The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-10
CONSIDERATION OF BILL IN The
HOUSE MARKED 8Y CON-
SIDERABLE AcRiMONY.
insuranee Commissioner Splits His
Salary With Chief Oeputy-Many
Bills introduced.
1nteiiigsreer Bureau.
Columbus. O.. Peb. 3.

sl.oO and 800 would have been pro-
vided for the employer who allowed
MS employees to accept tips. the en-
pioye VINO took ihem or the generous
person who passed them.
As the bill finally went To vote.
Mattresses In hosels and restaurants
would have been exempted from the
provisions.
Representative Shank. Of Medina
the only Progressive in the House.
offered an amendment extending the
exemption TO "manicurists ana lady
BARRIERS" but 4 was ruled out OF order.
Representative Jones. of Franklin,
raised his voice in protest against
lhe Houses consideration of the
measure as comic proposition.
Ohly snobs encourage the custom OF
tipping. he declared.
Representative BETTER. OF Hancock
suggested that under present condi-
lions OF unemployment, many sersons
can live only by ne tips they get. and
opposed passage OF the bill.
Labor interests are said to have
been Instrumental In having the anti
tipping bill introduced.
The House also killed the Crowley
Dill TO repeal the interrzinate sentence
law. The vote was 80 for and IS
against.
Rejecting an amendment to Increase
the Interest rate on State loans 20
building and loan companies in the
district devastated in the 1913 food
from four 10 five per cent, the House
passed the Tremper Senate bill unaui-
mously, with an emergency clause at
.ached. extending until April, 1917.
the period of loan.
II VIII now 20 TO the governor for
ms signature and approval This is
me fourth measure TO be enacted by
the legislature
Whittsere Bill Passed.
The House passed the Whittacre hill
appropriating $1,000 for the establish.
ment Of additional free state employ
ment bureas.
The Industrial commission Is ex.
pected TO place them i'm Springfield
Canton, Akron and Youngstown.
PERSONS who mark. cut. chew or 9TH
erwise deface papers or books in IL
braries, will be subject to a fine be-
tween $40 and 800. or go TO Jail for
30 days, or both. II the House passes
the Suffer bill, passed by the Senate
today.
An echo Of the recent protest
against holding the Smith-F1ynn box
ing bout in the State armory at Gin
cinnati, was heard in the Senate when
Senator Collins OF Hamilton, intro
duced bill appropriating $3.50 for
purchase Of an armory building there.
The State now leases the armory at
Cincinnati from the county OF Hamil-
ton, and consequently does not have
complete authority over it.
The Office of city and village treas
urer and auditors are abolished and
the two offices combined under the
title Controller OF Finance" by the
Myers bill passed by the Senate. The
measure also abolished the Office Of
township treasurer and gives his
duties to the township clerk.
Splitting Salary.
Robert NJ. Small OF New Lexington,
Deputy State superintendent of In
surance told the legislative commit
tee making a survey OF salaries in
state departments today that Price
Russell of Wayne county, appointed
superintendent of Insurance by Gov
ernor Cox shortly before the end of
his term, to succeed Small. is splitting
his salary with him (SmalD.
Mr.. Small said that Superintendent
Russell knows so little about the de
pratments affairs, however. that "He
IS a burden TO the department and the
department Is a burden to him" Dep
uty Small who is a Republican, admit.
ted to members OF the committee that
he actually conducts the department,
usually. without consulting his chief.
Mr.. Russell. who is a Democrat and
formerly was executive clerk to Gov.
ernor Cox.
The Superintendent salary Is
$4,000. and the deputy's $1,000. Sup
erintendent Russell's arrangement is
to give Small $500 a year. 81. 500
additional TO his regular salary. Mr..
Small said
G. X Mckinley. efficiency expert OF
the state civil service com mission. to-
day told the Howard office probing com
mittoe Of the legislature that most or
the state employees holding clerical
positions at salaries running up to So
GOO n year could not get more than ST.
goo or l.f0O "a year for doing the same
work for private concerns. Salaries now
paid By the state are 20 per cent 20 100
per cent higher than those paid in prf-
waite employment Mr.. Mckinley safI.
and In this he was supported hy &. NJ.
Bryson. member ~ the civil service
commission. Persons who made only
81 o. $40 were were paid SIS n month
or more b. the state and those VINO
were paid SO n month on the outside
are being paid $3.50 a month in the state
employment
The state Insurance department alone
10 was stated. D. paying salaries COM
mgnfcratc with The work performed.
D. ~. Randall. supreme court reporter
has protested against The reduction ~
Bic salary from $4,000 90 $4,000 Tfe
says his work haa greatly incrraFsd
feet and be declares that tnr average
salary paid such ru officer ir the ton
leading states e. more than $4,000 q