The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-25
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

general assemhly had quorum this afternoon,
and both houses adjourned Immediately after
the reading OF the journals The only business
transacted was the offering OF Joint resolution
In the senate by Mr. Oren, placing Ft Are!4nt
in Warren county under the care OF the trus-
tees of the Archaeological and Historical So
cietY, subject 10 the direction OF the general
assembly; and until Otherwise provided tho
lands within the fort are to be used as the an
nual camp ground Of the national guard, tho
adjutnnt-general, surgeon.general and senior
colonel OF the guard being constituted q com
mission to lay out and have control OF the camp
ground.
COLUMBUS, April H-sENATE Bills passed:
Providing for tho expenses OF burying the wife
or widow of q Union ex-soldier out OF the coun-
ty relief fund, in the event that the paymentby
the surviving family ill deprive them OF the
means OF support; authorizing cities OF the
fourth grade, second GLASS; to construct side
walks; To permit militia companies in cities OF
the second grade, fourth class, to receive con.
tributing members on the payment OF 50 each
per year; providing that insurance companies
shall not place in agencies outside OF Ohio poll
cies taken In this state; limiting to six feet tho
width Of sidewalks constructed outside OF mu'
nicipal corporations; authorizing landowners
TO improve lands within the highway by con-
struction Of sidewalks when abutting on their
property.
HoUsE-Bils passed; Authorizing South
the police 500 from tho town hall and 500 from
the general fund TO the street fund. Authorizing
the mayor, instead of the council, OF Cleveland
to appoint members of the board OF equnliza-
tion. Amending the law relating to street i'm
provements in Toledo, by permitting assess
ments to be made on other than abutting prop
erty. Extending the time two weeks in which
the annual board of equalization of Portsmouth
must complete its work. Authorizing county
commissioners to provide an armory for compa.
mics Of the national guard and to pay for same
out of the county fund. Repeating an act pro-
viding for a separate duplicate for taxes in Lu-
cas- county. Authorizing the trustees Of Syca-
more township, Wyandot county, to issue $1,000
in bonds for improvements.
COLUMBUS, April l5-SENATE-Bllls passed;
Providing that the commissioners OF each coun-
ty shall appoint advisory board consisting
of three ladies, to assist in the supervision of
the county children's home; to permit Texas
cattle to be unloaded in Ohio for immediate
slaughter, to require the isolation of the stock.
yards in which they are slaughtered and the dis
infection ofcars in which they are shipped, and
to require county prosecutors to prosecute vio-
laters Of the law; to provide that physicians and
surgeons, answering urgent calls may ride on
freight trains at their own risk and on paying
the regular fare; TO provide that every insur.
ance company doing business in Ohio must pub
lish in each county the certificate
Of the insurance commissioner al
state; to provide that township clerks shall pub
lish the annual financial statements Of the town
ships at the same time and place
with the publication of the spring
election notice; to permit the use of school
houses as meeting places for farmers and other
labor organizations; to provide that in crimi-
nal cases the state may prosecute proceedings
in error; to provide that county commissioners
must find refuge outside OF inflrmaries for pau
per children; to make II q misdemeanor to
tap q telegraph or telephone line and steal mes
sages.
HoUsE-A large number OF bills of local
nature were passed. Bills introduced: To fix
the compensation of county officials; to make
the giving or taking OF money at a primary
election or county convention, for the pur-
pose of influencing votes, an offense punisha-
BILE with $500 fine aud three moE yhs' imprison-
ment
COLUMBUS, April 10. SENATE. Bills passed;
To make 1t an offense to break into hen house,
green house or wagon house for purposes OF
theft; to provide that railroad train man shall
not be required to work more than twenty four
hours at q stretch, and to make ten hours
working day on railroads; to provide that q
guardian or executor, when filing his statement
with the probate court must report funds on
hand, and rate OF interest paid on investments;
to give the court discretion to omit or order APP
praisement of household furniture when q tes
tator requests that the apprasement be omit
ted; 10 provide that when road which has
been petitioned for is granted the township
shall pay for the survey; to provide that more
than fifty per cent OF the creditors of assigned
debtor may ask for the removal OF an assignee
with whom they are dissatisfied, and elect
another assignee.
HoUsE--rhe question of providing more
economical method OF furnishing relief to the
poor occupied the attention OF the house dur
ing the forenoon. The bill abolshes the office
Of in firm md thni
to the county commits sioners, and a superin-
tendent to be elected by the commissioners for
any period not exceeding three years. The
bill was defeated The house this afternoon
| by vote of So to 10 passed Senator Corcoran's
bill authorizing the construction OF sub-ways
and underground conduits in Cincinnati, in
which to place electric wires cables and other
| electrical conductors
| COLUMBUS, April II. .-SENATE--Bills passed:
| To provide that o land owner may have the
| right of way through adjoining land for under.
| ground drains, provided the drains do not njure
crops, the township trustees being required to
prescribe the route; to provide that the record.
| ing OF the release of mortgage shall be a
| discharge of the mortgage; to provide that
| suits in bastardy must be entered within two
! years after the commission OF the offcnse; To
| permit corporations to guarantee Tho payment
| OF eight per cent dividends each year; TO pro.
vide that the owner of u majority Of stock OF a
| elect officers to take tho places OF the officers
| elected at the first of the year; 10 authorize
| villages in Hamilton county to loan to their
| credit for the construction of sidewalks. Ad-
| iourned to Up. m. Monday.
| HOUSE Bills passed: Providing for levy
for street lighting In Toledo; amending section
Sc56 II. s., SO as to require foreign mutual fire
| insurance companies to come under the same
| restrictions as home companies and to require
| them to give security in Ohio when they have
| TO do so In their homo state, and to express the
same in their policies providing for the con-
struction OF levees on lake fronts in Lucas and
| Ottawa counties; authorizing the imposition OF
special levy OF lilo OF a mill for II medical H.
| brary at the Cincinnati hospital; authorizing
| surveyor OF Hamilton county TO rephace section
| corners providing that tho auditor OF Cuyaho-
| ga county may call together whenever deemed
best, the county or city board OF equalization
| for purpose OF taking tnto consideration prop
erty that had been destroyed by tire. Mr.. Hunt
introduced bill providing that in counties ol
| q population between 1000 and $1,000 the COM
| missionors shall be paid salary OF SOD and all
other county officers $1,000
A PORTABLE saw-mill boiler on the
T, w. Dobbins farm, about mile west
of Lima, exploded with terrific force,
scalding man named Sigler to death
and injuring several others.
Kocn's lymph has cured three case:
of consumption and one of lupus a
Hamilton.
AT Urbana, Rivers Piatt, who cut {
slice of the nose off Russell Williamson
last October, was sentenced to eighteer
months in the penitentiary.