Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-05-28

and no officer of a railroad compan,
shall act as an officer of any other com
pany owning or controlling a parable
or competing line; and no railroad
company shall do business in this Stat,
which shares its earnings, in any man
ner, with a company owning or con
trolling a parallel or competing lin,
within this State.
Section ii Provides that no foreign
corporation shall carry on the busines:
of transporting persons or property, OF
OF telegraphing, mining, man ufactur
ing or insurance in this State, excep
while it maintains therein an office
where, or on the person in Charge O
which, process may be served in any
action or legal proceedings instituted
against it.
''Sec. 13. No corporation shall issue
stock or bonds, except for money actu
ally received or labor done; and al
fictitious increase of stock or indebted
ness shall be void. The stock anc
bonded Indebtedness of corporations
shall not be increased, except in pursu
ance of general law; nor until the con.
sent OF the persons holding the larger
amount in value of the stock shall be
obtained, at a meeting held after notice
given, for period not less than sixty
days, in pursuance of law.
''Sec. IA. Persons and property, trans.
ported over any railroad, shall be car
ried to any section at charges not ex,
ceeding in gross the charges for the
same class and amount of transporta.
tiOn of persons and property in the same
direction, to any more distant station
but eXcursians and cOmmutatiOn tickets
may be issued at special rates"
REVENUE AND TAXATION.
For the provision of the old Consti-
tuition that claws shall be passed tax.
ing, by uniform rule, all moneys, in
vestments in bonds, stocks" ect., the
following substitute is proposed by way
of enablingsthe General Assembly to
frame rules of appraisement which
shall recognize a distinction between
different kinds of property:
Laws shall be passed taxing, by a
uniform rate, all real and personal pro-
per according to its value in money, to
ascertained by such rules of appraise-
ment as may be prescribed by the Gen.
eral Assembly, so that all property
shall bear an equal proportion of the
burdens of taxation provided, that the
deduction of debts for credits may be
Section taxes the income from in
vestments, as for instance Government
bonds. when the principle cannot be
reached.
Provision IS made for the taxation of
banks by rules b:.seti upon capital en-
ployed and business done.
The General Assembly is authorized
to pass restrictive measures in regard to
the keeping, harboring or running at
large of dogs.
A Representative in the General AS
sembly is given TO each county regard
less of population.
The system of cumulative voting is
applied TO the counties of Hamilton and
All State and county officers are for
hidden to accept railroad passes.
The General Assembly is required to
egislate for the protection of the lives
md health of miners.
Tbree-fifths instead of two-thirds of
he General Assembly shall be neces-
AIRY to call a Convention to revise,
,mend or change the Constitution SUBJ
nitted.
The Schedule provides for the ap-
continent OF a Commission to revise
lnd rearrange the statutes of the State,
f the new Constitution is adopted, aud
or the submission, as separate PropO-
itiOnS of the questions Of. minority
representation, railroad aid and license.
THIS matter of hard drinking is one
bout which it seems>to be next to inn
'ossible for, people to think philosophi-
ally. The fact that temperance de-
ends upon character is persistently ig-
ored. A man who has ruined HIM
elf and family by tippling, who has
poled his fortunes, damaged his reru-
alton, ,and weakened his will by self-in-
ulgence, in a moment of uncommon
enitence or of desperate lack of mon
y, is persuaded TO sign a pledge He
not to drink even lager-beer;
ut does he promise to be wise and in
nstrious?-to fill his life with worthy
be unselfish and truthful,
ave upon IL single point? A great |
cal is said about breaking the pledge
ut pledge heedlessly or carlessly ta-
en- is broken from the start, and in a |
ertain sense, in the very act of taking |
!. 1T is seldom understood that char |
cter should be fully rounded and uni
ersal, and that the mere writing of
ne'S nauue is no guarantee Oi regener-
ton. 1t may pat hini i'll the right
7ay, bat he must keep himself there.
he pledge is no taliSInsn, no costly
harm, no amulet to make its taker So
er. Many man has suddenly arrest
d himself i'm his downward career, has
his own soul to stand by new
has kept the unuttered or
nWritten vow, and in the end has
and on the other hand
,any man has died in a drunken fit
ter signing forty pledges. y hat
,formed man ought to understand is
rat he must, by constant vigilance, by
I'm reflection, and by honest endeav-
:, reform himself upon all sides-that
3 is not at liberty to be idle or licenti-
IS, uncharitable or selfish, simyly be-
luse he has become temperate. With
1T conscience thoroughly armed for
emergencies, without an honest de-
re to do right in all things, without
enlarging views of duty to
Imself and to others, the reformed
an will almost always, through the
)eration of natural causes, break
)wn; or if he is preserved, it will be
= accident. And what is true of in
viduals is true of the aggregate pop
alton. After great spasmodic revi-
Il of temperance, how often have we
a lanentable backsliding, :
ith all vitality turned to death, and I
earnestness to indifference! The
uses of this are hardly far to seek. |
he true reformation is that which is
lsed upon honest thought, upon re-
,ntance which touches every fibre of
e reformed mans nature, upon a
carer notion of the value of life and
the sacredness of this first gift of
od. Our advice to those who are
for disenthrallment is to
ek for general growth of the whole
,ture, and for complete and not
resided mauliness. 1t is a failure to