The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-30
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


JANUARY Observation-Disclosures of re-
speos to the memory of Hon. VIM. P. Reid
were unanimously adopted. .........H .Hotse-A
joint resolution, suggested by the Trades
Assembly of Cincinnati, was introduced by
Mr.. Lovelace, urging upon our Senators
and Representatives in Congress the
necessity and justice of such legislation as
will advance to actual settlers, citizens of
the United States, a sum sufficient to ena-
BILE them to settle on the public domain.
Mr. Crosson introduced bill for the relief
of Charles T. Burnsides, George Girrardy,
and Horatio NJ. Chatterton, of Clermont
County. The bill proposes to pay them
1927 for the cap ure of their wagons, horses.
etc., while on their way to Cincinnati as
members of the hundred days folce, by
Morgan's troops. Il all -- f.
JANUARY 22.-Senate- Curtiss pre-
sented a petition from Solon, Cuyahoga
County, asking that the present scho ol laws
be repealed SO far as they apply to town.
ships, and that said townships be
renanded back to the old system. Mr..
Sherrick's bill grading the salaries
of road Supervisors was passed.
Frank NJ Atkinson, of Noble County. was
confirmed Inspector of Leaf Tobacco.........
House o Over three hundred citizens of Huron
County petitioned for the passage of a law
school supervision. Petitions were ,fpre.
sented for regulating the sale of ardent
spirits and for relief for losses sustained by
N yrgsn's raid. Among the bills introduced
was one to subject a portion of husbands
wages to the order of wives in case of
the husbands dissipation. Bills were
passed: Changing the time when deer may
be killed to the period between the 10th
October and the 18th November; providing
against killing muskrats, minks or otter
between the 18th April and 1st of March !;
permitting women to act as notaries public.
Mr.. Alexander's bill to invest the 81, ,000,-
900 of surplus funds in the State Treasury
in the United States 4per cent bonds
came up for third reading
After general discussion, the bill was post
poned. "A resolution by Mr.. Dalzell, de-
ciaring it the sense of the House that the
Arrears of Pension Bill, passed by Con-
gress, is correct in principle, was
laid over for discussion,
JANUARY 23.-Sendte-T principal bu-
siness in the morning was over the discus
sion of Mr.. Groves bill to give the engineer
of the Board of Public Works vote in the
Board. The billwas finally passed by a vote
of "a to 10. The Governor transmitted a
communication from the Ohio Board of
the Ohio and Pennsylvania Joint Boundary
Commission, in reference to the com pie
ZION of the disputed boundary line of 1856.
1t proposes an additional appropriation of
81, 500 to icompfete. the: survey. Ordered
printed Mr.. Boh1's House bill requir-
ing Sheritf's sales to be published
in one. German paper in the county
where property is, for sale was
passed by vote OF 19 to. 12.... ~
House-Petitions were introduced favoring
a Constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture of Intoxicating liquors,
and protesting against the treatment of tenn
perance bills. The Governor transmitted q
comm unication frcm G. P. Patterson, Super
intendent United States Coast aud Geodetic
Survey, recommending the passage of
a law to enable the settlement of small dam
ages of surveys, obtain rights to cut trees in
opening lines, and to establish permanent
marks at triangulation points. Referred to
the Committee on Geology, etc.
" JANUARY "a 24-Sendte-Pet;tion were pre-.
sented in the n'erests of temperance
from Athens and Springfield. The bill
authorizing the investment of the surplus
funds of the State Treasury in United
States bonds was lost by vote of so yeas
to Al nays. A motion to reconsider
was afterward adopted, and the bill made
The Committee on Public Works reported
back without recomm endation Mr.. Lords
bill, providing for leasing the public
works. Motions to lay on the table and
indefinitely postpone were made, and the
bill was laid on the table. Among bills
introduced was one by Mr.. Sextro
to reduce homestead exemptions from 81 900
to $500, and personal property from $500 to
$3.50. Mr. DalzelIs bill for making the BIZ
BILE textbook in schools was set for Tpes-
day afternoon. .House-Bills were passed
To authorize the Council of .Middletown
to contract with the Gas. Company
for term of ten years; the House Partial
Appropriation Bill for asylums and public
institutions; Mr.. Owens bill to render it
optional with County Commissioners to ad.
yertise for plats for the reappraisement oi
real estate.
| JANUARY Se,adte-Mrs Ovens Senate
bill, masking it crime punishable by i'm
prisonment in the Penitentiary for from
three to fifteen years, to steal a body IRON
| grave, came up for its third reading
! After discussion, on motion of the author
| the bill was laid on the table. Mr.. Lore
| presented petition from over three thou
sand physicians in. support of his bill pro
viding for dissecting purposes the bodies o.
all persons dying in prisons, hospitals, ane
| infrmaries, and those, unclaimed in tht
| hands of Coroners. ....... HOnse-Mr. How
lands Senate bill, authorizing Superin
tendents of inhrmaries to receive pau
pers temporarily before action O
the Board of Directors, - was passed
4 MFR. Norton offered resolution direct
ing the creation of special committee tt
consider and report to the House on the ad
visibility of establishing home for thu
destitute widows of soldiers of the late war
| Ordered printed. A bill was introduced
to abolish the Boar1 of = Public
Works of Cincinnati. Mr.. Sawyer offered
resolution directing the Engineer of Publ
Works to make a survey between the Mer
Ger County Reservoir and Cranberry Prairie
with the view of ascertaining the probabl
cost of constructing ditch between them
Ordered printed.