Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-02-10

increase the fees of clerks of courts to
amend the law relative to guardians to
regulate the charges for sleeping cars: TO
authorize the city of Marietta to issue
bonds and build machine shops.
Bills passed: House bill to reimburse
the sinking fund commission; Senate
DILL regulating the sale of cheese and
butter; Senate bill allowing stewards of
asylums to draw one-tenth of annual ap-
preparation at time: Senate bill liking
the salary of the Clerk of the Supreme
Court at $4,000.
House-The entire day was spent in the
discussion of House bill providing for
The taxation of churches and the prop
erty of religious societies.
FEB. 3-Senate-Bilis passed: House
bill Senate substitute) to provide for
refunding the State debt; House bill TO
punish dealers in fraudulent medical di-
plomaS.
House--No bills of a general nature
introduced or finally acted upon.
FEB. 4-Senate-Bills introduced: To
provide more effectually against the evils
resulting from the traffic in Intoxicating
liquors (liquOT tax; to require probate
jndges TO inform relatives of the death
of patients in aSylums.
House-Bills introduced: To confer
upon justices of the peace final jurisdic-
ton in trials for certain minor otfenses
making partial appropriations for State
institutions; to authorize coroners to
subpoena witnesses and make post NOR
tenn examinations: to fix the time that
all laws shall take effect: to require the
approval of in!irni#rF directors for ad-
mission Of paUptis; 10 nake Longvlew
State institution; to provide for the
correction of errors by county auditors
TO authorize township trustees to pur-
chase Swans Treatise and Warren S
Criminal Law; to repeal the lone mile
free turnpike law; to amend the county
ditch law; to regulate the paying over
of unclaimed costs by clerks of court
and probate judges. to appropriate SlO,-
900 for the relief of children of soldiers
and sailors.
Bills passed: To authorize the appro-
preparation of abandoned railroad bed.
A joint resolution to amend the judi
dietary article of the Constitution was
introduced; also joint resolution to
resubmit the proposed Constitution of
1874.
FEB. 5-Senate-A resolution of con-
dolence relative to the death of the wife
of Senator Pringle was adopted; and a
resolution requesting Ohio Senators i'll
Congress to vote for the confirmation of
Stanley Matthews as Justice of the Su-
preme Court was offered and referred.
House-H. B. for the relief of David
Kline, late treasurer of Clay township,
Knox county, passed.
FEB. 7 Senate-A bill was intrOdu-
ced to amend the election laws relative
to separate ballot boxes for members of
boards of education in villages.
HOuse-Bills introduced: For the sale
of the Stale tabacco warehouse at Bell
aire: to regulate the traffic in intoxica-
ting liquors by taxation.
Bills passed: Senate bill to permit the
commissioners of Lawrence county to
levy additional road tax; House bill to
distribute surplus dog tax in Columbi-
ana county; H. B. for the completion of
Mt. Gilead railroad; H. B. to authorize
the commissioners of Ross county to
levy tax and extend and finish free turn
pixies.
In The Senate Friday the Refunding
bill, with amendments, WAS reported by
Mr. Bayard and ordered to be. printed
and placed on the calendar. The bill
appropriating 100000 for a search for
the Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette
was called up and passed, with an in
crease of the appropriation to $4,000.
Mr.. Morgans resolution denying the
right of the President of the Senate to
make the electoral count was amended
to the effect that it was the duty of Con-
greSs to institute measures for the per
formance of its duty i'll the matter of the
count, and WAS then passed.
In the House the bill for the relief of
Mrs. E. p Page, laid over from the Fri
day previous, called forth a spicy de-
bate between Mr. Goode, of Virginia,
and Mr.. Conger, of Michigan, upon the
question of Southern war claims.
In the Senate Saturday a joint resOlu
ton inviting the government and peo-
pie of France to join in the celebration
of the Yorktown Centennial was adopt
ed and $4,000 appropriated to the pur-
pose. Resolutions from the Board of
of Illinois urging the pas
sage of a law on the subject of infecti-
ons diseases among meat animals in the
United StaSes were presented. The Sem
ate bill for the erection of public
building in Quincy, ILL.,; the House bill
relative to the erection of monument
at Wyandotte Mission, Upper Sandusky,
Ohio, and the Senate bill to establish an
additional land district in Kansas were
passed.
In the House the Senate concurrent
resolution for counting the Electoral
votes was called up as a privileged
question, and after discussion, i'll which
the Georgia irregularity was the princi-
pal point Of dispute, the first branch of
the resolution was agl eed to without di-
the second was adopted by a
vote of 100 to II.
In the Senate Monday Senators Ham
lin and Thurman were appointed tellers
for the Senate in the Electoral count
After the morning hour the
subject of the alleged census frauds in
South Carolina was taken up, and the
letter of Secretary of the Interior was
read. 1t was followed by somewhat
personal recrimination between Sena-
tors Butler and Conkling. The consid-
grafton of the pension appropriation bill
was then resumed, the question being
upon the amendment from the Pension
Committee for local pension courts, the
so-called sixty surgeons bill. This prop
)sition was so modified as to limit its
application and operation to the next
fiscal year, but was decided to be not in |
order.
In the House, Messrs. House and
Crowley were appointed tellers for the
n Iilnf .l1 I,n ll,
and referred were a joint resO- |
ution on the subject of taxation, provi- !
ling for the safety of life on railroad |
cars, and resolution of sympathy for
he Irish (by Mr. Gillette). Mr.. Reagan
moved to take up and pass the river and
larbor appropriation bill, but without
success.
CONGRESS. :.