MESSAGES.

RULE 15.

(By and to whom delivered.) All messages sent from one house to the other shall be carried by an officer or employe of said house who shall give a receipt for the same to the message clerk from whom he receives the message. He shall deliver the message without delay to the clerk of the house to which it is sent and take a receipt therefor from said clerk or one of his assistants authorized by him to receipt for messages. The receiving clerk shall deliver such message to the presiding officer of the body, who shall, in the proper order of business, and within a reasonable time, lay it before the house.

ENGROSSMENT OF BILLS.

RULE 16. (Bills · (Bills Manner of engrossment.) All bills and resolutions, before they are passed or adopted by either house, shall be carefully engrossed in plain handwriting in printing or in typewriting, and the engrossed copy carefully compared with the original bill, and the Journal showing the amendments agreed to.

RULE 17. (Bills — How engrossed when amended by other house.) When a bill shall have passed one house, and shall be amended in the other, the amendments shall be engrossed upon a separate piece of paper, and the bill, as amended, shall be fully engrossed, and both returned, with the engrossed bill received from the other house, to the house in which it originated. In such engrossments, sections of bills and joint resolutions amended shall be engrossed in a plain engrossing hand-writing, in printing or typewriting. Whenever a bill shall be passed in one house and sent to the other and a substitute there for is agreed to by such house, in the communications between the houses such substitute shall be designated and treated as an amendment to the original bill, and the message relating theerto shall definitely show as in case of other amendments, how the original bill is amended.

RULE 18. (Bills - When reported enrolled not subject to action.) A bill or joint resolution having been reported to either house by the Joint Committee on Enrollment, shall not thereafter be subject to amendment, commitment or other action by either house; but this provision shall not apply to bills returned to the General Assembly by the Governor or Secretary of State.

SIGNING AND VETO OF BILLS.

RULE 19. (Who to sign; Proceedings when vetoed by Governor.) All bills and joint resolutions, which shall have passed both houses, shall first be signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and then by the President of the Senate, the latter affixing the date thereto and delivering the same to the Clerk of the Senate who shall deliver each bill so passed to the Governor, taking a receipt therefor, and each joint resolution to the Secretary of State taking the latter's receipt therefor. When any bill shall have been disapproved by the Governor and subsequently enacted into law over such veto, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the enrolled copy shall be endorsed with the record of the proceedings in each house subsequent to the veto attested by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate.

RULE 20. (Calendar Bills of other house shall have precedence on.) When a bill or joint resolution shall have passed either house, and

been sent to the other for concurrence, such bill or joint resolution shall take precedence on the calendar, of all bills, joint resolutions or resolutions not yet passed or adopted by the house in which they originated; provided, that such bills or joint resolutions shall not take precedence of other bills, or joint resolutions which may have been carried over from an unfinished calendar.

RULE 21. (Bills - When not reached on calendar.) Any bill placed on the calendar for third reading, informally passed, and which was not subsequently called up for consideration, shall be placed in its order at the head of the calendar of bills for third reading on the succeeding day.

RULE 22. (Chairman of committees shall give notice to authors of bills.) The chairman of each committee of the Senate and House of Representatives shall, at some time before the final consideration of any bill referred to his committee, if objection thereto be made or materia! amendment offered in committee, give verbal or written notice to the author of the bill, fixing a time when he may be heard by the committee.

RULE 23. (Yeas and nays shall be taken on amendments.) The yeas and nays shall be called in each house on the adoption of all joint resolutions and upon concurrence in amendments made by one house to a bill or resolution originating in the other, and upon the adoption of the reports of conference committees.

RULE 24. (Clerks to prepare calendar.) The Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives shall cause a calendar for each branch of the General Assembly to be printed and placed upon the desk of each Senator and Representative before the opening of each daily session, showing for the day bills for second reading, the bills for third reading, and the special orders of the day.

RULE 25. (What calendar may show.) The calendar may also show such other information relating to the business of the houses as the Chair or the Clerk may desire to bring to the attention of the members.

RULE 26. (Question when bill vetoed.) When a message shall be transmitted to the General Assembly by the Governor expressing his disapproval of any bill, section, or item of a bill which has been passed by the General Assembly, the question shall be presented in each house as follows: "Shall the bill (section or item, as the case may be) be passed notwithstanding the objections of the Governor?"

MESSAGE OF FRANK WILLIS, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OHIO, TO THE EIGHTYSECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. JANUARY 1, 1917.

State of Ohio

Executive Department,

Office of the Governor.

Columbus, January 1st, 1917.

MESSAGE OF FRANK B. WILLIS,

GOVERNOR OF OHIO.

