A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . n of government re-mained in effect until 1910, when the Paine law making further im-portant changes in the government of cities of Ohio became law permitted the mayor to name a director of public service andthis officer, together with the mayor and a director of public safety,made up the board of control. Tlie Paine law also established a civilservice commission. Home Rule Agitation Home rule agitation i]i the large cities of the state and thedemand for other changes in the Ohio const
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . n of government re-mained in effect until 1910, when the Paine law making further im-portant changes in the government of cities of Ohio became law permitted the mayor to name a director of public service andthis officer, together with the mayor and a director of public safety,made up the board of control. Tlie Paine law also established a civilservice commission. Home Rule Agitation Home rule agitation i]i the large cities of the state and thedemand for other changes in the Ohio constitution led to the recentconstitutional convention, at which forty-one amendments were agreedto. Included in these were the much discussed home rule provisionsenabling cities of the state to adopt their own charter and to assumeall powers of local self-government. These were submitted to popularvote on Sept. 3, 1912. and shortly afterwards Cleveland elected itscharter commission. The commission at a series of public meetingsframed a charter that was based on the federal form of Newton D. Baker 442 CLEVELANT) AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXIV The mayor was given power to name all department heads,including the finance director and the director of law. As under thefederal form of government, the mayor and his six departmentheads constitute the board of control. This board passes on con-tracts and on minor and routine niattere of legislation. The new city charter was approved by voters of Cleveland inJuly, 1913, and became effective Jan. 1, 1914. Newton D. Baker wasthe first mayor elected under this home rule form of phases of his public career had been strangely like the activ-ities of another young attorney of eighty years before, who wasClevelands first mayor. Both were active in the framing of citycharters and the fight for home rule goveinmcnt. Written into the newly amended constitution of the state ofOhio are provisions that bear the impress
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