The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-01-21

registration he would change this so
that there would only be registration
once every two years. He conferred
with Auditor of State Donahey about
the need Of cutting down the mem
bership and of having fewer registra-
tions, and that official informed the
senator that the proposed plan would
effect a saving of nearer 100000
than half that amount, as estimated
by the senator Our election laws
are in much need of amendment"
said Senator Wickline. What we
should do at this session of the legis-
lature is to appoint committee to go
over all these laws and revise them
and report back at this session what
changes should be made by law.
There should be one senator, one rep
resentative and three election law
experts from outside appointed on
the committee. One of the experts
should be from the cities having pres
idential registration only, one from a
city having annual registration and
the other from municipality without
registration" Senator Wickline gave
it as his opinion that the legislature
would early appoint committee to
investigate various state departments
to divorce them of positions which
can be abolished without detriment to
the efficiency of the state government.
He thinks that there are a number of
Jobs that could be thrown into the
discard without injury to any one ex-
cept those holding them.
Senate Committee Chairmanships.
Senate committee chairmanships
we're announced Tuesday night, Sen
ator Howard. majority floor leader, de-
claring general agreement among his
forces had been effected. Howard is
content with heading the public works
and rules committee The Repub-
licans take the important chairman
ships, as follows: Finance, Wise of
Stark; judiciary, Vollenweider of
Meigs; labor, Archer of Washington;
agriculture, MalIow of Clinton; banks,
Tremper of Scioto taxation, Carver of
Miami; temperance, McDermott of
Trumbull; roads and highways, Case
Of Wood; public health, Gallagher OF
Clark; municipal affairs, Pink of Ham,
ilton; public utilities, Gallagher Of
Clark; public education, Stone of Ash
land; mines and mining, Vorheis of
Guernsey; privileges and elections,
Wfckline Of Lake; federal relations,
Winans Of Geauga; commercial corpo-
rations, Myers of Union; insurance,
Moore of Jefferson.
Arnold's Speech Very Brief.
The acceptance speech of Lieut..
Gov. Jack Arnold was very brief. He
said; Il wish to thank everybody in
Ohio who voted for me and those who
will help me in my duties in the next
two years. In my dealings with the
senate of Ohio l will follow out the
Golden Rule as near as it is possible
to do SO. thank you"
Transfer of State Treasury.
The transfer of the state treasury by
John P. Brennan, retiring treasurer,
to Rudolph w. Archer, incoming treas
lrer was completed Wednesday when
the former turned over to the latter
assets in his custody worth more than
$43,000,000. Most of the assets are
securities filed by banks as security
for deposits, by insurance companies
for the protection of their patrons
and by banks and trust companies as
guarantee that they will faithfully
carry out their trusts. These securi-
ties represented more than $29, 600, 900.
The other assets we're cash.. 4