Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-30

representative Warnes of Holmes;
bill requiring payment of all depart
ment receipts into the state treasury,
Senator Mooney of Auglaize; bond
exemption bill, Representative Mills
of Cuyahoga county.
Senators Friedolin and Hoppe Of
Cuyahoga will introduce, respectively,
amendments necessary to correct er-
rors in the Greenlund judiciary and
juvenile laws enacted last winter.
For Efficiency and Economy.
The Ohio Institute for Public Efiei-
ency, to have headquarters at Colurn-
bus, has been organized by business
and professional men, Of Columbus,
Cleveland, Canton, Akron and Elyria.
Rufus E. Miles, director of the Ciucin-
natl municipal research bureau, will
be the head of the institute. He will
be Known as the executive officer. The
new organization is to be at the seIv-
ice of the state and cities in making
surveys of departments of government
with the idea of recommending eff
cheney and economy.
Between s1,000,00O and $4,000, 600
will find their way into the Golfers of
the state if the supreme court holds
that companies which lease their rail-
road property to holding companies
are liable for the Willis law tax of
three-twentieths of 1 per cent of their
capital stock The court is asked to
| pass upon this question in an appeal
| filed by the state from decision OF
| the Cuyahoga county court of appeals
| holding that the state cannot collect
| Willis law taxes amounting to $85, 200
f! from the Cleveland & Pittsburgh rail-
road, whose property is under lease
by the Pennsylvania company The
decision will determine the scope of
will be collected from other railroads.
| The tax is due annually.
| Author of Auto Law Talks.
But one word should be changed in
amending the Warnes automobile Ii
cense law, the status of which is now
the subject of controversy in. the
courts, according to Representative
Warnes of Holmes county, its author.
1t now provides that one-third of it's
receipts shall go into the road fund
| Warnes would strike out "one-third'
and insert "all," thus turning over all
i of the income of the statute to the
| cause of good roads. It is hard to un.
! derstand how this one change would
| cure the alleged defect which the
Franklin county court held made the
law unconstitutional, which was thai
the state is without power to impose
a graduated tax on automobiles
Warnes said the amendment would be
! offered soon after the session opened
Foraker's Attitude Worries.
Republican organization leaders here
are perceptibly worried over the un
certainty that is characterizing tbs
attitude of former United States Sen
ator ]. B. Foraker They say they fee
certain he will vie with Senator Theo
dore E. Burton for the senatorial
nomination this year, and still he il
netting them by Withholding any
definite announcement of his inten
tions. Meantime, the Foraker adhe
rents insist that there is a real life
sized boom for the former senator II
progress of the making. To tho OBJ
server at the capital it looks rs Il
Foraker already is candidate Much
press matter is being sent over the
state in his behalf, and some of his
friends are authority for the statement
that he will soon have an organized
campaign bureau running full blast
Intimates of the Foraker politica
| household say that the former senator
is keenly hopeful of the situation ant
believes he can defeat Senator BurtoI
at the primary At the present mo
ment it looks like a fight between
these two only for the Republican
senatorial nomination Word from
Foraker's home city, Cincinnati. i.
i that if he does enter the fight in ear
nest, he will make whirlwind cam
paign from one end of the state to tht
other Friends of Senator Burton in
sist that he will have the support O
the Republican organizations in tn,
primary fight, if there is to be any
He was promised this support, in fact
during his meeting here with the stat,
central committee, it is reported
When the Republicans gather here fo
their get-together banquet and confer
ence on Feb 26, Senator Burton il
almost certain to be On hand. 1t il
doubtful, on the other hand, il forme
Senator Foraker will be one of tn,
! guests for he has been rather satirica
about the amalgamation efforts on tn
part of Republican leaders and doe
not look kindly upon the peace nego
tiations.
Say Aeitating Hurts.
There's more than one way il
which rejected applicant for salool
license can get even Helping tn
drys in temperance campaigns is on
of the ways. Agitating is the other
Agitating hurts, from the wet stand
point, just now, for the simple reasol
that the liberal interests want tn
wet and dry situation to remain quie
: until the license system shall hav
been given a test. Being naturall
piqued, the rejected saloon man ag
| tates. One of his favored methods
: to begin circulating petitions to max
dry territory wet Usually the dry
blame the vets, and unending troubl
, ensues.
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