Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-26
REPRESSED FLOOD
OF BILLS ESCAPE
GATES OPENED IN HOUSE AND
NEARLY 100 MEASURES AND
RESOLUTIONS OFFERED.
PRESENT SUFFRAGEPROPOSALS
Rotation of Names on Ballots Also
Urged-Absent Electors Allowed To
Vote BY Mail Under Plan Offered
BY Ohio Republicans.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Columbus for two
weeks by successive recesses and ad-
journments, the repressed flood of pro-
posed legislation was permitted to es-
cape from behind the barrier and flow
uninterruptedly for two hours in the
House of Repres esentatives. Because of
the failure to provide the requisite
standing committees the Senate was
prevented from participating in this
biennial festival. 1t is expected that |
it will secure the opportunity enjoyed
by the lower branch, in which Speaker |
E. J. Hopple announced the list of com |
mittee selections and thus aided in
raising the flood gates.
Nearly 100 bills and joint resolutions
were presented, almost one to the min
ute, while the order of business was
maintained. While this might appear
to augur a dark future for the greatly
desired era, in the review it is ascer-
tanned that there are many duplicate
bills offered.
Both parties entered bills for the
rotation of names upon the primary
ballots. The Democrats reintroduced
the measure to separate state and ma
tional elections by providing separate
ballots for national elections by pro-
viding separate ballots for presidential,
electors, while Republicans produced
the reform measure advocated by both
Cows. Willis and Cox providing for
means for absent members to vote by
mail
The recrudescent woman suffrage
movement received an impetus through
the Introduction of bills from both
sides of the chamber, the first by Rep
resentative James Reynolds, of Cleve-
land, Democrat, permitting women
above the age of 81 years to vote for
presidential electors.
PIatt Measure Is First.
The Platt measure was the first to be
received in the usual fashion, coming
filing of initiated bill No. l, providing
for the elimination of liability COM
panies from competition with the state
workmen's compensation fund. This
popularly desired bill was given a spe-
cial treatment, being advanced to its
second reading and referred to the
Committee on Labor.
In the course of the introduction Of
new material there were two joint res
olutions looking to an amendment of
the constitution. Both were offered by
Representative W. S. Hoy, of Jackson.
Each related to the merit system. One
provided for the absolute repeal of the
civil service clause of that instrument
J, and the other an alternative, was a re-
: quirement of its rigid application to
all save elective offices, eXemping only
firemen and policemen and soldiers
: holding appointiye positions. The gen
eral demand for the increase Of jury
fees was reflected in the Offering oil
) no less than six bills upon that sub
} ject. They were offered by Repre-
!, sentatives Myers, of Cleveland; Mans
< field, of Steubenviile; Carver, o.
/ Holmes; Comings, of Oberlin; Fouts
of Morgan, and Cowan, of Putnam
These made the fee $S day and some
: allowed mileage both ways.
8 To Protect Quail.
Applause greeted the coming in o
bills from Hooley, of Champaign
Clark, of Warren, and Blauser of Fair
field, providing for the extension of thu
, closed season for quail and for max
ing Bob White" song bird instead o
= a game bird,
Two bills were offered increasing tn
= personal tax exemption from 5000 t
$500, and two came in to increase tn
= compensation allowed to doctors unde
y the industrial compensation law. On
of these bills actually increased tn
maximum death benefit from s3,75O t
$500, the author being DR.. L. F. CaiI
:. of Noble county.
!. Campaign Is Launched.
s. The organized county official
IS launched their campaign for an extel
b. sion of their terms through Repre-
e. tentative J. J. Hill, of Licking, an
w. H. Shinn, of Williams. They offe
ed bills for each set of officials provit
o. ing that the terms of the successor
1t to the incumbents should begin tn
Id first of January after their selection
y Among the major propositions al
s. vanced was that of establishing a B
Of reau of Markets under the State Boar
ly of Agriculture, introduced by Repr
n sentative Clark, of Warren, and pa
ID termed after the bill under consider
tion in New York.
1t was Representative C. NJ. Gordo
of Brown, who offered the bill to i
%6o totn ichT TOW
to 5 tenths of a mill and he was fe
~ lowed by Representative Blauser,
=. Fairfield, with a measure to give eaC
county it's receipts from motor vehicle
for road repair maintenance and Or
lection
D. Another road measure of serious il
le port was that of Representative Fout
Id of Morgan, which proposes to tai
TO from the abutting property along sta
NJ highways the present share of the co
m of improvement, placing it all on Il
county, township and state.
n Cowen May Resist
g The refusal of Clinton Cowen of CT
9l- cinnati, state highway commissions
at to use on state road contracts brit
ly made by convicts is to be attacked
T. E. Davey, ranking member of tt
Board of Administration. Cowen
d. Ieges that the brick do not stand up
IS "rattler" test, and Davey challeng
~ him to produce the evidence. Dav
OF will appeal to Governor Cox. Frien
lr of Commissioner Cowen said that
iy would resist any effort to remove b
r. before ths expiration Of his two-ye
taIn.
he Drunk With Opera Glass.