The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-29
NUMBER 43.
OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
SENATE.

petition was presented from Stanley Mat
thews and 1873 others praying for change in
the laws relating to wills SO that 70 will made
by husband shall bar the right Of the widow
when legally competent from settling her
husbands estate and being the sole guardian
of her minor children. The nomination of Jas.
S. Robinson, of Hardin County, for State Com
missioner Of Railroads and Telegraphs by Gov
ernor Foster, was referred to the ! ommittee ON
Railroads and Telegraphs. Senator Harper
introduced bill providing for the purchase of
school books for INDECENT children by boards of
education. s-E 49,
DIV. Glenn, Miss Lille @. Darst, and
Walter A.. Thomas, were elected Enrolling,
Engrossing ard Recording clerks. The fol-
lowing bills were introduced Authorizing the
city of Lima to construct machine shops
for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad; to
exempt lands used by railroads and public
highways from taxation to change the wages
of assessors of real estate in cities. from So to
81 per day; to repeal the HoxlaAdal in the
insurance law to protect life, person, and prop
erty from being destroyed through the negli-
gence of railroad companies authorizing the
city of Chillicothe to borrow $12, 900 to provide
fire department. A bill was passed to require
street railroads to carry passengers for one fare
over extensions.
The following bills were introduced: Reor-
ganizing the Penitentiary authorizing the
erection of an additional Court House Mont
gomery County adding Guernsey County to
the Jefferson Subdivision of the Eight Judicial
District and authorizing the election of an ad-
ditional Judge. Mr.. .Creamer's Senate bill
authorizing the election of an additional Judge
in the Second Subdivision of the Fifth, Judicial
District was read the third time and passed.
DIR. Green's House joint resolution requesting
Congress to give Wilberforee University and
Albany Enterprise Academy share of the un-
claimed colored troops Bounty Fund was
adopted. s4..-t4...... ,..s,s5......s.z..s...
The following bills were introduced; Pro-
yiding that Building Associations shall be au-
thorized to loan surplus funds; requiring
papers issuing both daily and weekly editions,
| to publish official advertising alternately in
| both editions. A resolution was adopted di-
recting the Ohio delegation in Congress to vote
| against the measure authorizing the construc-
| tion Of bridge over the Detroit River. Sena-
| tor Saltsgaber's bill to allow the City of Lima
| to issue bonds to the amount of $l00 900, for
| the purpose of securing railroad shops, was
passed. A bill was introduced by Mr.. Mounts
to authorize the removal of the county seat of
Warren County.
| The bill of DIR. Scott to remove the county
| seat of Warren was referred to the Committee
on Federal Relations The following bills were
| introduced To reduce the maximum rate ON
freight from five to three cents per mile and to
constitute 2,268 pounds of pig iron, iron ore,
lime stone, etc., as ton in transportation; to
enable executors and administrators to distrib-
| ute the funds of an estate in advance of final
| settlement.