The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-03
COLUMBUS NOTES.
The State Board Of Public Works is short Of

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The State Board Of Public Works is short Of
funds.
Dr.. GREEN wants the revised statutes bound
In four volumes instead Of two, as at present.
Mr.. EaoLEsroN claims that he has the key
for doing away with the telegraph monopoly.
The total amount appropriated by the Gem
eral Appropriation Bill, as it passed the House,
is f609, ,290.29. .-.r-..
A RESOLUTION was offered by Mr.. Millikan in
structing the Senators and Representatives in
Congress from Ohio to vote against the re-
issue or renewal Of the patent. on vulcanized
rubber. css ,sftA RS - tl-t-s% -e'f.'
Mr.. DAVIS, of Hamilton County, has intro
duced bill in the House granting additional
power to City Councils, SO that they may regu-
late the consumption of smoke in the various
cities of the State. sss--, g.
The Importance Of the Office of Railroad
Commissioner is evidently regarded in very
different light. In tho Senate Mr.. Strong in
troduced bill to increase the salary of that
officer from two to three thousand dollars a
year. In the House Mr. Hopkins bill to abol-
ish the Office Of Commissioner now rests in the
Judiciary Committee, who have agreed to rec
onamend its passage. 17~ .s
MR.. CARRAN introduced bill in the Senate
making it unlawful for railroad companies to
construct a crossing of one railroad with
another at the samo level Herewith, unless said
crossing shall first be approved in writing by
the Commissioner of Railroads, and giving the
Commissioner power to change existing CROSS
ings if requested so to do by the city authori-
tics or County Commissioners
SENATOR EGGLEsroN has introduced bill
authorizing the Governor to establish sepa-
rate department to be known the Depart
ment for the Inspection of Adulterated Food
which shall be charged with the execution Of
all laws in relation to that subject The salary
is fixed at-$2, 500. The bill also provides for a
clerk at $780, 1t also provides that persons
found guilty of adulterating food shall be liable
to q fine OF $500. ts.ss2 Raf
The Robinson School-book Committee map
, ped out their work for the Investigation into
the laws of other States regulating the matter
Messrs. Robinson and Estill will go to West
! Virginia, and examine into affairs there, while
Bloom and Thorpe will visit Wisconsin, and
Conrad, of Stark County, will look after the
large cities Of this State, in which work the
other members will assist him upon their re-
turn. Circulars will be sent to every person
who may have any information regarding
Z school-book monopolies. and the committee
I proposes to gather all the facts possible, and
report to the House before the end of the sea-
sion.
THERE seems to be dead lock at present
among the Hamilton County Senators, to
whom the bill authorizing the Southern Rail
! road Trustees and Sinking Fund Commission
ers to sell the Cincinnati Southern was re-
ferred. The bill provides that the road shall
not be sold for less than the present indebted
ness of Cincinnati for the same. Kirby wishes
to amend the bill to give Trustees and Com
mlssioners the power to appoint General Man.
ager to run the road, if the bids for the sale of
the road do not suit them. This amendment
does not suit Eggleston and Fleischman, be-
cause it is claimed that it presents too strong
temptation TO Trustees and Commissioners to
reject the bids and run the road themselves.
The House, after a long discussion, refused
by vote of So to IL to pass the Carran bill,
passed by the Senate last winter, which pro-
posed to authorize any company Incorporated,
or which may be incorporated under the laws
of this State, in its corporation name, to take
hold, and convey, in any county Of this State,
such real and personal estate as is necessary
and convenient for the legitimate and proper
Transaction of its busness and to carry on its
business, or SO much thereof as is convenient,
beyond the limits of this State, and own and
hold any real or personal estate necessary or
+ convenient for conducting its business; and also
invest its surplus capital in bonds of the United
I States Government and in bonds and stocks Of
/ other solvent corporations.
1 The following is the bill introduced by Mr..
Tyler Oemocrat) of wyandot: Section 1. Be
it enacted by the General Assembly Of the
State of Ohio, That whenever hereafter any
male person shall wilfully beat, bruise or
mutilate his wife, or any other female human
being, the Court or Magistrate before whom
the offender shall be brought and convicted,
shall direct the infection OF corporal punish
ment upon such offender, specifying at the
same time the number of strokes shall not be
laid on upon the bare back of said offender BY
means Of q whip or lash OF, such proportions
and strength as will ensure the carrying out Of
thespirit and letter of this statute. Sec,2 The
corporal punishment recited in the foregoing
section shall be inflicted by the sheriff Of the
county, or by one of his deputies or constable,
and within the prison inclosure in the county
where the offense was committed, and in as
! private manner as may be, and in the presence
of duly licensed physician or surgeon.
Sec. 8. No female shall, at any time for any Of
Tense, be subjected to the infection or corporal
punishment, under the provisions of this act.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Mr.. Leggett's Oleomargarine Bill which
passed the House bya vote of 81 to "A, provides
that whoever manufactures or knowingly sells,
or offers for sale, or causes the same to be done
any substance purporting to be butter or
cheese, or having the semblance thereof, which
is not made wholly from pure cream milk. un-
less manufactured under its true name, and un-
less each package or vessel containing such sub
stance has distinctly stamped or marked there
on the true name Of any such substance, to-
gether with the name Of each article used or
entering into the composition thereof, in ordi-
nary bold-faced letters, or whoever knowingly
sells any such substance to consumers, without
delivering with each amount sold, label, on
which is plainly and legibly printed in Roman
letters, the true name OF such substance, to-
gether with the name Of its component parts
or any proprietor Of hotel, boarding house or
restaurant, who shall knowingly place before
any guest any such substance without acquaint-
ing him Of the nature Of such substance, II the
same be not made from cream of milk, shall be
| fined in any sum not less than ten, nor more
| than three hundred dollars, or imprisonment
| in the county jail not more than ninety, nor
less than ten days, or both. t4a
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