Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-04-28
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings in Both branches OF tho Sew
onty-First General Assembly.


notlegally adopted, but considered and treated
as adopted children. The tax Is to be imposed
IN the following proportions: When the value of
the estate exceeds $4,000, and is not greater
than 10000 per cent; 100000 to 100000 per
cent? S2O00o0 to $500, 900, per cent; over $780,
oOO, 3h per cent Tho vote on the passage Of
tho bill was yeas 81, nays ., Bills were also
passed. Establishing standard of oil
used for illumination in mines and providing
penalties for violation: repeating the law which
requires male adults under 80 years of age to
| work two days each year upon the public roads
in townships Senator ohs bill TO permit wo-
men 10 act as notaries public defeated
Tor the second time yeas ID, nays5
HouSs.-The senate amendment to Mr.. Has
| kell's bill making railroads liable for loss or
| damages from fire communicated from their
| property whether from their negligence or not,
! was non'concurred in. The senate bill by Mr..
| Ely, providing that persons adjudged insane
shall be accompanied to State hospitals by
| friends or hospital attendants instead of sher-
| IFS, was defeated
COLUMBUS April 1S-iSendte. senate
| spent most of the day in the discussion of
Mr. Earnhart's bill to grant 99-year lease to
the Columbus Hooking Valley s. Athens Rail-
! road Company of that part of the Hooking
| canal lying between Carroll, Fairfield county,
| and Nelsonville Athens county, q distance of
thlrty-n1ne miles. for consideration of 10000
| cash payment and $1,000 annual rental Nu-
/ merous amendments we're offered and voted
/
| Plum, providing that, If the company obtaining
! the lease should ever abandon the railroad, the
4 land should revert to the state. In this form
the bill passed, the vote being yeas 20, nays 10.
| Ihe house bill by Mr. Hard to amend the act of
January p, 1S93 to impose collateral inherit
| ance lax, was passed and is now law.
! Houss.-Mr Doty's bill providing for the issu-
! ing OF 100000 certificates Of indebtedness, to
! be used for state purposes was taken up,
| ana at the request of the author, an amend
mi
| certlncates to 100000. After lengthy discus
| sion the bill was passed-yeas So, nays 10.
! Ihe mouse took up and passed Mr.. Grinin's
! bill relating to free school books CThe bill was
| amended so as to make the matter of furnishing
| free school books optional with the various
| school boards instead of mandatory, as when
| the bill was defeated last week The vote was
| % to 10. The Barber bill providing for the sale
| OF franchises TO the highest bidder in municipal
! corporations was defeated The bill providing
! Tor uniform fire insurance policies was passsd.
| Bllls were introduced: Making the act of lynch
! inga felony, and making all persons found In an
assembly when lynching is committed, guilty
! OF the crime; fixing the penalty for lynching at
J not more than twenty nor less than five years
| in the penitentiary, and making 1t the duty Of
| the attorney general to prosecute such cases.
| COLUMBUS, April 19-Sendte. Ayery's
| bill providing that unclaimed excess freight
/ charges should escheat to the state was dis
| cussed at length and finally defeated. Bills
!
! partmeht at Ohio State university for insruc-
| ton in clay modelling, ceramics and cement
! ana steel work; eXempting the armory of the
4 Cleveland Grays from taxation: provid-
ing for tho Interchange of supplies among the
public institutions of the state: allowing trus.
tees OF the Soldiers Orphans Home TO keep
| boys in the school under eighteen years of age,
/ at their discretion
| RouSs.-The Borein bill amending the Work
man school law, providing for the election of
| two subdirectors in each subdistrict, was
wassed Mr. Hunters bill taxing plrlor, sleep
J ing, buffet and dining cars was defeated and
the Griffin bill to tax sleeping car companies
| one per cent. of the value of their property in
Ohio was passed by unanimous vote. MIR.
Hard's bill laying an excise tax of . per cent
on the gross receipts of the express COM
panies in the state received the unanimous
vote OF the house; as did also his bill requiring
| foreign stock companies to pay tax of lilo of
| l per cent on their capital stock when it
| amounts to 10000 or more, and lump sum of
| tlowhcn IT is less than that amount. large
! number of local measures were disposed Of
The resolution providing that the legislature
| recess May TO- until the first Monday in jan
| uary, was taken up and after n debate of some
length, II was amended SO rs to provide for ad-
journment sine die on May II, and then adopted.
The vote by which Senator Hardesty's bill
providing for the publication of sales of real es-
tate by administrators and executors in Ger
man papers, was reconsidered and the bill was
then passed.
COLUMBUS, April 21-Senate-The senate
worked industriously ON its calendar to-day,
and passed quite o number of bills, among
them the followng Allowing municipalities to
issue improvement bonds from time to time as
they are needed; to prevent extortionate
charges OF interest by chattel mortgage money
lenders, by requiring that all foreclosures must
be made in court of record, and providing that
| unless judgment is obtained for the full amount
the party bringing suit shall be liable for costs;
increasing the cigarette tax for retailers to $3.50;
making the taking away of o sliin msdemean-
or. The Eckley resolution limiting debate to
| one speech of five minutes each question
during the remainder of the session, except for
authors of bills, who are allowed ten min
utes was adopted The following bills
were introduced Authorizing railroads to
use electricity as motive power; providing
that cities, villages and school districts may is
sue registered bonds and permitting the hold
ers OF coupon bonds to exchange the same for
| registered ones, issued under the act.
House. The entire sc ssion was spent In intro
| ducinS and passing bills, most of which were
local in character. Twenty-one bills were in
troduced, only the following being general In
application: Extending terms of county survey
ors from January to first Monday in Septem-
ber; authorizing the organization of chattel
| mortgage loan companies in Cincinnati and To-
ledo, and providing that they shall not charge
moro than l1a per cent interest per month.
COLUMBUS, April 2'.-SeRate. l. Nothing was
done in the senate to-day beyond the introduce
ton of few bills, and those of minor i'm
portance.
House. Twenty-eight bills were introduced
of which nineteen were of local nature
Among those of general application were the
following: Making more specific the duties Of
the dairy and food commissioner and defn-
ing the manner for bringing legal action;
providing for the organization and regulation
OF credit guarantee companies to indemnify
merchants, manufacturers, traders from loss
from credit system, such companies being placed
under supervision of insurance commissioner;
increasing the levy for state purposes from
3 40 to 7-l0 of u mill The resignation OF
Representative Farrell, of Fairfield county,
who was recently appointed special land agent
for Colorado, was presented to the house and
accepted.
Labor Agitator Killed.
BLUETiELDs, w. Va, April 24-Pat-
rick o. Brien, a labor agitator from
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