The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-02-28

C0LUMDU& Feb. 1e-0nN A1a the oenos011
met again this afternoon after the tri.weekly
rseesA but no business Of Importance waa
transacted.
nousA A ,srys srist Of bills were intro
duoed this afternoon, among them the follow.
Ing: Preventing the importation Of armed men
10 sot - special constables; regulating tele.
phone oharses; making the unhitching Of
horse penitentiary oRense; TO protect Amer.
loan labor from foreign competition; enforcing
mechanic liens on personal property; author
ixing the Cincinnati Board Of Affairs TO expend
not 70 exceed $4,000 annually for street Inn
provements; providing for the inspection or
examination Of the o6ices of county auditors
the same as 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 sst'
urday.
COLUMBUS Feb. 20.--SENArE-Bills passed:
Regulating the manufacture and sale OF half.
wines and made wines and sweet wines, and
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 %.
sessing Of property; making trusts and combi.
nations illegal. Reconsidered, and made .
special order for Tuesday, February 20. II. b.
BY Mr.. Coates, providing for the adoption Of the
village graded school plan In townships OF their
option, was lost.
HOUSE. Bills passed: Authorizing New Car.
Isle to transfer funds; authorizing Alexandria
Licking County, to elect onicers; repeating
that part Of Section 2s71 relating to street i'm.
provements in Cincinnati. which was passed
in 1888; authorizing court stenographers to ad-
minister oaths in taking depositions; authorize
ing tho commissioners Of Butler County to CON-
- H~oo zee. ka, tnU fha n n
light act for Hamilton, Butler County. Bills
introduced: Providing that boards Of elections
shall furnish tickets for oil elections; provid.
ing for the appraisement and sale Of one and q
half mile of the Miami and Erie Canal In the
city Of Cincinnati; authorizing Columbia Town
ship, Hamilton County, to transfer funds; re-
quiring applicants for relief under the soldiers
relief oct to do so under oath.
COLUMBUS, Feb. o1.-SENATE-Ado pied:
Proposition to amend the constitution rs to
legislative appointment and single district rep
resentation; 70 amend the constitution limiting
municipal Indebtedness. Bills introduced: Au-
thorizing the incorporation OF live stock insur.
ance companies; preventing the erection OF
dangerous buildings; giving the Cincinnati
Board OF Public Affairs the 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 ofacer upon
personal property In the hands OF any other on
Ger subject to such first levy; allowing trustees
OF children's homes to dispense with superin.
tendents when they have competent matron.
HOUsE.-A resolution favoring the passage Of
service pension bill by Congress was adopted.
The resolution providing woman suffrage
amen dment 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 Wed.
nesday. The Senate bill to extend tho lease Of
the Cincinnati Southern railroad, was pascal
Mr.. Cope offered resolution to adjourn from
March to March to give members an oppor-
tunity to attend the Inauguration Of President
Harrison. Adopted.
COLUMBUS. Feb. 22-sENATE.-A joint res.
olution was offered extending the right hand Of
fellowship to the recently admitted Statos Of
Washington, North and South Dakota and
Montana. Bills passed: Establishing Board
of I'VE female Directors for the female depart
ment Of the Cincinnati Work.house. Author
izing landowners 10 make improvements along
public highways. Prohibitin g the employment
by Superin tendents and Trustees Of State in
stitutiony of relatives by blood marriage. Sew
eral other unimportant bills were passed. Bills
introduced: Authorizing Township trustees to
purchase Revised Statutes for them
selves and justices Of the peace.
Requiring the appointment Of guar
dians for inebriates; providing penalties for
ticket scalping, and requiring railroad and
steamboat companies to make rebate fer un-
used portions Of tiokets making It manditory
upon boards of educations to purchase school
books 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 ut
Portsmouth.
HousE-The House met at o'clock, but
without trausacting any business o recess was
taken until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 2S.-SENATE-Billsp passed
Authorizing Greenwich to issue bonds for Gem
etery, hreengine. and to pay indebtedness;
providing that no Limitation Of time shall hold
for bounty claims. The Senate went into com
mittee Of the whole on the Joint resolution fol
the submission Of constitutional amendment
providing for uniform biennial elections II
was agreed to strike out oil of Section g. Of Ar
ticle 4, Of the amendment, referring to circui,
cour .; slse to strike out that portion OF Sec
tion providing for filling of vacancies for un
expired terms Of justices Of the peace. Ths
following bill was introduced: Providing pen
slties for trustees Of State institutions who in
cur deficiencies
HOUsE.-A large number Of petitions ant
memorials we're presented. Mr.. Stecker offer
Cd resolution providing for stint
die g adjournment of the Legislature Mon
day, March 10. Laid over under the rule
Bills introduced: Giving probate judges powe
tosppoint one board to aprraise property II
assignment cases. To amend Section 27a2 o
the Revised Statutes, by striking out that por
ton OF the section that authorizes eacn individ
ual to exempt from taxation fifty dollars
worth Of property and compel ng q return Of al
property, but authorizes the county auditor o
each county to deduct $3.50 from the tota
amount Of personal property returned by eacl
Individual In his county.
BURIED treasure amounting to 81, 236
was discovered In Adams County.