Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-03-18
LEGIsLArlvE sUMmARY.


COLUMBUS, March IA.
> TUEsDAY.=There was no session
, either House ofthe Legislature on MOI
day. g.
On Tuesday the Senate met at P. NJ
and nothing of note occurred that aftel
noon, except that message was n
ceived from the Governor transmittin
a copy of the proposed 18th Constilu
tionai Amendment, which, by a vote Q
20 TO 3 was referred 10 the Committe
on Federal Relations
The House met at % p NJ. Mr.. Wol
Introduced Oill, providing, that III ex
lcavating &c; lars, parties shall not dig \
u create. i-pt:i 1n;,n nIne leet, unless al
adjoiihHg cefiar oe deeper, in wilicl
case they eau Dig to the depth OF th
latter. &
WEBNESDAY.-In the Senate, " g
nesday. Mr.. Carter offered some buI,
4 eombe resolutions about Grants pre-
sumption in asking Congress to suspent
the law OF l7S9, which excluded y. I
Stewart from office. and instructing ou
Senators and Representatives to resis
any such suspension. The joke was tha
/ the excellent and venerable Democratic
7 Senator had not seen the news of tina
morning, namely, that Grant had with
II
fact, none of the Senators on the Demo
cratic side seemed 10 ''see it, for tn.
resolutions were, by strict party Vote
ordered printed.
The House spent the greater part o
I the day in discussing bill requilins
bank shares and bauk stock 10 be Iaxec
in the county, township or ward Where
the stOckhoIder lives, Instead OF where
the bank is located. The atsurliLy amo
impracticibility of the proposed plan
was clearly shown up by seDlieihen %
both political parties, and II Is inacl. 1,
the credit of the House that the bII
could only muster in IL. tavur Is eo,es
The Senate hili authorizing Couaty
TreasGrers to accept bonds Issued iul
the construction D. roads III pay lne III vi
taxes levied for tlS construction . sucir
roads, of p-ttitions on a majority .. les
ldenS land owners, was passed, auu Is
now a law. t-t-' = '''l''i'-A'
The bill authorizing the Courts Ia
grant divorce, where the wife or hus-
band has become incurably insane, ana
the insanity HAS continued seven years,
was indefinitely postponed.
A discussion took place upon the till
TO rein-corporate St. Xavier's College
Z (Cincinnati) requiring no qualification
for the trustees except actual residence
In Hamilton county. Preliminary votes
indicated that the bill could not pass,
and it Was recOmmitted to await u day
OF greater strength.
q THURsDAY.-In the Senate, Thurs
day, the following House bills were
passed, and ARE now, consequently.
laws: One to require the Auditor of
State to furnish annually to each County
Auditor statement of the aggregate
number of horses, neat cattle, sheep,
hogs, mules and asses, on or before the
lst of August, in each year, which state
ment the County Auditors shall furnish
for publication in their several counties:
one to provide for the printing of the
annual reports of the State Board of
Agriculture by the 1st of August in each
year; and one to provide that city or
village benefited by the construction of
ditch or drain, shg II pay part of the
cost of the same, instead of assessing the
whole cost on the owners of the lands
through which the ditch passes.
Mr.. Brooks offered joint resolution
forlthe protection of graves of the de-
ceased penitentiary convicts.
The Board of State Charities sent in a
communication asking for permanent
sal:ried Secretary 90 5--i
A remarkable feature OF this days pro
ceedings in the Senate was this: The
bill for the es ablishmelit IF a Home Tor
the orphans oi'oaf soldiers was up for
discussion Mr. Carter moved to strike
out.the words ~ EDited STATES" so as to
extend The benefits of the DILL to the
children of rebel soldiers, and for this
amendment every Democrat present
with one exception, Mr.. Lawrence)
recorded his yote --'la ..43H as
The following new bills were intro
duced in the House: By Mr.. U1iery-Toi
provide that the officers of cemetery as
socations shall hold their offices for one
year, and that majority of the mem
bers present at any meeting shall be
competent to transact business; by Mr..
Crist-To authorize County Commits
sioners to improve, by graveling or
macadamizing, township roads; by Mr.
Moore, of Hamilton, to provide for the
annexation of Spencer, Millcreek and
Storrs township to Cincinnsti, by vote
at the spring election; by Mr.. Warren.
to require local authorities to pay the
500 veteran bounty to veterans of the
United states regular service in counties
and townships where the vets ran bounty
act has been construed not TO apply To
such cases; and by Mr.. Belville, To pro-
vide that where "Rar Libraries" are
formed in;any county seat one half of ali
forfeited re- mgnizanct.s may be paid over
to such a->oci;t N tOr the purchase of
books, &c --Fitt -s-5 4,
FRIDAY HE e,,,l., Er day. passed
two HOUSE bills, .,:Is &, iix The wet.iit
of bushel of lime IL. the absence 81
speclai contrao,l ~ Ut uaunds, all .
coke st ~ pounds'o ,,,i T., require Town
ship Trus,ees - procure cemer.ty
grounds; so that oDth Measures are now
laws. "5 4'
The following bills we're introduced: !
By Mr.. Brooks, to reIieva supreme |
Judges from attetiiag district courts;
by Mr.. Golden, TO enable mpaIIies
doing a special business in commen. to
become enc organization; by Mr.. King,
to provide that school officers shall be
elected as other township officers; and
by Mr.. Dickey, 10 appropriate S25, 600
for repairing the Miami University
buildings. 80
The Morgan Raid Claims bill was dis |
cussed with careful, if not painful, elab-l
Grafton, and made the special order for
Friday next. BIS
The House adopted the Senate resolu-
ton for the appointment of committee |
to inquire into the cause of steam boiler
accidents. -5-~ - 49,, =. :. -.
> The Governors message transmitting
the Amendment was, by a strict party |
vote Except that one Democrat voted
with the Republicans1 referred to the3
Committee on Federal Relations. I'll
The following Senate bills We're pass
ed, and are now Laws: One authorizing
Sheliffs, on order of the court, to sell
goods levied on, at wholesale; and one
to increase the value OF the homestead
exemption from $500 to 81 900. -
SATURDAY.-The Senate, Saturday,
passed the House bill providing for the
election by the people: in cities of the
second class, of the City Clerk, Marshal. /
City Solicitor, Civil Engineer Chief of
the Fire Department and ST reel i,om