The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-19
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D. A. DONOVAN.
Special Columbus Correspondent.
Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus. Ohio.
AYOT content to permit the legis-
iative investigating committee to
IN have the last word in the con-
troversy regarding the practice of
certain assemblymen holding two jobs
at the same time, Oscar 2. Diser, Re-
publican member of the house from
Mahoning county and the man who in
sagated the initial probe, has issued a
statement In it he says that the COM
r"'ttee failed to go to any trouble to
get inside facts and declares that they
entirely neglected to call witnesses
that might tell whether or not the
holding of other public positions by
assemblymen involved any corrupt in
1uence. Did the committee expect to
find corrupt influence from the testi-
mony of the members charged?" asks
the Diser statement. "If not, then why
did the committee not call all wit
nesses who might throw some light on
the subject?" Diser goes on. The au-
thor of the original probe resolution
also complains that the committee re-
fused to permit him to set forth his
contentious before it in writing and
declares that the chairman of the COM
mittee, Kramer Of Richland, said in ex-
planation of the refusal that he didn't
want this thing advertised" By way
of comment Mr.. Diser AYERS that he
doesn't believe that the fact that for
mer assemblymen held two positions
eXculpates present members of the
assembly.
Inspect State Rifle Range.
Two officers of the Canadian gov
ernment inspected the state rifle range
at Camp Perry. They were R.
S. Low and D. Barry who came
from the Dominion capital at Ottawa.
They are supervising the construction
of new rife range for the govern
ment IA miles from Ottawa, which will
contain 2,700 acres and will be the
largest range of the kind in the world
The state of Ohio, through the federal
government gave permission to the
Canadian government to send its rep
resentatives to inspect the Camp
Perry range, which will be used as a
model, in part, for the Canadian range.
The new range will have $40 targets.
which is a larger number than the
state range has. Canadian officers
who attended the international shoot
at Camp Perry last summer were so
favorably impressed with its appoint
ments and modern facilities that they
recommended its plans be adopted by
their own government
To Prepare State Building Plans.
After Gov. Cox signed up the bill
appropriating 100000 for the Ohio
building and exhibit at the Panama
Pacific exposition, Directing Commits
sioner D. b. Torpy of Marietta ar
ranged for an early meeting of the
Ohio commission to select an archi-
,tect to prepare the state building
plans.
New Questions in Politics.
Woman suffrage and the temper
ance question are getting ready to hurl
themselves headlong into the Ohio
campaign. AS soon as the legislature
finally adjourns, political issues of
all sorts will be moving, with equal
suffrage and the inveterate liquor
question to the front of the procession.
The fact that the Progressive party
has indorsed woman suffrage and has
gone some length at least in approx
ing the temperance movement makes
both of these issues fresh now. But
ultimately both are bound to be pull
sating with interest from now on for
many months for the reason the equal
suffrage is to be voted on in the fall
and statewide prohibition one year
later, They are being bound together
because the liberal interests of the
state are beginning a big campaign to
defeat suffrage, fearing that if suffrage
should carry it would aid the temper
ance movement of the year 1915. 1t
is thus the liquor people who are
bringing the temperance issue up next
to woman suffrage. People in charge
of the state suffrage headquarters in
sist that they have had nothing to do
with the mingling of the issues of suf-
frage and temperance. Yet they won't
reject the aid of the combined temper
ance forces, they say, especially since
the liquor people have insisted on
making the suffrage fight temperance
one. incidentally the suffrage hosts
of the whole state are ready to begin
the circulation of their petitions for
the submission of constitutional
amendment for equal suffrage next
fall Petitions will begin circulating
just as soon as the governor signs the
new bill safeguarding the initiative
and referendum under which the suf-
fragists are operating. "
Want More Land.
Ohio needs more tillable land for it's
state institutions, purchase of which
probably will be recommended by the
Ohio board of administration in its
report to Gov. Cox within the next
few weeks.
Borrowing Illegal.
Supreme court has ruled that the
conversion of public funds by public
officials to their own use, even though |
afterward replaced, is both a legal |
felony and moral wrong" Judge j. |
Foster Wilkin wrote the opinion.
Wilkins opinion follows the deci-
sion rendered last week sustaining
exceptions taken to Judge Kinkead's |
ruling which-freed former State Bank
superintendent Frank Baxter, who |
borrowed $4,000 of the funds in his
custody to settle private debts in New |
York city, and afterward replaced the
money