Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-30
BOSTON. Jan. 26.
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


asking that no will made by the husband shall |
bar the right of widow, when she is legally |
competent and not Objectionable, from hav- |
ing an active voice in the settlement of the |
estate, and that she shall have the sole guar
dianship Of the minor children. A message |
was received from the Governor nominating |
j. S. Robinson as Railroad Commissioner, and |
asking his confirmation. The nomination |
was referred to the standing Committee on !
Railroads and Telegraphs. A bill was intro |
duced providing for the education of INDECENT |
children.
HolSe.-Bills introduced: To reorganize |
the benevolent institutions OF the State; in |
creasng the fine from $50 to 800 for selling |
liquor to minors. A resolution was offered |
authorizing the Committee on Insane Asy- |
lums to investigate why the expenditures of
the Athens Asylum have been solarge. Forty |
six bills were read for the. second time and |
properly referred.
Senate, Jan. 2l.-The following bills were |
introduced: ExemptiDg lands used by rail |
roads and public highways from taxation; |
compelling insurance companies to pay back |
eXcesses in premiums and pay only actual
| losses; providing that previous agreements of |
| employees of railroad companies shall not bar |
them from receiving damages, If receivedin the |
| employ of the company when ordinary care Is
| used so escape injury. The bill prohibiting |
| the charging of more than one fare by street |
| railroads between terminal Points, evon |
| though the roads may be under different |
| names, was passed. G. Z. l.. Butler, OF
| Franklin County, was confirmed as Trustee
| of the Central Ohio Insane Asylum.
Ho,lSe.-A number of minor petitions were
presented, embracing several hundred signers
| from different parts of the State, asking for
local option. The following bills were intro
| duced: To provide for the support of the
wives and minor children of convicts con-
| fined in the penitentiary by applying the
moneys received from their labor to such
| support, except twenty.tiv cents per day
which shall be retained for board and clothes
| for the prisoner; to provide against fraud in
the manufacture and sale of butter and
cheese; defining the duties Of County Treas.
urers in the collection of delinquent personal
taxes; authorizing the Governor to reor
ganize any State institution at his pleas
ure' providing for a. scheme sn,r3tro6. Tor To-
| liquors; reducing the rate for legal advertis
| ing to sixty cents per square: TO require
| owners to fence their property abutting pub
| lie highways; fixing the rate of brokerage in
real estate at two per cent. on the hrst 81 ,OOO
and one per cent. on each additional 1000.
| Adjourned.
Se,ate jan 22.-The following bills were
| introduced: Adding GUERNSEY County to the
| Jefferson subdivision of the Eighth Judicial
District and authorizing the election of an ad-
ditional Judge; reorganizing the penitentiary
The nomination of ]. s. Robinson to be Com
missioner of Railroads and Telegraphs was
confirmed.
Rouse.-Bllls introduced: Regulating tele-
graphic tolls by reducing the cost of messages
to one cent per word for every one hun dred
miles within the State; reducing the penalty
for delinquent taxes from fifteen per cent.
to eight per cent. to regulate the sale
sellers to give bonds; making grave
! robblng a penitentiary offense, punish
able by five years Imprisonment; equal
izing the compensation of County surveyors
assistants; allowing nonresident property
owners to send children to the public schools
in villages or cities. Resolutions were offered
as follows; Asking the Ohio members of Con
gress to enact laws regulating railroad rates
of passengers and freight within the United
States so as to prevent unjust discrimination
to farmers and commerce; asking Congress
to appoint a National Commission TO investi-
gate contagious diseases of domestic animals
and treatment therefor.
Senate Jan. 23.-Bllls introduced: Provid-
: ing plan for the adjustment OF loans by
building associations; requiring papers issu-
ing both daily and weekly editions to publish
, official advertising alternately in both edi-
, tions. The substitute for the Senate bill re-
quiring insolvent corporations TO give securi-
ty for costs in certain cases, was taken up,
, read the third time, but failed to pass.
Holtse-The following bills were intro
duced Requiring the lnfrmarY Directors Of
? counties to collect all bills contracted in the
transfer OF paupers; authorizing County
Treasurers to receive individual testimony in
locating lands sold for taxes; providing that
when an attorney has been retained In an
other case than that being tried in opposition
, to a party In action, II shall be good cause
for challenge; requiring County Recorders to
keep six sets OF records insteafot four. The
bill providing for redistTicting the State into
| Congressional districts was passed. Ad-
Senate, Jan. 24.-The House Joint resolution
asking the Ohio members of Congress to OPP
pose the bill pending for the bridging OF the
Detroit River was adopted. a number of bills
were read the second time and the Senate ad-
iourned.
Ho,lse.-Bills introduced; Making February
22d legal holiday; allowing milch COWS to
run at large. A number OF bills were read the
7 second time and properly referred.
Senate, jan. 26.-Bills were introduced as
: follows; Authorizing executors and admin
istrators TO distribute funds belonging to es-
tates In advance OF final settlement; regula-
lating rates for the transportation OF pig
iron and other heavy freight. The senate re-
fused to adopt the Joint resolution asking the
!. Ohio delegation in Congress TO appoint Ma
q tional Commission TO investigate the diseases
OF domestic animals.
HOuSe.-SeveTal petitions were presented
! praying for local option liquor legislation
y The resolution asking the Ohio delegation In
i. Congress to vote for the appointment OF q
q National Commission TO investigate conta
1 gious diseases Of animals was passed. The
is following bills were introduced; Making in
e durable diseases a cause Tor divorce
= providing a method for recovering the
I proceeds OF escheated estates OF deceased
4 persons from school funds upon the ap
a pearance OF heirs; transferring TO the Ohio
% State University all moneys that may here
N after come TO the State from the General Gov
y eminent from the sale OF lands 20 be applied
- on the endowment fund. The bill TO repea
,e the law giving the engineer OF the Board oi
~ y Public Works vote in the proceedings of the
ic Board was passed by strict party vote