The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-02
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. A-SENATE-Senato
1den has come to the front with q bill Drawn by
the city solicitor of Newark, which provides for
a salary for councilmen. The municipal legis.
lators in cities Of more than 5000 people and
less than 10000, are to receive two dollars for
each regular meeting at which they are in az
tendance from 'soup to nuts" or from roll-call
to adjournment, while the more fortunate ones
who labor in the cities having a population OF
more than 10000 or less than 10000. are to re-
ceive three dollars for the same service. SEN
ator Lampson introduced his resolution giving
the canal commission the control Of the quarry
lands near Columbus 1t went to the commit
tee on public works. Senator Green was granted
indefinite leave of absence.
HoUsE-Mr. Thomas Monday afternoon intro
duced a bill providing for representation and
conference between employers and employees.
1t provides that whenever majority OF persons
employed or about to be employed shall desire
to submit to their employees any proposition
relative to wages, the hours Of labor, ETC., hav-
ing In view the adjus tment in q peaceful man.
ner Of any disputed questions said employees
shall have the right to do all this through and
by an individual representative or committee
Of their own number. Should no conclusion be
arrived at in three days, said employees shall
have the right to select an attorney to argue
their case to the employers in order to bring
about a peaceful settlement, and should said
attorney fail in three days more he may sug-
gest settlement by compromise or arbitration
with the consent Of the employees
COLUMBUS, Jan. 25.-SENATE.-Mr. Grif1ns
bill, revolutionizng the present system of man.
aging the states charitable ins titutions is a
very important one. 1t proposes to abandon
the present republican regime and substitute
therefor bipartisan management. Coming as
It does from the republican side of the house. 1t
has awakened unusual interest Senator Ro-
rick has come to the fore with bill which
wipes out all the statutes bearing upon the
''poll tax" as it is commonly called, but which
in reality provides that every male citizen be-
tween the ages of twenty-one and fifty.fve
shall contribute two DAYS work upon the roads
streets or highways annually, Or in lieu there
Of pay three dollars into the treasury
HousE-The house Tuesday morning passed
the following bills Making approximations for
support of common schools: making appropri.
ations to pay the principal and in nterest on the
public debt the interest on the irreducible
debt and expenses of the sinking fund commits.
sion; to supplement- section 2ss Of the revised
statutes of Ohio, relating to the release of the
deposits made by insurance compauies and to
provide for the withdrawal of the deposits of
insurance companies other than life when
their risks in Ohio have expired, and their liza.
blities in the state have been liauidated The
Sunday barbering bill has been reported back
from the committee on labor and will be on the
calendar for Wednesday.
COLUMBUS, Jan 28-SENATE-The senate
bill increasing the penalties for violating the
law prohibiting barbering Sunday was
passed Mr. Won Sepgern withdrew his amend.
ment exempting Cincinnati The Joint resolu.
ton introduced in the house by Mr.. Graft and
passed by that body, which provides for the
appointment of a Joint committee to codify the
fish and game laws an report by the 1st of
February was adopted Mr. Carpenter OF
Meigs introduced bill abolishinp the board of
trustees Of the Ohio State university and Gre
ating board OF regents whose term shall be
seven years each Representative Boxwell in
troduced bill amending fish laws SO that seines
or nets may be used to catch fish from Decem-
ber 10 until MAY Is each year.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bills were introduced
Wednesday, among them the following: Re-
Quiring the superintendent OF insurance to as.
certain the present cash value of policies of life
insurance and authorizing actions to recover
the same; providing that executors may,
through the probate Judge, make q deposit with
cemetery association to keep lots and graves
in good order; prohibiting judges of the court
OF record from acting as administrators, guard
ians, trustees or assignees; enlarging the DOW
ers of the state board Of health and codifying
the health laws; restoring the law Of 1890, linn.
iting the conditions under which railroad COM
panies may consolidate; extending the provi-
sions of the Dow tax to dealers and manufac-
turers of cioarettes nrnviding for Tho NO ,-,nant
of unpaid premiums at the Ohio centennial IN
1885, in the sum of 49, 90617
CoLuMBus O., Jan. Observation-Disclosures
fense to solemnize marriage without n license
or the publication of the bans Providing
that fagmen on railroad trains must have had
two years experience as brakemen. Bills intro
duced; Max ing it an offense punishable with
from so to $50 fine for physician to fail to re-
port to the municipal board of health any case
of smallpox or other infectious disease coming
under his charge The senate adopted Mr'
Geyers senate Joint resolution. abolishing the
office of commissions of swamp lands and i'm.
posing his duties upon the canal commission
without extra compensation Adjourned.
HousE-The smoke nuisance and ea--splittinp
steam whjstles are "a he reoula ted ~ ,n.iorit1
Of the senators agree with the Representatives.
who this morning passed q bill iptrodvced NV
Mr.. Bruck and originally intended TO applv to
Columbus only, after making Il general in
its provisions. It gives to ali cities. through
the councils, the right TO regulate and compel
the consumption of smoke emitted by the burn-
ing of coal and to prevent injury and annovance
from the same 1t also gives the councils power
to regulate and prohibit the blowing or sound.
ing of steam whistles The house defeated Mr