The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-02
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

duslSy TO transfer funds TO provide a votina
place for the electors OF Precinct No. 2, in
Goshen township, Mnhoning county; to author
iLe tho council OF Logan Hooking county, to
transfer Tuuds; to authorize the council oi
Nashville, Holmes county, to transfer funds; Ia
authorize the village Of ConVoy, Van Vert
county, to transfer $500 from tho police TO the
street fund, and S175 from the sanitary TO the
street fund: 70 authorize the village OF Man.
chester to acquire certain ferry privileges; to
authorize the board OF education in Delphos
school district Van Vert county, to issue $1,000
bonds andlevy tax for school purposes
HoUsE-Bills passed; Authorizing the np.
pointment OF an official stenogrnphor in Mari
on, Wyandott and Crawford counties; increas.
ing the pensions OF disabled firemen in Toledo
from Sq5 TO $40 per month; authorizing the com.
missioners of Musluingum county to repair the
national road and pay for the same out OF the
road fund; providing that the funds and prop.
erty belonging to the village of North Bend,
Hamilton county, shall descend to the corpora
uon formed OF such village; authorizing the city
OF Cincinnati to transfer from the contingent
account OF the general fund to tho watch fund
the sum of $4,000 for police purposes. A bill
was introduced to permit playing OF baseball on
Sunday in properly inclosed grounds In Cincin-
natl Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo
COLUMBUS April 21--SENATE. Bills passed:
10 provide that the commissioners OF each
county shall pay the expense Of county cleo
lions, and that each township shall pay for Its
township election; to authorize the several
counties in the state to raise money to secure
the location of the agricultural experiment sta
uon; prescribing the manner Of making appli
cation for pardon or Communication of sentence;
to reduce the state tax levy, by abolishing the
levy OF three-tenths OF Il mill for sinking fund
purposes; to provide permanent camping
ground for the Ohio national guard; to provide
for the stay OF execution Of judgment or order
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ror; to provide for the admission to the blind
asylum, for q period OF three years, Of adults
under twenty-five years of age who have be
come blind In adolescence; to provide that, af.
ter summons has been served II the defendant
does not appear trial in justices court may
proceed by jury; to require county infirmary di
rectors to contract with ono or more physicians
in each township to treat pauper sick.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Giving the mayor Of
Cleveland power to appoint all officers hereto.
fore appointed or elected by council; providing
a non-partisan government for the Ohio state
reformatory.
COLUMBUS, April q. 2.-SENATE-Bills passed:
Appropriating 5000 with which 10 purchase Of
James II. Smith, of Newark records OF the
Mexican war collected by him; to provide for
the expense of cleaning out, repairing and en-
larging bitches located In more than one coun-
ty; to fix the weight of flour and bran to be
given by miller in exchange for wheat; to
prevent minors from entering places where in
toxicating liquors are sold.
HoUsE-Bills passed: To accept the congres.
sional grant for Ohio State university; making
1t unlawful to stand stallion or jack within
thirty feet from any street or alley; making 1t
unlawful to enter horses in speed classes under
fraudulent Misrepresentation; providing that
the board OF review shall have all the powers
heretofore vested in the board OF revision; Civ
ing courts of common pleas the same powers in
ri fn fpuyr uhi In fn1,a thn,yy
over county ditches; to provide that in the
case OF the loan Of any chattels to an art muse
um the certificate of ownership required by law
to be filed in order that the loaner may reclaim
the property after five years, may be filed any
time after that period; to exempt hotels and
boarding-house keepers from the payment OF
licenses under the Russell law; to appropriate
$4,000 for the purpose OF lighting the state
house with electricity.
COLUMBUS, April 28-SENATE-Bills passed
Making 1t misdemeauor to give an exhibition
of hypnotism; to provide for the examination
OF each county auditors accounts by commit.
tee appointed by the county commissioners
to empower county commissioners to permit
land owners to lay pipe lines within the lines OF
public roads and highways; to authorize the
board of administration to contract with per.
sons for keeping streets in repair for period OF
five years; to authorize the commissioners oi
Clermont county to construct free turnpike
road to authorize the board OF education OF
Cincinnati to issue $780, 900 bonds for the pur.
chase of sites and erection of schoohouses;
to provide for the employment at o salary OF
$500 per annum, OF an official court stenog
rapher in the second subdivision of the Tenth
judicial district, composed Of Marion, Crawford
and Wyandot counties.
HoUsE.-Bils passed: Providing for the cleo.
ton instead OF appointment OF the state food
and dairy commissioner; making appropria-
fo,, a.
publication Of the constitutional amendments,
proposed by the present general assem- bly,, in
papers OF opposite politics OF each county at
sixty per cent of the legal rate; authorizing the
city of Cincinnati 20 issue $3.50 900 bonds for the
construction OF school houses; authorizing the
supreme court to suspend sentence in criminal
case pending motion for leave to file peti.
tion Ia error; providing that every honorably
discharged soldier, sailor or marine who has re-
sided in Ohio one Yoar shall be entitled to ad.
mission into the soldiers and sailors home at
SanduslIy.
COLUMBUS, April "a. .-SENATE.-Bllls passed:
Prohibiting the employment OF railroad engi-
neers who are addicted to drink; providing that
railroad companies shall, In cnse of accident,
transmit over their telegraph lines private mes.
sages Mt regular commercial rates, and prohib
1ting discrimination in freight rates on the same
class OF freight; providing that school eXamin-
er5 shall not conduct normal schools, and that
at least two members OF boards OF examiners
shall have had at least two years experience
Us teachers within five years preceding their
appointment; providing that cemetery trustees
may petition county commissioners to construct
roads to cemeteries; permitting trust COM
panies under appointment OF probate judge, to
act rs guardians, administrators, etc. provid-
ing for the publication of the proposed consttu-
tionnl tax amendment.
HOUSE-Bills passed: Amending section /, 4S3
20
ship trustees to condemn and purchase ma
ternl for gravel roads outside of their own
township; amending section 9 N by requiring
county auditors, when they meet TO assess rail
road property, TO keep full record of their
proceedings und enter the yeas and nays on nll
questions on their journal, which shall be kept
on file and open to public inspection; authoriz.
ing the governor, attorney-gCneral and canal
commission to sell canal lands Mt private sale
Mt not less than their appraised value when
such nppraisement does not exceed $500; re-
Quiring cnble and electric street to come to
full stop before crossing the lines OF each other or
the tracks OF a steam railroad; authorizing the
governor to return to the penitentiary prisoners
transferred therefrom to tho reform school and
providing that they shall serve their full SEN
tonce in the penitentiary; authorizing the fish
and game commission to adjust the damage
sustained by fishermen whose nets were de-
strOycd under the Poorman law, since declared
unconstitutional
Fl. G. CALDWELL, who shot and killed
Chas. l.. Wcens. at Steubenville, has
been indicted for murder in the first de-
gree.
A THREE-YEAR-oID child of Joseph
Innegin, a farmer living twelve miles
northwest of ST. Mary's, in Mercer
county, was drowned by falling into a
pistarn