The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

on Currency, and its passage recommended
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and
read a third time tomorrow. A number
OF messages from the House were disposed
of, and the Senate resolved into Commit
tee of the Whole on the bill to revise and
codify the tax laws. Messages were
again received from the House,
and bills read the first time......
In the House, number of petitions were
presented in reference to canals and game
laws. number of local bills were intro
dueed and referred. The vote whereby Mr.
DalzelPs House resolution creating a COM
mittee to investigate and report concerning
the sinecare offices in the State government
was laid on the table and ordered printed,
was reconsidered and the resolution referred
to the Committee on Printing. Bills were
passed: To punish newspapers for publish
ing Utah divorces; to reorganize the Cincin-
natl Board of Fire Commissioners giving
the incinnati Board of Public Works power
to appoint City Auditor. O'Connor, the
Representative from Montgomery County,
who had been charged with being deserter
from the army, rose t. a question of priv
ilege and produced his first discharge
papers, together with certificates of his
soldierly conduct from the caH4ain of his
company and the Lieutenant-Colonel and
Colonel of the regiment in which he served.
He asked for Committee of Investigation,
and a Committee of Five was appointed by
the Chairman.
In the Senate, February 5, the bill pre-
scribing proceedings for detaching terri
tory from villages was passed. The bill for
making silver coin legal tender was read
a third time, and, by motion, made the
special order for ten a. m, Tuesday, March
5. On motion of Mr.. Owen, a resolution
was adopted calling on the Adjutant General
for itemized accounts of the claims by
railroads for the transportation of troops
| during the July riots. The Committee of
| the Whole spent the remainder of the ses-
sion on the Tax Revision Bill. An amend
ment limiting the exemptions of church
| property to So 900 was adopted in committee
........In the House, an inspection of the
| journal of yesterdays proceedings showing
that Mr.. Klimper's bill to authorize the
Board of Public Works of Cincinnati to
appoint the City Auditor, had not passed,
having received one vote less than the
| requisite majority, on motion of Mr.. Norton,
| a message was sent to the Senate request
ing the return of the bill. A large number
OF petitions were presented in re-
| gard to game laws, protection OF
canals, etc. A large number of bills were
House bill to repeal the act of June 26,
| 1877, authorizing the Commissioners of
! Brown County to build and put in repair
| free turnpike roads; Senate bill to author
ize the Licking County Agricultural Society
to borrow money, and issue bonds therefor,
to pay debts. Mr.. BOIL, from the select
4 committee of three, reported back the joint
Resumption Act, and recommended Its
| adoption. A substitute, submitted by the
minority, recommending no legislation on
| the subject of resumption, and in favor of
remonetizIng silver, was voted down-yeas,
| 80; nays, 50-a party vote-and the original
resolution was adopted-yeas, 80; nays, 80.
In the Senate, February 6, the chair laid
| before the Senate communication from the
| Common Council of Cincinnati, asking au-
| thority to issue bonds of the city to the
amount of $4,000 to build central police
station. Bills were intl oduced vesting the
election of the City Auditor of Cincinnati
in the Board of Public Works of said city
instead of the Board of Couneilmen !;
making it criminal offense for corpor-
| ations or individuals paying the price of
labor in goods to charge higher rate than
the current retail price of such
goods......In the House very hit e
business worthy of record was done.
Petitions were presented: From Summit
County, for a law to prohibit trespassing by
| hunters; from Hamilton County, for legis-
lation to prohibit the pollution of streams of
running water in Ohio by refuse from man.
ufactories; from Pickaway County, tor the
preservation and Improvement OF canals
read and referred to proper committees.
Mr.. Mack offered resolution directing the
Committee on Finance to report an appro-
priation to pay the expenses of Prof. A. 81.
Tuttle as Commissioner to investigate the
hog cholera. Adopted. The House
then went into Committee of the Whole on
the municipal code.
In the Senate, February Z, Mr.. Curtis,
from the Committee on Public Expenditures,
reported back Senate bill to repeal the
Board of State Charities, and recommended
its passage The bill was ordered to be
engrossed and read the third time to-mor-
| he hill fha NJ 70 Of
Longview Asylum was reported back with
numerous amendments, with recommends
ton that it be passed. Ordered epgrossed
for third reading tomorrow. The amend.
ments make no change in the workings OF
the bill. In the House-Among a large
number of bills introduced, one fixes the
compensati of unity Commlssi ners al
S3 per day and abolishes travel ng expenses
an ther authorizes notaries public to s. lem
| nize marriage; and NJ other amends sect nf
; so, 81, SO and "a of the sch"ol law SO as to
take from the B ard of Educate all
auth. rity t, establish and maintain any
scho Is # higher grade than C NM dis
trict schools; the My branches 10 be taught
, in the public schools t, be erth graphy
: reading, writing, arithmetic. ge' graphy
and English grammar, and that all branches
t taught in the mmon schrs Is of the State
shall be in the English language. The H. use
bill requiring 7. wnship Assessors to ascer
tain and repfr rt the number of unmarked
, graves Of Union soldiers was passed.
In the Senate, February s. the day wa
3 spent in reading and in postponing actor
4 on bills......In the house a number O.
4 bills of local character were introduced
. Bills were passed: House bill authorizing
o the Trustees of Defiance Township, Defane'
. County, to transfer certain funds; Hsus'
= bill, authorizing the Board of Education
of Green Township, Trumbull County. Il
: Join with the Trustees of said Township Il
S build school house and town hall Hous
n bill, to provide for the enlargement ant
n maintenance of the school library of Cleve
q land. The House then went into Com
i mittee of the Whole for the consideration
! of the municipal code.
y In the Senate, February 9, Mr.. Howar
presented a petition from four hunore
is women of the Nineteenth Congresslons
District for restoration of the origins
e Adair Law and further enactment to perm
h | local option as to the sale of liquors. Nj
10 SaltZgaber introduced a bill to require a
\ travelling statesmen who sell goods not mar
- ufactured in Ohio, to procure license unos
= penalty of $50 fine. After second reading
Re three or four bills, the Senate adjourned III
n til Monday morning ......ln the House, tt
Of Deficiency and Partial Appropriation bl
r was reported back from the Committee
9ot Finance, with numerous amendments, el
~ ~ crossed and read the third time. Some
III the leading items are: For salaries
re Judges, $4,000; per diem and mileage
re members of the Legislature, SOL ,000; Sayler
IN Statutes, 81, 500; State printing and olndln
ne $4,000; deficiency in advertising FIR
Il Banking Act in 1877, $4,000; salary al
of travelling expenses Commissioners of Lab
VI Statistics, S2,O5S66 deficiency for Columbl
y Hospital for the Insane, $S2 900; curr. mt e
ak penses, including deficiency, $500
Soldiers Orphans Home current expense
X including deficiency, S17 800; Penitentiar
be S45, 900, including $21 900 deficiency on co
re- struction of new ce Is, Toledo House of i
-, fuge, 81, ,791 so; current expenses of Clevelal
~ Hospital for the Insane, $4,000; cure
EN- expenses snd salaries st the Asylum for {
he Blind, $4,000; salaries and current expens
or, of the Asylum for the Deaf and DUN
is $21, 500. he bill failed to pass, lacking o
nd vote of the requisite majority. A mott
ca to reconsider prevailed, and after some
so plantations the bill was postponed un
Ill. Monday afternoon. The Committee on