The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-16
OHIO TEACHERS BILL
KILLED BY SENATE;
STOP MOVIE GRIMES

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 16-After
long and bitter debates. the Ohio SEN
ate Tuesday killed the McCoy-Bender
teachers tenure bill, while the house
of representatives was engaged in pas
sing Representative C. F. McCoy's bill
making it illegal to show in the "mov-
les any portrayal of murders or other
felonies made such by the laws of
Ohio
The debates ran so long that the
assembly made little progress. The
actual situation led Frank E. White
more, senate majority leader. to give
out statement showing the utter i'm
possibility of the adoption by the SEN
ate of the Crabbe joint resolution to
adjourn March 81 and then live up
to it.
Senator Whittemore pointed out
that but Is days, including Sundays.
would be left for work under this
proposition, and pointed to reorgani-
cation, taxation, elections, highways
and the budget carrying $91, 100000 to
be considered. The sundry claims bill
has not been drawn as yet, he said.
House Leaders Targets
Finally Senator Whittemore took
what was regarded as sarcastic
fling" at the house leaders wishing
to quit in two weeks, saying:
1T is not possible in the time to
give to these matters the considera-
ton that will insure the taxpayers
against errors, extravaganza and neg
/ ligence that will cause irreparable
loss. The senate will ask what is in
bill that appropriates and spends
$9O,0O0,000 of the public money. The
senate is interested in k n W n g
whence the revenue is to come.
Members of the house know it will be
impossible to adjourn on March 81
and do justice to these matters"
/ The vote on the McCoy-Bender bill
was no surprise to those who had
| followed the situation, notwithstand-
ing that hundreds of pounds Of petit
tons, kilograms, letters and other
I propaganda came into the chamber
! for it, principally from Cleveland and
Cincinnati, members from which cit
les, except w. w. Bellew. of Hamil.
ton county, supported the measure
Notwithstanding the ridicule heap
ed upon the motion picture bill by Rep
| resentative Mccoy, it passed the house
easily. Representative Samuel l.. Lipp
to become of the Shakespearean pro
auctions under it. but the author quick
ly retorted that he thought the "boys
and girls to be more precious than
Shakespeare's plays"
Immoral Influence Alleged.
The sex issue in the cinema shows
was interjected by Representative
Justin Harding, of Warren county
who said that these plays on the
screens were far more demoralzins
in their effects than the mere crime
films. An attempt to apply the bill
to grand opera and the legitimate
stage was defeated. The house
downed the emergency clause by bis
majority. although the author pleaded
the necessity of suspending the con
stitutional referendum. The fight will
be renewed in the senate.
The house passed unanimously q
resolution by Representative George
f. Matthews, of Scioto, to investigate
conditions at Kent Normal school.
Only prefunctory debate attended
the passage of Senator F. X. Nor
woods bill in the house. which now
goes to the governor for approval. tc
permit trial courts to stipulate mini
mum sentences in sending convicts tt
the Ohio penitentiary.
There was the little discussion O.
the two new prohibition bills today
when they went through the house
Representative J. H. T. Gordons bill
seeking to make the jurisdiction o
"rovjnp" iuSticeS countrywide was no