Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-05-05
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings In Both Branches of tho Sew
enty-FIrst General Assembly.

Laning bills repeating tho old State banking |
laws passed from 1919 to 1852, which allow the |
issue of wild cat" and "red dog money, |
were passed Also bill imposing tax |
OF $40 o mile each mile OF railroad track in |
Ohio, the proceeds to go to maintaining the |
ONCE OF commissioner of railroads and tele |
graphs and the surplus to maintaining the |
militia Of the state. Bills were introduced; |
Making the normal department of the Ohio |
University at Athens State normal school; |
regulating the branding OF cheese and to |
prevent fraud In its manufacture and sale. |
The finance committee reported back the |
general appropriation bill for the year 1894 with
number OF amendments. There Is net In
crease of S1T2,2i5 over the amounts provided
for by the house.
House BY vote OF 55 70 90 the house passed
the Clark bill giving women the right to vote in
school elections and to hold school offices. Be-
fore being passed the bill was amended so that
II should not include the right to vote for State
school commissioner The general appropria-
ton bill for 1895 was passed without serious OPP
position. The most protracted debate was up
on the item giving the members OF the general
assembly their salaries for next year, eighteen
members voting not to take the 5000 salary and
sixty-three voting to put the money down their
pockets. The bill carries 1900, IL. Ts, and is
s116,3S less than the estimated receipts for
next year. The Ely bill modifying the tax In
quisitor law was defeated by vote of SO yeas
toS nays
COLUMBUS, April 2a-Sendte general
appropriation bill for 1894 was pissed with ad-
ditions aggregating 10, $50 above the total rs it
came from the finance committee. The In
creases made by the senate aggregate sl93Ooo,
and the bill now goes to conference commit
tee. The Doty bill providing for the issue OF
s50ooo0 in certificates of Indebtedness was
passed end is now law. The Clark bill to
create a State banking department was de-
feated by vote ofl2 to TO- The vote was after
ward reconsidered and the bill was postponed
until May I. The report of the conference COM
mittee on the Haskell bill, making the presence
of fire on the property Of q railroad company
prima facie evidence OF negligence was agreed
to and the bill is now o law.
House-The morning session was spent in dis
cussng the Mosgrove medical bill, which seeks
to regulate the practice OF medicine in the state
and to establish q board for that purpose. BY
vote OF 81 to 81 the bill was indefinitely
postponed The vote was subsequently recon-
sidered and the bill comes up again tomorrow
Bills passed: Adding bridge funds and indi-
gent soldier fund to those to which surplus OF
dog tax can be paid; appropriating 81 ,073s5 to
pay the expenses of Henry X. Srooner, OF Sem
eca county in the Spooner-Flumerfelt election
contest; appropriating 81, ,0s0s6 to pay the ex-
penses of Charles Flumerfelt OF Seneca county,
in the -F'lumerfelt election contest
COLUMBUS, April 26-SeaGte. te.-Twenty-six
bills were passed over two-thirds OF which
were local in character. The general measures
passed were the following; Making II misde-
meanor for person other than an employe to
walk or stand upon railroad track; to amend
the pharmacy law so that an assistant pharma.
cist OF five years experience, physician Of Ave
years practice or a person who has for FIVE
years been proprietor personal manager OF a
drug store shall be entitled TO be registered
as pharmacist without an examination;
providing for the codihcation OF the laws
OF the state on municipal corporations and
elections; providing that the surety for iudg-
ment for money shall be accepted in an appeal
case in the court in which 1t is given; repeating
the charter ofinsurance companies Incorporated
under special legislative enactments under the
old constitution; requiring assessors to collect
the names of the ex-soldiers, sailors and ma
rines in Ohio and report the same TO the county
auditor. a resolution was adopted for the pur-
chase OF the portrait o. Lieutenant Governor
Harris at a price not to exceed $50
House-The Mosgrove medical bill which was
defeated yesterday was reconsdered and de-
bated during the entire morning session. Sew
| eral amendments were adopted, but when the
| bill was brought TO a vote 1t was defeated-yeas
| 45, nays ID. The Haskell county local option
| bill was taken up. The author made the lead
| ing argument in favor of the measure, while Mt
| Griffin led the opposition. Party lines were
| ignored in the matter and the bill was defeated
by decisive vote there being So yeas to
| 81 nays. The following bills were passed.
| providing that notary public in a municipality
J situated in two or more counties shall have
jurisdiction throughout the municipality; ex-
in case OF prejudice against either party or at
! torney in a case the judge shall be changed.
| COLUMBUS, April 2T-SeRdte.-By q vote OF
| II TO 4 the senate passed bill to repeal the
| Strehli street railway law of last winter. The
| Locke house joint resolution for sine de ad-
| iournment of the legislature May was taken
| up, and after q brief debate was postponed un-
| I'll the 30th- A bill was introduced providing
| that all counties in the state shall use 30 per
cent OF their proportion of the income from the
direct inheritance law for planting trees along
| the highways Adjourned It'll Monday April 30.
| HOuse.-Mr. Locke introduced Joint resolu.
ton providing for submitting at the November
election in 1895, proposition 10 amend the
constitution so as to treat more e@ectually upon
the prolific subject of taxation. This was
brought about by the Nichols law being de
clared unconstitutional, and the amendment Is
introduced to legalize such taxation A large
grist of local measures'were disposed OF, and the
house adjourned until Monday, April 81.
COLUMBUS, May --Senate-The senate to
day passed the Griffin bill amending the Burn:
law so that money does not have to be in the
| treasury in case OF condemnation proceedings
| for the opening widening or extending streets
| up to the acceptance by the council of tn,
iury's award. The vote by which the Paxton
| Strehli street railway repeal bill was passed
was reconsidered The bill was afterwards, b,
| adjournment, carried to the table, whence 1
| can only be taken by two-thirds vote unles
| reached In the regular order as miscellaneou
bills. The appointment of ]. L. Wilson, o
Highland county, and Charles Parrott OF Frank
lin county, 10 be members of the board OF stat
charities, each for the term ending April o.
| 1897, was confirmed. The governor sen
| TO the senate the nomination OF George W. De
weese, of Cuyahoga county, to be trustee of tn
working home for the blind for the term ending
the first Monday in April, 1897, and William E
Evans, of Ross county, TO be trustee OF tn
Miami university, at Oxford, for the term end
ing the last day OF February 1902,
Houss-A resolution was adopted authorizing
, the governor TO appoint two honorary commits
sioners to the international exposition TO b
held at Antwerp, Belgium, this summer Twer
ty-one bills went into the hopper, only the fo
lowing being OF general applications Amendin
the pawnbroker law so that pawnbrokers shal
be required to report list of all articles pawne
to the chief OF police as well as the mayor
} | defining lynching and providing that legal rel
{ | resentatives of person lynched may recove
5000 from county and in case the mob simply IL
jures person he may recover from 200 to al
, OO0, according to the extent of his injuries.