Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-02
PLEAS ARE HEARD
BY OHIO sOLONs
ANTS VOICE SUFFRAGE PRO-
TESTS IN HOUSE WHILE RESO-
LUTON COMES UP.
WOULD SUBMIT VOTE ISSUE
husband and Wife viii Be Legal
Strangers If Bills offered BY Two
SoIons Are Enacted-Labor Matters
Again Figure in LimeIight.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Columbus-In a busy day which
came to a conclusion with dinner at
the Columbus Chamber Of Commerce,
the members of the General Assembly
found themselves almost continually
face to face with the Eternal Femln-
inc. The right of equal consideration
by woman in all things with men
formed the substance of many &C
tions before and after adjournment.
In the upper branch, as a protest
against the legislative reversal of the
decisive popular action, twice record
ed in state elections, against enlarg-
ing the voting power of women, Sen
ator John E. Holden, Of Warren, intro
duced a joint resolution requiring the
submission of the question to the elec-
tors for the third time. 1t is copy
of the amendment twice defeated, and
will have to receive three-fifths vote
in both branches before it can be sub
mitted.
In the House of Representatives the
speakers for the State League of
Women Opposed to Suffrage had their
first hearing, and they, too, warned the
legislators against the embezzlement
of power to please the whim of agi-
tators of the repudiated. A sufficient
number of votes has been counted in
the Senate to insure the defeat of the
pending limited suffrage bills.
Several new bills told of this gen
eral strife against the domination of
man and the restlessness of the So
called weaker sex. Representative
W. F. Carver, of Holmes, and w. S.
Hoy. of Jackson, presented measures,
which, if enacted, will go far to make
husband and wife legal strangers to
each other. The first declares neither
husband nor wife is entitled to the
services of the other or entitled to any
pecuniary compensation for any serv
ice performed one for the other. ?
That of Representative Hoy makes
the wife the joint guardian with heI
husband of their minor and unmarried
children, with equal powers in thei1
custody and control of services and
earnings, and in the management OF
| the property of the said children. In
| other words, the existing headship oi
| the family is destroyed. In the event
| of separation or divorce the wife is tC
stand upon an exact equality with the
| husband in the matter of the contro
of minor children, and the Courts are
so to regard her standing.
In the upper branch Senator Willis
| o. Horn, of Wayne, reintroduced the
measure whose advertised object is tt
produce hygienic and eugenic mar
riages. 1t is the special property of {
| single-headed reform association, anC
has been peddled about legislative
| halls for ten years. Under it's provi
sions man may be married only aftel
he produces bill of health from i;
reputable physician who is not hi
own medical attendant, and in tn,
event there is doubt as to cleanli
ness from disease an appeal is to b,
had to the State Board of Health
Basic in the bill is the innuendo tha
all moral depravity resides in the NAL
sex, and the plea made for it is that
will protect womanhood.
Along the same lines Representativ
John Cowan, of Putnam, for the fourtl
time in as many different General As
semblies introduced his bill to author
ize medical officers of the state to pei
form special surgical operation TO
the sterilization of the feeble-minded