The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-03-19
NEWS CULLED
IN THE ECAPITAL
WHAT LEGISLATORS ARE DO
ING AND OTHER HAPPENINGS
"cheekins Up" Saloons.

sion is Checking up" upon the more
than 5000 saloons in the state. 1t has
ordered the various county commits
/ sions to get complete and accurate
| list of every employe Of every saloon
and the aggregate lists. when COM
pleted, will be used to supplement the
list of saloonkeepers proper which the
state commission itself is about to
publish. The purpose Of the saloon
employees list is to enable the state
commission and the various county
commissions to obey the law. There
has been much trouble in the past be.
cause of inability to identify saloon
employees. Many saloon proprietors,
against whose alleged employees com.
plants have been made, have denied
the identity of the employees. In other
words, they have succeeded IN escap-
ing trouble by declaring that those
complained against we're not in their
: employ. Under the new system, such
evasion will not be feasible.
Won't Ask Credit.
Legislatures in this state won't be
bothered again with deficiency bills
If the new determination Of the
state emergency board is carried
out in spirit and letter. In the
first place, deficiency bills are the
result of the practice followed by
many state departments of running
into debt when their appropriation
would be depleted. This would mean
a deficiency" and the custom became
such a common one that legislatures
b. looked regularly for the appearance OF
deficiency" bills or of measures that
carried the payment for debts in
I Cured. There have been years when
: such unauthorized debts mounted into
. sums almost incredible. During the
I special session even the deficiency bill
|. carried $76,O00 Many of the items
$ therein are causing squabbling now
n between the state auditor and other
4 state officials. So the emergency board
n has at last put it's foot down on the
debt incurring practice. 1t has re-
solved that no state department can
= incur indebtedness or secure any
q money other than money appropriated
=, regularly by the general assembly or
, authorized by the emergency board it
% self. Departments that run through
>. their appropriations can't get relief
A unless the board believes the situation
- to constitute an emergency, and in
- such cases the laws making up for the
"a deficit will be called emergency meas
- ures or something like that.
n Special Races for Horses.
10 There will be special races for Ohio
70 horses at the speed events to be held
N in connection with the state fair this
"a year. One will be a race for three
q. year-olds for which cup will be
,d given by Gov Cox, in addition to a
n. 81 500 purse. This will be known as
m the governors cup race. G. X. Bill
w ings, owner of Uhlan, the great trotter,
m will offer a cup for two-year-olds, and
"a. in addition there will be a cash prize
of $1,000. These cup races are for
Ohio horses W. r. Gocher of Hart
ford, CT, secretary of the National
en Trotting association, with President
ne A. P. Sandles of the state agricultural
en- commission, which has charge of the
tie state fair and several well-known
Sc racing men of the state met with Gov.
lie. Cox Monday afternoon to outline a
ut program OF races for the fair. 1t is ex-
mt pected that there will be many more
he entries than heretofore. The cash
he prizes will be larger.
tie Faces PerpIexine Question.
or In the near future the state indus
ra- trial commission will have to pass
in upon one of the most perplexing ques-
lis tions which has confronted it IN many
ed months. Shall the family of a public
OF empIoye who has succumbed to ill
ne ness resulting from exposure while in
In public employment be entitled to an
IRE award under state insurance? That's
tie the problem. and it grows out of the
;er contention that the recent deaths OF
eight employees of the Columbus street
cleaning department were due to ex
he posure while shoveling snow from the
We. capitals laden throughfares. The su
ws perintendent of this city's street
,ck cleaning department insists that the
A. families of the men are entitled tc
raj state aid under the workmen's com
lev pensation act and an interesting dis
to cussion has arisen. II the state com
ing mission decides that the families are
the eligible to public aid, then there will
be opened new field of almost incal
ses culable possibilities in the way o
the state insurance risks.
.cu- SustaIns Civil Service Law.
der The state civil service commission
o can investigate any municipal of1ce
Who who is charged with violating the stat
by civil service law, so the Franklin
his county court of appeals holds In de
the cision sustaining the state civil servic
1or- law. The question was raised in tn
ugh case OF Mayor David M. Green OF Vi
ap- bana, who resisted the right of tn
commission to investigate him
May Be Fish Shortage.
or If the freeze-up OF Lake Erie COZ
the tinues very long Ohio may soon fee
prv. the effects in the form of a shortage {
the fish delicacies which largely are d.
has pendent each year on the generosit
tate with which Eries water gives forth II
gan finny tribes. Practically all over LAX
hon Erie now the ice is from IL to
,ntv inches thick and the prospects Of
a rapid thaw are uncertaie The 81
rom uation isn't quite as bad as it wa
res. two years ago when Lake Erie wa
and coted with more than two feet of ic
,ess when the spring season opened, but
is bad enough
OffieIaIa Are Wrathv.