Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-03-04

Summing up the whole matter II i
plain to be seen that it was = democrat
ic measure, and carried by democratic
votes. as far as it went at the session o
1867, and finally consumated by demo
cratic votes in 1858. ~. s.. .,.,,.
~ -s.,ss.'- - : 5eg HENRY WEST
st. Clairsville, March 2, 1859, is .
Legislative Summary. 4-.5.-
Special Correspondence of the Gin. Gaz.s'- -,.-
7a- i'@ COLUMBUS, February q.
Monday there .was ne session Of either
House. a :. slu- .a.7s %; ais
TUEsDAy.-In the Senate Mr.. Dickey
introduced bill to pay bountiesi to tlrt
members of the Sixtieth o. V. Infantry
The regiment is the only one composet
of one years men whose members re-en
listed. Under the provisions of present
laws they are not treated as veterans
and the object of Mr.. Dickey's bill is te
Iut them on the same footing as the
latter. The following House bills were
passed, and are now laws: 's'l 10
One to provide that township roads
may be opened to the width of sixty feet
if the viewers. SO recommend, and one
giving Supervisors power to clear out OF
burn drifts lodged in streams. The Sen.
ate bill to provide for appeals to the Dis
trict Court in cases of divorce and ali
mony, and the House bill to prohibit the
purchase of additional lands to extend
Eden Park, in Cincinnati, were indef-
|niteIy postponed. The vote by which
the Senate passed the House bill to pro
tect cranberry marshes, was reconsider
ed, and the bill laid on the table. -.
The House spent q large portion Of the
day in discussing the Morgan Raid
claims. The bill was finally passed, by
a vote of so to Is. 1t appropriates more
than half million of dollars. "A bill
was introduced by Mr. Leete, to enable
County Commissioners to construct
turnpikes by donations, or by taxing
the property of the entire county within
which the pixies are constructed; and
one, by Mr.. Dennis, to prohibit railroad
which have united in an
agreement to make their roads psrts'o q
continuousline between twOpoints, from
leasing, purchasing cor consolidating
with any other roads, so as to form
another continuous line between said
points, during the existence Of the pre-
viOus agreement. i1.f nt ar !. ts..i- -fi'''
The Senate Committee on the Reform
Farm having investigated certain COM
plants made against the Acting Com
missioner Of the Farm, Mr.. George b.
Howe, reported all right. The Senate
confirmed Mr.. Howe for Acting Com
missioner, he. having been reappointed
by the Governor. At the same time they
confirmed John A. Foote' and b. w.
Chidlaw as Advisory Commissioner, l1
4 WEDNEsDAY.-On Wednesday the
following House bills passed the Senate,
and are laws: One authorizing the ap-
propriationa of lands by proceeding in
the Probate Court where the purchase
of lands has been authorized by the
Legislature, and the directors of a public
institution have not been able to agree
with the owner; and one providing that
where a wife dies possessed of an estate
descending to her.issue of former hus.
band, the surviving husband shall not
have an estate for life by thecourtesyin
such property E -t'3<'' q =
A resolution requiring an investigation
by the Railroad Commissioner into the
management of the Cincinnati Il Zanes-
vile Railroad was adopted ssiL -o1a
In the House, the Senate bill by Mr..
Dangler, to, create an additional Judge
for Cuyahoga county was passed, aahd;is
q law Tsi a. Edi.@dft 81 :. 4.2isi
There was sharpdebateo over the item
Of $4,000 lin partialappropriationoiill
for current expenses Of the Deaf ard
Dumb Asylum, and it was finally strick-
en- out o nss5 .Sl.-asS7-f'h s'2 -
THURspAY.-The reading of. an im-
mense number of petitions; the recep-
tion of communication from the SecI
retary of the Board Of State Charities,
giving the number of soldiers orphan
children nowsin thescounty infirmaries
of the state at forty-seven; and from the
Warden of the Penitentiary, stating the
names, offense and sentence of the mill
tary prisoners confined there, and along
discussions of some local measures occu--
pied the entire time of the Senate. ssstis =
= The House got into great snarlOver
the bill to elevate the standard OF the
medical profession Neither the doctors
nor any one else could agree.s The vote
being taken, the bill failed-for want of q
constitutional majority; but it was after
ward reeonsidered. and laid on the table.
This matter, the reading Of petitions, the
passage of q couple of House bills, and
to clear out the channel of Big Beaver
FRIDAY.-The Senate. was Engaged a
large part. of the day, in debate. Mr..
Callenss House bill, which provides that
when two-thirds of the bona tide stock
holders of a corporation organized under
the original act desire to wind up the
business of the company, they shall have
power to go into liquidation and dissolve
the company. It was postponed until
= Discussions upon local matters occu-
pied the rest of the day, ., .isr:. .. s.,,;
4, After hearing petitiens read, the House
spent the entire day In discussing { bill
introduced by Mr.. Leete, which provides
that County Commissioners. shall have
power to purchase or condemn land, and
erect all sorts cfcounty buildings thereon, +,
without consultation either with the
Legislature or the people affected, After
a prolonged struggle the bill was carried
--55 to 26.l ,.. sf.-a.... i,,,r., u :. +,
SATURpAY.-The Senate. did, little
more on Saturday than discuss the par
tial appropriation bill which has previ,
ously passed the House. The Finance
Committee of The Senate had restored
the item of $40, 600 for the current. ex-
penses of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
and cut down the deficiencies for the
Idiotic Asylum from $50, 600 to Sl2 ;ss8. 81.
In this condition it passed, and was
sent tn the House for concurrence In the
amendments, y ,s3Tsy 1ltl i'T J.1o9 b
The House passed ths Senate bill au-
thorixing County Commissioners to lay
out free turnpikes either In whole or In
part upon the line of any State, county
or township road. or upon any tive j or
more of such roads; andethat measure IL
now law. gin@ h'a ,lsHiiF nji% t's
The partial appropriation ailJili was
taken up as' " eaiile from the SEN ste and
laid on the table, 81 ~ a.-arE4ns ieS ati
The House took up the bill to abolish
the office of. Railroad Com missioner, and
postponed 1t untifnext ANsdnesdayorSi'