Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-02-10
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

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Columbus, Jan. 81, lS65.-A bill was intro
duced to authorize Sheritfs 10 administer oath
rendered necessary in the discharge of thei
official duties.
The bill 10 provide salaries for County Surve
4 yors was indefinitely postponed in accordanc
with recommendation of the Committee o
Fees aud Salaries
The following bills were passed by The House
To authorize city and Village Councils to leg
lslate To provide against the evils resulting froT
the sale of intoxicating liquors.
To authorize the lease by guardians, of res
estate. belonging 10 their wards, where sue
real estate contains deposits of mineral coal 0
petroleum.
To provide for keeping an official record q
bonds of Justices of the Peace Constables, an,
! Township Treasurers.
To authorize township trustees to have charg
of monuments and monumental grounds conse
Grated TO the memory of soldiers of the Unioi
army.
The bill to allow soldiers in the army th
term oftwO years, after their discharge, in whicl
to redeem lands sold for taxes, was passed, bu
was reconsidered, upon suggestion that its pro
visions should be made more liberal TO the sol
/ dfer and was recommitted 10 the Committee OF
Judiciary.
A. bill was introduced to provide for the pub
location of all legal advertisements in at leas
two papers of the proper county, of opposite
politics.
The Senate having amanded the bill 20 in
crease the salaries ofState officers so as to reduce
it from its fair proportions to bill to increas
the salaries of Supreme and Common Plea
| Judges, returned it to the House where the Sen
| ate amendment received affirmative 10 63 ne
gative votes. Unless the Senate recedes from
its amendment, it is probable that the bill vii
fail entirely as the House is not disposed TO IN
crease salaries of a portion of the State officer
and leave others equally deserving to the chances
| OF 4 future bill. l..
Columbus, Feb. /, le65.-1he hall of Repre-
sentstives was filled to over flowing last even.
ing, on the occasion of the address to the mem.
bers of the General Assembly by Mr. Davis Chic
Clerk of the Senate, and but few days since re.
turned from an eight months captivity among
| rebel barbarians. The meeting was presided
over by Governor Brough and the audience was
composed of State dignitaries, executive and
Legislative, who listened with unabated interest
for nearly two hours, to a recital not only of the
personal adventures of Mr.. Davis and his coRtre-
res, Messrs. Richardson and Browne but to
many statements of finterest regarding rebel bar.
barities Of class with which the Northern
mind has been for months familiar, through
the statements OF newspapers and committees OF
investigation, but which are still heard of with
increased interest, when, as in this case detailed
by an intelligent eve witness. His accounts Of
the shooting, starving maiming, and wilful ex-
posure of helpless prisoners of war by the scoun-
drels who have arrOgated to themselves a title
to all the chivalry on the American continent
were calculated to stir the most sluggish blood
and prompta universal demand, not perhaps for
vengence but for some action by the National
authorities for the protection of those who in
the defense of our liberties and our National in-
tegrity, have fallen victims TO such internal at
trOcities as are daily reported in Southern mil
itary prisons
Governor Brough was called on for speech.
and responded in some well-tmed remarks
He did not commit himself on the direct ques-
ton of retaliation, but gave publicity to the fact
not heretofore generally understood, that a
principal obstacle in the way of general exchange
of prisoners has been the action of the rebels,
who, after starving prisoners to death, insisted
on an exchange by lists of names, instead of by
men, thus claiming release of seven thousand
able-bodied men from Johnson's Island for the
names of seven thousand murdered Union prs-
oners, sleeping their last sleep beneath the sands
of fAndersonville. The feeling with which these
statements were received is well illustrated in
the remark of a member of the House, that 'sif
the devil don't get the whole Southern Confed-
eracy, there Is no use any longer of having a
devil
The news of the adoption, by Congress, of the
resolution to provide for an amendment to the
National Constitution prohibiting slavery, was
pleasant surprise TO many ofthe members of
the General Assembly. Congratulations on the
event were quite generally interehanged among
Union members, while the attention of Demo-
cratic members appeared to be more particular
ly directed TO little side issue between them
selves, as to the constitutional power of Con-
gress TO provide for and the State to ratify such
an amendment
The House passed the following bills: To
authorize railroad companies, constructing
branch roads, TO charge thereon passenger fare
not exceeding six cents per mile
Making appropriations for the payment of the
interest and portion of the principal of the
public debt of the State
Extending to bridge companies the benefits
of the law fApri 8. 1885, sfor the relief of turn
pike and plank-road companies.
To amend section and repeal section s to ID
of the act regulating enclosures
This last is very important bill and received
the sanction Of the House by vote of yeas 56,
nays I3.
Pending the discussion of It's provisions, its
author, MI Delano stated the total cost of fences
in this State at one hundred millions of dollars,
ohO ohO pCLSo VI hSCJiuS5 bilciH III IT,
pair at ten millions of dollars. 1t proposes rad
ical changes in the Law of enclosures and tres
passing animals. 1t makes all animals, running
at large, that break into or enter any enclosure
trespassiDg animals; and renders owners of such
animals liable for any damage DONE Itrepeals
so much of the present law as provides for call
ing in the trustees oftownship to view, examine
and decide upon the sufiiciency of fences in
cases of such trespass. 1t renders the animals
liable for damage done by them, aud
excerpts them from the benefit oflaws exempt
ing property from execution. The bill goes to
the Senate for occurrence
Mr.. Warner introduced bill to authorize
County Commissioners to pay jailOrs seventy
hVe cents per day for keeping and subsisting
incurably insane persons required by law to be
kept in jail.
Jef Davis sends Message TO Rebel Congress