Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — OHIO IN TANGLE OF INVALID LAWS [ARTICLE]

OHIO IN TANGLE OF INVALID LAWS

Extra Seaaion of the Legislature Probably Will Be Called. An extra session of the Ohio Legislature now seems to be certain, as the State Supreme Court has just held a number of important laws to be invalid. In consequence a tangle has occurred which nothing short of new laws can adjust. Decisions handed down-held the Cleveland city government to be unconstitutional, and also a special law enacted for the city of Toledo taking the control of the police out of Mayor Jones' hands. The court in the Trauger case directs Gov. Nash to appoint a Lieutenant Governor. Lieut. Gov, Nippert was appointed probate judge of Hamilton County *nd President Pro Tein. Archer of the Senate was supposed to succeed the Lieutenant Governor. The contention of Trauger that there is a vacancy in the Office is sustained. The court sustained the validity of the Royer act, which limits the jurisdiction at the Supreme Court to a certain class at cases and takes away 95 per cent of its lurisdiction in appeal cases. The court has also held special salary laws for county officers to be unconstitutional, so that such things in the cities named, as well as in forty-two of the eighty-eight counties, are left in a chaotic It ate.