The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-16

| Immediately to carefully inquire into the
financial management of said public institu-
tions and depar tments of State, and report
at an early day. Laid over under the rules.
Mr.. Thorp offered resolution in favor of
! instructing the Finance and Fees and
Salaries Committees to report bills making
reduction in the expenditures of the
State, including the fees and taxes ofpublic
officers that are fixed by the General AS
the price of labor and its products. Re-
ferred. Mr.. Townsend offered resolution
requiring the Chairman of the Commit ee
on Temperance to give the number of
memorials and petitions on temperance,
number of signers, etc, during the lite
of the Sixty-third General Assembly.
Lost-39 to So. The first bill passing
the House this session was that of Mr..
Oglevee, to amend section of an act
entitled can act to incorporate savings
societies." which passed by a vote of
seventy hree for and seven against. Under
employee, or bank director is eligible to
the Office of president, vice-president,
treasurer, or trustee of such savings society.
Ii this bill passes the Senate, any bank
officer, except treasurer, can become an
officer of savings societies.
JANUARY 10.-Eouse-Two temperance
petitions were presented-one from Law
renee County, aud the other from West
Salem. Among bill introduced was one to
render it unlawful for any person, firm, or
Incorporation, Paymasters, or Superintend-
ents to issue anything in lieu of the lawful
money of the United States in payment for
labor. Several bills passed a second reading,
and were referred. Mr.. Williams offered a
resolution, requiring the stewards of the
Ohio institutions for the blind, the deaf and
DUMB, and the idiotic to furnish the House,
within ten days, a full and complete verified
statement of bills paid since November Is,
1877, which were incurred, due, and un-
paid previous to that date; also, of those
bills owing and unpaid on November 10,
1873, and the amount due the
State from the several counties on
account of clothing transporting, etc.,
furnished pupils, from appropria-
ton for the year ending November Is.
Adopted. Mr.. Bloom offered resolution,
No. .123, that a committee of three be ap-
pointed to inquire what legislation, if
any, is. necessary for the suppression of
"tramps," to report by bill or otherwise at
an early day. Adopted. The Chair appoint
ed Messrs. Bloom, Marsh, and Leggea......
Seedte--Bllls on second reading were re-
ferred to appropriate committees. Among
bills introduced was one by Mr.. Lord, to en-
courage and regulate the study of anatomy.
1t provides that bodies of all persons dying
in hospitals, work-houses, infirmaries, the
penitentiary, and other charitable institu-
tions, suppor ed in whole or in part by
public taxation, and the unclaimed and un-
identified bodies in possession of cornrer
except in all cases those dying of Infectious
diseases be surrendered for the purpose of
medical or surgical study or dissection, on
the written application of the Professor of
Anatomy in any medical society, college
or association in the State, provided such
bodies have not been inferred or de-
manded for interment by next of kin. The
bill also excepts those who have them
selves expressed a wish for burial, and also
strangers or travellers dying at such institu-
tiOns. A resolution was adopted tt at when
the Senate adjourn on Friday, January 81,
and every third Friday thereafter, it shall
be to meet at three o'clock p. m. on the fol-
lowing Tuesday. s.....s .fi.- .
JANUARY 11.-Senate.-Among bills in.
troduced was one by Mr.. Armstrong, crea-
ting the Office of Criminal Bailiff in coun-
ties of the first class having a population of
over one hundred and eighty thousand.
The bill authorizes the Probate
Judge of such county, wi hin twenty
days after the passage of the act, to
| appoint a Criminal Bailiff for the
county, who sha hold Office for a term of
| two years. The duty of the Bailiff shall be
to act in place of The Sheriff in all matters
of a criminal nature in the Probate Court of
Common Pleas, and perform all the duties
! during such trials as are now performed by
other words, the bill substitutes bailiff for
the Sheriff's deputies Itprovides for the
\ appointment IF additional bailiffs, should
they be necessary; fixes his bond al So 900 and
leaves the fixing of his salary to the Court
of Common Pleas. Mr.. Lord introduced
bill to amend section IS of the statute re-
lating to crimes and offenses, by rendering
i punishable. for embezzlement any inn
7 keeper, banker, broker, attorney, merchant,
or agent who converts to his own
use anything intrpsted to him
! of local bills were introduced. Among
the bills which passed second reading was
| the bill for the reorganization of the Sol
diers' and Sailors Orphans Home, and the
bill in relation to grave robbery, which
were referred to appropriate committees.
Mr. Bloom offered resolution requesting
the State Board Of Charities to meet the
members of the General Assembly in the
Hall of the House of Representatives, on
Tuesday evening, the 21st instant, to make
such suggestions concerning the benevolent
and correctional institutions of the State
as to them may seem proper. Adopted.