The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-04-02
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


| TO represent the senate on the committee Of
| conference on tho Rawllns bill; Messrs Son.
Grant Morrison, Carpenter, Adams, Reed, Ryan,
| and Van Cleaf
HOUSE Bills passed: Authorizing commits.
sioners OF Hamilton county to appropriate S2,610
toward monument to Capt J. j. Desmond Of
First regiment, o. N. G., who was killed in the
Cincinnati riot; amending existing law by
authorizing county commissioners to bury ex.
soldiers sailors, and marines when burial ex-
penses would deprive their families Of immcdi
ate support; changing the ra;e Of interest On
shortterm improvement bonds in Toledo from
four and half to five per cent; authorizing
Toledo to issue $4,000 Of bonds tor build
ing patrol-house; transferring certain
funds in Clermont county; authorizing com.
missioners OF Clermont county to construct
free turnpike in Monroe township; authorizing
issue OF $40 900 bonds by Cleveland TO build
police station; authorizing Cuyahoga county
commissioners to levy special tax for soldiers
monument; authorizing railroad companies to
issue stock in classes at the time Of organiza-
tion, and designate whether a certain class
shall be common or preferred. Bills intro
duced: TO supplement section 3l3Z II. g., and
to amend section 3l4 SO US to enable the hus-
band OF woman who has children by former
husband to adopt them and make them his legal
heirs
COLUMBUS, March ch24-SENArE. Bills passed:
To permit tho defendant, as well as the plaintiff,
in replevin suit, within five days after suit is
entered, TO give bond and retain the property;
TO exempt from garnishee within the usual
limits, the wages OF the only support OF wild
owed mother or Of the child OF q deceased rela-
tive; to nx the salaries of the first and second
deputies in the office Of the clerk OF the su-
preme court at u 500 and $1,000 respectively; to
give consent to the purchase BY the United
States government of q site for public building
at Canton; providing that foreign mutual
fire insurance companies doing business
n tut n0
the same amount and description as are re-
quired Of mutual fire insurance companies or
go nized In this state; to authorize the commits.
sioners OF Adams county 10 construct free
turnpike; to authorized the commissioners Of
Butter county to build bridge over Seven
Mile crock en- the somerville and College Cor
ner road, in Somervile Butler county. Bills
introduced: To pay $500 to Capt. w. G. Bidle
OF Cleveland for services recruiting ofncer
during the late rebellion.
HOUsE-Dills passed.: Authorizing tho com.
missionors Of Athens county to make an addi.
tional levy for the county fund; authorizing the
commissioners OF Hamilton county TO make q
levy OF one.twentieth OF mill to repair road
between Madisonville road and Mt. Pleasant
COLUMBUS, March h25.--SENArE-Bills passed:
Providing for bulletins OF agricultural expert.
ment station by the state printer; authorizing
telephone companies to lay their wires under
ground after obtaining consent of proper munic-
ipal authorities; authorizing the Free Will
Baptist church, OF Banchester, Clinton county
to borrow on its real estate; requiring railroad
companies to build and keep in repair road
crossings over their track; requiring that ac-
counts OF the stationery storekeeper Of Hamil
ton county shall he approved by the county
commissioners instead OF the board OF control:
authorizing the council of Leesburg, Highland
county, to issue $500 in bonds for street i'm. :
provement; exempting Lake and Geauga from
the operation Of the Tryon road law.
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appropriation bill was resumed in the house to.
day, but the fight on the canals was not con-
tinued. After IS, 800 had been added to the de-
partment of fish and game, for the purpose Of
purchasing railway car for the transportation
OF fish for stocking streams, the fight on the
Gallipolis epileptic asylum was begun by DR..
Eakins offering an amendment appropriating
$3.50 to begin the construction OF the asylum.
Mr.. Donovan moved to amend by making tho
appropriation $40 COO, and then the fight was on.
Mr.. Donovan's amendment to the amendment
was agreed to and the house, by vote Of 90
yeas to "a nays, allowed $4,000. Before the bill
came to vote Mr.. Bense aud number Of
Others demanded q separate vote on the epilep-
tic asylum appropriation and 1t was agreed to
yeas 10 nays q. Mr. Bense raised the point
oforder that the item required two-thirds vote
OF the house, as it was an appropriation not
provided for by preexisting law. The speaker,
however, held the point not we'll taken, and De.
clared the amendment carried, the bill then
passed-yeas "a nays2.
COLUMBUS, March 20. SENATE passed:
Providing that when railroad company builds
q barbed wire fence along its right OF way IL
shall put boards on the top OF the fence; giving
justices OF tho peace jurisdiction over suits
brought to collect compensation Of surveyors in
plating land; to provide that German news
paper to secure legal advertising must have at
least $50 circulation; to permit railroad com.
panies, at the time OF their organization, to
f0f 10 thn RIn Of cN4 aIr "a Ia
which classes shall have the right Of vot-
ing; to empower the governor to ap.
point the secretary OF the board OF state
charities, and fixing his compensation ct
II, 200 per annum; to provide that the probate
court before an order for the sale Of lands is
made by guardian, shall exact additional
bond; to require foreign insurance companies
to deposit each 5000 600 securities with the state
treasurer, In accordance with the law governing
companies organized In Ohio.
HOusE-Btlls passed: Authorizing the COM
missioners OF Mahoning county to issue $50 900
Market street, in Youngstown: providing for
the inspection OF stationary boilers In Cleve-
land; authorizing the commissioners of Mahon.
ing county 70 issue u, 900 bonds for bridge st
PresQue Isle street, Youngstown; authorizing
Caledonia, Marion county. 70 issue 5000 Of
bonds for new town hall t
CoLUNBus. March N.-SENArE.-Bills intro
duced; To authorize the Columbus city council
TO issue $4,000 bonds and establish hay mar.
kets; to provide that not more than six per
cent. interest per snnum shall be charged on
notes secured BY mortgage on real estate; 70
provide that the county officers of Hamilton
county shah appoint their own janitors; "a
authorize tho commissioners Of Columbianl
county TO levy tax TO locate county rosd,
from Cook street, in East Liverpool, to the
Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad; to establish
tho federal form of government in Toledo.
Adjourned until Monday.
HoUsH.-Bills passed: rAuthorizing Lees.
burg Highland county, to issue y, 500 bonds fol
street improvements; authorizing villages hav.
ing artesian wells TO provide for drainage; su.
thorizing Cedarville. Greene county, TO borrow
$3.50; providing for the Improvement Of the
streets Of Columbus; to detach certain lands
within Lancaster, Fairfield county; authorizina
board Of education OF Marion, Marion county, u
issue $4,000 bonds for scpool-hopses; suthofis
Ing North Lewisburg village school district =
issue additional school levy. Bills introduced,
Providing that electric light plants end the
plants Of similar corporations may be mort
gagged with single mortgage; providing that u
the procurement OF bounties certain records "a
the adjutant- generals once shall be available,
and th at the statute of Limitation ahRll mot m