Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-02-14
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
O. 5. Journal Summary.

bill TO enclose abandoned Durylng
grounds; Senate bill to increase salary
of Supreme Judges to $4,000.
/ Amendment to the Constitution relat-
! ing to taxation adopted.
/ House-Amend 6040so as to fine from
| S. to $50 and impris0n so days intoxica-
ted persons; amend parole law so as to
include life prisoners who have served
25 years as eligible to parole.
! Bills passed: House bill to require
county commissioners to construct
guard rails at bridges, viaducts and cul-
verts; strike out clause in section under
which councils license peddlers, ETC.,
/ that refers to goods manufactured sin
! this State;" Senate bill to amend 1909 as
amended and allow cemetery associa-
tions, etc, to pave sidewalks along GEM
eteTy roads; House bill to pay court
! bailiffs 81 a Gay from beginning of term;
! House bill limiting time for filing peti-
/ tions in error TO six months; House bill
| to appoint another member to act where
county commissioners are interested in
an improvement; House bill to provide
! that farmers must keep up part of right
of-way fences; House bill to pay 10 cents
each between January and July for
ground hog scalps; House bill to au-
! thorized soldiers relief commissions to
give immediate relief in urgent cases.
Resolution offered: House joint reso-
luton for an amendment allowing
women to vote at all elections.
FEB. .-Senate-Bills introduced:
Tax 800 a month itinerant physicians;
employ female physicians at each In
sane asylum; serve through county
clerks nonresident corporations.
Bills passed: House bill appropria-
tiens for current expenses.
House bill prevent employment out
side labor in penitentiary; House bill al
lowing referees to punish for contempt.
Governors nominations referred: W.
Is. Cappellar railroad commissioner, T.
J. Godfrey trustee State university, L.
Hirsh State printer, John A. Doane State
librarian, Frank Thornhin Trustee Girls
Industrial home.
Robert Mehaffey confirmed as Trus
tee Imbecile asylum.
Albaugh school bill and Wallace ex-
ecutive mansion bill lost.
RoUSe-Bill introduced: Exempt from
payment of $40 annual tax manufactur-
ers of fertilizers who produce ten tons
or less annually.
FEB. -SeHate-Bills introduced
Print duplicates of trial dOckets for
courts and court officials; compel county
commissioners to advertise for road
work over 5000 and building contracts
in excess of $500.
Bills passed: House bill to. include
railroads as boundaries of wards where
practicable; House bill apprOpriating for
common schools; House bill to plug
abandoned gas wells; Senate bill file
chattel mortgages; Senate bill reduce
sinking fund levy from $40 to $40 Of
a mill; Senate bill for monument over
Andrews raiders buried at Chattanooga;
Senate bill authorize mayors to solemn
ize marriages; Senate bill to pay mem
bers board of pardons $500 each annu-
ally and clerk $500.
Nominations confirmed: John NJ.
Doan, State librarian; T. J. Godfrey,
Trustee State university; Leo HirSch,
Supervisor State printing.
Bill to increase Supreme bench to
eight members postponed to Monday,
February 20.
House -Tryon road bill referred to
consisting of % members
from counties left in with privilege to
report at any time.
House bill to reduce telephone rental
lost.
Bill to extend Cincinnati Southern |
railroad franchise forty years reconSid- |
cred and postponed to Wednesday.
FEB. Se1lGte-Bills introduced: To |
divide cities and villages of 500 or more
into election precincts en-
bracing not more than 400 electors.
Bills passed: House bill to require
notice to relatives before guardians can
be appointed for imbeciles or lunatics;
House bill TO allow Kirkwood township,
Belmont county trustees to resume du-
ties of school-land trustees; Senate bill
to require itinterant physicians to pay
S100a month license; Senate bill to print
commissioners reports in news
papers of opposite leading political rar-
ties and in German where they have the
largest circulation; Senate bill to require
witnesses in criminal cases
to give bail.
HOuSe-Bills introduced: To except
from the provisions of the law requir-
ing fishermen to dispense with '.lead"
nets, the Mercer county reservoir; ap-
point State commission to buy school
books; amend 1894 and provide that
needy poor apply direct to township
trustees; prevent Importation of minors
lnder u to work; create State board of
i've to control all State institutions.
Bills passed: Senate bill authorize in
;pector workshops to inspect public
House bill supplement 1854
Is amended, and allow all stockholders
access to books.
Monnot school book bill reported ad-
rersely by committee, but after discuss
on placed on next Wednesdays calen-
lar.
Resolution asking auditor of State
'or financial condition adopted and
with by auditor.
Resolution offered: Houge joint rcso-
ution to appoint Governor, Adjutant
General and Secretary Of State to COM
1ile war documents. I
Woman suffrage resolution postponed
o Tuesday; also bill to prevent black
isting discharged employees; bill to ex-
end franchise Cincinnati Southern rail
'oad reconsidered and to February 81.
FEB. 9.-Sendte-Bi introduced: To 1
lisfranchise for five years and imprison
me to three years persons receiving
money for vote or influence.
HouSe-BilIs introduced: To increase
school commissioners salary from $4,000
o $4,000; authorize collection of Is cents
or each warrant on township trearsurer
lnder indigent-soldier law; protect hold c