The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-04-11
Our Columbus Correspondence.

COLUMBUS, Aprh lst, 1852.
The following bills have passed their sec
ond reading: S. B. Ill, regulating billiard
saloons. II provides severe penalties for
allowing bows under eightcen to play there.
in. s. B. SO, prescribing rates of taxation.
This bill, as it passed tho Senate, allows a
levy of one fourth Of a mill for road and
bridge purposes. S. j. r 64, providing for
the transmission Of sick and disabled soldiers
free of charge II. B. 1863, providing, as
amended and passed, that tho Governor
may appoint twenty additional Assistant
Surgeons, and send them to such parts as
he thinks proper. II. B. PIG, changing the
appraisement and equalization of real estate
from once in six years to once in ten years
1t will delay the next apprasomont until
1860. The expense Of appraisement is over
1900. 600.
A petition. signed by 48 ladies' of Cincin.
natl, has been presented, praying the Lcgis.
iaturo to take such action as within its
power. to impeach and remove from cfice
tho present Mayor of that city. This peti.
ton was read at tho Clerks desk, and or.
dered to be printed. A resolution inviting
tho Rev. WIN. Brownlow to visit the Capi.
tai Of tho State of Ohio, was adopted by a
vote of 63 to l3. There are some four bills
before the House, and more or less in the
Senate. proposing a reduction of the por
diem of members. The bill for districtipg
the Safe has passed the Senate, as reported
by the Committee. 1t is hardly possible for
it TO pass tho House without amendments.
A bill has been introduced, fixing .he com
pensation of prosecuting attorneys at al, ,25
for IL, 500 Inhabitants. with an addition of
fifty cents fer every one hundred over and
above that number.
The House has had hard contest on the
effort to pass S. d. 40. providing for a
Commissioner to audit all claims growing
out of the war, of every doscr pton, for
the payment of all volunteers who. in the
threo months or three years service. went
into camp, or those who volunteered, if they
did not 60 into camp. whether they were
mustered into the service or not. 1t fur
ther provides for the payment of all DAM
agos done to camp grounds. wheat or corn.
fields, or any conceivable damage or injury
to any perton or any property. There wore
none opposed to passing bill which would
provide for tho payment of all just claims
and for the payment of all volunteers from
the time they went into camp until mus
tered into tho service of the State of Ohio
or the United States; but thero woro thost
who did not want to pass bill that woulC
give pay to every boy or man that nigh
have put bis name on muster roll, anC
then refused to 60 further, or those whit
went into some camp for while, and 60
out at their own request. Every amend
mendment guarding this bill SO that it woul'
not be a regular plumber net, was votot
down by tho especial friends of the till.-
On the question of its passage. it receives
so votes. Tho question was then raised o
the constitutionality of the vote. The Con
stitution, Article I'd, says no money shal
be paid on any claim the subject matter o
which had not been provided for by pre-
existing law. unless such claim or compen
saton be allowed by two.thirds Of the mem
bers elected to each branch of the Genera
Assembly. The Speaker, after taking tim
for consideration, decided the bill not passed
The vote by which the bill was lost. wa
rhen reconsidered, and tho bill referred 10
Select Committee Of three. W.