Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-05-26
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings In Both Branches OF tho Sew
cnty-First General Assembly.


COLUMBUS, May f5.--Ssndte.-Mr. Iden'sbi
license sleeping cars, regulate the fare charged
and TO require q ladder for each upper berth.
was indefinitely postponed. The following bills
were passed; Authorizing boards OF educa-
tion to furnish free school books to oil pupils;
to tax sleeping car companies ga per cent. on
such portion Of their capital stock as their
Ohio business bears to their total business; au-
thorizing the governor, auditor and attorney
general to adjust the claim OF w. o. Tolford for
balance due for collection Of the direct tax.
HOUSE BY o vote OF 45 to 10 the house de-
feated the senate bill requiring dealers in goods
made in other states by convict labor to pay
license fee of $500. The senate amendments to
the Cannon resolution providing for a sine die
adjournment May 81 were concurred in. Bills
were passed. Providing that in villages of
the frstclass % per cent. of the actual value OF
real estate and the permanent improvements
thereon may be assessed for street improve
ments; dividing the state printing into seven
classes instead of five.
COLUMBUS, May 16.-Sendts.-The senate dis
posed of considerable business to-day. Among
the measures passed the following were
the most important: To reapportion the
counties composing tie Second judicial district
and increasing the number of republican judges
three and decreasing the democratic judges
three; reapportioning the counties composing
the Fifth judicial district so as to make Frank
lin county q separate sub-division reappor-
tioning the counties composing the Tenth Judi
cial district so as to reverse the political COM
plexion OF the five judges, which is four
democrats to one republican; authorizing the
adjutant general to contract for statue of ex-
| President Hayes, to be placed with "Ohio's
Jewels" the expense not to exceed IS 900;
making y per cent. per month the maximum
legal interest on chattel mortgage loans in Gin
| cinnati, Cleveland Columbus and Toledo; pro-
| viding that when debts of deceased husband
exceed the value or the estate the widow shall
| have $500 in lieu of homestead.
| HOuss-Bills were passed. Extending the
| term of county auditors five weeks by provid-
| ing that they shall take Office the third Monday
| in October instead of September; authoriz-
| ing the society for prevention OF cruel
| ty to animals to employ an attorney to prose-
| cute cases. the same to be paid by the county
commissioners; authorizing the printing of the
| annual report of the bureau Of building and
loan associations; requiring the printing OF re-
| ports of the suprOane court to be done within
the state; authorizing the adiutant general
to contract for bronze statue of ex-President
| Hayes, to be placed with the group "Our
| Jewels;" giving to justices of the peace 81 for
each case when defense is made
COLUMBUS, May 1r.-Sendte. Bills were
passed as follows: Providing that in HAM
tlton, Newark, Findlay, Sandusky, zanes-
vile, Portsmouth, Steubenville, Youngs-
town, and all cities of the second
class, third grade, the mayor shall appoint
members of the board Of elections upon recon-
mendation of the executive committees of the
two leading parties; to increase the penalties
for publishing or disseminating obscene litera-
ture from the present maximum of thirty days
imprisonment and $500 fine, to five years i'm
prtSonment and s. 900 fine; providing that the
term of county commissioners shall beginFthe
first Monday in September, instead of the first
Monday in January; to levy tax on beer
The house amendments to the cigarette tax
, bill were agreed to and it is now a law the
license being $50 for wholesalers and SIS for re-
tailers.
House-The conference committees report
on the appropriation bill for 1895 was agreed to-
The report eliminated from the bill the IS 600
placed in it by the senate for the permanent
encampment grounds at Newark, and reduced
the appropriation for the supervisor of public
printing 5000. Bills were passed as fol-
lows: Dedicating Licking reservoir as q
public lake to be known as Buckeye lake;
providing for the appointment of an inspector
Of physicians diplomas and regulating the
practice of medicine; giving municipalities
owning railroads the same power railroad COM
I pan1es have. The Earnhart bill to lease q
+ portion of the Hooking canal to the Columbus,
Athens s. Hooking Valley railroad was passed
by q vote OF 73 yeas to 20 nays.
: COLUMBUS, May 18.-Sendte-The senate
t concurred in the house amendments to the
8 Earnhart bill, leasing the Hooking canal to the
U Columbus, Hooking Valley s. Athens railroad
and IL is now law. CThe bill leases that part
of the Hooking canal which lies between Car
e roll and Jacksonville, forty-two miles in length
{ to the Columbus, Hooking Valley s. Athens
q railroad for ninety years with privilege Of
renewal forever The consideration is $50 OOC
. N cash and an annual rental of $4,000 The
/ new company agrees to run cars within two
t years, and is to give bond of 100000 for the
a faithful performance Of its contract.
~ House.-The Mosgrove medical bill was de.
feated by vote of 45 to 49, Bills were passed as
!, follows: Extending the terms of county commits
|. | sioners from September to January; providing
: for the branding of cheese; authorizing the
governor, auditor and attorney general to SETTLE
the claim of w. o. Tolford against the state fol
collecting the refunded direct war tax; appro
priating $500 for the salary of the dairy and foot
commissioner providing that members of boards
T. of election in cities of the second class third
l. grade, shall be appointed by the mayor on rec
l. ommendaton OF the two political parties
which poll the largest vote; requiring oil
chattel mortgages to be foreclosed in :
u court of record; imposing license fei
< or 500 per annum on persons dealing il
a goods made by convict labor outside Of Ohio
4 repeating the poll tax.
a COLUMBUS, May 19.-SsRdte.-Bills wer
=" passed: Prohibiting the catching of fish In Lak
~ Erie from December 10 to March in the cas-
If half and from December l to March Is in tn
d west half, and in the whole lake from June is t
a September 15; giving members of the schoo
council $3.50 a year salary; requiring arbitrator
y appointed to adjust fire losses to be residen
Y freeholders extending the term of county sur
n veyors to the first Monday in September: ex
tending the term Of county auditors to tn
third Monday in October The Grifnn sleepin
car companies tax bill came back from confer
ence with the rate fixed ut per cent, and
10 this form was enacted
re House.-A large number OF measures, mostl
Al of n local character, were disposed OF. The Ab
- bott bill requiring street railway companies
lie report to the railroad commissioner in tn
lie same manner as steam railroads was defeate
r. by vote of Al to %. The Aker bill giving ius
1, tices jurisdiction in prosecution under the pur
- food laws was passed and is now law; as wa
or also the bill extending the time of county sur
u veyors to the first Monday in September.
Of COLUMBUS May 2i.-Senqts. last hour
of of the session were marked by the rush an
hustle usual on such occasions. Two measure
OF Importance became laws in the closing hour
Senator Laning's bill to repeal the stat
banking laws enacted from 1918 to 1892 and th
at Webb bill providing for the incorporation {
IN credit insurance companies and bringing thel
a. under the operation of the 2h per cent tax o