Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-04-21
OHIO LEelsLAruRE.
Proceedings in Both Branches OF tho Sew
enty-FIrst Genernl Assembly.

COLUMBUS, April 10-Stnate. by vote of
20 yeas to nays the senate to-day passed the
Clark bill giving women the righ. ho vote in
school elections and to hold school Offices Mr.
Clark first introduced this bill in.the house six
years ago since which II has been twice
defeated and now for the first time has passed
one branch of the general assembly. The fol-
lowing bills were passed: Authorizing muni-
cpalities to permit railroad companies to light
their bridges with electric or gas lights author
izing the canal commission and the board Of
public works to lease TO the Valley railroad
lands In Akron; prohibiting the erection of
barbed wire division fences unless the owners
OF both tracts agrees requiring county commits
sioners to purchase all stationery supplies for
oil county offices by contract
House-The only bill of general nature
passed was one making more specific the act
requiring manufacturers of fertilizers to pay
ie0 license for every brand manufactured The
James bill which sought to amend the home
stead exemption law so that claims for board
ing lodging groceries and food, in amounts less
than 500 shall take preference over the exemp-
tion, was defeated The following measures
were introduced Imposing an excise tax on
express companies of per centum of their
gross receipts on business done within the
state taxing foreign corporations doing busi-
ness within the state one-tenth of per cent. Of
their capital stock; appropriating Sl,0Sos6 to
pay the expenses of Charles Flumerfelt, of SEN
eca county, in the election contest Of Spooner
against Flumerfelt
COLUMBUS, April 1l-Stnate BY vote of IS
yeas to II nays-not u constitutional majority
the senate defeated the Oil bril- making women
eligible us notaries public The house amend
ments to the Clark labor lien law were con-
Cured in. Senator Laning introduced three
bills repeating the old acts authorizing in Ohio
the establishment of banks of issue, and under
which, II the 10 per cent tax is repealed opera
tons could be resumed. Nineteen bills were
passed by the senate, the following being the
most important: Appropriating $500 to place
the Ohio worlds fair exhibits and minor
statuary on the state fair grounds; pro-
viding that manufacturers of cider vinegar
shall label each class of that product in such n
manner as to clearly indicate the process by
which 1t was made and the properties IL con-
tains, and making the penalty for violating
the act fine of $50 to 500 and mprison-
ment for thirty days: repeating the swamp
land act; exempting from taxation the
armories of independent military companies
which are subject to the call of the gov
ernor; amending the Dow law so rs to pro-
vide that that portion of the tax, and also the
fines collected for violation of the law, may be
set aside for the township or school fund, or
that it may be pro rated among the three funds;
constituting the governor, president of the state
board of agriculture and the president of the
Ohio worlds fair commission a committee to
re-erect in the buildings ut the Ohio state fair
grounds cases, booths, stands, etc, in which the
played and appropriating s2, l0l
House Bills were passed: Permitting the ar
rest OF persons charged with misdemeanor by
Law and Order league without q warrant;
increasing the salary OF the food and dairy COM
missioner TO $1,000 The Haskell county local
option bill was taken up as the special order in
the afternoon and prolonged discussion fol-
lowed An amendment by Mr.. Haskell fixing
the date of the first election in April 1895 was
adopted Mr. Harshbargers amendment pro-
viding that after the April election in 1895 local
option to be submitted only on petition OF
10 per cent of the voters of the county, was
adopted. Without reaching vote on the meas
ure the house recessed until tomorrow.
COLUMBUS, April 12.-Sendte. following
bills passed: Increasing the fee for issuing
marriage license from T5 cents TO 50; increasing
the fee for filing petition in the supreme court
from 40 TO s20 and the fee for filing q motion
from q to $40; amending the township ditch
law by providing that the engineer shall
be allowed % a day for making plat and pro-
file instead OF SO for the entire work: fixing the
height of freight cars nj fourteen feet requiring
bridges, viaducts and roadways over railroads
TO be not less than twenty-one feet in the clear
House.-Debate on the Haskell county local
option bill occupied nearly the entire session
Finally, by vote OF 40 yeas TO II nays. the
measure was postponed two weeks and ordered
printed in its amended form
COLUMBUS April 13 !Ssndte.-The vote by
which the Obi bill, permitting women TO be com.
missioned as notaries public was lost re-
considered and il was placed on the calendar
for third reading Tuesday April IL. A bill was
passed requiring manufacturers of fertilizers
TO pay fee of so for each brand manufac-
tured Among the measures introduced was
one TO prohibit the killing of quail and turtle
doves for an indefinite period in Ohio Ad-
journed 10 Monday, April Ii
House The taxation committee reported
back their bills and they were made special
ls.,.e f.K-A TTlf n
troduced joint resolution reciting that owing
| to the bad financial condition of the state il
would be unwise for The legislature to adjourn
sine die, and providing that it recess until the
t-rd Tuesday in January next for session not
| to exceed forty-five days in length. Bills were
t. .->Soduced as follows: EXempting honorably
| discharged soldiers of the late war from jury
| duty; authorizing humane societies to en-
ploy attorneys and providing for the pay.
| ment OF same by county treasurer; appropriate
ing $50 to pay the members of the First regi-
| ment, O. N G., for services at the demonstra-
| tion OF the unemployed in Cincinnati, February
| %; giving sub-contractors on public roads a
| lien on the property improved, and provid-
| ing for the appointment of receiver if the
| debt is not paid within thirty days: re,
| quiring county inflrmary directors TO publish a
| detailed statement of expenses in two papers OF
| opposite politics; reducing wholesale license Oh
cigarettes from t2J0 to SOS, and retail licenses
| from 100 TO 10. Adjourned TO Monday, April I6
COLUMBUS, April lZ-Senate. little bust
| ness was transacted by the senate day. A few
| local bills were passed, and the following meas
ures were introduced: 10 abolish the state board
| of charities: abolishing the office of clerk o.
| the state sinking fund and transferring tht
| duties to the secretary of state.
| Rouse.-A large number OF bills were intro
| duced, the most important being the following
| Providing that saloonkeepers in towns of les.
| than 20,0OJ inhabitants must keep their place.
| nf hueineEQ an that IN AZ bou ,
| clear view of the inside; (for violation of tn,
| act 1t provides q fine Of not less than s1O0, OF
| Imprisonment not to exceed three years, IL
| either event the saloonkeeper to be prohibited
| from keeping saloon for period of one year
| providing that when village, or part thereof
is annexed TO city, 1t shall be annexed fo
schools as well as municipal purposes; permit
| ting mutual assessment insurance companies
to make more than one assessment In case tn,
irst does not pay apolicy in full
Sent Up for Four Years.
PHILADELPHIA, April II. - Thoma.