The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-15
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

In the Senate, February 5, Senator Phil.
son presented the petition of the Commit.
tee of the American Medical Association,
urging the establishment of State Board
OF Health. Senator Beatty presented pc.
tition from one hundred and thirty.eight
citizens of Logan County for an amendment
to the Adair law, so as to dc. away with no.
tice. Mr.. Johnston offered resolution
instructing the Committee on Insurance
to examine and report whether and
what additional Legislation is necessary
to protect policy holders in life and fire in
surance companies from loss. Adopted.
......... In the House, several new bills of a
dar. Mr.. Williams called up his resolution,
offered some time since, to require the com.
mittees of the two houses to file itemized
bills of expenses, and after some lively spar.
ring between the members of some of the
privileged committees and non-members, it
was adopted. Mr.. Groom introduced
a bill to require cities to keep in repair the
turnpikes within their limits leading to
cemeteries.
In the Senate, February 6, Mr.. Bates asked
and obtained leave to file with the Clerk an
answer of Judson Harmon, in the case of
Cox VS.. Harmon. Mr.. Shenck's Senate bill,
to amend the act to facilitate the admins
tratlon OF justice in Cuyahoga County, was
passed. A bill to divide Aurelius Township,
Washington County, into election precincts,
was passed. On motion of Mr.. Bates, House
Bill 1S9 passed. 1t provides that insurance
companies may be sued in the same county
where the cause of action arose. Mr.. Lewis
introduced a bill to sell certain Mora
Wan lands in Tuscarawas County In
the House, a resolution was passed instruct
ing the Auditor of the State aud Attorney
General to settle with Mr.. VIM. Ampt, by
suit if necessary. Mr.. GoebePs House bill
creating the Office of court interpreter in
the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Courts,
was referred back, read the third time and
passed. Mr.. Duncan's House bill authoriz-
ing the town Council of Mt Gilead, Morrow
County, TO levy a special tax to build and
furnish "a town hall, was reported
back, read the third time and passed. Mr..
Barretts House bill to authorize the pay
ment of bridge bonds issued by the town
of Xenia, at not later date than 1885, was
read the third time and passed. Mr.. Luc-
cocks House bill to provide for the incor-
poration of Farm Laborers' Associations,
was read the third time and passed. The
amendment of the criminal law providing
that in murder in the first degree the jury
may, in discretion, imprison for life, was
defeated. Mr.. Kerr's Senate bill No. 222, to
pay Messrs. Smell and McAdams for two
horses lost in the Morgan raid, was lost, re.
considered and laid on the table.
In the Senate, February Z, House reso-
luton was passed, authorizing the Attorney
General to appear in the suit of the Pull
man Car Company VS.. The Treasurer of
Clinton County. This is suit to test the
right to tax the Pullman cars running on
Ohio railroads. A resolution to authorize
the settlement of the claim of w. NJ. Ampt
against the State, for the collection of taxes,
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The following bills were passed: The Senate
bill to make the separate property of wife
liable for all debts contracted by her; Mr..
Spangler's Senate bill to fix the minimum
pay of road supervisors at sixteen dollars,
and the maximum at fifty dollars per year ;
keeping streams free from timber and
drift by county commissioners.
In the House, bill was presented by MIR.
Garwood to authorize Marysyille and Paris
Township to purchase cemetery grounds.
Among bills introduced was one by Mr..
SheTrick, TO compel Life Insurance Com
panies to deposit with the State Treas
urer collaterals for the security of
policy-holders. A communication was
received from the Raiload Com
missioner, stating that all railroad
companies, to the best of his knowl-
edge and belief, are complying with the law
relative to bridges between cars. Mr.. Con-
verse offered a resolution calling the atten-
ton of Congress to the importance of the
immediate and thorough testing of all iron
and steel, and invite the General Govern
ment to establish Commission at the Ag-
ricultural College to make these tests. The
resolution was referred to the Committee on
Commerce.
In the Senate, February s, Mr.. Browns
(Lucas) Senate bill to amend the act regu-
lating incorporated companies so that stock
holders of street railroad companies may
have the option of making their Directories
consist of three or seven, was read the third
time and passed. House joint resolution,
instructing the Attorney-General to repre-
sentthe State in the tax cases brought by the
Pullman Palace Car Company, was adopted.
Bills passed: Senate bill by Mr.. Beatty, to
make the separate property of women liable
for debts contracted by them; Senate bill
by Mr.. Spangler, increasing the minimum
sum to be paid Road Supervisor in one
year TO fifty dollars. Mr.. Burns introduced
a bill to revise and consolidate the statutes.
1t embraces part 1 of Title 1, of the
solidate the General Statutes, and consists
of a hundred and sixty pages of the usual
size in legal volumes........In the House, a
petition was read from many citizens Of
Defiance County, asking law for the sup
preston of tramps. Other local petitions
were read. The hour of 10 80 having
arrived, the chair called up the
special order for that hour, being Mr.. Inman's
House Bill to authorize the Board of Public
Works to build. bridge on the Western
Reserve and Maumee Road, over the
Sandusky River. The bill was discussed
till noon and passed. In the afternoon
session, the bin to charter Cleveland Socj sty
for Savings was taken up, and discusse | a
great length.
On February 9, the Senate did no business
of Importance and adjourned until Tuesday
afternoon.......In the House, Mr.. Hodge in
troduced bill to regulate the method o
issuing life insurance policies snd to protec
the holders of the same. Adjourned unit
Tuesday afternoon.