Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-16
EFFORT TO HOLD
UP MEASURE FAILS
SUFFRAGISTS LOSE FlGHN WHEN
SENATE VOTES TO SUBMIT
QUESTION TO ELECTORS.
ENDORSEMENT CAUSES A ROW
House o. KS Bill Giving Quail Song
Bird TitIe-Effort To Rip Up Won
derheide Conservancy Act Seen In
madison Legislators Proposal.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Columbus-Amid an ever-increasing
rush of bills of all varieties and de-
scriptions, the General Assembly has
been handling some important matters
OF state. Chiefest among them was
the adoption by the Senate by an over
whelming vote of the joint resolution
to submit the question of general suf-
frage for women to the electors in
November.
The suffrage lobby was defeated in
the attempt to hold back this instru-
ment until it could put through the
measure which passed the House last
week comforting Presidential suffrage
upon women. It now will seek to de-
feat the submission amendment in the
lower branch.
In that division the sporting frater-
nifty of the state received a decisive
defeat when the bill placing quail in
the classification of song birds, thus
prohibiting their being shot or trap
ped, was passed by tremendous ma
jority and sent to the Senate.
After hard fight, in which the city
members were threatened openly by
Representative L. F, Cain, of Noble,
physician, with the defeat of all
measures of financial relief unless
they receded from opposing the meas
ure, the lower branch also passed the
Hoy bill, which rips apart the present
law governing the csrtifcation of reg
istered nurses and permits medical
boarding houses and small hospitals
to confer this degree.
Though fiercely attacked by Repre-
sentative Andrew Fleming, of Youngs-
town, the agrarian appeal was re-
sponded to by the rural members, who
got the measure across by bare ma
jority. Party lines were disregarded,
and the old lineup of the country
against the city was witnessed.
In the Senate there again ragged the
witless contest over the form of the
Endorsement of the course of President
| Woodrow Wilson and the pledging to
him of support in the name of the
state.
Progress was noted in the matter of
enacting the platform pledges of both
| parties in the matter of passing law
permitting absent voters to cast their
i ballots by mail and to require the
names of candidates upon the primary
ballots to be rotated in order to do
away with the advantage of alphabet
ical position.
The Senate passed the absent voters
bill of Senator Charles Mooney, ot
Cleveland, and the House the rotating
bill of Representative Thomas Mulca
hey, of Henry county.
Unusual increase in the number o.
new proposed laws is a steady feature
of the sessions of the lower branch
which now is almost $50 measure.
ahead of the preceding house at this
time. Their variety is infinite. Amons
the mass offered the most importan
bill was that of Representative Joh1
R. Freiner, of Vinton, which seeks t.
take from the state treasury between
100000 and $5,OO0,OOO and devote
to education.
The bill, prepared by former Repre-
sentative George Morris, of Fairfield
a pedagogue, makes every school dis
trict separate taxing district and re
quires the state to pay 25 per cent O
the cost of tuition In them. In som
instances the state is to pay one-hal
the salaries of the teachers.