The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-29

STATE NEWS ITEMS:
Lesislatiye Proceedinxs.


Legislative Pr0ceedingA.
COLUMBUS, January 17-SENArE.-Bils in
troduced: Amending section $50 so as to al.
low collections to be made when the debt 10
contracted; extending the time of redemp-
ton for property sold at sheriff's sale from
one month to year; amending the election
laws so that any voter who is challenged
Shall prove by a free holder that he is le-
thorizing a sheriff to demand an Indemnity
ing bond before levying upon properly
whose ownership is in dispute, and before
the trial of the right of property is had;
House bill by Mr.. Wilson, supplementary to
section 4444: fixing the standard of measure
ment for busheI of charcoal at 2,74s cubic
inches was passed.
,,HoUsE-Bills introduced: 10 proyide for
cheap school books. To prevent the frahu.
iacture and sale Of oleomargarine. PrOvid-
ing penalty for losing, taking or sinking
pervisors to accept $3.50 instead of SO for u
days labor on the highways. Bills passed:
Amending Sections 7,015 and 7,016, R. s., and
to provide against the payment of wages in
script, orders, ETC., payable otherwise than
IN money, and against selling goods OF sup
plies to employees at excessive prices. Ap-
Ss5o0O0, due next July, and 500, ,5ss.s4 interest
on9hepublic debt, also due, July 1.
COLUMBUS, January 19.-SENATE.-Bills in
troduced: To allow persons to sell their own
products without taking out peddler's IL
cense. Amending section 1898 SO as to allow
the party under whose judgment, order or
decree real estate is ordered sold to desig-
nate the paper in which the sale shall be ad.
Vert1sed. A number of bills were read and
referred to committees.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced authorizing the
City Council of Xenia and the Commissioners
iebtedness on on the e Work-house house Changing
the per cent. from eighty to fifty which q
County Auditor may allow contractor of
Mr.. Boil offered resolution, which was
adopted, stating that it is reported that the
Guarantee Company of North America, To-
Fund Life Association, of Canada; the Ma
tional Benefit Association, of Indianapolis;
the meshia National = MUTUAL Life A Association, OF
Fire Insurance Companies, of New Orleans,
and other companies, were doing business in
laws, and requesting the Superintendent of
Insurance and the Attorney General to in
vestigate the matter and report to the House
companies and all others from illegally trans
acting business in this State.
COLUMBUS, January 20.-SENATE.-Bills in
troduced: Prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of any substance known as oleomarga-
rine, butterine, ETC., from any thing else than
that derived from the beef, and fixing the
penalty at from 800 to $1,000 and imprison-
ment from fifty to one hundred days. Re
quiring express companies to give receipts
for money forwarded by them, which receipts
shall entitle the holders thereof to recover
the amount named in case the money is lost
or stolen. To include children from Chill
dren's Homes among those who may lie
adopted. Authorizing the publishing of for
feited and delinquent land sales and ditch
each county. pIB8iii Bills d passed: House p bill
amending section 1906 SO that members of
Boards of Education in cities of the second
class and in villages shall be voted for at the
regular municipal election. Amending the
act of last winter so as to include GAINESVILLE
in the list of cities which may erect soldiers
memorial monuments and borrow money to
build the same.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: Amending the laws
50 as to define more clearly the duties of
caying corner-stones; striking out Township
Clerks from the list of those who shall re-
ceiye copies of Executive documents and
legislative journals; amending section 3l0S,
SO as to protect from execution or attach
ment the husbands courtesy in his wife's
estate during the life of any heir of her body;
amending section 6351 so as to give Common
Pleas Courts the same discretionary powers
as Probate Courts in ordering the sale of es-
tates.
COLUMBUS, January 21.-SENATE.-A joint
resolution was offered and adopted provid-
ing for tri-weekly adjournments on and af-
ter January % till p. m. on the following
Tuesday. The following, among other local
bills, was passed: House bill amending Sec
tion 1872, so that Township TreaSurerS shall
be paid per cent on the amount of money
paid out instead Of received, as now. The
following Dill was 1ntrOuuceQ: Amending
the game laws, SO that quail may be shot dur
November and December, and limiting the
shooting of wild duck and other water fowl
to the same months. The Committee on
Sanitary Laws and Regulations reported
favorably, with a few minor amendments, on
Mr.. Lisle's House bill providing for the ap-
pointment of a Superintendent of Vital Sta
ustics and the creation of q State Board of
Health. The bill has already passed the
House, and will come up for passage in the
Senate tomorrow.
HOuSE-BilIs Dassed. Amending section
1859, so that city or village councils may d-
vide into two election precincts ward con-
tanning 100 voters, instead of 800 as now; pro-
viding for the incorporation of societies for
the detection and arrest of horse-thieves
The vote by which the Jones bill providing
for executions in the penitentiary was lost
was reconsidered; Myers electricity amend
ment was cut out and the bill again lost.
Bills Introduced: To repeal the Pharmacy
bill passed last winter; restricting duties Of
railroad policemen to premises of railroads
for whom appointed; compelling sheriffs to
pay funds in partition cases to trustees; re-
Quiring the Probate Judge to give notice of
the appointment of administrator in some
newspaper; providing for destroying arms
carried unlawfully; changing the term of en-
listment in the Ohio National Guard from
five to three years; amending section 752 so
as to authorize Probate Judges to terminate
sentences of youth sentenced by them to Re-
form Farm.
COLUMBUS, January 22..-SENATE. Bills
passed: Authorizing the Commissioners of
Gallia County to complete the Childrens
Home. Authorizing the Commissioners of
Pike County to construct a free turnpike.
Aut hOriZing the Commissioners of Butler
County to issue bonds amounting to 100000
to erect new Courthouse at Hamilton.
The House amendments to Mr.. Whites Senate
Joint resolution providing for Il statute to
William Allen were agreed to. The Circuit
| Court bill was then called up and after two
minor amendments had been made. passed
so as to read ITO revise and Consolidate the
Statutes Relating to the Organization and
Jurisdiction of the Circuit and other COurts.a
HoUsE.-Speaker Marsh appointed as the
committee under Senator Whites joint reso-
luton to report the cost of putting Il statute
Of William Allen in the National Capital,
Messrs. Myers, Goodman. Zeigler, Stricken
and Hale. As the committee under the
Kohler House resolution to investigate tele-
phone companies with IL view TO reducing
telephone e,, rates, Speaker Marsh appointed
MeSsrS. Cole, Hamilton and Hughes. Mr.
| Ford offered a joint resolution providing, US
| it is reported that the conditions of the con-
| tract under which 165 youths are kept by the
State in the Toledo House of Refuge are vio-
| lated, and there is sufficient room in the re-
| form school at Lancaster for these youths,
| that the Committee on Finance be directed
| to make diligent inquiry with regard to the
| matter before reporting the appropriation
| Dill for the year, with view TO providing for
keeping these youths at the Ohio Reform
| Home. The resolution was adopted.
| COLUMBUS, January 23.-SESArE.-There
were but three or four Senators present this
morning to formally adjourn the body to
| Tuesday afternoon, the time set by the tri-
| weekly adjournment resolution. No busi-
| ness of Importance was transacted.
HoUsE.--The House met, and immediately
adjourned.
| Miscellaneous Items.
AT Cleveland, Mrs. Lawton awoke, few
mornings ago, and discovered that her one
year old baby had been smothered to death
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