Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-09
LEGISLATIVE NOTES

On Thursday. April /, the Senate
passed, with0u6 amendment, the bill
providing for a GeologzcaI Survey of
The State. The vote stood a for to
agafnst. The bill had passed the H01se
by 8 vote OF - yeas to - nays. Sew
era members OF both Houses vhe we're
absent at tlzc time the Bill 4gas g5iIt fii1s
on its passage, would have voted for
it had they been present.
Mr.. Hutchinson has introduced in
the Senate FesolHtiOnsr 1expressivez of
sympathy for TIE Cuban insufreetion-
lists, and recommending the General
Government to recognize them as bel
ligerehtss s. 1ESToa
A report from tie select eoinhlitts5e
appointed td inFestigate the Deaf and
. I9t1llB asylum frauds has been pre-
sented in the House and ordered print
ed. The House has passed a bill Which
authorizes the County Commissioners,
for the purpose of aiding in the con-
struetiou of free turnpike roads. to
levy annually, IN addition to other
road taxes, not more than four mills
duplicate.
The Senate has adopted, .by. the re-
quisite three-fourths vote, a resolution
proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution enabling counties and incor-
porated towns to loan their credit, to
the extent of one aud two per cent,
respectively, on the taxable property,
A bill to provide for establishing a
SEfte HsefofTn School for Girls at Paines-
vile, Ohio, has been introduced by
Senator Grisw0ld.
The majority Democrats of the Ju-
| dietary Committee Of the House have
] agreed to recommend the indefinite
| tponement of Mr.. Lees bill to
amend the. students Voting Act. The
bill simply removes from the act its
odlous and oppressive provisions reiat-
ing to students. - 4 7Ilin0Fitv 4eDoft
! nom the comliiitt5e viii probably be
made recommending the passage of
On Thursday, April Ist. Mr.. Balls
bill to provide an additional Peniten-
| t1ary was taken UP and discussed in
the House The vote on the bill stood,
yeas A, nays 81, SO the bill having fail
ed to receive q constitutional majority
was lost.
Mr.. Rukenbrod offered the following
Joint Resolution:
WHEREAS, The appropriations actu-
ally necessary to be made by this Cen
eral Assembly for the building and
Improvement of public institutions,
together with ordinary and Legitimate
expenses of the State Government,
viii make a heavy drain on the purse
of an already oyer-burdened people
levy on the grand duplicate of the
State; and .5..f ~ Hs-
WHEREAS, The Warden of the Ohio
Penitentiary, in a recent memorial to
the General Assembly declares, that
the present prison has never been filed
to its capacity; that the maximum has
been reached, and5the number of pris-
Oners are gradually but surely decreas-
ing; therefore, be it
ReS0Lred by the General assembly Of
| the State Of Ohio, That until the neces-
! sary provisions and approprfatiOns be
made to rebuild the Central Lunatic
Asylum, recently burned, and also to
/ build new and absolutely necessary
/ Blind Asylum tO=take the place of the
dilapidated, incommOdious and dan
| gerous old structure now used for that
Institution, no action whatever shall
be taken toward the building of new
and additional State prison by passing
enabling acts, appointing commissions
ers, locating sites, appropriations or
otherwise.
The resolution was tabled under no
tice to discuss by Mr.. Callen.
The joint resolution rejecting the
XVIII Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States was taken up in
House on Thursday. The previous
question, forbidding all discussion or
amendment, was moved and sustained
and the resolution adopted by strict
party vote. The vote stood. yeas AZ
nays SO. SO the amendment was reiec-
ted by the House.
The House has passed bill increas-
ing the pay of liquor inspectors to five
dollars per day.
On Friday the House adopted a reso-
luton that when it adjourned on Sat
urday it should stand adjourned until
the following Tuesday. Yeas As, nays
25.
A bilIswhich in substance codifies all
the Jaws relating to municipal corpor-
porations has been introduced in the
Senate. 1t consists of 81 chapters and
730 sections, and has passed its first
reading. An s
"a resolution proposing to amend the
constitution of the State by striking
the word f'malen from the elective
franchise clause was introduced in the
House Saturday, by Mr.. Gordon
On Thursday, March oath, the Senate
took up the Agricultural College ques- i
ton, and spent a considerable part of
the day m discussion of the PROPOSE
t1on OF Mr.. Lawrence to establish the
college IN connection with a secular !
University at Wooster. In the House
on the same day, Mr.. Scott's proposed
female suffrage amendment to the con-
was taken up. Mr.. Ball
(Dem.) moved to amend so that the
proposed amendment would cOnstFue
the word f'yvhite" in the constitution
so as to mean persons who have no ad-
mixture of African blood. This amend /
ment, though irrelavent, and designed
to kill the measure, was adopted by a
strict party vote. A demand for CliViss-
ion of the propositions was oVerruled. |
and the question being on the adoption
of the resolution it was lost, yeas 36. |
nays 49, the Democrats mostly voting |
yea and the Republicans nay.