Show I HOT FIGHTS BEFORE THE OHIO ASSEMBLY Bf rol Th The T I SpecIal Ial toU Nc's rit COLUMBUS 0 O. Jan ll The 13 The Ohio general assembly after having been Republican for one session will open January 2 with working Democratic majorities in both hoth branches In the ho house se there thore will be two seventy Democrats Dem vem- and six fifty Republicans and andIn andin andin in the senate the tho Democrats outnumber to to her ber the Republicans twenty five eleven I After listening to the message of I I Governor Willis Rep the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture turo will recess until January 8 S and mark time until the new newly inaugurated rated governor James M. M Cox Dem outlines the legislative program he desires desires de de- sires enacted The Tile paramount issue of the session will be bo financial relief of Cleveland Cleveand Toledo Columbus Cincinnati and other cities which during the past two years have not Ilot derived enough from taxes to meet their running expenses One of the solutions of the problem lem hem offered is a new division of the liquor tax so that tho the cities will get more mono money Another is distribution of the tho auto tax so that municipalities ties will share liberally The Tile latter plan will be bitterly fou fought ht by rural solons who believe the funds should all be bo spent on market roads Inasmuch as the tile Willis legislature ripped up the Ute Cox agricultural com com- mission composed of four men and substituted a board of ten unpaid unpaid un un- un paid members it would not be he surprising surprising sur sur- if the new legislature restored tho the old commission It is expected ho lie new Hew administration tion will push completion of the tho new ne penitentiary farm at London Jondon which isto isto is isto to replace the old penitentiary at Columbus Co Co- Iambus lumbus rip up tip the lie present civil service ser sor- vice commission of two members and substitute ono of or three an and enact sor-I sor a Do law allowing Ohio militiamen to vote while absent on border or other duties Tho The Republicans co solace in the tho fact that there Is n not t sufficient Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic majority in the tho house to attach at tach the emergency clauso clause to hIlls bills and thus make them operative immediately Immediate upon being passed b by both houses and signed b by the governor Un Under er the Ohio constitution a 1 two- two thirds vote passes a measure as ns an emergency and it then Is not nol subject subject sub sub- to the initiative and referendum Otherwise tile the law does docs not become for ninety days anti and this tills period pe pe- pe- pe nod affords opportunity for tho fUin filing of or referendum petitions which places the tho proposed law before the tho people at the next election for approval or re re- re- re |