The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-11
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

UHlU LEUlSLA OhLs
In the Senate, April 2, only few mem
bers were present, and after brief session,
occupied with second reading and reference
bills, adiourned........I the House, less
than one-third of the members were present.
Thirty-five minutes were spent in reading
the journal of previous days proceedings.
Bills we're introduced: To provide for es-
tablishing an intermediate prison for crimi-
nails between the grade of the Reform
Schools and the Penitentiary-the bill
provides for commission to invite bids
for the location Of a site, and to erect
prison with capacity for four hundred
prisoners; to require that notice be given
owners of real estate before increasing the
valuation of real estate for taxation.
In the Senate, April 8, bills were passed:
To authorize an appeal from the decision of
viewers appointed to view plank roads and
turnpikes to permit benevolent institutions
and societies to invest surplus or endow-
ment funds and to hold securities upon
which such investments may be made;
authorizing the levy of an annual tax of
3-100 of a mill on the dollar in Gin
cinnati to be applied to the keeping
up of an astronomical observatory.
The bill to reorganize the Deaf and Dumb
Institution, passed, with amendments, after
debate. 1t provides fer five Directors, two
to be residents of the county in which the
institute is located ..... In the House, among
bills introduced was one by Mr.. Monahan, to
regulate the price of legal advertising, and
prescribing the duties of certain county
officers. The bill makes it Illegal for pub
fishers of newspapers to charge or receive
for the publication of official advertising
an amount in excess of that received for
private advertising, or more than the rates
pub ished in their newspapers; and
providing for the insertion of such
official advertisements in papers of differ
ent politics and in German papers.
Mr.. Norton offered resolution for inquiry
into the conduct of the Michigan Mutual
Life Insurance Company, whether that COM
pany is not taking advantage of policy
holders in Ohio who wish to surrender
| their policies, whether it is not loaning
money at ten per cent contrary to law, and
| if so, what action is necessary. The resOlu-
tion was unanimously adopted under sus-
pension of the rules. The standing Com
| mittee on Insurance is to make the inquiry.
| The House took up Mr.. Creamer's bill to
prevent hunting and shooting on land
without consent of the owner, and debated
| it at length. The bill finally passed, 81 to
! Is. 1t provides that hunters must have the
land owners permission. The latter need
| not post q notice, but the penalties are not
| changed, but the offense remains simply
trespass. The Speaker announced as new
| members of the Committee on Military
Affairs instead of O'Connor, Green, Thorp,
and Dalzell, who resigned; Sawyer, Chair
man, instead of O'Connor; also Cowgirl,
Foster, and Carpenter, Republicans.
In the Senate, April 4, Mr.. Jackson's Sen
ate bill recognizing the judiciary of the State
was taxed up and read the third time. 1t
| divides the State into five Common Pleas
| districts: Hamilton County, the first; But.
ler, Preble, Darke and Montgomery, the first
subdivision; Champaign and Miami, sec
ond subdivision; Warren, Clinton, Greene,
and Darke, third subdivision; Clermont,
Brown, and Adams, the fourth subdivisi on
Ross, Highland, and Fayette, the fifth sub
division; Pickaway and Madison, the sixth
subdivision, and Franklin the seventh sub
| division; all these to constitute the second
district The rest of the State is similarly
divided. The Supreme Court is to selecI
three of the Common Pleas Judges in eacl
district and determine which of them shall
preside; and these three shall sit only as Dis
trict Judges, and they shall have power t.
transfer Common Pleas Judges when il
their judgment necessary. Other provis
ions of the bill remain as set forth when tn,
bill was introduced. The bill passed. Mr.
Joy presented the report of the Joint Com
June guilty of bribery, and thorough.
exonerates Governor Young. In the matte
of building new cells, the committee fine
there was no fraud whatever in stone
work .........In the House, the Senate bill re
organizing the Asylum for Imbeciles wa
passed. J. V. DeLong, engrossing clerk
having resigned, II. G.. Bolmar, of Hardin
was eected to his place. Mr.. Sturgeon
moved to reconsider the vote whereby Steed
, mans stay law was indefinitely postponed
which motion was defeated by Is to 55. Nh
!, Armstrong; Senate bill requiring Clerks o
Courts in all counties containing 5000
inpabitants to make FULL ndex of all suit
= | 4 coC
In the Senate, April S, Mr.. Salzaber's bill
81 800, with per cent. on collections not t
! exceed 81 800 more, passed. Mr.. Boyce'
E House bill reducing fees and salaries G
! county officers passed. 1t reduces tn
present fees of the Probate Judge thirt
per cent. Clerks of the Court, twenty pc
cent. Prosecuting Attorney and Records
: twenty per cent; Auditor and Treasure
: thirty per cent; Sheriff, ten per cent.
message was received from the Governo
nominating Morris and Peck as Longvie
Directors under the recognizing action
2 Confirmed unanimously Yin the Hous
s Mr.. Forests Senate bill to divorce th
: Commissioners of Hamilton County frol
O | the Auditor and allow them to elect the
own clerk Is. B. No. 6.) was defeated. TIL
: Gallipolis bill, providing for a gener
1 method of forming sub school districts b
: order from Probate Courts, passed. I'll
:. bill is aimed to prevent local legislation.
q In the Senate, April 6, Mr.. DalzelPs Hous
e bill, to compel Notaries to certify pensio
n papers at ten cents each, passed. The Sc
= ate spent the rest of the forenoon and q
) the afternoon on the civil code........In Il
!; House, that part of the civil code regulatil
d procedure in Probate Courts was discuss,
o all day and passed just before afternoon a
It journment. Mr.. Tyler, of Wyandot, intr
# duced resolutions of inquiry into the ma
!, agement of the penitentiary. House a
> journed to Monday at ten o'clock a. m.