Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-02-24
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings In Both branches OF tho Sew
entY-Firat General Assembly,.

EEOCccutuEa IN bOtn brHuCneS OF tuC GOV
enty-First General Assembly.
COLUMBUS, Feb. l9.--Sendte BY vote OF ~ !
yeas to i2 nays the senate passed, after much
discussion Mr. ohl's bill providing that the COM
pensation of member Of the general assembly |
shall be 5000 per annum, but that no member of |
the general assembly shall receive any pay for /
year when there is no session OF the Legislature
The committee on medical societies and col |
legcs reported back substitute medical BILL In |
which are Incorporated the leading provisions
of the Avery and Mosgrove bills, and 1t was |
placed on the calendar. The finance committee |
reported back the partial appropriation bill with
few slight amendments and 1t was ordered on |
the calendar for next Thursday.
Rouse-Thero was slim attendance to-day, 7,
many members being absent on account OF the
annual convention of the Ohio Republican
League. A motion to reconsider the vote by
which Mr.. Huffmans bill extending the term
OF county commissioners was lost was defeated
and the bill is dead so far as the house is con.
cerned The only bill of a general nature passed
was one TO prevent blindness by requiring
midwives or others TO report to regular physi
clan or health officer any Inflammation, unnat
ural discharge or swelling in the eyes of an in
fant under five days of age.
COLUMBUS, Feb l4-Scndte.-A message was
received from the house, giving notice that the
house refused to concur in the senate amend
ments to the appropriation billfor the common
schools cutting down the appropriations from
two years TO one year s provisions. The senate
refused to recede from its amendments and
asked for committee of conference. The vote
by which Mr. Lawlors bill to provide for the
monthly payment of wages Of railroad employees
was defeated was reconsidered and the bill was
recommitted. Bills were passed follows:
Repeating the Workman law, giving township
boards of education the power TO select teach
ers and tx their salaries in the sub.dstrict
schools; providing that United States prisoners
shall not be received at the Ohio penitontary:
making partial appropriations for the last
| three'fourths OF the fiscal year ending Novem
ber 10 1894, and the first quarter of the fiscal
year ending February 10, 1895; TO allow the elec-
| tion Judge who goes for supplies one dollar ad-
| dittonal compensation.
| House-Among the measures of general ma
| ture passed were the following: Providing for
| the admission TO the Columbus hospital for the
insane of all insane prisoners in the Ohio peni-
| tentiarv; supplementing Section 2154 by pro-
viding that assessors shall, at the time OF list
| ing, collect from those who pay no taxes on
| real or personal property the tax on dogs,
| and in default OF payment TO kill the
| dogs: amending Section 62S9 so that q
| guardian may maintain action against his
| predecessor during the minority of the ward;
| directing the board OF worlds fair managers of
| Ohio TO present 10 the Chicago museum the min.
| eral PAVILION erected in the mines and mining
| building; amending the ditch laws so that COM
| missioners may have hearing before the loca-
tion is established. The Montgomery bill, TO en-
| power municipal corporations TO regulate and
| prohibit by ordinance the employment
| public contracts or improvements, persons
| not citizens of the United States was de-
feated by vote of a yeas TO s3 nays
| COLUMBUS, Feb, l5.-Sendte.-By party vote
| of % yeas to nays the senate decided the
| Hardesty- y-Buchanan contest case by adopting
the majority report OF the committee on privi-
| leges and elections, with the accompanying
| resolution declaring Walter s. Hardesty, the
m fnpn th.Ni Ninp pipnnf
| district entitled TO his seat The Mosgrove
bill to regulate the practice OF medicine In Ohio
was passed ut provides for the appointment
| OF a state board OF medical examiners and H.
censers; requires the examination by the board
OF all applicants for certificates 10 practice med-
cine and requires the annual registration of all
physicians. large number OF local measures
were introduced and several were passed.
House. The Mcbride bill providing that law
students must study three years before being
admitted to the bar was defeated--yeas A. nays
| 2S The senate amendments TO the postal ap-
| preparation bill were concurred in. Bills were
passed: Amending Section 4471 so that 20 In
stead OF 90 per cent OF the estimates can be paid
contractor in construction Of bitches; amending
Section 1858 so that collectors of delinquent
taxes must be compensated out of money col.
lected instead Of general fund. Twenty nine
bills were introduced, seventeen OF which were
OF local nature. Among the former the most
important were the following: Defining house
collection of penalties for selling liquor therein;
creating State board of commerce commits.
sioners, consisting of three members, NJ an
annual salary of s2,5oO TO prevent discriminat
ing in freight charges; repeating the Raw
| iings tax law and re-enacting the old law eX
| empting manufactured goods after first taxa
tion and extending the exemption 10 certain
| farm products.
COLUMBUS Feb l6-Sendte.-A bill was in
troduced to re-enact the law creating the cana
commission the tenure of office of the presen
! commission expiring this spring The only bill
of general nature passed was one providinl
that when an inmate of the girls industrial
home the boys industrial school runs away
} the trustees upon recapturing the truant, ma.
add year TO the term of his or her residence u
, | the institution The senate adjourned unit
Monday, February 10.
House-The vote by which Mr.. McBride's bill
requiring students to study three years befor
taking examination for admission to the ba
. was lost, was reconsidered, and further consid
Grafton postponed until the 21th. Several loca
measures were passed. Following were anon
: the bills introduced. Providing that justice
( of the peace shall have final jurisdiction 4
| cases involving not more than $50; pre-
vidng penalty of from $50 to 200 fine, one
half to go' TO the informer, for nduteration c
t | maple sugar. maple syrup and honey; giving I
r trustees and officers Of the state epileptic hos
pital power and control over inmates such as
possessed by trustees of insane asylums; Gu
|. ting of homestead exemption and stay of C,
t ecution from judgments rendered upon prosec,
:. tion of supervisors for failure TO comply wit
road laws
COLUMBUS, Feb. 19.-Stndte introdu
y tion OF bills constituted about the onl
g business transacted in the senate toda,
Following were the most important Pr,
viding that executors and administrator
must II 80 ordered by the probate court, III
inventories on stipulated day unless they ca
/, show good cause for not doing so; providr
that the directors OF corporation shall not /
permitted to buy stock in the corporation fc
- less than par: providing that no local or specl
e bill shall be introduced in the Legislature unit
IL has been published for ten days in two paper
q OF opposite politics in the vicinity affected.
Rouse.-During the brief session OF the hou;
to-day number OF petitions and memorials
2, q variety OF subjects were presented, and Sc
q | enteen bills went into the hopper, nine of The
or being local Among those OF general natu
. . were the following: Requiring plaintiffs in q
q civil actions 10 servo copy OF petition I'll,
IT with clerk OF courts on each defendant; provi