Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-01-29
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

Senate, Jan. Petitions were pre-,
sented asking that no will made by the husband
shall bar the right of a widow, when she is lie.
gally competent and not Objectionable, from
having 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. bill was intro
| duCed providing for the education of INDECENT
children. H0aSe.--Bills introduced: To re-
organize the benevolent institutions of the
! State; increasing the fine from $50 to $100 for
selling liquor to minors. A resolution was
offered authorizing the Committee on Insane
the Athens Asylum have been SO large. Forty
six bills were read for the second time and prop
erly referred.
Senate, Jan. 2z.-The following bills
were introduced; Exempting lands used by
railroads and public highways from taxation ;
compelling insurance companies to pay back
excess in premiums and pay only actual losses
providing that previous agreements of en-
plOyees of railroad companies shall not bar them
from receiving damages, If received in the
employ of the company when ordinary
care is used to escape injury. The bill pro-
hibiting the charging of more than one fare by
street railroads between terminal points, even
though the roads may be under different Names
was passed. @. p. L. Butler, of Franklin Coun-
ty, was confirmed as Trustee Of the Central Ohio
Insane Asylum. q. D.. .HOUSe.-A number of minor
petitions were presented, embracing several hun
dred slgners from different parts of the State,
asking for local option. The following bills
were introduced: To provide for the support of
the wives and minor children of cOnvicts con-
lined in the penltentlarY by applying the
moneys received from their labor to such
support, except twenty-five 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 de-
tning the duties of County Ireasurers in the
collection of delinquent personal taxes; author
izlng the Governor to reOrganize any State in
stitutiOn at his pleasure; providing for scheme
for local option in the sale of spirituOus liq-
uOrs reducing the rate for legal advertising to
sixty cents per square to require owners to
fence their property abutting public highways;
fixing the rate of brokerage in real estate at two
per cent. the first $l 900 and one per cent. on
each additional $1,000, Adjourned.
Senate, Jan. 22.-The following bills
were introduced Adding Guernsey County to
the Jefferson subdivision of the Eighth Judi
cial District and authorizing the election of an
additional Judge; reOrganizing the penitentiary.
The nomination of j. 3. Robinson to
be Commissioner Of Railroads and Iele-
graphs was confirmed. .H0uSe.-Bllls intro
duced: Regulating telegraphiC tolls by reducing
the cost of messages to one cent per word for
every one hundred miles within the State; re-
ducing the penalty for delinquent taxes from
fifteen per cent, to eight per cent; to regu-
late the sale of sDirituOus liquors by re-
quiring the sellers to give bonds; max
ing grave-rObbing a penitentiary offense,
punishable by five years imprisonment; equal
izing the compensation CT County Surveyors
assiBtants allowing nonresident property own
ers to send children to the public schools in viii
lagos or cities. Resolutions were offered as fol-
lows: Asking the Ohio members of Congress
to enact laws regulating -, railroad rates
of passenger and freight within the United
States so as to prevent unjust discrimination to
farmers and commerce; asking Congress to ap-
point National Commission to Investigate CON
tagiOus diseases Ofdomestic animals and treat
ment therefor .. " Ea.
Senate, Jan. 23.-Bills introduced;
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- |
quirlng insOlVent corporations to give seCuri- |
ty for costs in certain cases, was taken |
up read the third time, but failed to pass
H0HSe.-The following bills were intro
duGed: Requiring the InfiTmary Directors of |
counties to collect all bills contracted in the
transfer Of paupers; authorizing County TTeasur-
ors TO receive individual testimony in locating
ands sold for taxes; providing that when an
hat being tried in opposition to party in ac-
ion, it shall be good cause for challenge; re-
luiring County Recorders to keep six sets Of
'ecords instead of four. The bill providing for
'edistricting the State into Congressional dis
riots was passed. Adjourned.
Senate, Jan. 24.-The House joint
asking the Ohio members of Congress
% oppose the bill pending for the bridging of the
Detroit River was adopted. A number of bills
we're read the second time and the Senate ad-
ourned =. HOU8e.-Bills intrOduced Making
february I'D legal holidays allowing mich
,ows TO run at large. A number of bills were
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