The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-09
OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

4 OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 3
APRIL 27.-.Senate-The President an
nounced, as committee 10 investigate
charges Of bribery in connection with the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad bills, Messrs.
Steedman, Jackson, of Perry, and Wilson.
Almost all the session was devoted to local
4 bills. Mr.. Lord, on leave, offered Joint
resolution to create a joint committee to
ascertain and report upon what terms the
4 transfer of Longview Asylum to the State
can be arranged. Adopted. The Senate
& transacted no business after dinner, and
after arranging the calendar for next week,
adjourned ......... House-The House bill, by
4 Mr.. Poe, to take the appointment of the
Trustees of the Widows Home, of lCleVer
land, from the court and vest it in the
Women's Christian Association of said
city, was taken up, discussed and passed.
Hon. John 0'Connof made a statementlaDd
bid the House good by. The rest of the
i day was devoted entirely to local bills, and
large number disposed of.
April 29.-Senate- Sherrick offered
a resolution, authorizing the Warden of the
| Penitentiary to employ trusty convicts at
work on the asylums. Adopted. House
bill to reorganize the Blind Asylum was
taken up and amended, SO as to give the
Auditor of State the powers conferred on
the Probate Court of Franklin County in
the original. The bill then passed.
The House bill authorizing the Attorney
i order any suit in which the State is
q party, was amended to apply TO
all courts in the State and passed. .........s
House--The rules were suspended and ten
bills read the second time by title and re-
ferred. Mr.. Booth offered the following
resolution: Resolved, I" That the commit
tee appointed under House resolution TO-
SO be authorized to employ a stenographer
to facilitate the investigation" The inyes-
tigation referred to is that of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad. The vote stood-yeas,
As; !; nays, 15. So the resolution failed for
the want of constitutional majority. The
resolution was afterward reconsidered and
adopted-yeas, 81 !; nays, 16. Mr.. Herrick's
Senate joint resolution. directing thst con-
victs be employed in work about the asy-
lums was adopted. Mr.. Dodds' bill, supple
mentary to the bill creating an Insurance.,
Department, was informally passed. The
bill provides that when an insurance COM
| pany, having done business in this State has
Retired -therefrom, service upon the last
known agent and a summons sent to the
main office of the company shall constitute
| legal service.
APRIL 30.-Se',dte-Mr. Lord introduced
bills, one authorizing a levy of one-tenth of
la mill to cover interest and retire bonds of
| the University of Cincinnati; the other pro-
viding for leasing the canals, 1t is nearly
Identical in terms with the bill of 1861, ex-
cept it provides for leasing the canals sepa-
rately, and for payment to the State of six
per cent. of its gross receipts till the amount
is $50, 200, which the State shall hold as Sc
curity. Mr.. Curtis, from the Joint Com
i paittAa uhrnif tad thar caffintr Nov
13 as the day of adjournment, and December
8, 1878, to reassemble. Adopted, House
Bills were passed: House BILL. devoIving
upon Township Trustees the duty of
experimenting the application of the
compulsory two days work, and providing
that such work shall be done by the
18th of September each year; House bill,
to- require private banks to make semi
annual. statements and publish the sarle
House bill, to require newly organized
mutual insurance companies toipay in ad-
vance 20 per cent. on their premium notes;
House BILL, to provide for courts Of
Cancellation with respect to contracts and
controversies concerning the productive in
dustries ofthe State, and to prevent strikes;
the bill, to fix the compensations of Direc-
tors of County Inirmaries at three hun.
dred dollars per year, and Clerks at one
hundred dollars (the bill forbids any extra
| cmOluHtHtSJs Dill, requiring ledcneIS 10
! pass an examination in the metric system
and United States history before obtaining
certificate. md 10
MAY 1.-Senate-Mr. Marsh submitted the
report of a committee appointed to inquire
into an assault upon Hon. w. T. Forrest in
| his seat in the Senate Chamber, yesterday
morning. The committee finds that an ag-
/ graVated assault was committed upon the
| honorable Senator by Hon. VIM. Bell, Com
/ missioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, and
its report censures and rebukes Mr.. Bell for
coming into the chamber and questioning
the right of Senator to express, his views,
| and, while pronouncing the act an unpre.
meditated and inexcusable indiscretion, it
was such as to deserve the severest censure
and condemnation of the Senate, for the vi
olation of high constitutional right, and
which, if suffered to pass without rebuke,
would seriously impair the freedom ofspeech
i so necessary to be assured to legislator
in the discharge of his duties. Adopted.
49,. HouSe-The Senate joint resolution of
Mr.. Forrest, directing the Warden of the
penitentiary to,put sufficient number of
idle prisoners at work on the grounds of the
| grading at the rate of fifty cents per day per
man-reported from the Committee on
Penitentiary-was adopted. Mr.. Tyler's
| (Licking) House Bill requiring County Au-
ditors to supply election officers in the
several precincts of each county with poll
books and tally sheets was reported favor
ably from the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, and passed Mr.. Groschner's
House Bill declaring certain bitches in the
northwestern part of the State public water
| courses was reported frOms sthe Committee
on bitches, Drains and Water Courses, and
passed. Q s.. -
MAY 2.-There was little business done.
The Senate spent the entire forenoon on the
appropriation bill the House on the article
Taxation in the code, and resumed the same
Immediately after noon recess. In the
Senate communication was received from
the Governor, nominating Ferdinand F.
Rempel, of Logan, as Trustee of the Athens
Asylum, in place of DR.. Waddel, resigned.
The nomination vas at once confirmed,
| without dissenting vote.
May .-Senate-The Appropriation Bill
being under consideration, about $35, 900
were added to it. The militia appropriation
was still further increased, on motion of
Mr.. Owens, by the addition of $4,000 for
camp and garrison equipage for the militia
the vote to so amend it being passed by a
vote of 10 TO II. Several other amendments
were made, all tending to increase the bill,
and passed by small majorities. TIE
question of the passage of the bill
finally came up, and it was passed.by bare
constitutional majority of 1s.......... Rouse-
The House bill by Mr.: Mccoy, of Wayne, to
enforce mechanics liens for work done
or repairs made at their shops, was re-
ported unfavorably from the Committee
on Judiciary and indefinitely postponed.
The House tnen took up the special order
, for this hour, being Mr.. Blooms bill to
Fcreate an intermediate state prison fer the
inferior class of criminals, and after lengthy
debate, was defeated by vote of 81 to 81.
The House adopted the joint resolution to
adjourn May1, and reassemble January 7.
The bill providing better. security fer zen.
!, tractors, material and men, was passed. The
Attorney General presented Written epin.
3 ion, assrequested byresolution, on, the ques,
. ton Of the State taking Possession of the
, Public Works, in which he said that, the
d Iessees having abandoned the Public Works
on the first day of December last and
!, offered to surrender the same to the Board
of Pubic Works, and having refused to pay
/; ; any further rent for the use of said Public
Works, or in any other way perform the
! terms of the contract of lease on their part
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