The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-04-10
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.


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Nominations by the Governor were deferred.
Tho appropriation bill was read the first time,
and q bill was introduced by Mr. Howells ex-
empting regular or established liquor dealers
from the provisions Of the law prohibiting the
sale OF liquor within two miles Of On agricultur-
al fair.
HousE.-The House met t4p. m. Anumber
OF local bills were passed. Mr.. Critchfeld
presented the petition Of three hundred citi-
zens OF Knox County, protesting against the
pnssage OF the Ryan amendment 10 the Owen
law. Mr.. Green, the coored member from
Cuyahoga, presented twenty or more petitions
from different parts Of the State, protesting
against the McDermott bill to provide separate
schools for colored children.
COLUMBUS, April 1.--SENATE--Bills introduc-
ed: Decennial Board Of Appraisers for Cinciu-
natl; requiring town councils In constructing
sidewalks to grade sidewalks same ns street;
relieve wholesale liquor dealers from payment
Of Dow tax; purchase eucampment grounds
for National Guard, not to exceed $4,000; re-
peal act creating Board Of Lady Visitors for
Soldiers Orphans Home. Bills passed: Board
Of Arbitration to nx value Of stock in railroad
consolidation; g. b. to tax telegraph, telephone
and express companies; providing that In case
Of insanity Of either husband or wife, sane
party may convey real estate; to make Novem-
Der election day legal holiday; nomination OF
Penitentiary Board confirmed.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: To Authorize
State Board Of Equalization to drop from tax
list private educational institutions in certain
cases; to give probate courts concurrent juris-
diction with common pleas courts In misde
meanor cases; to require sidewalks in cities
and villages to be ut least six feet wide; to tax
pawnbrokers $3.50 and note shavers and lenders
on chattel mortgage $500 year in Cincinnati;
giving Adjutant General control OF Cincinnati
Armcry; reducing fees OF all county officers
twenty-five per cent; TO provide for service on
nonresident legatees: to provide that owners
OF water rights shall not have exclusive hunting
and fishing privileges; to compel railroads TO
Interchange cars and deliver freight from one
road to another to protect skilled labor by bet
ter defining property rights; to take from the
Governor the power to appoint election boards
and give 1t to common pleas judges.
CoLuMBua April 2.-SENATE.--Blls intro
duced: To provide penalty for burning
building and personally therein insured for $50
or over; to authorize insurance companies to
40 business on the assessment plan; to regulate
the selling OF pools on Incorporated speed
rings; to abolish general terms Of the Superior
Court, Cincinnati; providing that In criminal
cases, except murder or life imprisonment, or.
ror can not be prosecuted to tho Supreme
Court; 70 require corporations to pay an
amount equal to one-fourth the charter fee to
the Secretary Of State; giving Supreme Court
jurisdiction in constitutional cases. Bills
passed: Preventing the employment Of children
where lives or morals are endangered; 10 file
bills OF exceptions within forty, instead OF thir.
| ty days. Senate bill to authorize county COM
missioners or township trustees to contract for
the repair OF improved roads; to provide for
making deed IN lieu Of one destroyed; requir
| ing the Inspector Of Workshops to make inspec-
| tons provided for by law; to allow corporations
| to perform iducinry service
HoUsE.-A number of bills were read tho
| second time Bills passed: Geyer school book
bill; to make ineligible 10 be trustees OF State
m m n nui n n
thorizing the commissioners OF Hamilton
| County to construct a greenhouse, etc, ut
Longview Asylum; for 81, $50 600 market-house
bonds In Cincinnati; to allow guardians OF
minors 10 lease coal land to allow natural gas
companies to furnish gas for places outside o
city. Mr. Grifiin's bill providing for service by
| publication on non-egatees OF O will, passed,
| and goes to the Senate. The substitute for the
| Senate bill to provide accommodate 'ons for cpl.
leptlcs and epileptic insane Of the State, passed
and goes to the Senate. Mr. Counts bill regu.
lsting the size of wagon tires on country roads
| was defeated.
COLUMBUS. April a-SENATE. Bills passed:
\ Regulating the appointment OF the Cincinnati
Board Of Equeiisationj H H.. authorizing tho
| appointment OF non-partsan Sewer Commits
sion ut Springfield; H. B. regulating the ap-
| pointment OF Trustees OF Oberlin College; H.
| B. authorizing the village OF Avondale to make
| Improvements and issue bonds to pay portions
| Of the expense thereof; dividing the Trustees
| Of Oborlin College into six classes instead Of
four; s. B. requiring life insurance companies
to make definite statements to Insurance Com.
missioner and po icy.holders; decennial Board
Of Appraisers for Cincinnati; providing for
| damages where one street car company uses
tracks OF another. Soncrant two.cent fare bill
| defeated.
HousE.-Bills passed: To provide for tho
States share Of the expense of repairing a road
leading to the Girls Industrial Home. at Della
o. 11 80 N,,l1,
| exceptions; to appropriate 800 to meet ex-
| penses incurred by the Supreme Court Com
mission to examine applicants for admission to
the bar: to regulate the listing OF Savings
| Banks incorporated under the act OF 1867. This
act will apply to but three savings banks; au.
thorizng trustees OF any religious or benevo-
| lent society to take charge OF an endowment
fund. The Judiciary Committee reported Mr.
Mallon's bill to provide for police court jures.
twas read the third time, and set for passage
tomorrow. Mr.. Braman's bill, to define prop
erty rights for the protection or architects, was
made the special order for tomorrow. Mr..
| Coates had his vote recorded against the Gau-
mer election ripper. The deficiency approprla-
tion bill, amounting In the aggregate to sS550O,
was read and referred to Mr.. Donovan. Sena.
tor Alexander's bill, to pay q bounty for Eng.
glish sparrow heads, passed and is q law. The
bounty is twenty cents per dozen, and town.
ships are authorized to make q levy for that
purpose. creating the sparrow Fund"
COLUMBUS, April 4.-SENATE.-Bills intro
duced: Letting to the lowest bidder pubica-
tion OF legal notices In Cincinnati and Hamil-
ton County; providing that money retained
from street contractors be paid to them when
the work is fully completed; for State Board
Of Funeral Directors to examine undertakers;
to abolish registration In Zanesvillc increas
Ing the Trustees OF Wilberforce from six ia
eight, and making the Governor and President
OF the University ex.cflcio members. Bills
passed; S. B. giving Justices final jurisdiction
In cases mentioned In Section 371Sa; extending
the right OF consolidation to railroads where
termini are connected by n depot building. Ad
iourned to p. m. Monday.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: To require town
ship trustees to purchase statutes for justices
to provide that Boards OF Elections shall Sc
loct their own clerks, and that In all cities, ex
cept in Cincinnati, to which registration ap
plies, there shall be general registration once
In four years; to authorize two or more town
ships to secure jointly material for making
roads; to authorize councils to condemn dan
J gerous crossings, ETC.; to give councils power