The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
COLUMBUS NOTES.

IT may be important to mention that Stubb
is still confident that his bill will become law
The Cleveland Electric Light Company have
lied . certificate of incorporation; capital,
800, 900.
The State Senate Finance Committee has
agreed to recommend IN appropriation for the
benefit Of Longview Asylum.
THE Legislature adjourned on April 1 to the
bth to allow those who desired to 60 home to
attend municipal elections, to do so.
THE salary of the State Librarian has been
cut down from 81, 500 to 81, 800 and the salary
Of his assistant increased from $1,000 to
O., 200.
A BILL providing for inspectors of butter and
cheese and initiated prairie products, such az
oleomargarine and lard cheese, has been intro
duced in the Legislature.
ALTHOUGH there were a great many seekers,
General Joe Geiger has knocked the libl ary
persmmons. his name having been sent to the
Senate the past week by the Governor for con.
frmation for State Libr arian.
The legislative Committee ON Nested To
bacco have now under consideration bill
which provides for the appointment of in.
spectors by the Probate Court of any county
upon proper application by an auction ware
house.
A cERTIFITATE of incorporation was filed by
the Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburg Rail-
road Company, to run from Cleveland to q
Mahon1ng County; capital 81 ,0OO, 900; by W. A.
Lynch, H. B. DeWolf, and others.
The appropriation bill, making appropria-
tions for the public institutions, has finally
passed the Senate, with $40, 900 added to the
total amount appropriated in the bill as it
passed the House. The additional appropria-
ton for Longview was reduced from $50, 600 to
$40, 900, and in this shape went through. An
effort was made to reduce the amount to S15,-
600, but, through Senator Eggleston's efforts,
this was defeated, and 5000 agreed to.
The Jones substitute to the liquor tax local
option license amendment to the constitution
was passed in the House by vote of n yeas to
16 nays. The resolution having received the
three-ffths vote necessary for the adoption of
constitutional amendment, was declared
adopted, and another protracted fight over the
liquor question ended SO far as the House is
six months advertising before the fall election
the resolution will have to have gone through
the Senate before the 18th of April.
The Conference Committee appointed to ad-
just the differences between the Senate and
House on the Stubbs Sunday Bill have agreed
stitute, which passed the Senate, and recon-
mend its passage by the House. The commit
tee was composed of Senators Horr, Pond and
Parker, and Representatives Greene, William
son and Wheeler. The House members of the
committee were at first disposed to stand out
conclusion, however, that the chances were bet
ter for the substitute to become law than the
original bill, and therefore agreed to recon-
mend it as above stated.
The Governor has sent to the Senate the
following appointments: Theodore F. Davis,
OF Washington County, to be Trustee of the
Athens Asylum for the Insane; Joseph X.
Secor, of Lucas County, to be Trustee of the
Columbus Insane Asylum; Charles NJ. Godfrey,
Of Putnam County, to be Trustee of the Day
ton Asylum for the Insane; Harmon Austin, of
Trumbull County, to be Trustee of the In
stitution for the Blind; Francis G. Sessions, OF
Franklin County, to be a Trustee for the Deaf
and Dumb Institution; Charles H. Grosvenor,
of Athens to be a Trustee of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home, and Jonathan X.
Rukenbrod, of Columbiana County, to be a
Trustee of the Institution for Feeble Minded
Youth.
The following gentlemen have been admitted
to the bar Of the Supreme Court: j. j. Jen-
nings, Of Norwalk, Ohio; Isaac G.. Brown, OF
Barnesville; Harry M. Daugherty, Washington
G. HI Charles B. Jones, Bryan; Will.
liam II. Martin, steubenyille; John Lo-
McConnelsvile; R. S. Webb, Garrattsville; A. j,
Mitchell, Cleveland; Alfred GRADER, Findlay
VIM. Graves Sharp, Elyria; J. M. Calkins,
Bryan; Plimpton B. Chase, Mt. Vernon; Thos
Johnson Honton; John NJ. Sheets, Columbus
Grove; Nye Gregg, Washington G. H.; C. NJ.
Van Hannah, Cincinnati; J. w. Lorn, Celina
J: NJ. Snyder, Bloomville; J. w. McElhenny,
MeConnelsville; Harry H. Carpenter, Oincin..
natl; Herbert Healey, Cincinnati; Lansing l..
Applegate, Portsmouth; W. B. Bolton, Cfeve-
land; N. j. Hartley, Xenia; M. A. Daugherty,
Lancaster; Davis M. Agey, Mt. Vernon; Thos
B. Beall, Troy; Frank VI. Briggs, Elyria; Louis
M. Hadden, Cincinnati; Byron M. Clendening
Celina; Frank Patter, jr., Milan; Charles A.
Baxtcher, Cincinnati; william Coulter, MT,
Vernon; A. s. Van Buskirk, Wauseon.