Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-02-28
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


OHIO LEGISLATURE.
o. S Journal Summary.
FEB. -SeRGte-Discussion on con-
stitutional amendment made special or
der for P NJ. to-day.
HOuse-BillS introduced: Prohibit en-
ployment of unnaturalized labor; require
township trustees in cities and villages to
turn over poor fund to associated chari-
ties; amend 42l5 making township truS-
tees boasdS of appraisers of damage in
sheep cases: Insane asylum in east part
of State: amend 1122 providing for settle
mentS by county with township treasu-
rers: amend 1129 providing for eXamina-
tiOnS of county auditors offices; amend
1865 and make more definite matters aud
itors must pass upon in providing dilin-
quent lists: Uhrichsville to bond $4,000
for township improvements and town
hall: compel school treaSurers to indorse
teachers orders when not paid for want
of funds: create and enforce mechanics
liens on personal property; making un-
hitching of horse without consent of
owner a penitentiary offenSe: regulate tel
ephOne rules: councils to regulate by Ordl-
nance speed of trains and blowing of
whistles.
Resolution offered: To have agricultu-
raj experiment bulletin printed by State.
FEB. O.-Sendte-Bills passed: House
bill prohibit manufacture and sale of
adulterated wines.
Cole trust bill passed, reconsidered and
postponed.
H0use-BilIs introduced: Hold all cleo
tionS under rules of boards of elections;
make applications for relief under indi-
gent soldier soldier law under oath.
Bills passed: House bill authorize Off
cial court stenOgraphers to take depoSi-
tions; include in list of those to whom
Governor issues commissions circuit
judges.
Resolutions offered: House joint resO-
luton to investigate 1imeS-StGr charges
of corruption in Hamilton county; ap-
prOpriate $1,000 for corn exhibit at Paris
exposition.
FEB. 1.-Senate-Bills introduced
Prevent erection of dangerous public
buildings; publish revised village ordl-
nances in pamphlet form; incorporate
livestock insurance companies and re-
strict their corporations to this State; re-
uuire boards of education to furnish
books to INDECENT pupils; give State board
of health power to adopt quarantine and
sanitary measures.
Governors nominations: Leo Weltz
trustee State forestry bureau: James w.
Delaney, VintOn county, trustee Athens
asylum.
Constitutional amendments as to legis-
lative apporti0nmentS adopted.
HOuse-Bills passed: House bill for as
sistant prosecuting attorney III Franklin
county.
l,1,.+o I,;ll ov+orJiD,r re- fronobica CiDoiO
natl Southern railroad.
Resolution adopted: House joint reso-
luton to ask Congress to pass service
pension bill: to adjourn from March l to
I to attend inauguration.
Woman suffrage resolution lost, re-
ceiving 80 votes.
FEB. .-SeRGte-BillS introduced
Prohibit ticket scalping; require appoint
ment of guardians for inebriateS; making
mandatory upon boards of education to
purchase school books direct from pub
lisherS authorize township trustees to
purchase for themselves and justices of
the peace Revised Statutes.
Bills passed: House bill prohibiting en-
ployment in State institutions of rela-
tives of trustees: House bills allow land
owners to improve along public high
ways: House bill for tool house in
Wayne township, jefferson county.
Resolution offered: Senate resolution
extending greeting to new States.
Resolution passed: Senate joint reSOlu-
tion proposing amendment to Constitu-
ton limiting municipal Indebtedness to
to 6 per cent. of taxable value.
H0use-NO quorum present.
FEB. 23.-SenGte-Bill introduced: Pun
ish by fine trustees or others who create
deficiencies in State institutions.
Bill passed: Senate bill considered for
amendment. providing that no limitation
of time shall hold in bounty claims.
The Senate. in committee of the whole,
considered the proposed constitutional
amendment for biennial elections, but
took no vote.
H0use-Bills introduced: Amend S06
and S07 and require record of survey of
county levies in surveyors instead of
clerks office; amend 6351 and give pro-
bate judges power to appoint one board
of appraisers for all property in assign
ment cases: amend 2732 by striking out
$50 exemption and allow auditor to strike
off $50: confer on villages of first class
power to increase tax levy from to 10
mills; require special payment of So
when answers are made in garnishee
| cases; make trustees of ministerial funds
proper persons to receive State taxss on
that fund; prohibit manufacture and
sale of proprietary medicine and punish
by fine of $500 to $1,000 for manufactur-
ing and 800 to $500 for selling.
FEB. 5.-Sendte-No quorum.
HOlSe-Bills introduced: Making ap-
preparations for three quarters fiscal year,
s., 10000; turnpike in Monroe county;
declaring roads in use for q years pub
lie highways; bring mutual benefit assO-
Citations under fee chapter on insurance:
give mayors and justice final jurisdiction
in cases under fish and game laws: coun-
ty commissioners to purchase all toll
roads; judges to fix compensation of at
tOrneys appointed to defend felony cases;
amend mechanics lien law and give Ia
bOrers first lien.
Resolution adopted Requiring sink
ing fund commissioners to report by
March whether any money has been
transferred from sinking to any other
fund, etc.
LET quality, not quantity, be the test
of medicine Ayers Sarsaparilla is the
concentrated extract of the best and
purest ingredients. Medical men every
where recommend it as the surest and
most economical blood medicine i'm the