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

THE State Board of Public Works is short Of
funds.
DE-. GnEEN wants the revised statutes bound
in four volumes instead of two, IS at present.
MR.. EaeI4EsEoN 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 5000, 290. 20.
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.
Mr.. DAVIS, Of Hamilton County, has intro
duced a bill in the House granting additional
power to City Councils, so that they may regu-
late the consumption of smoke lin the various
cities of the State.
The Importance of the Office Of Railroad
Commissioner is evidently regarded in a very
different light. In the Senate MIR. Strong in
trOduccd a. bill to increase the salary of that
officer from two to three thetselid doilnrs-
year. In the House ar. Hopkins bill to abol-
ish the Office Of Commissioner now rests in the
Judiciary Committee, who have agreed to rec
onmend its passage.
Mr.. OARRAN introduced a bill in the Senate
making it unlawful for railroad companies to
construct a crossing of one railroad with
another at the same level Herewith, unless seid
crossing shall first be approved in writing by
the Commissioner OF Railroads, and giving the
Commissioner power to change existing cross
lngs II requested SO TO do by the city authorl-
ties or County Commissioners.
SENATOR EG6IEsroN has introduced q bill
authorizing the Governor to establish sepa-
rate department. to bo known as 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 q, 500. The bill also provides for
clerk at $500. 1t also provides that persons
L found guilty of aduterating food shall be liable
to q fine of $500.
The Robinson School-book COMMITTEES map
| ped out their work for the investigation, into
| the laws of other States regulating the matter.
| Messrs. Robinson and Estill viii go to West
Virginia, and examine into affairs there, while
Bloom and Thorpe will. visit Wisconsin, and
Conrad. OF Stark County, viii look after the
| large cities of thus State, In which work the
other members will assist him upon their re-
| turn. Circulars viii be sent to every person
| who may have any information regarding
| school-book monopolies, and the committee
| proposes to gather all the facts possible, and
| report to the House before the end of the ses-
| sion.
THERE seems to be q 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 Cincinnah for the same. Kirby wishes
to amend the bill to give Trustees and Com
missioners the power to appoint General Man.
ager to run the road, il 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.
TIE House, after q long discussion, refused
1 by q vote of SO to II to pass the Csrran 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 business; and to carry on its
business, or SO much thereof as is convenient,
beyond the limits Of. this State, and own and
convenient for conducting its business; and also
invest its surplus capital In bonds Of the United
States Government, and In bonds and stocks OF
| other solvent corporations.
TIE following is the bill introduced by Mr..
Tyler Democrat) 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 OF
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 infiction of corporal punish
ment upon such offender, specifying at the
same time the number of strokes shall not be
less than twenty-five, which shall be sturdily
means of whip or lash Of such proportions
| and strength as will ensure the carrying out oi
thesprit and letter of this statute. Sec. 2. The
| corporal punishment recited in the foregoine
section shall be inflicted by the sheriff of thu
county, or by one of his deputies or constable
and within the prison inclosure in the county
! where the offense was committed, and in a,
j private manner as may be, and in the presenct
Of duly licensed physician or surgeon
Sec. s. No female shall, at any time for any of.
fense, be subjected to the infection or corpora
punishment, under the provisions Of this act
Sec. 4 This act shall take effect ffom and aftel
its passage.
Mr.. Leggett's Oleomargarine Bill whicl
! passed the House by vote of 81 to "A. provide.
that whoever manufactures or knowingly sells
or offers for sale, or causes the same to be done
any substance purporting to be butter o.
cheese, or having the semblance thereof, which
is not made wholly from pure cream milk, un
less manufactured under its true name, and un
, stance has distinctly stamped or marked there
| on the true name of any such substance, to
gether with the name Of each article used o.
entering into the composition thereof, in ordi
nary beld-faced letters, or whoever knowingl,
. | sells any such substance to consumers without
| delivering with each amount sold, O label, OF
| | 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 o.
, | restaurant, who shall knowingly place befor,
any guest any such substance, without acquaint
| ing him Of the nature of such substance, if tn,
! same be not made from cream of milk shall b,
fined in any sum not less than ten, nor NOR,
, than three hundred dollars or Imprisonment
, | in the county jail not more than ninety no
less than ten days, or both.