The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-09
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Columbus. o. March a
OoSrrnor Frans a. Wills. Who nAa not
been much dispuHHn tu Interfere with M
|sork % tha present Legislature. uhpNe4 .
A. hand during ths at week ard d.
Jared that actual d-csntrslizaton OF .
he liquor traffic must come und"r hi.
.lnds 81 talk - conpr0ulisss and agree
nentn under which ths state license
ommirsion w4s a. b. retained ~ith Ger
ain restrictions upun - work. but the
Irossrnor came forth and declared the
liquor commission a. state Institution
must h. eliminated The governor n Sos
ionlc rule and he declared that if n hls
bciisf that one Or more county Officials
lscfsd ~ the people should b. given
~ authority % name the psrnons Nho
re o. enjoy th" privileges or dispensing
FURTHER than this the governor al
bounced On connection with the stale
board that the salaries ~ license CON
inissioncrs in the wet counties of the
tate must b. reduced and that the pay
Ilf many clerks. too. must come down.
| 10 sun saloon. thoa8ht they could nov
~ back and take things easy with big
Haiary coming along from the state. but
lie sees no reason why uuuor license
commissioners should not take part in
Tho general economy me- -ueut as well
~ other public Officials.
After the EoiEhard bul 90 dispose OF
flour - 600 year rural school farm in
ntructors had been defeated through the
Cincinnati. the ball was brought up again
IN the house and passed last week. This
s. another economy measure. And a. 90
this was not enough the Republicans.
des pito Democratic cries Of gag rule aud
MI that. rushed through tie BETTER bill
TO let county auditors name the TAX As
SCISSORS this year and dispose Of the
|Cox-WarneH district assessors and their
nasistantH. Democratic State Chairman
|f1nley had announced thai he would
ntart a referendum " any 81 the Cox
ggr NJ Al
aid. the Democrats declaring they would
throw over the tail - the dog. kspubli-
this ball. and 80 AR. FINLEY will not b.
able 60 invoke the threatened refersn-
dum. The story goes. however. that
f1nley finally gave his consent 10 this
action on the part Of the Democrats
The real tax measure. the Parrett-
Whittemorc bill comes up this week. IL
cause a does not go into eject until next
January.
the Republicans are getting down 20
work In earnest now and this week msy
OF the Wills administration plan. Dem
ocrats twttted them the other day be
cause they had uo leader. but the Repub-
licans showed they had last week when
they rushedthrouEh the house a number
Of measures which Democrats tried 20
hold back but couldn't The Republi
cans are not worried over threats 81
referendum. Last Nuy Der a rcferen-
DUN was taken ON the Cox administrs-
ton a. "A whole and 30 was anything but
Favorable TO the Cox hosts.
The grand taN duplicate for 1914 was
the largest iu the history or the state 10
being S7.a5S.l73.slN, a. compared with
80. us. 06S.9j9. The increase In personal
property b. f6sT.Ug5.G05. while the adj
vance In realty values b. placed at fl52.-
COS. gag. In Cuyahosp county the dupli-
cate was increased Sf17. 2O3915 but of
this sum. SSl Loco. 900 was added 20 the
return made b. pIhn -. Rockefeller and
. Returns
ern ohio counties are given as follows.
Belmont-l9i4. SS2.G23.SS0; 1913. S7f.-
III. 700.
columhianS-isIL Ss5.59t.97O. 1919.
S91.f10. 1Ng.
Jefferson-19i4 3s3.265.60O. 1913.
t7S.S51.65O.
Monroc-IsiL s2I4t5.7J5. 1918. sIs.-
1851
-TrumbuIl-isit S9757s.2sO: 1918.
S9i.622.S50.
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