The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-24
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
slstv-Ninth General Assembly, Adjourned
session.

Session.
corrvn,ts Inn. 10. -SENATE. No quorum,
and no business TRANSACTED.
HorrsE. Bills introduced: Providing for the
payment OF mombers OF the Leglsatur" mile
ace ana nor diem Of nvo dollirs whonever they
attend an extrn session; allowing saloons per.
manentIv established there for year to re.
main omen in the neighborhood OF county fairs
making IL a felony to harbo' females under six.
teen years of age In houses d flfame providing
that persons can pay poll tax in cash instead OF
,yorltinp IL out; making the office OF Food and
Dairv Commissioner elective instead OF appoiut.
i've. as now; making tho open seuson for Quail
from November 70 to December for the preyen.
ton OF pools and trusts AMI other combinations
70 control prices OF food and othor necessares;
establishing central 'standard" time uniformly
over the Stnte; amending Section Of the act
relating TO food and dairy products 30 as not
10 require the publication OF the former on
tho label OF each original package;
providinR 10 the appointment by the
Governor OF commission OF ten, to make
an Ohio exhibit at the Worlds Fair, Chicago,
aad sppropriating StO0C0l for the same; to ex
empt hon orably discharged soldiers from jury
duty; to amend Section 2i92 so as to provide for
a reduction of not moro than fifty per cent OF
the mortRaged liabilities from the appraised
value of real estate in taxation.
COLUMBUS Jan. 19-SENATE Bills intro.
duced: To provide that councils OF villages OF
the first and second.classes may not levy a tax
for any one purpose exceeding $40 for each in.
habitnnt; to make II mandatory to the com
mon pleas court OF each county 10 appoint O
board of visitors to the county benevolent and
reformatoPy institutons giving mayors, JUS
tices of the peace and police judges final jurs.
diction in prose for trespass; to relieve
the Supreme Court by giving circuit courts and
the superior court of Cincinnati Anal jurisdc.
tion in suits other thHn mandamus, habeas
corpus quo warrnnto and those which do not
involve constitutional questions, or the con-
struction oflaws or on which the circuit courts
may disagree, or the circuit judges are not
unanimous.
HousE-The entire morning session and an
hour in the afternoon we're taken up in the
House by the discussion of Representative Nc
Dermott's bill TO prohibit children under four
teen years OF age from working in factories,
the existing Law placing the limit ut twelve
years On motion of Mr.. Strock, the bill was
amended so as to include mines, although the
objection was made that that would cause
conflict as there is separate law as to mines.
The bill was defeated by vote OF so TO II. The
vote by which the bill was lost was then recon
sldered, and further consideration was post
poned until January 81. Mr. Gaumers bill to
abolish the Board Of Pardons came up in the
House for third reading, but defect in the
title was discovered. A motion to suspend the
constitutional rule IN relation thereto, in order
70 TeIBr TO bu6 JuuiClhTy committee, was muue.
Speaker pro tenn. Robertson ruled that the mo-
uon prevailed itreceiving "a to 10, the yeas be-
ing more than three efourths OF those voting-a
quorum voting.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 14.-SRNATE-Bills passed
Appfopriating $50 900 TO pay the expenses Of the
General Assembly; authorizing the commits
sioners OF Hamilton County to borrow $4,000,
with which 10 pay deoennia district assessors
in Cincinnati for working overtime; providing
| that a man, on conviction OF using personal
violence, when intoxicated, upon wife or minor
child, shall be sent to Jail for twenty to sixty
days and fed on bread and water and that O
| guardian may be appointed for his estate; to
provide for the reissue of lost destroyed
certificates of stock in corporations In add.
| Non large number of local bills were passed.
| Bills introduced EXempting farm products
| from listing for taxation for year after their
| production; to provide against intimidation and
| bribery at elections; to apply the Indiana modi-
| fcation OF the Australian ballot system to Ohio
| elections; to require the recording OF claims OF
| the State to land in the counties in which the
land claimed is situated; to appropriate 5000 for
| the daughters of the late Senator Robert
son; to provide that when in
suranoe company other than life discontinues
its business in Ohio, it may, on proving that it
has no risks in this State, withdraw It's surety
| deposit from the State Treasury; to reduce the
| logal rate Of interest from per cent to g.
| HoUsE-Bills passed: Authorizing county
boards of equalization to increase or reduce
| the taxable value Of oil and gas lands; to ena-
Bile councils on villages and cities to transfer
| funds at the SENT annual settlement without
applying to the Legislature. Motion to recon
slider lost. Permitting cash payments in ad
| administrators sales.
COLUMBUS, Jan 15.-SENATE.- intro
duced: Providing that actions on liability upon
| stocks may be brought in the county where
| corporations are located and its principal busi
ness is or was transacted; providing the man.
| ner Of listing the property, assets and credits
Of banking institutions. Bills passed: Author
| iZing the commissioners of Fnyette County tc
transfer funds; authorizing the commissioners
Of Huron County to transfer funds; changing
| the name of Ernest @. Kurzhals to Kurtz
HOUSE. Bills introduced: To provide for the
sale OF school lands in Section 10, on executions
by sheriffs, as other lands authorizing the trus
tees to abandon the cemetery in Madison
| Lake County. the land to revert to the original
owner; authorizing the commissioners OF Bro vi
County to construct free turnpike. Bills
passed: Authorizing the Superior Court o
Cincinnati to select a non-partisan jury com
mission, to be composed of four frceholders
authorizing the council OF ClarltsY,lle. Clinton
County, to transfer 5000 from the police to thC
general fund; authorizing tha commissioners o
| Perry County to transfer $4,000 from the court
house to tho general fund; authorizing tht
commissioners of Franklin County to transfe
5000 from the soldiers monument fund and us
the same in improving the soldiers burial lot
amending Section 545 OF the Revised Statute
by striking out the clause requiring probate
judges to make record OF cost bills in all coun
ties except Hamilton, Cuyahoga and Lucas.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 1G SENATE, Bills intr
duced: To repeal the act providing for the es
tablishment of an asylum for epileptc insane
to provide for the branding of packages of fiou
and meal with their weight aud quality, and
in addition to the penalty now provided by law
to make millers liable for damaSes due to viola
tion of law, to prohibit building and loan assc
Citations of other States and Territories fror
operating in Ohio The Senate adjourned to
p. m. Monday,
| HOUSEHOLDS passed: To prohibit railroa
companies from employing locomotive eng
neers who are addicted to the extreme use o
intoXicants and providing heavy penalties TO
| intoNIcation Of an engineer while on duty; I
require all invoices of pure wine TO be laOcle
as pure, and TO compel manufacturers OF art
fetal wine TO label it US compounded wine,
Bills introduccd To repeal the present schOo
book law and provide for the establishment c
q non-partisan School.book Commission: TO al
thorize the common pleas court to suspend ser
tence in criminal cases after they have pa,se
the circuit court, and when they are pendin
in the Supreme Court; 10 provide for the en-
ployment by the House of Representatives {
two proof-readers, read proof on bills, etc
to reduce the salaries OF all State officers, o.
cept the Auditor, Treasurer Secretary OF Stat
! and Attorney General; to provide that Boar
OF Education shall not employ teachers formor
than one year. except on a three'fourths vott
Adjourned until Monday.
REV. CLARK, colored preacher of Day
! ton, has sued DIR. Steinberger for accu'
ing himself and wife of the murder {
the previous Mrs. Clark.
s, Rev. c. J. NJ. CLARK and wife, wh
S were arrested at Dayton on the charg
of murder, have been honorably Dir