The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-12
OHIO LEGIsLATURE.


Mr.. Oglevee moved that Mr.. Hitch
cock be called temporarily to the chair.
Ex-Speaker Converse, seeing there was not
quorum present, demanded the yeas and
nays, which demand was ignored, and the
motion declared carried by q viUd uOce vote.
The Democrats appealed from Mr.. Oglevee's
decision, and when their appeal was sus-
tanned, on motion OF Mr.. Rowland the
House adjourned. The Democrats then,
under the lead of Mr.. Converse, got up
little organization of their own, with DIR.
Norton in the chair, and Mr.. Watson of
Monroe County, as Clerk, and after order
ing the Sergeant-at-arms to report at ten
o'clock tomorrow morning as to absentees,
they adjourned the meeting.
In the Senate April 8, the resolution in
structing the Sergeant-at-Arms to proceed to
Cincinnati and notify Judson Harmon of its
z ton wss argued for some hours, Messrs.
Owens, Andrews and Burress, denying
jurisdiction, and Mr.. Johnston and
other Republicans claiming it. Various
motions came from the Democratic side to
amend by the substitution, first, of Senator
Ellis for the Sergeantat-Arms, and then the
first Assistant Sergeant, all OF which were
lost. Efforts were then made to stave off by
previous question the resolution was adopted
ayes, 10; nays, 8, party vote. When
the House met this morning, the Speaker
and Speaker pro tenn. being absent, Mr..
Richards Rep, went to the Speaker stand,
and, calling the House to order, moved that
Mr.. Hitchcock (Rep. be called to the chair,
Mr.. Converse demanded the yeas
and nays, and the nomination was
agreed to, whereupon Mr.. Hitchcock took
the chair. Mr.. Bates's Senate bill for
leasing the Cincinnati Southern Railway
- o nta nd ha
third time, and after several amendments,
was carried by vote of 60 to 2. The bill as
it stands provides only for leasing and ad.
vertising the proposals. dt T..
In the Senate, April A, the Southern Rail
way bill, with House amendments, was re-
ported back to the Senate in the morning, and
by vote of to 2z the amendments were
not concurred in. The Committee on Federal
Relations was discharged from further con-
sideration of the bill authorizing the city of
Covington, KY, foothold on the Ohio shore
for a free bridge across the Ohio River, and
the bill was referred to select committee
of four, consisting of Messrs. Bates, Kessler,
Kleinschmidt, and Ransom. A petition was
received from 1S1 citizens of Lucas County,
asking for an appropriation to complete
the Providence Slack-water on the Miami
and Erie Canal, in accordance with the re-
port of John W. Erwin. Referred to the
Committee on Public Works. A petition of
so merchants of Lucas County, asking for
the passage of the bill to punish
frauds in securing extensions on
debts, and release of one debtor
and substitution of another, was referred to
the Committee on Judiciary. The Ransom
County School bill was called up for its
third reading. A number of its provisions
were discussed for some time, including
that increasing the salary of the State
School Commissioner from $4,000 to
$500, which was lost, and the bill
was finally laid on the table.
Mr.. Curtis's joint resolution for amending
the constitution by providing that regular
elections for State and county officers and
members of the General Assembly be held
on Tuesday next after the first Monday in
November, the question to be submitted to
a popular vote at the election in next
October, was agreed to without opposition,
and sent to the House.........In the House,
the consideration of House Joint Resolu-
tion No. 81 (Mr. Nigh's proposed amend
ment to the judiciary clause of the constitu:
tion,) was taken up as the special order of
the morning. Mr.. Rowland offered an
amendment to Section Is, allowing the
General Assembly to increase or diminish
the number of judges in any Common Pleas
Court, or abolish the Probate Court in any
county or other court established by law.
Agreed to. Mr.. Howland's amendment to
Section 8, striking out the clause
dividing the State into eighty-eight
Common Please districts. Agreed to.
The gentleman's amendment TO Section
IS, providing that the term oi Office OF all
judges of the Court of Common Pleas in OF.
fee, who were not elected as judges under
this amendment shall then expire, was
anroal IN NJ uado onoiust fba
whole resolution, claiming that the bill
would double the number of
Common Pleas Judges now in Office,
and add to the expense of the judicial
system nearly $160,000. That the Probate
Court is a peoples court, in which any
person may transact business without the
aid of an attorney; under the bill transfer
ring the businhss to the Common Pleas, it
would be necessary for all having business
there to engage an attorney to transact it for
them, and that the expense to the people
transacting such business would thus be
greatly increased. When the resolution
came up on passage, it was lost by vote of
sixty.five ayes to twenty-seyen nays, sixty
six being necessary to carry it.
In the Senate, April 5, Messrs. Warnock,
Brown, of Lucas, and Knox, were appointed
a committee of conference on the part of
Tue ScHdtc Ou lut GOubueEu hdllIOdu lLCdoO
Bill. House bill by Mr.. Barrett, to create a
Commission to investigate as to the cause
and remedies of hog cholera, was read the
third time and disc ussed until nearly time
for the noon recess, when message was re.
ceived from the House transmitting the
joint resolution proposing an amendment
to the article Of the Constitution relating to
the Judiciary. The resolution was
after discussion, adopted. The following
bills passed: To create commission to
investigate the hog cholera authorizing the
construction of roads through wild lands to
public highways; to allow any creditor of
an estate, on giving bond, to have hearing
on any claim. House bill authorizing an in
crease of taxes for township roads was
lost; reconsidered and laid on the table.
..... In the House, the death of Hon. Ben.
Inman, Representative from Sandusky was
announced, and resolutions passed appoint
ing a committee to report such action as was
deemed fitting for the accession. The vote
whereby the House refused to adopt the
resolution submitting an amendment to
the article of the Constitution relating to
the Judiciary, was again reconsidered and
the resolution adopted and sent to
the Senate for concurrence. Messrs.
Dempcy, Richards and Meyers were
appointed committee of conference
on the part of the House on the Senate bill
to provide for leasing the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad. House bill, by Mr.. Siefert, to
authorize the Board of Public Works to
build ctllvert under the Hooking Canal,
near Lancaster, was read the third time, and
ELECTED some discussion, but was finally
passed. Resolutions in honor of the mem.
ory of Mr.. Inman, late Representative from
Sandusky County, were adopted, after
speeches by Messrs. Minus, Converse, Hol: