The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-22
OHIO LEGISL TUR 6

In the Senate, March 10, nominations
were received from the Governor: Rodney
Foos, of Columbus, to be Private Secretary,
vice Alfred E. Lee, resigned; James l..
Murray, of Cincinnati, to be Executive
Clerk, vice Rodney Foos, appointed Private
Secretary; and Rodney NJ. Stimson, of
Marietta, to be State Librarian, vice 81. II.
Robinson, term expired. The nominations
were referred, the first two being placed on
file, and the other to the Committee on
Library. Bills passed: Mr.. K1einschmidt's
Senate bill authorizing judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in Hamilton County
to appoint Directors of orphans asylums
Mr.. Lewis's Senate bill transferring the con-
troll of schools in the Nathan Hutton Mora
Wan Settlement in Tuscarawas County from
the County Commissioners to three Trustees,
to be chosen by the people of the settlement; !;
Mr.. Beach's House bill submittingssto to the
people of Madison County the question of
assuming charge of that portion
of the National road passing
through said county........In the House,
Mr.. Dir from the Committee on Municipal
Corporations, reported S. B. 247 (Southern
Railroad billy with numerous amendments,
and recommended its passage. After dis
cussion the bill and report were ordered
printed and to lie on the table. The report
was signed only by Messrs. Dir, Davis, HUI
berich, McLain and Hodge, there being four
other members of the committee. The same
committee reported s. B. 260 (the Police b.ll)
recommending its passage. Ordered en-
crossed and read the third time next Tuesday.
Mr.. Blake's old bill, to authorize taxation
for the purpose of purchasing township
hearse and building hearse houses, was re-
ported back and passed. Several local bills
passed. The Speaker announced that thirty
four bills were now to be read the second time,
upon which members began to scatter to
committee-rooms. Mr.. Neal moved that bills
beread the second time by title. Agreed to,
and the batch was rapidly disposed of.
In the Senate, March 12, Mr.. billiards. bill,
to amend the act for safety of persons at
tending public assemblies was passed. A
message from the Governor and Senator
Sherman's resignation were received, read,
and referred to the Committee on Privileges
and Elections. After deal of local bust.
ness, adjourned......In the House, Mr..
Scheble's bill, to authorize County Com
missioners to offer rewards for horsethieves,
was passed. The Cincinnati ten
recommended the passage, of
Mr.. Wiltsee's street cleaning bill, with
amendments. Bills were introduced to allow
County Commissioners to contract for the
use OF work house, and to permit prison
ers to be sentenced thereto; to secure pay to
persons furnishing labor or materials in
constructing turnpike or improved roads
to authorize the Cincinnati Board of Public
Works to take full control OF the Water
Works fund; to amend the militia law.
In the Senate, March IS, Mr.. Hostetter's
House bill amending the laws of 1878 SO as
to leave it discretionary with County Com
missioners before purchasing stock road
to assess an amount of tax upon the land
owners along the line sufficient to put in re.
pair the road purchased equal to the sur.
rounding tract, was read the third time and
passed. Mr.. Barrett's House bill
authorizing cemetery trustees to
purchase additional land for cemetery
purposes, not exceeding fifty acres in any
one yeat, or ore hundred acres in all, was
read the third time and passed. Mr.. John
ston, from the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, offered the following joint resolu.
tions, which was adopted:
IT Resossd 5g the Genesql Asses1y efbe ststs Of Ohio
e1ek On M Of sa aY %e p IN s
with law, to the election of United States Senator
to fill the vacancy occasoned by the resignation of
John Sherman.
TheGovernor's Private Secretary appeared
at the bar of the House, and presented the
Governors message, which was read.."....
In the House, in addition to several local
petitions, two, with several hundred sigma
lures, were presented in favor of temperance
legislation. Mr.. Dempsey's bill, extending
the term of the City Solicitor of Cleveland
1rOu wv ~ years 10 lOuI years, WAS reported
from the Committee on Municipal Corpora
tions, read the third time, and passed. The
House joint resolution, providing for the
printing of fifteen hundred copies of the
report OF the School Commissioner in the
German language, was reported from the
Committee on Public Printing and adopted.
Mr.. Richards House bill providing for
the establishment of kindergarten schools
in cities of the first and second class, three
ri hS of hp nf E6J1oa IF
in the affirmative, provided the cost thereof
shall rot necessitate an extra levy, and ex-
cluding such schools from any ben eft from
the school fund, was read the third time,
and, after discussion, defeated. Mr.. Ran.
SONS Police bill, and Mr.. Bard's bill, abol.
ishing the present Cincinnati Council,
and providing for electing eighteen
on general ticket, were passed........
A message was received by the General As.
sembly from Governor Young, in which he
makes a few suggestions. He calls atten.
ton to two bills, House Bill No. 303, by Mr.
Fehrenbatch, of Cuyahoga County, and
House bill No. 710, by Mr.. Monahan, OF
Jackson County, now pendingin the Assem-
bly,, providing for the creation of bureau
of labor statistics-and @ bureau of statistics
of mining, and the mineral resources oi
Ohio; the purpose of which is to educate,
protect and encourage skilled workmen in
their various callings or trades by obtaining
accurate information for their use and the
use of the legislators which will enable then
to understand more thoroughly the relations
of capital and labor, and the best means to &C
complish the development of the mineral re
sources of our State. These bills ne regard
as commendable. He calls attention to tn,
oyercrowded condition of the Penitentiary
In connection with this subject the messag
recommends that intermediate prisons o
work-houses should be provided, withou
delay, for the confinement of the younge
class of prisoners, and those especially VIII
tare punished for the first ofense, an
whose reformation may be reasonabl
Hoped for. As work-houses, they SHOULD
| also be adapted to the imprisonment of al
| able-bodied eEigrants who live habituall
| by begging, and are becoming dangerou
element not only to cities, but also in tn
agricultural districts of the State. The Court
should have authority to protect tn
public from this class of offender
GIere p{ sending ding oan them .nS to a;u plas'
compelled to earn their living. Distric
| Warehouses, or q class of prisons intefme
diate between the reformatory and pena
institutions of the State, seem thus to be al
urgent demand. In concluding, the Gov
ernor calls attention to the importance of
bill for the organization of a State militia.
In the Senate, on March IA, on motion O
Mr.. Bates, resolution was adopted to elec
a President pro tem., to serve during an,
absence of the President of the Senate, O
his inability to preside. Senator Knox wa
chosen, the Democrats voting for MI
Adams, of Licking County. Petitions wer
presented by Mr.. Wsrnock, from Cham
Paign County, fer legislation to give al
legalized schools of medicine equal repre-
sentation in appointments of physicians il
State institutions. Bills passed: Hous
bill, to provide payment for the cor
struction of stone masonry, cut stone an
brick work on the Columbus Hosp1tc
for the Insane; Senate bill, to create
Board of Trustees of the Sinking Fund i
Cincinnati, to be appointed by the Judge
of the Superior Courts. An admendmen
to vest the appointment in the Mayor, r.
ceived but one affirmative vote. The after
noon session was occupied with argument
in the contested election case of Cox vi
Harmon. ..House-Bills passed House bill
limiting the floating debt bonds authorize
to be issued by cities of less than one hur
dred thousand inhabitants to $1O0, 600; Hous
bill, to reduce the minimum width of tn
graveled track of improved roads to te