The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS.



COLUMBUS, March II. SENATE Senate
met at 4r m. prayer was offered by Rev. II.
w. Bennett The following bills were intro
duced: For the taxation OF express and tele-
graph companies; authorizing the Baptist
church of West Lafayette, Coshocton County.
TO sell real estate
HousE-Bills intrpduced: Authorizing Mil-
ford, Clermont County to build n town hall;
authorizing Cuyahoga County to transfer funds;
appropriattag money at Dayton for the erection
of memo.lal to the zouaves; providing for an
election for trustees in original surveyed town
ships on the first Monday in
May; providing for the enforcement
OF the act for the bi-montbly payment
of wages; amending the pharmacy law so as
TO not apply to persons havirs siso hve years.
experience; providing for the issuing Of bonds
to the amount of SIS 900 for the completion of
the armory in Cincinnati; to increase the pay
OF the clerk of the Board Of Control of Hamil-
ton County from $500 TO 81, 200; to establish
city civil court for Cleveland; requiring physi-
clans TO register their names with the county
recorder; authorizing the commissioners OF
MuslSingum County TO build bridge across tho
Muskingum river; authorizing the construc-
tion OF n free turnpike in Adams County.
COLUMBUS March 12.-SENATE "A large
number OF local bills were passed. Bills OF
general interest were passed as follows: Max
ing terms of assessors in cities having wards
two years, compensation SO per day and bond
81 900, exceptin Cincinnati where the bond shall
be 81, 600; authorizing the use of township halls
for Sunday-school purposes. The following
joint resolution was o1cred Authoriz-
ing the Board of Canal Commissioners to
seek TO secure the surrender of abandoned wa
ter leases along the canals. The Senate refused
to concur in the House amendments 70 Mr..
kerr's bill, permitting wives and husbands to
testify in behalf of each other in criminal cases.
The following bill was introduced: Providing
that criminals twice before convicted of
felony shall be proceeded against as habituat
criminals
HoUsE-Bils passed: Fixing the fine for
failure TO comply with the b:monthly payment
act from between $50 to sl00 providing for pay
ing the legal advertising for hanlets and school
distrcts providing penalties when county
treasurers fail TO pay the money belonging to
townships and school districts at the proper
time; authorizing the Auditor of State to ex-
anime county auditors and county treasurers,
and when drafts are not honored to ascertain the
reason; to punish white Caps;" providing
that upon appeal in property condemnation
cases deposit may be made and the case car
ried up on error; relating to the burial Of dead
in villages; providing for the parole of life
prisoners after being imprisoned twenty years;
providing for readmission of girls at the Girls
Industrial Homo.
COLUMBUS O., March 13-SENATE. Bills
passed: Allowing the Attorney-General SUM-
cient fees OF his own collection to make his
pay $1,000 per year; requiring bail for costs for
appropriation of lands before probate judges;
providing that street assessments shall not ex-
coed twenty-five per cent. OF the property after
the improvement; requiring that payment for
Improvement OF street intersections shall be
made from the general funds; defining the du-
ties OF officers OF building and loan associa-
S:ons; allowing county commissioners TO ap-
point If certain cases, at chldrens homes;
providing for tho sale of abandoned burial
grounds; providing for sae organization Of COM
panies to become sure,ies OF bonds
HousE-Bills passed: Requiring the pay
ment of proportionate toll between gates; pro-
viding for the erection of a monument over the
'Andrews Raiders;' esolution adopted.
amending the constitution relating to taxation;
resolution defeated, limiting the amount OF
municipal Indebtedness. S. B. by Mr.. Mort
ley, providing for the appointment OF female
physicians at insane asylums was lost on pass
age.
CoLBMBUs, March H.-SENATE.-BIlsi intro
duced: Making the standard OF q busbel
OF corn in the ear siXty-six poun DIS;
amending the statute relating to the sale !.
liquors near fairgrounds that II shall not
apply to persons who have been in the business
six months Bills passed. Authorizing Colum-
bia Township, Hamilton County TO transfer
funds; to enforce the payment OF wages twice
n month; requiring pawn-broliers TO make daily
reports OF arti cles purchased; providing q
penalty for u juror before justice accepting Il
bribe; allowing ten-cent ground hog bounty.
HoUsE.-Mr I'll introduced q bill to abandon
the Ohio, Hooking and Walhonding Canal, to-
gether with their feeders and basins. He then
moved 10 suspend the constitutional rule and
read the bin second time, which was agreed
10. Mr. Gill then moved to refer tho bill to the
Committee on Manufactures and Commerce.
which was agreed to-yeas a, nays 81. Bills
passed: To erect q bridge over Colerain ave-
nue. at Mill Crook; appropriating $4,000 for
the nrnory at Cincinnati; prohibiting discrimi-
nations by life insurance companies against
persons OF color allowing building associations
10 increase or decrease their shares
COLUMBUS, March 15-SENATE.-ISlls pass
ed: Authorizing the State Board of Agricul-
ture to issue bonds to the amount OF S5O. ODD to
pay indebtedness OF the Centennial Commits
sion; TO protect travellers on streets and high
ways beneath railroad bridges; authorizing
township trustees TO take charge of abandoned
church property; requiring railroad companies
o pay one dollar per mile into the State treas
ury; authorizing boards of education TO furnish
sChool-eooks free or at cost prescribing "A
mode OF procedure against habitual criminals.
Bills introduced: Allowing guardians 10 dis
tribute funds arising from sale OF real estate
in the same line OF descent; placing the pub
tic works of the State in the hands of the entire
board
HousE-The following bills were passed:
Providing that whenstreets are closed and un-
used for twenty-one years the use OF the same
for public purposes is barred in cities of TWEEN
~ thousand inhabitants; changing the time for
holding election for the State Board of Equal
iZation from October to November; authoriZ-
ing the printing OF additional copies OF