The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
COLUMBUS NOTES.

An adjournment of the Legislature April
is talked of.
THE Pond Liquor Tax Bill has q prospect of
passing the House.
The Alliance, Niles and Ashtabula Railroad
Company, with q capital of $500, 900, 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 subpenaed
to appear before the committee.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM YoIGHT, of Company G,
Gettysburg Guards, Gettysburg, Darke County,
has rendered his resignation to the Adjutant
General.
The State Board of Agriculture, in session,
adopted a resolution recommending to the
President, Emory Cuff, President Of the Board
of Trustees to the Illinois State University, for
Commissioner of Agriculture.
A PETITION wns 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. 1t is
stated that the report will show that the 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 a 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 q
number of years past, and to negotiate, also,
for more permanent lease.
STRONG objections are urged by wholesale
liquor dealers against the Bond Bill going into
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 1. 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: "To fix the tax in cities of the second
class having above 10000 inhabitants at $3.50,
instead of $1O0ias 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 a
tax Of $3.50 before permitting them to do busi-
ness In the State"
new enterprise which proposes to utilize for the
purpose Of building railroad that part of the
bed of the Miami and Erie Canal lying within
the corporate limits of Cincinnati have filed
a certificate of incorporation with the Secretary
of State. The articles of incorporation set
construct, operate and maintain a railroad with
a single, double or triple track for the convey
ance of passengers and freight along the bed
of the Miami and Erie Canal between its
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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
the first Monday of June, 1881. The capital
stock is $4,000, 900 in shares of 300. The in.
corporators are John A. Shank, Francis Ferry
Adam Geis ]. M. Brunswick, Frank Koehl, w
II. Matthews, G. B. Prugh and l.. @. Sawyer.
AN interesting question has been submitted
to Attorney General Nash in connection with
with the ease of Welsh, the Fremont mur-
derer. It will be remembered that in this case
the Governor a 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
ing to $4,000. The law provides that where a
person is convicted of a crime punishable by
death, the expenses of prosecution and execu.
ton shall be borne by the county in which the
conviction takes place. On the other hand, il
is provided that where the punishment is i'm.
prisonment in the Penitentiary the costs Of
prosecution shall be chargeab1e to the State
In the Welsh case the prisoner was convicted Of
q capital offense and sentenced to suffer thu
death penalty. This would have thrown thu
costs Of prosecution on the county. The Gov
ernor, however, commuted the sentence, and II
is now claimed that this action throws the cost,
upon the State, and consequently bll
Of the same was presented to the Warden, az
above stated. The question now is whether
the act of communication by the Governor trans
fers the cost from the county to the State. The
Attorney General has the matter under consid
GRAFTON.