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TWO PROPOSALS
BEFORE SOL0NS
Congressional Districts Of State
May Be Reformed.
WILLIS REPORTED AGAINST IDEA

Return State Funts--Junkets Of
State officials Forbidden by House
BiIi--Proceedings Of the General
Assembly.
Columbus, April 1.-TWO congres.
sfonal gerrymander measures have
made their appearance in the legisia-
ture. One is fathered by Representa-.
tive w. e. Danford of Noble, and by
changing only twelve districts would
give the state thirteen Republican
and nine Democratic districts, based
on tho vote of 1914. The second, said
TO be the workmanship Of Congress.
man r. c. McCulloch of Canton. 10
more sweeping and more partisan. Il
would leave Democratic only three Of
1 the seventeen districts outside Ham.
ilton and Cuyahoga counties. in which
there are now three Democratic and
two Republican congressman, and
make q total of sixteen Republican
and six Democratic districts. 1t avoids
rivalries by not placing any two of
tie present thirteen Republican con.
gressmen in the same district.
1t Is stated that the Willis admins
tratiOn is opposed to making a new
| congressional map at this session.
DR.. Van s. Deaton of Miami blamed
the book lobby for the defeat, 40 to Al,
By the house Of his county uniform
tAythnnIr hill ,u1 81
hve years use In village and rural
schools OF a schoolbook when selected
by county textbook commission.
The house passed Senator Lloyd's
bill raising the standard Of dental ed
| ucatiOn and forbidding dentists to
| practice under corporate name. BY
house action, court review has been
granted. both under this measure and
under the Hoy medical measure, SO
dentists and physicians yIlo are re.
| fused certificates or whose certifi-
Gates are revoked by state boards may
appeal to the common pleas court In
their own counties
The house passed the Reighard bill
forbidding junkets of state officers
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state emergency board; the Heinse'.
man bill for pensions by municipali.
ties to ex-volunteer iiremen and their
widows.
The senate passed the Moore bill,
reducing the admission to the state
fair from 80 to 25 cents. The bill now
| goes to the house.
Must Return Loans.
Definition by the supreme court OF
what constitutes legislative emer.
| gency is expected to result from tho
defeat by the house of the Tremper
bill to extend for two years the out.
standing loans of about $3000000 of
state funds to flood zone building and
loan associations.
Defeat OF the bill makes 1t neces.
sary for State Treasurer Archer to
call IN the loans, under the advice OF
Attorney General Turner that no real
| emergency was stated In the original
bill. which passed recently.
Representatives of some OF the as.
sOciations stated they would refuse to
pay back their loans on the ground
they had been extended validly. In
that case, tne attorney general will
try to collect through the courts, and
the question for the courts to decide
will be The validity of the emergency
clause. Dayton associations say the
sudden recalling Of the money will
cause hardship there.
Stripping OF the emergency clause
tie house unanimously passed the
Winans senate BILL giving the state
utility commission the power it has
lacked to suspend for sixty days the
putting into effect of a freight rate
scheduled by the railroads. The rail
roads opposed the bill az It passed the
senate with provision for ten months'
suspension, but have accepted the
compromise. Under the BILL burden
OF proof of the reasonable of a
rate is on the railroads
Representative Hoy offered reso-
luton to ask the people to vote man
datory civil service out of the consti.
tuition.
The agricultural decentralizing bill
was sent to conference by refusal Of
the senate to accept the house pro-
vision that owners OF cattle slaugh.
tered by the state to stamp out dis.
ease could recover only the value at
which they had returned the cattle for
taxation.
The house defeated the White bill
for regulation by the state board OF
charities OF maternity hospitals and
houses for boarding infants; the
Young divorce bill. to put an end TO
hncontested divorce cases.
Toe senate passed the bill by White
OF Erie making II mandatory on the
county commissioners to return to the
municipalities Al least 40 per cent OF
the city's proportion of bridge funds
The bill now goes to the house.
Governor Willis vetoed the Klein
bill. which provides a penalty for OF