Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-01
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
Special Correspondence of the Gin. Gaz.

"oi ehS oh Vic ttACNlOQo NCchy HAS
boldly taken hold of some of the many
important measures before it. Yet
much, very much, remains to be done, for
of the really great questions that have
excited the people only one (the pow er
of foreign railroad corporations to lease
or purchase railroads in Ohio) has be-
yond all further controversy, been set
tied.
MoNDAY.-TheS Senate met al. . p. NJ. d..
and soon adorned
/ In the House the apparently in creas-
ing tendency of sLme members To be
absent from their seats led to the intro
duction and adoption OF resolution for
publishing each morning the names OF
the absentees.
The Penitentiary question, one of the
vexed subjects before the Legislature,
took definIee-shape ts-day ,and the Joint
Select Committee on the location of the
new pnSQn. made their report. After
stating at some length the claims of the
different points competing for the in
stitutiOns, one which declared the ex-
pediency of establishing the Penitentia-
ry, and the other provided for the ap-
pointment of joint committee of five
r.,ort nv hill or othar,v;.a Eor tho
srp, r.,sOi,,t;nr NJ 80 ,s w
offered u substitute declaring it expedi
ent to build Reformatory Prison, in
| termediate between the Penitentiary
and the Reform Farm, for the confine-
ment U-the young and less hardened
convicts, at such locality as the General
Assembly might designate. The SUBJ
stitute was adopted, and the second res
oluttoh nhtrouuceu pH Tue eoniIilitee
so.eu uomhc oo .iie l1ouse ueGiueu U
oullu RGlol'.iay s,n!iy rlIson ous tne
auestioii vi Iocatioi as nluch uhueler-
m1neu as ever;
IuESpAi.-n the senate. Iuesuay,
'he 'oiio"inS iiou'e on,s were pnsSeu,
anu are nov sonsequen.ly LAWS; ohe 10
.ne t ,nooi poi "'Ioi Vi oonipaiiie'
nn,;eIli roi so"ins nasS anu o.ner feSseis On
in, .' iireis, one W a,lleilu scc:i"ii
III, .oi VI .ne aII ioi pressure psiore Jis-
tices py s'ilhlns OUT the woro towh-
snip aIu ihse[IlnS coeI'ty; ohe 10 au-
thoraZe oouity yconn'lassioners s N 10 transfer
eue surplus vi any iuhu To any o'her
lunu. anu W pro'iue tlat ~nere an
acIloH ~ nioueh. i"I she pay! !hen' oi
sAoney ohiy' anu Tue oeiehuant IS III 1e-
iault ioI an answer IuuSinent may ne
TAKEN at any tlhe aiter such ueiaui,
Gne ", ~ having power t"Ses asiue SUCH
oT.1ui. III Sooo I'u"o shown
iue notin .ai ques',"h H'i iiiaue
its aPpearance ;" ,he upper Ohdiiiner,
anu Ine resolatoil ueciafinS IL eAPeuieht
70 ereot sueh prls1I was auop'eo just as
| IL nan TaniG u tio,n VII. t nIu Fan -,
q me .ouse pa:seu o,ii " ,1Peai lne
nrsI ihree seS''ons oi tne ora patent
risnt ia"' anu 10 pIoVide that hotes
gwen lse pa.tnI r.gnls s'lali s.a'e 'he
purpose 1oi wnicn Ihey arc sinsn.
ichs ueoa.e oh oIil W Iepeai lhs
Jaw y, iasE - au.noilIins Tue hoaru
oI ruSiIc WORKS 70 purchase 80 nIch Oh
tnu l!t Na'ioha. Ho1u Dr.uee, a. Atnes
xIIie, as rs sl.uaten on Ine iiiie ol the
Naiiohai hoae, occupiea Tue ai,eht,on
oI Tue 1ouse LOT several noues; Inc uis-
Gussioh was quite auiiii'Ieu' ri"i' ilush
j. Jewett making an aoie speecn III oP-
Posi.ioh W the P,oPuseu repeaI' No coh-
ciusiot was reacneu. o..
MRS. Miriam NJ; C0Ie' oioianey, ONO,
Dy ihVitatioh Oh sne douSe OF hepreseh-
Gatives' ueliVereu In tne hePresen.atves
nan an ADDRESS on Womans hights,
Whlch was hstehed 10 oy good audi
ence. ohe spoke ior more IMAM an hour
Win dignity anu Iorce: anu at tne con
ciusioh resolution OF thanks lor her
90 unanimously.
WEDFEsDAf.-A considerable portlon
OF the Senates time, Oh wednesday,
was occupied In discussing Senate Dill.
SIS. Ihe ACT OF Aprli 10, 1877, author-
ICES anu requires tne payment Oh ooun,
ties TO veteran volunteers. The bill
mentiohed ABOVE appiies tue provisions
OF that ACT 10 the ooth " v. l.; I'M
regiment was the only one III ONO au-
thorizeo ana raised ior t'e one years
service AFTER oeing mustered out, many
Oh the iheinoers re-ehiisteu IN other reg
Imehts,, ana served until tiie ciose OF the
war. AS the law stanus' however they
can receive no local bounty, and Mr.
DlcRey, author OF the OH Ill question,
proposed 10 remedy the case. Tie Sen-
ate nstehed patiently 10 the reasons
advanced IN favor OF the measure, but
the conclusion arrived at was nat the
members OF Ine ootn ". V. L. are not
ve1eransi ,':H aha that the passage oi the
o,ii wouiu seo pau preceuehI anu rev
oiutlonize tie "hoie system oil paying
pouhties. 20 cohciu"ihg, the OIL was
ieS.I' W |e.
Tue oiIi ior the Erection or an ADJ.
t,ohai 'uus9 III Cie ISL suodlVlsion OF
the ourt4 1udlciai District came back
Iroh 1ne 1iouse, WIN an amendment
pIovluing tnas the nrst election OF the
1uuge shaii lake ai place AT The
next Octooer eiecIion. me amendment
was cohcu'red IN anu Ihe measure IS s
NOM nv ia~ IL
me AgIicuitulai Couege question got /
M Iaiiiy upIer "eIgn I'D the senate. Mr. s
Aeiler n,ll provloing Ior lhe location
q o. Tue Soi.ege as an ihuepe9uent ihstltu-
ton' was taken up: ana ME- Lawrence I
inoseu 70 strihe out All a''er the enact IC
ing , CLAUSE, ~ as W eiaoie niih 10 insert ,
u ms own oiti, which provides lor the $
location at wooster, III connection with 5
the University lfresoyterian) at that &
point: Inc senate spent the afternoon a