The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30


passeI: TO empower township trustees
to make and enforce health regulations
in reference to smallpox and other
loathsome diseases; for purchasing addi-
tional grounds for the Soldiers Orphans
Home: to require the Trustees of institu-
tions Of learning to collect certain rents
to authorize Commissioners of Brown
county to repair the Ripley and Hills.
boro turnpike; to restrain Vagrancy ana
common begging; to prevent the Killing
| OF deer except in the month OF Novem-
Der; creating a special school dlstrlct IN
New Antioch, Clinton county; to create
| two election precincts in LICK township,
Jackson county; granting guardians OF
minors estates authority to lease same
beyond the term of majority Of such mi
| nors; giving Justices of the Peace jurls-
diction in attachments in amounts OF
$500. in cases of steamboats, and other
Watercraft; for the leasing and re-leas-
| ing of certain lands in Athens county
for the improvement of streets and ayen-
ues in Columbus : to authorize the Gov
ernor to execute a deed for certain ca
nal lands; increasing the jurisdiction OF
Justices of the Peace In civil actions.
The Pearson bill to amend the Munich
pal Code was passed without the amend
ments. The nomination OF John A.
Smith and Lewis A. Bonham as Trustees
of Miami University was concurred in.
The nomination of William d. Hill to be
Commissioner of Insurance, was con-
Cured in.
HOUsE.-Mr. Marx moved that mes
sage be sent to the Senate requesting the
return of Senate bill 229 the Potter bill);
adopted, yeas 45, nays IA. Mr.. GegEan's
Religious Liberty bill passed, So to 80.
Bills passed: To divide Lick township,
jackson county, into two election pre-
cincts; providing that teachers certin-
Gates in cities OF the first class shall be
renewed at two, five and ten years; pre-
scribing the manner OF publishing notlce
and holding election on proposed Constr
tutional amendments; authorizing the
creation of a special school district in
Columbiana county; for the sale OF the
old Blind Asylum building; providing
that the guardians of the estates of MI
nors may lease such estates beyond the
terms Of majority of such minors; to
amend the railroad law of the last ses-
sion so as to exclude from it's provisions
railroads in process of construction.
The Wood County Investigating Com
mittee reported the following resolutions
for adoption:
Hiram Murlin and James 5. Gordon are
exonerated from all blame in the matter
~ "iResolved, Resolved That John Baker, T. J..
White and e. NJ. Walker are deserving
of censure by this House, for their con-
duct in the matter of the Wood County
bill.
"Resolved, That the committee recon-.
mend that John M. Haag and John NJ.
Cooley be brought before the bar of the
House, and be severely reprimanded by
the Speaker, for their conduct in con-
nection with the Wood County bill"
They were, after much discussion, so
altered as to exonerate all the members
and they were passed. The Canal In
vestigating Committee reported unani-
mously that the testimony OF the men,
bers Of the Board of Public Works, and
of the members of the Lessees Company,
is uniformly to the effect that the canals
are now in better condition than they
were at the beginning of the lease OF 1861,
while the testimony Of boatmen, shippers
and others is as uniformly that they
have been allowed to run down in eff
cheney and general condition from % to
80 per cent; that the system OF granting
leases OF lands and water powers is in
need of radical reform; that no evidence
was adduced to show that money was
used to effect. the leasing of the canals;
that some very questionable transac-
tions on the part of the Board of Public
Works were developed, in which the in
terests of the State were grossly sacri-
feed, and that its members are deserv-
ing Of censure.