The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-23
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


torney general as deputy attorney general;
providing that prisoners sentenced to one year
or less in the penitentiary shall be sent In.
stead to the workhouse, the state to pay costs
Of prosecution, Just ss II commitment we're
made TO the penitentiary; allowing muuic pali.
ties to refund debts, the validity of which has
been determined; giving courts power to
enjoin county commissioners from cre-
ating q corporation; comforting street improve
ment powers on boards Of education in incor-
porated towns; allowing children Of infirmary
inmates to be taken from their mothers at the
age Of two, instead of three The senate
passed the two Heron election bills to permit
two judges instead OF four to act In special
elections to determine questio and where
only one ticket has been nominated and to
omit general registration for the April and
special elections.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: To deprive the
courts Of the jurisdiction to render Judgment
on warrants Of attorney and without service;
to make II penitentiary offense to enter .
sohoolhouse at night for the purpose Of
sleep or refuge; to provide that fees Of at
torneys employed in exception to the rule
ings Of common pleas courts shall not be paid
out Of the county treasury. Twenty seven
bills were introduced in the house Many Of
them were Of local nature and we're passed,
while those OF o general nature were hurried
to a second reading and the appropriation
committee on q suspension Of the rules
COLUMBUS, O.. April Is 16-SENArE.-The WE'LL
known Workman school law will remain on
the statute book a. the result of the indef-
inite postponement by the senate Tuesday of
the Brorein bill to repeal the law. Without
word of comment the Ashford public
inspection bill was made law Bills
passed. Te prevent the spread OF
yellows; to assess cost Of trunk rivers in viii
lagos on land benefited requiring citizens be-
tween the ages Of q and 50 years to perform
r. a
t3 to punish removing decorations from SOL
diers' graves; permitting the garnisheeing OF
ten per cent of a married mans wages.
HoUsE-The house concurred in the senate
amendments to the appropriation bill for 1895
Tues day, and the amounts which the various
state interests will receive are fixed Bills
passed: For the inspection Of bakeries; to
-ohibit the transportation within this state
of hogs infected with cholera. Persons guilty
Of violation are liable for damages and sub
tect TO q nne of $500 or six months imprison-
ment. To require ell public clocks
to be set at standard time; provides that .
! srdon shall not release . convict from liabil-
ity for the costs Of his conviction; requires
township trustees, upon petition Of five free
holders, to erect guide boards at cross roads
and other important places: Senator Pluem-
er's bill to make Saturday afternoon legal
half holiday was amended in the house. and
then defeated by vote Of 33 to 90
COLUMBUS, O., April 1e-SENArE-A bill by
Mr. Lamb, OF Fairfield, became a law by pass
age in the senate Wednesday, placing the
commissioners OF that county on salaries Of
5000 year each, The senate enacted into law
Rbill by Mr. Leopold, providing that in primary
elections all Of the election officers in
Montgomery county outside Of the city Of
Dayton shall be appointed by the county board
tees Of the two leading political parties. BY Q
vote OF l6 nays to II yeas the senate We'd
nesdey defeated the bill by Mr.. Clark, of Cuys-
hoea. to regulate sweat shops and tho pro-
ducts thereof.
HousE-Ths Walton bill requiring all rail-
way companies to carry in each passenger car
. suitable IRE extinguisher, automatic in
action, was passed by the house Wednesday
morning. The Mcbride BILL relating 10 the
erection Of safety devices at bridges, osess-
ings and other dangerous points on railway
lines, was also passed by . unanimous vote.
The Welday bill amending section 2bol
OF the street railway laws, providing that
the event that they expire before being &C =
cepted. was made a law by the house Wednes-
day afternoon. The bill by Representative
Bosler, permitting Ohio railway companies
which consolidate to issue bonds in excess Of
the capital stock was Wednesday morning
made half law by passage in the house.
COLUMBUS, O.. April Z-SENATE-Bills
passed: Evading the supreme court decision
against counties builii1g armories by per-
mitting the erection tf soldiers memorial
buildings, which may be rented as armories to
the national guard regiments; two bills pro-
viding for the consolidation of the Ohio Med
ical college with the Cincinnati university. A
resolution to purchase portrait Of
ex-Gov Mckinley for $500 was passed.
The defeated anti-sveat sao~ dill was re-
cons idered and put on FRIDAY calendar The
deficiency appropriation bill went to the con-
ference on mittee, tho house refusing to con-
eur In the [ nate amer dmentS and the senate
Insisting on lis amendments. The Dayton rip
per came up again and was defeated in the
senate Thursday. This wa, done in spite of
the amendment adopted prov ding for q popu-
lar vote.
HoCs THE Rusler anti-s b oddly bill requires
oil re ady- made clothing ana all piece goods to
be marked so as to show within ID per cent Of
the amount of shoddy they contain. The bill
lating the location CT GENE teries to the smaller
towns as we'll as the cities; giving
ohildren's home trustees authority to
receive btquests without reference to
county commissioners: directing that .
nolls pros be en.e ed in all cases in which
persons are under Indictment for having deer
In their poss cssion making It one Of the duties
of township trustees to examine township
bitches every two years. Mr.. Richardson Of
fered a resolution to the erect that hereafter
the house adj ourr At !. o'clock on Saturday to
Monday at r. m.
COLUMBUS, O., April la-SENATE-Bills
passed. Requiring that indictments for pollu-
tion OF streams can only be brought in the
coun:y where the source o: luton Isl re-
pe4liHg the law antas onizirg the sale of the
Mu u>kinguln county railway: providing that
an judges and state and county officers shall
paw u fve-doilar fee to :..e secretaries of state
for their commissions, and that justices OF the
peace pay a two-dollar fee: converting Licking
reservoir into public park; to pay expenses Of
the Antietam commission; requiring county re-
corders to file deeds and mortgages by num-
ber; author Iiziug boards Of education to issue
bonds: compelling railroads to carry bicycles
rs baggage; requiring publication Of condem-
nation proceedings to be mailed to property
owners affected; making it a penitentiary Of
tense to lure boys under Is years into houses of
ill-repute
HoUsE-Senator Clark's bill to establish the
To-rens system Of land transfers was reported
TO the house, recommended for passage and
made a special order 2:3O p m next Tuesday.
Mr.. Richardson's bill to authorize Winton
Place to issue 500 deficiency bonds passed
the house Mr.. Goodale's bill to take from the
Dow tax fund not to exceed $4,000 q year for