The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-03
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS-OTHER HAPPENINGS
WINS Preparing to Take Up Duties


rapidly making plans for his TAX
ing up of the duties Of chief
executive Of the state. During
probably the next week he will Sc
lect both his private secretary and his
adtutant general He is considering
also his resignation as congressman.
which he will send to Gov. Cox before
the latter lays down the burden Of the
governorship. Then there are innum-
erable details that viii have to be ar
ranged above and beyond the things
concerned with appointments and with
the actual routine of official business.
For example, the incoming governor
will have to have some sort OF a home
in Columbus, and he must therefore
choose between a house which he
might either rent or buy and an apart
ment at a hotel. This question the
new executive has practically decided
and the decision happens to be in
favor of hotel life, to which the con-
gressman undoubtedly became inclined
during his stay at Washington. In
living at a hotel he will break the
precedents established by Cows. Har-
mon and Cox, both of whom took up
regular establishments in this city
| Society leaders are looking to the COM
ing of Mr. Willis with much expect
ancy, but the present indications,
| judged from the ill-favor with which
| the new executive looks upon the in
augural ball, do not give the social ele-
ment in Columbus much ground to
believe that the Willis family will go
in extensively for society. The gov
ernor-elect and Mrs. Willis have one
daughter, Helen, IS, but she is stu
dent of Ohio Wesleyan university at
Delaware and probably won't spend
much of her time in Columbus. More
over, the governor will be so engrossed
for the first few weeks, or probably
months, of his administration with the
new general assembly that he won't
have much time for anything else. The
manner of the new executives living
in Columbus recalls, incidentally, the
varying habits Of his predecessors.
| There was a time many years in the
past when Ohio governors evidently
didn't take their duties very seriously,
for they didn't live in Columbus at all.
| There was one executive, back in the
| fifties, who came to Columbus only
once a month and then only for a short
time. Former Gov. Andrew Harris,
who preceded Judson Harmon, did not
live" in Columbus. although he spent
at least four or five days of each week
here. He maintained his home in
Eaton, where he sojourned for each
weekend excepting in times Of partic-
ular stress. But as a matter of fact
the last few years have given the gov
ernor of Ohio more and more work,
and 1t would be next to impossible for
Gov. Willis, say, to try to maintain a
home at Ada even if he should be SO
disposed.
Expensive Luxuries Must Cease.
That certain state officials and en-
ployes have been cutting high jinks at
the expense of the people of Ohio is
clearly indicated by Auditor of State
| Donahey's latest manifesto, in which
the pronouncement is made that ex-
pensive luxuries at public cost will
have to cease or else the high livers
will have to stand personally the
charge for their extravaganza. Says
the auditor: An officer or employe
who thinks he requires breakfast
costing from $3.50 to $3.50 is. in our
opinion, grossly eXtravagant and
should be separated from the state
payroll and retired to private life,
where he can indulge himself in such
luxuries at his own expense" Evi
IDENTIFY Mr.. Donahey thinks that the
high living practice has been SO ex-
tensive and long continued that it will
be impossible to get out of the heads
of attaches the fact that in travelling
at state expense they are not entitled
to the best the land affords. For he
makes the recommendation that the
general assembly wipe out the system
which causes the state to stand good
for the travelling charges of employees.
Consider Measures of Relief.
In their efforts to stamp out the foot
and mouth disease among cattle, men,
bers of the state agricultural commits
sion are considering plans to make
communities instead Of entire counties
the unit of quarantine. Since the gov
ernor voiced his criticism of the draS-
tic methods used by the commission.
the latter body has been considering
tentative measures of relief and the
community unit as against the county
unit is among the suggestions being
made. There is being considered also
the plan of permitting uninfected
sheep and hogs in tight-bottomed wag
ons to be transported over country
roads to slaughtering places and a
lifting of the quarantine to this extent
at least is being hourly expected now.
Whether cattle may be permitted to
be sent to slaughtering points is now
being discussed. and the ban may be
lifted from them to some extent early
next week.
Ohio ProoressiVes Will Attend.
Several Ohio Progressives will at
tend the Chicago conference sched-
uled to be held by Progressives lead
ers on Dec. to determine the final
fate of the third party movement
There is a movement on foot to end
the existence of the Progressives as
national entity at the Chicago meet
ing, but this will encounter opposition
especially from the Ohio and Califor-
MIA contingents. The attitude of Wal
ter Brown, the Ohio party chairman,
is in doubt, since he has given no di-
rect expression Of his views on the
future of the Progressives.