Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
0HI0'S Law MAKERS
Rushing in Many Ways the Cutting
Up of the State Into Districts
50 THAT ALL CAN 60 TO CONGRESS
The Familiar Two-Cent-a-Mile Railroad
Bill Bobs Up Serenely.
MEASURE TO PROTECT wORKINGMEN
ESPECIAL rE1reRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 18.-Representative
/ Mcconnell, of Lawrence, to-day offered a
resolution reciting the fact that corporations
| organized under laws of other States and
doing business largely in this State has the
effect of diminishing the revenues of the
State devised for the granting of certificates
of incorporation, and to render doubtful and
uncertain the credit and responsibility of
| such corporations, and to destroy the Sc
curity which the Constitution of this State
provides for creditors of the corporation.
He, therefore, requests the Committee on
| Judiciary to ascertain what legislation is
necessary to subject corporations and the
stockholders organized under the laws of
other States to the same provisions regulat-
ing Ohio corporations.
Another bill redistricting the State for
Congressional purposes, was presented in
the House to-day. The number has became
SO great that confusion results and none of
them can be considered of import until
passed upon.
More Money for Ermine wearers.
Twenty-Five States in the Union pay
their Supreme Court Judges more salaries
than Ohio. The members of the highest
tribunal in Ohio get less than the salaries Of
one-third of the county officers or but lit
Pleas judges. To-day Mr.. Clarke, of Cuya-
hooga, introduced bill increasing the sal
aries of the Supreme Court Judges from
$4,000 to 5000 year. Mr.. Daugherty
wanted the rules suspended and the bill
passed Immediately. There is no opposi-
tion to the bill and it will be passed.
The resolution providing for a House
committee to go with the Senate Committee
and investigate the right Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to use property donated
to Cincinnati for specific purposes by the
State brought out a little discussion in the
House. 1t was referred to the Committee
on Public Works.
Senator Rawlings has introduced bill
which provides that the question of prohib-
iting the traffic in Intoxicating liquors shall
ba submitted in each and every county in
the State at leach November election, and
that within 80 days after the election the
Governor shall issue proclamation enumer-
ating the counties in which the question
has received a majority of votes in the
affirmative. The penalty for violation is a
fine of not more than $100 nor less than $25,
and Imprisonment not more than 60 nor
less tnan lO Gays.
Lively skirmish Sure to Come.
This bill will arouse the saloon keepers of
the State, and the prospects of lively
skirmish between temperance people and
those interested in the liquor traffic are ex-
ceedingly good.
Senator Lampson to-day nearly took the
breath away from the members who have
recently been loaded down with railroad
passes by introducing 2-cent-fare railroad
bill 1t prohibits any railroad doing bust
ness in Ohio from charging over 2 cents a
mile for carrying passengers. Attempts to
pass 2-cent-fare bill have been made al
most from time immemorial Its fate is
not hard to guess The bill amends section
1874.
A bill almost as familiar as the 2-cent
bill was the one introduced to-day by Sena-
tor Iden. It is intended to protect young
females and raises the age of consent from
IA to 18 years.
MI. Iden introduced a second bill which
seeks to protect lsboring men. He has been
connected with the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad offices in Newark, and has known
of several cases of claims against railroad
employees being sent out of the State for
collection. He seeks to prevent the collec-
tion of such claims outside of the State.
The bill provides that any person giving
away or selling or assigning claims for col
lection in other States forfeit such claims.