The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Lerlslatlre Proceedings.

HousE-A large grist OF bills were intro
duced this afternoon among them tho follow
ing; Preventing the importation oil armed men
to act rs special constables; regulating teie-
phone charges; making tho unhitching OF
horse penitentiary ofensc; to protect Amer
lean labor from foreign competitions; enforcing
mechanic liens on personal property; author
izing the Cincinnati Board Of Affairs to eXpend
not to exceed s1t0,000 annually for street Inn
provements; providing for the inspection or
examination OF the offices of county auditors
the same MS county treasurers The members
of the Legislature who are going to Washing
ton to attend the inauguration of President
Harrison will leave here one week from Sat-
urday.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 2o.-SENATE-Bills passed:
Regulating the manufacture and sale OF haif-
wines and made wines and sweet wines, ana
prohibiting the manufacture or sale OF adulter-
ated wines in Ohio; specifying more
closely the duties of assessors and providing
| additional requirements in the listing and as
| sessing of property; making trusts ana comoi-
| nations illegal. Reconsidercd, and made o
special order for Tuesday, February %. II. Is.
by Mr.. Coates, providing for the adoption oil the
village graded school plan in townships at their
| option, was lost.
| HousE-Bills passed: Authorizing New Car
isle to transfer funds; authorizing Alexandria,
| Licking County, to elect officers; repeating
| that part of Section 2271 relating to street I'M
provements in Cincinnati, which was passed
In 1888; authorizing court stenographers to ad-
minister oaths in taking depositons; authoriz-
| ing the commissioners of Butler County 10 con-
struct free turnpike; amending the electric
light act for Hamilton, Butler County. Bills
introduced: Providing that boards OF elections
shall furnish tickets for all elections; proViu-
ing for the appraisement and sale OF one ana q
half mile of the Miami and Erie Canal IN the
city OF Cincinnati; authorizing Columbia Town
NA frunG
quiring applicants for relief under be soldiers
| relief act to do so under oath.
| COLUMBUS Feb 21-SENATE-Adopted:
Proposition to amend the constitution MS to
legislative appointment and single district rep
resentation; to amend the constitution limitlng
municipal Indebtedness. Bills introduced: Au-
thorzing the incorporation OF live stock lnsur-
ance companies; preventing the erection OF
dangerous buildings; giving tho CINCINNATI
Board of Public Affairs tho control OF the street
railroads; requiring school boards to provide
school books for any children not able to buy
them; giving the State board Of health power
to adopt quarantine and sanitary measures;
authorizing levy to be made by an officer upon
personal property in the hands OF any other OIL
Ger subject to such first levy; allowing trustees
of children's homes to dispense with superin-
tendents when they have a competent matron.
HousE.-A resolution favoring the passage oil
n service pension bill by Congress was adopted.
The resolution, providing woman suffrage
amendment TO the constitution was lost on
adoption. The vote by which the House bill,
providing for taxing the commissions of State,
county and township officers, was lost, was re-
considered, and the bill was set for next we'd
nesday The Senate bill to extend tho lease OF
the Cincinnati Southern railroad, was passed
Mr.. Cope offered resolution 10 adjourn from
March TO March to give members an oppor-
tunity TO attend the Inauguration of President
Harrison. Adopted.
COLUMBUS. Feb. 2e-SENATE-A joint res
olution was offered extending the right hand OF
fellowship to the recently admitted States OF
Washington. North and South Dakota and
Montana Bills passed: Establishing u Board
of FIVE female Directors for the female depart
ment OF the Cincinnati Work-house. Author
izing landowners o make improvements along
public highways. Prohibiting the employment
by Superin tendents and Trustees of State In
stitutions of relatives by blood or marriage. Sew
eral other unimportant bills were passed. Bills
introduced: Authorizing Township trustees to
purchase Revised Statutes for them-
selves and justices OF the peaG.
Requiring the appointment of guar
dams for inebriates; providing penalties for
ticket scalping, and requiring railroad and
steamboat companies to make rebate fer un-
used portions of tickets; making 1t mandatory
upon boards of educatons to purchase school
boolss directly from publishers; providing for
the city government of Cincinnati by mayor,
TO be elected who is TO appoint all heads OF de-
partments; granting the u. S. Government the
privilege of purchasing site for building at
Portsmouth.
HousE-The House met at o'clock, but
without transacting any business recess was
taken until 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 23.-SENATE-Bills passed:
Authorizing Greenwich to issue bonds for Gem
etery, fre-engine and TO pay indeotedness'
providing that no limitation OF time shall hold
for bounty claims. The Senate went into COM
mittee of the whole on the joint resolution for
the submission of q constitutional amendment
providing for uniform biennial elections. II
was agreed to strike out all OF Section3 of Ar
ticle 4, OF the amendment, referring TO circuit
cour S; alse TO strike out that portion OF Sec
tion providing for filling OF vacancies for un-
expired terms OF justices Of the peace. The
following bill was introduced: Providing PEN
alties for trustees OF State institutions who in.
cur deficiencies.
HousB.-A large number OF petitions and
memorials were presented. Mr.. Stecker Offer
ed q resolution providing for sine
die adjournment of the Legislature Mon
day, March IS. Laid over under the rule.
Bills introduced: Giving probate judges power
to appoint one board to appraise property In
assignment cases. To amend Section 2132 oil
the Revised Statutes, by striking out that por
ton OF the section that authorizes each individ
: ual to exempt from taxation fifty dollars
worth Of property and compelling return OF all
property, but authorizes the county auditor OF
each county TO deduct $3.50 from the total
amount of personal property returned by each
individual in his county.
BURIED treasure. amounting to ", 23S,
was discovered in Adams County.
e THos. STEVENSON, pioneer of Sidney,
died at that place the other morning. He
y was ninety years of age, and voted for
Q John Quincy Adams and at every Presi-
dental election since.
:. AT Toledo teamster named Ferdinand
!. Stager was crushed by his wagon, loaded
II with lumber, forcing him against build
+ ing as he turned corner. He was removed
l. to his lodgings, but died in an hour.
c GEORGE s. BLANCHARD died at the Good
n Samaritan Hospital. in Cincinnati, while
II undergoing surgical operation.
GAS was struck at depth of 2,258 feet,
on farm near Newark.
The vote taken by the Cincinnati Cham
a Der of Commerce on the proposed extern
sion of the Southern railroad lease result
n ed: Yeas, 3l2; nays, 800.
L, FOUR scholars were seriously injured in