The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-21
COLUMBUS NOTES.

MR. DAYTON, last week, introduced regis
tration bill in the House.
THERE seems to be q lively lobby working
against Ponds Liquor Bill.
THE word ''spirituous'' does not seem to be
very explicitly defined in the Ohio laws.
The Senate confirmed the appointment Of
General Joe Geger as State Librarian.
O'HAeAN's School-book Bill, by vote of II
to IL, was indefinitely postponed in the Senate.
The Governor sent the name of Henry Lus-
key, OF Cincinnati. to the Senate for COmmis-
sloner of Labor Statistics.
TnE Sergeants-at-Arms Of the Senate last
week presented Senator Richards, President
pro tentpore of that body, with . gold-headed
cane
The Republican State Central Committee
seventeen of the twenty members PRESENT.
meeting held last week decided to hold the
Republican State Convention at Cleveland,
june g.
The Senate Committee on Railroads and
Telegraphs. it is said, will report back Mr.. Car
rams bill, providing against railroad crossings
on the same level, and recommend its indefinite
postponement
THE House refused to pass the bill introduced
by Mr.. Cole some time since, proposing to
grant the right Of way along the bernie bank
of the Ohio Canal for a distance of four miles
in Scioto County to the Cincinnati 4 Eastern
Railroad Company.
A BILL will perhaps be enacted authorizing
the Supreme Court to appoint a stenographer
to take down the decisions and consultations
of the court. This will facilitate business suf-
fciently to save one-fourth of the time now oc-
cupied, and as the court is about three OF four
years behind in its business, the measure is an
important one.
The Governor has submitted to the Legisia-
ture q communication from Eugene Under
wood, President of the Mississippi Valley State
Commission, asking for an appropriation to be
applied to that body. The object of the asso-
ciation seems to be to inquire into all matters
| appertaining to the commerce Of this valley,
and to remove all artificial barriers in the way
of commerce, with them. 1t is its duty to in
quire into the effect of contagious diseases upon
the commerce of this valley. and has been in cor
| respondence with the National Board Of Health
| upon this subject.
THE House last week adopted the following
| resolution respecting the yorktown celebration:
| "Resoloed, by the General Assembly Of the State
| of Ohio, That the Governor, Auditor, and
| Adjutant General be and are hereby constituted
| a commission to make such arrangements as will
enable the State of Ohio to take q suitable part
in the celebration of the centennial of the sur
| render of CORVALLIS at Yorktown, October 10,
| 1881, to be held at Yorktown, Va, October 10,
| 1881, and said Commissioners are hereby au-
| thorized to arrange and carry OUT programme
that will creditably represent the State on that
occasion"
| Senatein an amended form. The bill as amended
exempts from its provisions the proprietors Of
| hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, and other
| places of public entertainment. The prOvis-
| ions of the bill are that any person who know
| ingly sells, or offers for sale, any substance
| purporting to be butter or cheese, which sub
stance is not made wholly from pure milk or
| cream, unless the same be manufactured un-
der its true and appropriate name, and unless
] each roll, package, or parcel Of such substancs
hall ha 6,1ra hlv of ma lad
thereon the appropriate name Of the Same,
| shall be fined in any sum not less than 90 nor
more than $500, or imprisonment in the county
| jail not more than ninety days nor less thar
| ten days, or both, at the discretion Of the
| court.
The O'Hagan Bill on school books, enforcei
the use of the Derby Reader. Mr.. Derby say,
| he can save the State Is per cent. by selling
his book at ten cents. The present reader in
use sells for 10 5-6 cents, which, by computa-
| instead of Is. The annual consumption nov
aggregates $50, 900, and Mr.. Derby's idea will
reduce this to $42, 500. The following figures
however, are interesting:
Cost of first supply to all the pupils of
| the State first year as above. .... .$2OO, ,0O(
Cost for four years as above, at 81, 800
| per year. ..................... ,0O(
Total cost Of Derby's Readers for five
Cost of readers at present in use, per
| year at $50, 600. .$25O, ,OO(
Saving by continuing present reader .$12O, ,OO(
The scheme would be good enough were il
not that great outlay must be made to beki1
with, in order to supply all pupils.
| The Governor, Auditor of State, and Secre
tary of State have completed the apportion
ment of the State into Senatorial and Repre-
sentative districts, under the new apportion
ment. Some of the old Senatorial districts are
divided. The Fifteenth District (Muskingun
and Perry and the Sixteenth Delaware and
Licking) are consolidated, as are also the
| Eighteenth (Coshocton and Tuscarawas) will
Nineteenth (Guernsey and Monroe), and the
Twenty-fourth (Ashtabula, Lake, and Geauga'
with the Twenty-sixth portage and Summit)
Geauga County, which is attached to Lake, il
the only county losing Representative for tn,
| first three terms of the decade, with nine fol
the remaining two terms. Cuyhoga County
which has four Representatives now, will be en-
titled to six. The next Senate will consist Of
thirty-three, and House of 106 members
Taking the last October vote as basis, the
political complexion of the next Senate woull
be eighteen Republicans and fifteen Democrats
and Of the House si1ty-six Republicans ant
| thirty-nin Democrats.