The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-24
COLUMBUS NOTES.

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is talked of.
THE Pond Liquor Tax Bill has prospect of
passing the House. y
The Alliance, Niles and Ashtabula Railroad
Company, with capital of $500, 200, has been
incorporated.
THE official journals of the Ohio Senate and
House will hereafter be printed daily, under
the law just passed.
The Reform Farm is being investigated.
Some twenty witnesses have been subpPnaed
to appear before the committee.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM VoIaHr, of Company g,
Gettysburg Guards, Gettysburg, Darke County,
has rendered his resignation to the Adjutant
General.
THE State Board of Agriculture, in session,
adopted resolution recommending to the
President, Emory Cuff, President OF. the Board
of Trustees to the Illinois State University, for
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
A PETITION was circulated in the General As
sembly, last week, asking President Garfield to
appoint Senator Pond, of Morgan County,
Governor of Montana Territory. Judge Pond
is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee.
SENATOR ENTREKIN, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home. will submit his report of the results of
the recent investigation in few days. It is
stated that the report will show thatthe investi-
CATION developed nothing detrimental to the
management OF the institution or to the char
acter of the officials in charge of tho same.
The State Board of Agriculture held meet
ing for the purpose Of arranging for holding the
State Fair in the fall. President Pope and Ex-
President Wing were appointed committee
and authorized to conclude an arrangement
for one-year lease Of the grounds east of Co
lumbus, where the fair has been held for o
number of years past, and to negotiate, also,
for more permanent lease.
STRONG objections are urged by wholesale
effect as early as May 1. They say that as the
law will undoubtedly drive many of the smaller
dealers out of business they should be given
time to collect outstanding accounts, and they
ask that the law should not go into effect until
October !. The House Committee has decided
to recommend as compromise that the act
take effect on the LIST Of August next.
The Pond Liquor Bill, in the House, was
amended by the committee in substance as
follows, tsTo fix the tax in cities of the second
class having above L, 600 inhabitants at $3.50,
instead OF 300 as provided in the bill as it now
stands; to reduce the tax on the business of
selling beer exclusively, to $50; to have one
half the tax collected paid into the municipal
or township treasury, and to compel foreign
| liquor dealers to pay into the State Treasury q
tax Of $3.50 before permitting them 10 do bust
ness in the State"
| THE Cincinnati Union. Railway Company, the
new enterprise which proposes to utilize for the
| purpose of building asrailroad that part of the
| bed of the Miami and Erie Canal lying within
| the corporate limits of Cincinnati have filed
| certificate of incorporation with the Secretary
| of State. The articles of incorporation set
| forth that the object of the corporation is to
| construct operate and maintain railroad with
single, double or triple. track for the convey
ance of passengers and freight along the bed
| of the Miami and Erie Canal between its
| tern1ini. One of the ter'minis of the proposed
road is to be the Intersection of Broad street
and Eggleston avenue and the other at the
| point where the city boundary line crosses the
| Miami and Erie Canal in Millcreek Township.
| Hamilton County. There are to be five Direc-
| tors OF the organization elected on the first
| Monday of June of each year, commencing on
| the first Monday Of June, 1881. The capital
stock is 90, ,000, 600 in shares of $780,. The in
| corporators are John A. Shank, Francis Ferry,
| Adam Gels, J. M. Brunswick, Frank Koehl, w.
| 81. Matthews, @. B. Prugh and L. G. Sawyer.
An interesting question has been submitted
| to Attorney General Nash in connection with
| with the case of Welsh, the Fremont mur-
| derer. 1t will be remembered that in this case
the Governor short time since commuted the
| death sentence to imprisonment for life. Welsh
was received at the Penitentiary, and the Sher-
iff of Sandusky County presented to the War
den bill of costs of the prosecution, amount
ing to S3, 200. The law provides that where q
person is convicted of crime punishable by
| death, the expenses of prosecution and execu-
| tion shall be borne by the county in which the
conviction takes place. On the other hand, ii
is provided that where the punishment is inn
prisonment in the Penitentiary the costs OF
prosecution shall be chargeable to the State.
In the Welsh case the prisoner was convicted Of
capital offense and sentenced to suffer the
death penalty. This would have thrown the
| costs OF prosecution on the county. The Gov
| ernor, however, commuted the sentence and II
is now claimed that this action throws the costs
| upon the State, and consequently bill
| of the same was presented to the Warden, as
| above stated. The question now is whether
| the act Of commutation by the Governor trans
| fers the cost from the county 10 the State The
Attorney General has the matter under consid-
Grafton.