Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-02-09
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


Tuesday.
H0UsE-Bills passed: House bills pro-
hbiting the Withholding Of minors' wages
: BY emhtoyers; making railroads liable for
all loss and damages from fires on adjacent
lands; making receipt of contractor a re-
lease OF the lien on the property for street
improvements; distributing volumes II
and i Of roster Of Ohio soldiers among the
members Of legislature; providing fine
for mine owners who refuse to pay for coal
weighed before screenings. improving
streets in hamlets upon petition of prop
erty owners. Bills Introduced: Furnishing
any one for docking horse; allowing, the
governor to transfer minor to boys in
dustrial home before the prisoner is re-
ceived at the penitentiary.
SENATE = Bills passed: House bills
providing that the marriage Of q woman
shall invalidate her power as an admins
istratrix or executor. Senate bill giving
probate courts power to authorize guRrd-
ians to lease real estate for wards for a
period Of twenty one years with privilege
of purchase Bills introduced: Making
railroad companies liable for fines assessed
upon employees for failure to give warning
signals at dangerous crossings; to make
notes, bills of exchange, ETC., falling due
on Sundays and holidays, payable on the
day following instead Of the day previous.
Wednesday.
HoUsE-Bills passed: House bills pro-
viding for state and local boards of arbi-
trati0n; assessing the costs of line fences
the same as other taxes. Senate bills pre-
venting abuses In drilling for oil and gas
by filing up well to keep gas from escap-
ing. Resolutions adopted: Providing for
the appointment of tax commission by
the governor.
SENATE-Bills passed: House bills Civ
ing husbands same right of alimony as
wife in divorce. Senate~bills to amend
act giving city councils authority to make
appropriations for children's homes; re-
lieving adjutant general Of control of state
quarry; requiring referees In certain cases
to report to probate court; TO provide for
notice of damage claims against cities and
villages. Bills introduced; To provide for
taxation of franchises; increasing number
OF pounds of apples, dried apples and
onions allowed to bushel; removing ex-
emption from homesteads on failure of
debtors to occupy the same for five years
Thursday.
HoUsE-Bill passed: House bills, re-
quiring assessors to list dogs and kill the
same in case the tax is not paid; making
applicable to county work houses the laws
governing city work houses; permitting
bankers to act as notaries in cases where
not interested.
ing appropriation for common schools;
making partial appropriations for salaries,
ETC.; senate bills, authorizing the appoint
ment of a trustee to execute testanentary
trust where the will names no trustee;
providing for adjournment Of trials to
next term 0f court; providing penalty
for failure Of physicians to report con-
tagious diseases; requiring persons gar
nisheed to appear in court at the same
tT0n hot ha AAfn 1nvaf .xulrn
giving probate courts power to change
names of persons requiring motor and
grip cars to be vestibuled. Bills intro
duced: To provide for the distribution of
unclaimed estates; to amend laws for
cleaning county bitches.
Friday.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: To limit the
= manufacture of knit and woolen goods in
penal institutions; to permit persons ben
efiting by an order of sale or foreclosure
of mortgage to designate the newspaper in
which the notice of the sale or foreclosure
shall be published providing that jury
wheels shall be emptied at least once each
year; appropriating $940 to meet a def
cheney in the funds of the Boys Industrial
home; providing that sheep claims shall
be paid at any regular session of county
commissioners instP of the September
session only; prc--id hat husband and
j. wife may te nst each other in
cases involvii.s .oracts; providing that
the governors staff shall be part of the
national guard and creating three bat
talon adjutants; providing that all electric
light wires in Cincinnati shall be placed
under ground and in the rest of the state
shall be covered with waterproof iasula-
ton; to give county commissioners power
to compel owners of vacant property to
keep sidewalks clean in front Of Same
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the proper adjustment and settlement of
insurance losses; to allow city council to
transfer Dow tax from one fund to anoth-
er without special legislation.
SENATE-Bill passed: House bills, pro
hibiting township trustees from being
interested in any contract with township
by fine of 500 to $500 and imprisonment.
Monday.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: Prohibiting
the sale of liquor within one mile of the
Dayton and Sandusky soldiers homes; fix
ing the rate of fare on street cars in cities
having more than $4,000 inhabitants to
three cents; increasing the age of consent
in females to eighteen years, it now being
dairy and food commissioner; t0 limit the
ditch tax to per cent. Of the appraised
value of adjoining property; prohibiting
the use of willow, Usage orange or other
hedge material for line fences; appropri-
ating 800 600 to erect monuments to mark
positions of Ohio troops at the battle OF
Chickamauga; to amend the Dow law tax
SO that the state will receive $50 Of the $3.50
tax, instead Of $50, in order to in
crease the revenues of the state about
$4,000 annually; authorizing the es-
tablishment of kindergartens in coapec-
tion with the public school system in Ger
tain cities, t0wit,, of the first and second
class, Resolution offered: To submit to
vote of people q constitutional amendment
giving governor veto power.
SENATE-Bills introduced: To pay 81, 600
bonds and s., 200 interest to state board of
agriculture from direct tax fund; giving
probate courts Jurisdiction in appeal and
common pleas court jurisdiction In error
in damage suits in joint county roads.
Discovered just in Time.
LIMA, o., Feb. Yesterday morn
ing q neighbor lady called at the resi-
dencA of G. J. Mohr and found them