The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
sixty-Ninth General Assembly, Adjourned
Session.

COLUMBUS, Jan. 19.--SENATE Very little
business was transacted. The following bills
were introduced; To abolish the oflcs Of City
Comptroller and create that OF City Auditor in
Cincinnati; to authorize the City Council Of
Columbus TO transfer 600 from the general
20 the sanitary fund 10 establish o modinca.
ton Of the Australian election system In Ohio
HoUsE--A large batch OF bills were introduced
among which were the following: Providing
for the taxation OF railroad rolling stock in
cluding Pullman cars, owned by companies tho
principal offices Of which are outside OF Ohio;
adding to exemption from garnsheos the
wages OF minor sons who assist In supporting
widowed mother or minor child OF deceased rel
ative; authorizing the Adiutant General to fur
nish arms and equipments for Sons OF Veteran
eucampments; providing that three.fourths OF
jury in civil cases can bring in verdict; TO al
low women to testify against their husbands In
divorce proceedings; TO We villages the same
powers ms are vested In cities in regard to com
pelling railroads to erect safety gates.
COLUMBUS, Jan 90 0--SENATE-SeYeral bills
OF local nature were passed. Bills introduced:
To provide that damages for the killing OF
sheep by dogs must be fixed by the township
trustees in the township where the killing oc-
7urs; to require that preference shall be given
Union ex-soldiers in making appointments TO
positions under State, county, township or mu-
nicipal governments; to provide thnt the board
OF managers Of the penitentiary shall not take
into consideration the pleas OF attorneys in
granting paroles, but shall parole q prisoner
solely on his personal record, and the recon-
mendntion of the prison warden and chaplain,
within the bounds Of the law; to require the ap-
pointmeut in every county of a committee TO
visit the penal and charitable institutions OF
the county; to provide that commissioners OF
counties containing no warehouses may parole
| INDECENT prisoners, that they may work and
| earn money to pay their tnes to provide for
/ an appropriation of s2 800 to be nsed with other
! sums raised by private subscription. in the erec-
! tion of a monument to the memory OF Captain
! John j. Desmond, late of Company B, First
| Regiment o. N. G., who was killed in the Gin
| cinnati riots.
| HoUsE-Several unimportant bills were pass
! ed and the following introduced: Reducing the
| number of certain State reports, etc; author
| izing the use of ferrets for catching rabbits ap-
| propriatng 81, ,SSS, l43 for common schools. Mr.
Coates presented petitions OF citizens OF Scioto
| County in favor OF the Senate bill providing
that farmers should have exclusive ownership
| OF game upon their own lands. BY vote of u
! To y the House concurred in the Senate resolu-
tion by Mr.. Oren requesting Congress to sub
| init constitutional amendment providing for
the election OF U. S. Senators by the people di-
rect instead Of by Legislature. The Senate
resolution requesting Congress to reduce fees
of pension agents to two dollars was also con-
CURED in.
COLUMBUS Jan. 81 SENATE. passed:
To provide that chattel mortgages given to Sc
and instead of being relied annually need be
reflled only at the maturity of the note; to re-
| peal that part OF the Russell law requiring
hotel-keepers in Cincinnati to pay licenses.
| Bills introduced: To preserve the purity of
! elections: to create the officer of State In
! spector OF Banks to require that all insurance
| agents, whether OF State or foreign associa-
tions, shall. before soliciting business be Ii
censed by the State Insurance Commissioners
The Senate adopted Mr.. Parker's House Joint
| resolution calling on Congress to abolish the
present system Of Indian agents
HOUsE-Bills introduced To regulate and
legalize primary elections by applying to them
| the regular election laws; to provide that
county commissioners shall offer and pay re-
| ward of $500 for the conviction Of horse-thief;
providing for the burial of widows of ex soldiers
and sailors; prohibiting the use of stoves in
railroad cars; aoolishng capital punishment;
| providing that accompanying verdicts OF juries
OF murder in the first degree there may be
recommendations to mercy, and that the court
in such cases may give life instead of the
death sentence
COLUMBUS, Jan. %. 22.-SENATE-Hon Hugh A.
Hart, successor to the late Hon. Jno Zimmer-
man was sworn in and took his seat. Bills
passed: To correct clerical error in the dairy
law so as TO allow prosecutions for the sale OF
adulturated milk; to require the listing of all
personal property and to provide that personal
property TO the value of 5000 shall be exempt
from taxation; to require millers to place on
packages of both meal and -four labels showing
the weight and quality of the article inclosed ;
providing that the county board of equalization
shall deduct from the valuation for taxation of
real estate amounts Commensurate with the
diminutiOn in value OF the land through the re-
moval from 1t OF petroleum, natural gas, coal,
ore limestone fire clay, or other minerals.
Several local bills were passed.
HoUsE,-Bills passed: Providing for the
! payment Of IS a day salary 20 members of the
| hnp md pf 1ignf - a.,
authorizing the building OF township house in
Bedford township, Coshocton County; author
! izing Ripley to issue $4,000 bonds for fire de.
partment purposes; authorizing Beverly,
Washington County to issue $4,000 natural gas
bonds.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 23.-SENATE.-Bil passed:
To authorize a guardian 10 sell coal iron ore,
limestone or fire clay from the real estate of a
ward when it necessary for the support of the
, ward or for the payment of debt. Bill intro.
. duced 10 provide that members of county
boards OF school examiners shall, after being
appointed, receive their commissions from the
State School Commissioner, whomus be salts.
fled that they possess the necessary Qualifica.
= lions and have good characters, and that to be
eligible to membership in county board OF
school examiners, one must have had five years
experience as II teacher and must within five
: years have been actually engaged in teaching
: in properly organized school, Adjourned un.
til Monday.
> HOUSEHOLDS passed: Permitting the use OF
; ferrets in hunting rabbits; providing that ex
D ceptions may be taken to the suffciency OF ev
dence in trials of civil cases before justices o
/ the peace; supplementary to Section GG10, r.
2 S, so to require tirc-escapes in manufactur
ing, mechanical, electrical, art and laundry es
ADJUSTMENTS, us well US printing, telegraph
and telephone Offices
Mrs. SARAH WOODS was accidentally
shot dead by her brother, Riley Thomp
4 son, at Gallipolis. Thompson is abou
= nineteen years of age. He went to hi.
= sisters house and spoke of borrowing
+ gun She told him to get her husbands S
: lie did SO, and in cleaning Ii the gr,
:. was discharged, shooting Mus. Woods il
y. the neck and killing hcr instantly. Th,
coroner was called, and II yer
! dict OF accidental death was rendered
/ Mrs. Woods is the wife of John Woods
: en"inecr on fclryboat uE Pittsburgh
d Young Thompson is almost cruaed witl
grief.
!. AT Upper Sanduslly the Farmers In
i stitute elected officers, as follows: Prs
/, ident, Noah .Stoncburner; vice-presi
), dent, G. X. Brown; secretary, 5.
l. Kali and treasurer, Henry Brown.
THE Supreme Court has affirmed tn,
|, decision of the lower courts in the cas-
n of Wilmetta King VS. the State, VIII
d meta King was convicted in the PER-,
e County courts of the murder of her lille