The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-20
speeIaI columhus correspondent.


eral assembly. Prime interest
continues to lie in the outcome of the
Willis-HamiltOn county struggle for
supremacy on the liquor license issue,
and this issue continues to outshadow
and overawe all other matters, as has
been the case for weeks. Although
the assembly reconyenes today, the
fight ON license will not come to
crisis, it is thought, until Saturday,
since 1t will take that long for the
license bill, passed by the senate, to
come formally before the lower house
without q suspension Of rules. And the
governors forces have not the votes,
it is conceded, to suspend the rules.
Various guesses are being made on
the outcome of the contest which is
trying the resources of the admins
tration, on the one hand and of the
Hamilton countians and their Demo-
cratic allies on the other The odds
of the week begin with the governor,
first, because of his prestige in whip
ping the senate into line last week,
and second, because the house at the
start is admittedly more tractable
than the upper branch of the assembly.
Although compromises are vaguely
talked of in this license war. the indi-
cations are that the fight will be one
to the finish. The governor is said
to be determined to rush the license
"decentraliZer" through, and some of
his advisers are boasting of their in
tention to capture a few Democratic
votes IN the skirmishing. The oppo-
sition is holding that Democratic votes
will not slip because the present law
which the proposed "decentralizer" at
tacks Is Democratic measure. But
in the absence of the final showdown,
the precise stand of the minority is a
matter of speculation, even though
most of it's members will stand by the
present law. Meantime the admins
tration is sending out calls for all ma
jority members to be in their seats
from the moment the gavel falls this
morning until the license vote be
taken. Representative Mansfield of
Jefferson county and Representative
Moore OF Vinton county, who have
been i'll for some time, are being de-
pended upon by the administration to
be on hand for the fight When the
assembly shall be able to complete its
work still depends on the success or
defeat of the governor in the pending
fight. On all hands it is conceded
that if the administration fails the as
sembly will continue in active session
next week and that final adjournment
will not be possible then until near
the first of June.
Again Chief Game Warden.
Gen. John G. Speaks of Columbus
has been reappointed chief game war
den for a new term of two years. He
has filled this position for son ething
like eight years. He now gets an an
nual salary of $4,000. The appoint
ment is made by the state agricultural
commission. Speaks is a Republican
and was appointed during the Harris
administration.
Rules or Public Health Nurses.
Public health nurses may not be
legally employed by municipal boards
of health. Attorney General Turner
so holds in an official ruling to the
state board of health During the past
two or three years in many of the
cities of the state, the local health
boards have appointed so-called public
health nurses. Recently the question
was raised as to the authority of
council TO appropriate funds for the
employment Of such nurses. In case
~ that house or other place is quar-
antined on account of contagion, the
board of health may provide food,
fuel, medical attention and nurses,
but nurses may not be employed for
general and permanent work. If pub
lie nurses are necessity, the legisla-
ture should be asked for authority to
employ them, according to the attor-
ney general.
Knocks Out Old Practice.
An official ruling given by Attorney
General Turner will make mayors who
act as police judges, justices of the
peace and other magistrates "sit up
and take notice" because it knocks out
a practice which has almost become
universal with them. 1t is the prac-
tice Of remitting parts Of fines upon
persons for violations of the Statutes.
In a ruling to the state industrial CON-
mission Attorney General Turner
holds that these officials cannot remit
part of a fine and that when once
imposed it must stand. Often when
some violator is hal9d into court the
magistrate proceeds to administer a
scathing arraignment to the offender
and then impose a heavy fine upon
him. All this looks fine to the public.
Later the fine will be almost sutirely
remitted, but the news Of tEis will be
suppressed by the magistrate. Under
the ruling it will he unlawful for
magistrate to remit a part of fine.
Peace Memorial Monument.
Announcement that a $4,000 peace
memorial monument would be erected
at the main entrance of the state
house grounds was made by commit
tee representing the G. A. R. after
comforting with Gov. Willis Monday
evening. Gen. R. B. Brown of Zanes-
Vile, past national commander of the
G. A. r.; Col. Walton Webber, past
state commander, and w. S. Matthews
assistant adjutant general at G. A. r.
state headquarters, composed the com
mittee. "This monument will com
memorate so years of peace" said
Gen. Brown, the chairman.
Reappointed Oil inspector.
J. M. Carr Of Barberton, whose old
position as state oil inspector was
abolished by the Moore bill re,creat-
ing the state oil inspection department,
has hsen reappointed oil inspector un-
der the new law by Gov Willis. This
law rsspces the inspection fees to a
point whsre they will only be suffi-
cienE 20 cover the operating expenses.