his opinion that the
Friebolin bill, after being amended
somewhat, with the consent Of the All-
thor, vees6 make an efficient and
workable law, Mr.. Fessler indicated
the changes that IL was deemed wise
to make in the bill. The action of
the governor in removing member
of the civil service commission would
be made final. The rules of the COM
mission are to have the force and ef-
feet Of law. Assistants in the law de.
partments are not to be exempt from
the operation of the law, as originally
proposed. The number of years in
cumbent must be in Office to remain
without examination is to be changed
from ten to seven.
Opposes 5ieeIow Measure.
Mayor Henry T. Hunt, in a speech
before the judiciary committee of the
house, opposing the bill of Rev. Her.
bert S. Bigelow to annul the fran
chise of the Cincinnati Street Rail
way Co., said that Cincinnati was not
yet ready for municipal ownership OF
street railways. He urged law pro
viding for indeterminate franchises
proposing that companies claiming tC
hold franchises be permitted to hold
them until the municipalities from
which they are held are ready to take
them oyer under municipal owner
ship and operation plan! Under his
plan a civic commission would be ap
pointed to fix the valuation at which
such property is to be taken over
He was supported by City Solicitor
Alfred Bettman of Cincinnati.
DaVey Succeeds Thurman.
Thomas E. Davey of Youngstown
succeeds Allen w. Thurman of Colum
bus as president of the state board o.
administration. The board was some
what at sea as to just which Of the
two members was entitled to the hon
or, Mr.. Thurman having been thu
shortterm member and still holding
office pending the appointment of ;
successor Mr.. Davey was originall.
appointed for two years, which woult
make him the short.term member al
soon as Thurman's successor Il
named. The board settled the matte
to it's own satisfaction by selectin.
Mr.. Davey as president for the com
ing year.
Convict Now Prison Boss.
r. The old belief that you can
place a prisoner over other pris
oners, with satisfactory results
has been shattered. Recently, H
w, Gazelle, a former Clevelant
banker, serving five years in the penl
tentiary for embezzlement, was place,
in complete charge of the prison farm
near Orient, o., superseding A. B
Henderson Of Portsmouth, who wa
dropped from the states payroll. Hen
derson has been drawing $100 montl
in the position for the past two years
Gazelle has been model prisone
ever since he was received at tn
penitentiary. He occupied position
of trust in the prison Office for som
time, and has lately been employed b.