The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-22
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Letter from Coiumbus.
Co1uMBus, April IA, 1868.

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A very large amount of business has been
transacted in both branches of the General
Assembly within the last two or three days,
as is usual, believe, at or near the close of
the session. iss7
TIE Military BIZ in the Senate.--The bill
providing for the organization of the Militia
of the State, was amended in several impor-
tant particulars, viz The appropriation of
$2o,ooo, for defraying the expense of militia
.ry encampments, increasing the number of
days for regular muster. from three to ten.
days, and providing for an assistant Adjutant-
General The Ssnate agreed to all the amend
ments of the House, except the above, on
(which a Committee of Conference was ap-
pointed. ssed i5,s a.r
The committee reduced the appropriation
to $4,000, and provided that the regular
musters shall not exceed eight days in each
year, and allowed the assistant Adjutant- Gen.
eraf to remain. Both Houses have since agreed
to the report. The bill has been signed and
is now law.
+ The Senate passed (and the same is now
law the bill to require Railroad Companies to
furnish equal facilities for through and way
freights, received and delivered on the line or
at either terminus of their roads. This bill,
or law, is intended to correct an evil which
has been so much complained of heretofore
in the interior Of the State, where, it is said,
persons have been compelled to see their
property lie-at the depots at great loss to
themselves-for months. while trains We're
passing, daily, with through freights, carried
| as promptly as received.
| The Senate on Monday, one day before the
| adjournment, occupied its spare time IN pass
ing resolutions of thanks to Lieut.. Gov. Stan
/ ton, President of the Senate, Peter Hitchcock
President pro tenn, Clerks, Report rs and1other
offices of that body, for the acceptable man
1ner in which they had performed their duties.
+ In the House on the morning of the 18th
Messrs. Myres & Bates substituted protest
against the passing of House bill No. 336.-
the general appropriation bill as containing
unnecessary appropriations and of a larger
amount than is consistant with economy
There are not as they believe sufficient re-
straints on expenditures by State officers
baua coap6e.
+ Op Saturday last, the third Committee Of
4 Conference on the soldiers voting bill, report
ed the following substitute: In place of re-
:, quiring the soldier to endorse his ballot, sep
crate poll books shall be kept, and seperate re-
: turns made for the votes of each county
the poll book shall name the company and
regiment, or in case of detached votes. as
above provided, for the post or hospital ii
which such election is held, the county and
township, ward or election district, of each
voter shall be endorsed opposite his name
on the poll book. This report was agreed ts
in the Senate unanimously, and in the House
the vote stood 81 yeas to 16 nays. The bill
has been since signed and is now a law.
The Military Claim bill. has passed and be
come a law. This bill provides for settlin,
all irregular claims that have arisen sine
: 1851. A resolution has been adopted au
: thorizing the Treasurer to sell at a premium
the speciein the State Treasury. sissi3a 81
= Tier Legislative Spree at the american. :
!, The Senate, after discussing the subject fo
: some time, concluded that in consequence. {
!, the @presswe'' of business, they should b
compelled to decline going to- the festival {
Cincinnati, to take part in eating and drinkin
: up the e tail end, of the Miami and Err
= Cana but one. was gotten up atthe America
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S on7more liberal terms, to which all menibe
,n3 of the. Senate, House. Officers Of State, an
is some outsiders were invited, all of whom
to- is presumed, went away satisfied, that it is 9
,ir excellent thing to give away 100000 wor
of State, property, that they may have,
ed enjoy one good spree, as is shown by the fe
lowing sentiment offered on the occasion by
he member. Of the Senate. e And when Il
of voice OF Hamilton is silent in yonder Hall
of (Senate) finance agriculture and CONNER
no must perish, our only hope is in The tail end
M the Miami Canal, if that can't, save ms
ma sparkling Catawba that we are getting in Ii
as OF the filthy water, aoiA, so let US drown Q
80. fears and regrets in a bumper, ,sss..,,
d. On Tuesday morning at II O'Clock, a. l