Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-19
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

JAN. 1.-Sendte.-NO business OF
consequence was transacted and the
Senate adjourned to give the agricultu-
raj convention the use of the hall.
House. Resolution adopted: S. J. r.
favoring an appropriation by Congress
for the Improvements of lake ports.
Bills introduced: Cemetery associations
to sell whole or part of cemetery; lnsu-
rance companies allowed to make de
posits in other states; to complete Han
cock county court house; for the election
of an additional common pleas judge in
the Muskingum judicial district; confin-
ing the operations of local insurance
companies; allowing jurors fifty cents
per day; for the removal of guardians
accounts from one county to another; to
prevent frauds on merchants; regulating
the employment of militia in differences
between corporations and employees; GER
tain physicians to sell drugs without ex-
animation; making prohibition on Sun
day absolute; giving reunions the same
protection as religious societies; amend
ing the law in regard to securing school
sites; regulating the salaries of court
stenographers in counties; prescribing
the duties of court stenographers before
grand juries; authorizing the bringing
of suits against unincorpOrated compa-
MES or associations amending the law rel
ative to the listing of property for taxa
ton; making appropriations for the con-
tingent expenses of the House.
Resolution offered: Requesting Con
gress to pass law giving all Union ex-
prisoners of war 81 day for each day
they were confined in prison.
JAN. l2.-Sendte- introduced:
For the survey and sale of -oanal lands;
for instruction in physiology and ny
giene in the public schools; for appeal
in divorce cases; making husband and
wife competent to testify for each other
in criminal cases; court constables to be
appointed by the court.
House passed: H. B. Hancock
county to complete court house; H. b.
to suppress resorts Of thieves.
Bills introduced: Monroe county to
reimburse Samuel Gates in $500 forfeit
ed drecognizance; amending the children's
home law; Muskingum county to build
a bridge across the Muskingum river:
amending the law in regard to Judgment
on cognoYits; giving the husband the
same right in an estate by courtesy as
the wife; Circuit courts to admit prison |
ers to bail except in cases of murder in
first degree; fixing rates of transportation
on railroads at 2 cents per mile; to pre-
vent attorneys unnecessarily increasing
the costs in cases; fixing the pay of court |
at $500; to increase the scope |
of jurisdiction of justices of peace in
civil actions for labor.
Resolution adopted: H. J. r. request
Congress to pass law pensioning and
giving ex-prisoners of war - per day for
the time they were in prison.
JAN. 13-There was no business trans
acted in either branch of the Legislature
yesterday. Only a few members were
present when the House was called to
order, and adjournment was taken to
Tuesday evening. In the Senate some
little time was spent in the formality of |
the journal of the proceedings |
Of the previous day. There was a. diff
ference of opinion among the members
as to the admission of certain matter to |
the journal, being the report made by
Senator Coulter on Thursday evening
as chairman of the committee to select |
standing committees for the Senate.
The chair had ordered that theTeport be
withheld from the Journal and be not
placed on the same except by order of
the Senate. Mr.. Cole Oem.) insisted
that this was a part of the proceedings,
regardless of the fact as to whether it |
had been ruled out of order or pronoun-
ced not a report by the chair. There
was some feeling exhibited, and finally
under demand for the previous ques-
tion on the approval of the Journal, the
Democrats joined with the anti-caucus
and approved the Journal,
the other Republican members not vo-
ting. In order that the records might
show quorum present, the chair ordered
the clerk to call the names of the Repub-
lican members who refused to answer to
their names and note them as being pre-
sent, but not voting. After the journal
had been approved the Senate adjourned |
to Tuesday evening