Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
Special Correspondence Of the Gin. Gar.
COLUMBUS. O.. April 4

bly, did not get fairly to work before
Wednesday morning and second, about
Thursday evening shere began to be
manifested some eunmistakable evidences
of desire on the part of q large num-
Der of the members to go home, so that
they might be present at Monday S
township and municipal election.
i MoNDAY.-Neither House was in ses-
sion Monday.
/ TUEsDAY.-Both bra -ches met on
Tuesday afternoon, but transacted no
business of general importance.
i WEDNESDAY.-In the Senate, We'd
nesday, a bill was passed imposing the
penalty of one to six months imprison-
ment in Jail for forging street railroad
passes. The House wanted to make
the penalty imprisonment in the Leni-
tentiary one to three years and the
bill will 20 to Committee of Confer
ence.
The Senate passed the House bill pro-
viding for geological survey of Ohio,
and that measure is now q law.
The bill contemplates the appoint
ment of geological corps for three years,
at an annual expense as follows: For
the salary of chief geologist, 5000 /;
for the salaries of three assistant geolo-
gists, 81 800 each for chemicrls, $500, and
other contingencies S., 900. Only Messrs
Berry, Campble, Carter and Godfrey
voted against it.
Mr.. Hutcheson offered joint resolu-
tion, as follows:
! Resolution by the General assembly
of the State of Ohio, That in the pres
ent struggle now going on in the Island
of Cuba, we recognize the same princi-
piles that underlie the revolutionary eff
1,-fr Of <~f1
the right of self-goverDment by the
struggle we extend our strongest SYM
pathy and we'll wishes to the people of
that Island.
Resolved, That it is the sense Of this
General Assembly that the General
Government should recognize immedi-
ately the right of the insurgents As
belligerents
Referred t the Committee on Federal
Relations.
The joint resolution offered by Mr..
Leete, in the House asking Congress to
limit admiralty Jurisdiction to tide
waters, was adopted.
] In the House Mr.. Parker, from the
elect committee OH the part of the
House tc investigate the alleged frauds
connected with the construction of the
new Deaf and Dumb Acylum, in Col
umbus, submitted a lengthy report, ac-
complained by testimony taken before
1 the committee, and recommended the
ad ,ption of the following resolution,
I II. r. 2S4:
RESOLVED, That the report and testi-
mony and the accompanying papers
herewith submitted, be laid ON the table
and printed, and copy of the same
furnished to the Attorney General of the
State, who is hereby requested to pros
ecute any parties liable to criminal
prosecution under the laws of the State
| for frauds committed in the manage
ment and building of said Asylum, and
to institute civil proceedings where, in
his opinion, judgement can be obtained
for the State.
RcsotUed, That the Judiciary Commit
tee ofthe House be instructed to examine
what Legislation, if any, is required to
make it penal offense for embezzle-
ment by men in the employ of the State,
who are not sworn officers of the State,
The resolution was adopted.
i THURSDAY In the Senate, Thurs
day, Mr.. Griswold introduced q bill to
establish a State industrial school at
Painesville, Lake County, whenever the
citizens of that village shall convey and
the proper authorities accept a suitable
tract of land, of not less than one hun
dred acres, for the use OF said school,
The the cost of the buildings for the
school is not to exceed $4,000. a
The Senate spent large portion of
the forenoon in discussing the joint res
elution offered by Mr.. Linn, providing
for submitting to the people change in
the Constitution of Ohio, which shall
enable counties, townships and munich
pal corporations to lend t!.eir credit in
aid of the construction of railroads
counties to the amount of one per cent.
upon the property On the tax duplicate,
and Townships and municipal corpora
tions to the amount of two per cent
The resolution was adopted by the neces-
4 sary three e-fifths vote, Messrs, Godfrey,
Jamison, May and Scribner voting
against it.
In the House a message was received
of the Governor transmitting joint
resolution of the General Assembly of
Michigan, asking Congress for an appro-
priation of money to improve the har-
Dor ut the mouth of the Cheboygan
river on the straits of Maekinaw, which
was referred to the Committee on Fed
eral Relations.
The House took vote OH the bill to
establish Reformatory Prison, resnlt-
| ing-ayes Al, noes 81. This not being a
constitutional majority the bill failed to
pass but the vote was reconsidered, and
the bill laid On the table,
MI. Dennis bill to prevent any rail-
road combination which already has con-
troll of continuous line through this
State, from getting control of any other
continuous line or lines was discussed for
seme time, and laid on the table.
The House by strict party vote-47
to 36-rejected the proposed 18th Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
4 States; and, Itffi
WHEREAS, The appropriations ac-
tually necessary to be made by the Gen
eral Assembly for the building and inn
provement of public Institutions, to-
gether with ordinary and legitimate ex-
Epenses of tSe State Government, will
make heavy drain on the purse Of an
already overbprdened people, by an un-
avodable insrease of the tax levy on
the grand duplicate of the State and,
] WHEREAS, The Warden Of the Ohio
EPenitentiary in a recent memorial to the
General Assembly declares that the
! present prison has never been filled to
its capacity that the maximum has
! been reached, and the number of pris-
oners are gradually but surely deoreas-
/ ing therefore,
Be it resolved by the General assembly
of the State of Ohio, That until the
necessary provisions and spprOpria-
i tions be made to rebuild the Central
Lunatic Asylum, recently burned, and
also to build new and absolutely need
ed Blind Ayium to take the.plsce of the
I ldilapidated incommodious and danger
GUS old structure now used for that In
tstitution, no action whatever shal be
taken toward the building of a new and
additional State Prison by passing ena-
1bling acts, appointing commissioners,
'flocating sites, appropriations or other
1 wise. boa. .+7li.'. 80
Ep1n.v the Senate. the House