The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-03-01
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.


COLUMBUS, Feb. H-SENATE bills intro
duced Doing away with the requirement
| that judges must sign bills OF exceptions;
amending Section 5o35 SO as to make pubica-
| ton equivalent to summons. Bills passed: Au-
| thorizing Gahana. Franklin County, TO com
| plete a school-house; law; authorizing Will
! iamsburg, Clermont County to repair school
building; law; authorizing Hamdcn, Vinton
County, to complete school.house
uousE.-I3ills introduced: 10 extend tho
| lien law to animals boarded at livery stables;
| providing that the mayor must appoint the
| Columbus Board of Elcctons TO establish uni
| form time throughout the State; making un-
lawful, unless advertised. the granting of muni-
cipal franchises; taking contested election
cases from the Schate and putting them in the
| Judiciary; for the State to pay convicts having
children to support sixty cents day; making
| IL q misdemeanor, punishable by one to three
| years Imprisonment, for q man to desert his
| family; for Common Pleas Judges to appoint
| Board OF Visitors to county penal and bencvo-
lent institutions; to appropriate from the State
| Treasury e., 600 for memorial Mt Dayton to the
| Dayton zouavos; for the relief OF the Treasurer
| of Catawba Island, ottawa County.
COLUMBUS, Fob lS.-SENATE. Bills introduce
ed: For an electric light plant mt New Rich
mond Clermont County; to pay clerks and
judges OF election 90 so per day when votes in
township exceed 200; to pay township clerks
$25 per year; requiring prosecuting attorneys to
draw in legal form contracts made by county
commissioners 10 pay COSIS III ulsUuTIncHI
proceedings against attorneys; for Children's
Home bonds In Lucas County; to extend the
Toledo sewer system. Resolutions adopted:
Asking Congress to appropriate to improve the
Cumberland river: authorizing the Adjutant
General to furnish camp equipment and inspect
camp of Sons of Veterans the appointments Of
State Librarian Sibley. Rev. j. C. Hutsenpiller
as Trustee of the Athens Asylum, and John G.
Entrekin Us Trustee of the Columbus Asylum,
were not confirmed
HousE-Bs passed. For board OF city i'm
provement for Dayton; $1,000 bonds for gas
well at the Fairfield County Inilrmary; $1,000,
900 water-worlis bonds for CINCINNATI to de-
fine the residence Of inmates OF the Trumbnll
County Intrmary. Representative Blair OF
Adams, unseated. Mr.. Monnots bill, provid-
ing for change of venue in litigations, was de-
feated, receiving but thirty-siS votes. Mr..
Wright's bill TO authorize administrators to
perform the duties of appraisers in the alb
sence of the latter was lost.
COLUMBUS, Feb l0-SENATE.-- Bills intro.
duced: TO regulate telephone rates. 1t pro-
vides that the charge for private residences
shall be $50 per year. physicians, clorgymcn,
lawyers and other professional men, $40 per
year; all Others siS per year TO remedy defects
in titles to realty; 500, coo public Improvement
bonds for Sidney. Bills passed: II. b. for a
bridge at GAINESVILLE; for school bonds at Pauld-
ing. Several nominations by Governor Foraker
were nos confirmed.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: To extend the
time for shooting wild duck to April 10; to take
fifty cents from delinquent tax to pay for adver-
tising; 10 abolish tho Board of Public Affairs at
Hamilton; for n board of five to examine ana
license stationary engineers; FOR Board of Pub
lie Affairs for Columbus; to allow natural gas
companies to supply cities through which pipes
run; to redistrct the State; to enforce mcchan-
les lien on personal property; to prevent ply
sicians from contracting with inilrmary direc
tors for attending the poor of more than two
townships; to authorize marshals TO appoint
their own assistants; to change the legal rate
of Interest from six to five per cent, and in
contracts from eight to six; to allow defendants
in rcplevn to give bond and retain property: to
double the punishment for repeated misdc-
mcanors; to authorize probate judges TO remove
guardians of insane. when ward moves from the
county; to pay 81 900 for the capture of "B nlSy"
Morgan. Bills passed-H. B. to rcdiStrct
Springfield into wards; for board Of public
improvements for Cincinnati; for the relief of
Henry Landy, treasurer Catawba Island Town
ship, Ottawa County; to grade salaries of town
ship trustees In counties having cities of the
third grade. second class; TO provide that the
party demanding q jury in forcible entry and de-
taincr must deposit costs; to provide that guar
dams can not. through colusion with heirs,
change descent Of realty by converting into it
personally.
duced: Two to modify the owen Sunday law
by allowing Cincinnati saloons to remain open
from to IL p. m., and reducing the penalty for
violation: to give street railroads the right TO
condemn property for right Of way; to regulate
wires of electric light companies; TO vest own
ership of game in land owners and give them
power to arrest tresspassers. Bills passed: H.
b. 10 amend an act for a turnpike in Brown
County; to require two-thrds majority of
council to pass ordinance for issue OF bonds; TO
Improve highways in Washington Township,
Van Vert County; appropriating S50s,G ,Gi7 topay
principal and interest on public debt, interest
on irreducibe debt and expenses of the sinking
fund commission; 10 remit So road tax TO per-
sons maintaining public watering troughs; TO
increase the bond ofthe Secretary of State from
$4,000 to 100000; 10 lcgalize the payment of
81, 900 reward for the capture of Blinky Morgan;
providing that not more than two members OF
the village boards of health shall be physicians;
100000 police deficiency bonds for Columbus;
to transfer funds at Sylvania Lucas County;
TO authorize township trustees to contract with
physicians for the treatment OF poor; for chill
drens home in Lucas County. F. NJ. Marriott
was confirmed as manager of the intermediate
penitentiary.
Resolution adopted: Authorizing
the Adjutant General to furnish camp equip
ments and inspect Sons OF Veterans camp Mr..
McNIallen's bill TO authorize village councils to
require railroad companies TO construct gates at
crossings, under discussion. Representative
Peterson, of Adams County, sworn in.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 2l.-SENATE.-Hills intro
duccd: To limit the amount county COmmiS-
sioners may compound for or release to $1,000;
to provide that the report OF official examiners
of county treasury shall be prma-facie evil
dence in court; recognizing the ponitentiary;
making continuous railroad tracks through
union depot, Columbus; TO require insurance
companies claiming exemption under the old
constitution to make reports TO the Insurance
Commissioner TO provide that there shall be no
forfeiture after two insurance assessments have
been paid. Bills passed: H. B. for a cemetery
tax in sargarctha Township, Erie County; to
refund Eaton Township, Lorain County, money
illegally collected: S. Is for 600 general inn
provement bonds at Sidney. Mr.. Howells pre-
sented resolution for the passage OF Senator
Oren's bill, allowing the catching OF fish with
hook and line at any season OF the year. Mr..
Monnots H. b. to rip up Springfield was re-
ferred TO Committee on Municipal Corporations
No. 2. Adjourned until p m. Monday.
HoUsE.-The bill OF Mr. McMalen TO empou-
er city councils to compel railroad companies
TO erect safety-gates at crossings was taken up,
and after some discussion the motion TO indef-
nitcly postpone the bin was lost by u vote OF
TO 81. Further consideration OF tho bin was
postponed until Tuesday afternoon next. The
balance OF the time was occupied in political
skirmish on the redistricting bill. Adjourned
until Monday.
THE grocery Of Croninger & Morri-
man, at Bluffton, has been closed by the
sheriff on notes aggregating $4,000.
"THE Farmers Law and Order League
of Ohio" was organized at Dayton.
Mrs. ROBERT JOYCE was found guilty