The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


| sttute for Mr. Coles antitrust bill was nlaced
on tho calendar for tomorrow. Mr.. Poorman's
schoo-book bill was indefinitely postponed.
HOUSE bills passed: Requiring mine own
ers and operators to keep supply OF timber
in mines for the of miners; changing the
time of meeting of boa ards of education from
the first Monday In September TO tho last
| Monday In August. Bills introduced
| To build bridge across the Mus
kingum river at GAINESVILLE at q cost Of S50o0
providing tor a special road law for Lake and
Geauge Counties; TO prevent payment for pub
| lie improvements from the general revenue
fund in Cleveland, passed. to abolish the Board
of Pardons; to license transient dealers in
Dayton passed; authorizing Lebanon, Warren
County to levy tax for system of water.
! works
COLUMBUS, April 0.--SEEATE. Bills passed:
| Enlnrging the powers of the Canal Commits
sion; returning Montgomery County to the
judicial district to which it originally belonged;
authorizing building and loan associations to
dissolve or consolidate; giving game and fish
wardens the powers of constables. large
number OF local bills were passed.
| HOUSE. Bills passed: Authorizing Hamilton
| County to improve the Amity road; preventing
| loaiing, lettering or peddling of tickets in town
| and village elections; providing for State
| geologist; authorizing the employment of an
| agent by children's homes. The bill to sell
and abandon n portion OF the Miami and Erie
canal in Cincinnati was lost. Resolution to nban.
| don the Working Home for the Blind was lost.
A bill to tax mortgages was lost
| COLUMBUS, April 10 SENATE Bills passed:
| Defining the crime of sodomy; allowing pastors
TO be used on election tickets; authorizing
| Cemetery Trustees to employ watchmen; au-
| thorZing LoclSland TO build Town Hall; pro-
viding for labelling and marking convict made
| goods; repeating the section of the statute re-
| action for damages shall be commenced.
Reconsideration adopted: Changing the
terms OF State, county, township and munich
pal officers and providing for biennial elections.
| Bills passed: Providing for the compulsory
| education of children under fourteen years;
making appropriations to pay deficiencies;
| amending the soldiers relief act providing for
cumulative punishment for petit larceny;
| exempting building and loan shares from taxa
tion until they are paid up
| COLUMBUS, April 12.-SESATE. Bills passed:
| Preventing the preparation of frauds on
| sumers of gas; requiring mine operators to
| keep miners supplied with props: relating
| TO the trustees OF McNIiclSen University; au-
| thorizng the Board of Public Affairs of Cincin-
| natl to condemn private property for sewer
purposes. The bill requiring the inspection of
| cattle on foot was lost
| HoUsE.-Indefnitely postponed: Bill author.
| izng the formation OF companics to become
| bondsmen, administrators and executors Bills
| passed: Taxing fishing nets; continuing the
| canal commissions; requiring townshipsi in Ham,
| ilton County TO report election returns to be
made to the Cincinnati Board of Elections:
| Furnishing trespassers upon public grounds:
making an appropriation for salaries of men,
bers.
| COLUMBUS, April 12.-SENATB.- Bills passed:
Rcimbursng the Miami and Erie Canal Fund
in the amount drawn from that fund by the
Canal Commission in 1889; providing for the
publication of proposed amendments TO the
Constitution; restricting the sale of ole omar
garine; providing for change of judges to Try
n case where parties to suit file appli-
cation on the ground OF prejudice in
the Judge; providing for disfranchise-
ment of persons convicted of bribery;
providing for proceedings to collect debts be
fore due where the debtor has absconded or has
obtained goods or money by false representa-
tions; establishing the New York election sys
TEN for Cleveland; authorizing county com
missioners to purchase otherwise procure
material for road purposes; making the date
| for regular session of school boards the last.
| Monday in August instead of the third Monday
| in September; providing that life prisoners,
after serving continuous service for twenty
five years, shall be subject te parole; provid-
ing for compulsory education.
HOUSE. bills passed Providing that In
villages having twenty-five hundred popula-
tion a savings bank may do business capt.
tal stock OF s25, goo; authorizing the appoint
mcnt of trustees of McMclIcn University out
side OF Cincinnati; providing that when real es-
tate IS sold by executors or administrators, or
in partition cases, IL may be for third cash
and the remainder be paid in installments;
giving trustees OF chdren's homes power TO
dispose OF superintendents and put such homes
in charge OF matrons; making it peniten-
tary oifense for candidates for nomination or
election to any office 10 give any money or
promise any for the purpose OF securing such
nominations; providing that county treasurers
shall pay into the State treasury on or before
January 10 and July 10 tax collected under the
Dow law; allowing city councils 10 advertise
for proposals for pavements of different kinds
and providing for competitions; TO prevent the
erection of dangerous buildings for public use
COLUMBUS, April l3-SRN ATE. Bills passed:
Requiring payment of Dow tax into the State
Treasury by January 10 and July 10; requiring
competition in bids for street improvements;
providing for taxing fishing nets; making ap-
preparations for the expenses OF the Legisla-
ture. Mr.. Poorman's school book bill was de-
feated.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Allowing tho incor-
poration OF companies 10 construct hotels etc
authorizing l. Lockland TO construct town hall;
giving credit to officers OF the Ohio National
Guard upon re-entering tho service for the time
served reducing the State levy for the sinking
fund a large number OF local bills were
passed, and Senate amendments TO House bills
concurred in
AN incendiary fire at Attica destroyed
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