Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-02-14
Ohio Legislature.
WEDNESDAY, Februar,

WEDNESDAY, February 6.
| In the Senate, to-day, q bill was passed
to amend the act relative to collecting
statistics of crime, transferring that duty
from prosecuting attorneys to clerks Of
courts, requiring additional statistics, and
| allowing clerks the usual fees for such
services. Also, a bill making an appro-
| priation of$S, 900 for the public printing,
| which is a law. Also, bill which au-
| thorizes County, Commissioners to buy
turnpikes and make them roads, I'm GER
tain cases. Also, a bill for the protection
of grave yards not protected by corpora
! tions or religious societies.
A bill was introduced to provide for the
voluntary dissolution of Corporations
Also, a bill allowing prosecuting attor-
neys So for each 100 inhabitants In the
County. Also, bill causing cases for
criminal conversation to abate upon the
death of the defendant. Also, bill au-
thorizing Common Pleas Judges to re-
move assignees for cause. Also, a bill
allowing case to be re-eXamined in the
appellate court the same as in civil cases.
| The Senate concurred In House amend
ments to the bill allowing villages out
side of city limits to make sidewalks con-
forming in width to those of the cities,
and the bill is law. ,i'7' 'H
The Senate agreed to report of the
| Judiciary Committee against granting
concurrent jurisdiction to Probate Courts
i'm partition cases. 'W
In the House, the Metropolitan Police
Bill occupied large part of the day, the
question being upon Mr.. Piatt's substi-
tute to make the application of the law
general. An amendment to except Gin.
cinnati from the operations of the bill
was voted down--59 against 81. Another
amendment, inpviding that the metro.
politan system shall be extended only II
/ such cities as ask for Ii by election, was
lost by vote of59 against 30, upon mo-
| ton to suspend the rules. Still another
amendment, to make the city council
instead of the Governor, the appointing
power for the Police Commissioners, was
lost hy vote of 55 against 2S. A motor
to indefinitely postpone was disagreed t.
-40 against As. Piatt's substitute wa,
then agreed to-44 against Al. Then tn,
main question was put, and the bill wa'
lost-tyeas 43, nays4 70" ~ ia -aH .
The occasion attracted to the galleries
aheavy sprinkling of Columbus "roughs,
| who exhibited manifest signs of uneasi
ness lest the legal halter might be mad,
TO draw upon their precious necfs, by
the enactment of more stringent polio,
measure. But when 1t was known tina
the bill had 6aitelh SO overjoyed were th,
occupants of the "Rogue's Gallery" tina
they broke out with eXciamations of de
light and the clapping of hands. Mr.
Schneider Immediately moved for the re
consideration of the vote by which tn
bill was lost, and the House, nettled b,
the exhibition which ii had just witness
ed, sustained the motion by vote of B
against 81. So the bill lies upon the ia
\ BILE, and its friends have strong hopes O
yet passing IL. p"O
\ After the disposition of the bill, a larg
amount of miscellaneous business wa
transacted, including the introduction Q
II q dozen or more new bills. I'N' "l a 'f'