To the Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: In the discharge of your duties as law makers you will be called upon to investigate many important problems relative to the welfare of the people of Ohio and make final responsible decision on matters which may have been to you heretofore only questions for academic discussion.

No problem by which you will be confronted is fraught with graver consequences to the people of Ohio of Ohio and to future generations than the question of how best to care for the unfortunate wards of the state, and how to eliminate so far as may be possible the causes which bring misfortune and threaten the future well-being of society.

STATE INSTITUTIONS.

Extravagance and luxury in caring for the state's wards is not necessary nor even desirable, but these unfortunates must be provided for decently and comfortably as befits the dignity of the great state of Ohio and the demands of enlightened humanity. Much has been done in the last two years to alieviate the distressing conditions found to exist in various state institutions.

Special attention to housing conditions for the care of the unfortunates of the state has been given. Needed appropriations were made for the completion of two new cottages at the Institution for FeebleMinded, as well as a hospital of the Institution; two new cottages at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis, in addition to an appropriation for a new wing to the men's dining room, as well as an appropriation for remodeling the kitchen and improving the equipment there; two new cottages at the Massillon State Hospital in addition to a new laundry, one new cottage at the Columbus State Hospital and a tubercular cottage, as well as a new power plant; one new hospital at the Ohio State Sanatorium, Mt. Vernon, a new building for tubercular patients at the Cleveland State Hospital, together with a new laundry there, an appropriation for remodeling the old laundry into a female cottage and an appropriation for an additional wing to the female hospital at Toledo.

The new cottages at Gallipolis, the Institution for the Feeble-Minded and the Columbus State Hospital provided primarily for but 100 patients to the cottage. The plans were changed so as to increase the capacity from 100 to 140 for each cottage, thus providing an increased capacity for 200 additional patients in the five cottages. In other words, the appropriation was so handled as in effect to provide the capacity of two additional cottages; or stating it another way, the per capita cost was

reduced from $700.00 to $500.00, and 700 additional patients will be provided for instead of 500, as the original plans contemplated. This was made possible through the employment of prison labor on the work of excavating and building the foundations for these cottages. Briefly $1,040,866.59 was appropriated in the 1915 budget for construction and betterment at the various institutions under the supervision of the Ohio Board of Administration, and the splendid humanitarian accomplishmens resulting therefrom are a credit to the state of Ohio.

It should be noted also that the various state institutions under the control of the Board of Administration have been economically managed. The operating expenses of these institutions were $108,504.47 less in 1916 than in 1915: It cost the state $3,820,177.32 to operate these institutions in 1915 while in 1916 the cost was reduced to $3,712,026.90. The daily per capita cost at these institutions was less in 1915 than it was in 1914 and less in 1916 than in 1915. All this has been accomplished notwithstanding the fact that the population of these institutions was 196 greater in 1916 than it was in 1915 and the further fact that the prices of food stuffs and clothing have constantly advanced. In other words while the cost of living of every citizen has risen by leaps and bounds the cost of living of the wards of the state has been reduced. This result has been brought about not by any cheapening of quality or lessening of quantity of food served to the patients--the inmates of Ohio institutions are better provided for than ever before and yet at !ess cost. How then has this been accomplished? Through the application of the best business methods, careful buying at bottom prices, economical management and enlarged industrial and agricultural activities in many state institutions thus increasing the income of the institution and at the same time benefitting the patients and inmates by furnishing healthful employment. But satisfactory as is this progress much important work remains to be done. It is not enough to provide foo!, clothing, shelter and amusement for the unfortunate; the state has not done its full duty until it deals with the problem in a large way; attention has thus far been given most largely to effects it is now time to consider causes and eradicate them so far as possible.

It is imperative that institutional facilities be provided for a large number of feeble-minded in the state who are at present sadly neglected. These unfortunates are not capable of caring for and protecting themselves and unless cared for they become paupers and unless protected from evil environment they become criminals. The community which does not protect them becomes in a measure responsible for their disgrace and crime. Present buildings at the Institution for Feeble-Minded provide for approximately 2,200. There is constantly a long waiting list and accommodations should be provided at an early date for fully 2,000 more. The feeble-minded should have institutional care for their own comfort and also so that they might be, as far as possible, segregated from the general population in order that the taint of feeblemindedness, shall not be transmitted to future generations.

The Bureau of Juvenile Research, according to statute, is expected to receive all children committed to the guardianship of the state, and such others as the State Board of Administration may receive from institutions, parents, and guardians. These children the Bureau is expected to examine in every way known to medical and other science with a view to ascertaining the causes of delinquency and other troublesome traits.