The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-10
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS-oTEER HAPPENINGS
Special Columbus Correspondent.

nSE III us duuudl EtpOIAJ just SoAh-
pleted He says that both the
Warnes tax law and its successor,
the Parrett-Whittemore tax law, do
not provide the necessary relief in
taxation. What is needed to make
legally adequate taxation code is a
revision of all the property tax laws,
substantive as we'll as administrative,
and the enactment Of single law with
consistent and adequate Technology.
In view of the tendency towards
GENERALIZATION of schools in rural dis
tricts, he favors giving the boards of
education power to condemn property
for sanitary sewer and sewage dis
posal purposes. There has been COM
plant that attorneys are sometimes
paid large fees for handling work
mems compensation cases. The at
torney general recommends a fixed
schedule Of fees for such work.
The legislature took away from the
auditor Of state power to call upon
the attorney general to enforce the
findings of the bureau of accounting
against county and other subordinate
public officials. Under the law at pres
ent, if the local official refuses or fails
to bring suits for the recovery Of funds
taken unlawfully by an official, there
is no way to collect them. The at
torney general asks the legislature to
allow the auditor and attorney general
to cause suits to be brought when the
local official does not act.
The laws governing the increase of
capital stock by corporations are
faulty. These should be revised by
committee familiar with all phases of
corporation law and the practical op-
Grafton of corporations Nearly every
day the secretary of state is called
upon to submit questions to the at
torney general regarding the proposed
increasing Of capital stock or Of chang
ing incorporation purposes by corpor-
ations.
The attorney general also recon-
mends the repeal of the law exempting
from jury duty those who contribute
funds to the national guard. He
thinks that every male citizen should
be subject to jury duty.
Increased Tax Value.
An increase of $2,744,62O has been
made in the tax value of the Cleve-
land Railway Co.'s property over the
figures Of last year and its tax value
fixed by the state tax commission is
now $27,219,970. Secretary Henry ].
Davies and Auditor J. Frank Kilfoyl
of the company are seeking light on
how the value was fixed and why the
increase was made. They did not get
the information they sought For
three years the company has been
making strenuous objections to the
tax value fixed by the state and sought
to stop the annual heavy increase by
suit in court but did not succeed. Aft
er declaring last year their tax value
actually was only $21, 100000 they now
face a value more than six million
larger. The question will probably
cause another legal battle.
Learn Man Is Dead.
The Rev. Andrew L. Jorden, who
had a charge at Granville, Licking
county, in 1865, concerning whom the
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. of
Hartford, Conn, made inquiry of the
state insurance department so it could
pay an insurance policy he took out so
years ago, died at Rogers, Ark, Oct. 6,
1912, S. F. Grant of Columbus so ad
vised the department. The company
lost track of the Rev. Mr.. Jorden
in 1869.
Gets $1,000 Position.
Charles L. Landen, Republican, Co
lumbus, has been appointed by State
Printer ]. Cross to succeed Clarence
L. Althoff, Democrat, Dayton, as su-
perintendent of the state bindery. The
salary is $1,800 a year. Landen was
first on the list certified by the civil
service commission for the appoint
ment.
DisIIked the Belt.
Mrs. Willis does not approve the
course of the governor in abandoning
suspenders after 40 years of use, dur
ing the present hot spell and the adop-
ton of the belt. MRS. Willis don't
like the belt" was the governors ex-
planation when he was found to have
resumed the "galluses by Glory
she has hid it. She says I am too fat
for belt"
Hopes Revived.
The new outbreak by Mexican BAN
dts in Texas gave another rise to
hopes at Camp Willis that the troops
there might soon be sent to the bor-
der, but nothing to corroborate it was
received from the war department.
Will Purchase Car Ferry.
The Ohio public utilities commission
has granted the Ann Arbor Railroad
Co. authority to issue certificates of
indebtedness with which to purchase
car ferry to cost $4,000.
Attorney General Kept Busy.
During the past fiscal year Attorney
General Turner participated in $40
different cases throughout the state,
rendered 1,185 opinions and collected
for the state treasury SAL, ,369.35. Be-
sides this the department made num-
erous Investigations of alleged misuse
of public funds, illegal awarding of
contracts, as well as enforcing,
through cooperation of local officials,
findings Of the state accounting bu-
reau against erring public officials.
The cost of operating the department
was redcued $4,000 under the pre-
ViouS year.
Drew First Pay.
The members of the Sth regiment
at Camp Willis have drawn their
first pay and as a matter of precau-
ton Col. Vollrath detailed one COM
pany-Co. c. to the city to do patrol
duty and see that the boys did not
paint the town red with the spending