Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-09
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Columbus, o., April S.-The Senate
this afternoon passed Weldy's Senate
bill providing for the purchase of school
books for the State by a commission
consisting of the Governor, Secretary
of State and State School Commissioner,
from the manufacturers or jobbers at
70 per cent of the price TO wholesalers.
1t will hardly pass the House.
The Senate also passed the Shryock
Senate bill providing that militia Off
GERS who are arrested for alleged killing
of citizens in riots, shall be tried by
court martial when they so elect.
Representative Hard's bill providing
that only those who are physically un-
able to mark their ballots shall have
the assistance of the election officers.
1t is now law and virtually an educa-
tional test.
The Hysell resolution to investigate
the convict labor question was voted
down in the Senate.
The Legislature probably put an end
to further prosecution of Colonel A. b.
Colt of the Fourteenth regiment, on
the charge Of manslaughter in the riot
at Washington Court House, two years
ago. when the House concurred in the
Senate resolution authorizing the At
tOrney General to nole the remaining
indictment. unless within twenty days.
the commissioners of Fayette county
furnish an indemnity bond to save the
State from the costs of the prosecution.
The House to-day reconsidered the
vote by which the direct inheritance
tax bill was lost Yesterday and it was
sent to the Taxation Committee Glen
dennings county ditch road bill and
Aldrichs school board remuneration
bill we're defeated. The Leland bill re-
funding the old direct inheritance tax
collections, and the Means bill requir-
ing all State and county officers TO Sc
cure commissions from the Secretary Of
State at S. each. passed the House, as
did also the Mcbride libel bill tmend-
ing the libel laws so that the defense
may show ceptributory actions Of the
plaintiff. Tho Dana Senate bill pro-
viding that when the same person is
nominated by two or more parties the
name can appear on the Australian bal
lot more than once, passed the House
and is now a law. Senator Herron's s
bill legalizing typewriter wills pass
ed the House to-day and became a law
The Sparks bill requiring draughts 80
be used in shops where there are
emery wheeds took the same course.
The House concurred to-day in the
Senate resolution authorizing Cover
nor Bushnell 10 appoint commission
to confer with a like commission from
Michigan. with a view TO settling the
long disputed Michigan-Ohio boundary
question. The House to-day defeated
the Wylie bill, which proposed a fine
of $40 to 800 upon every voter who
failed to vote at any election, by a
vote Of 27 to 50.
The Senate to-day passed the Smith
anti-lynching bill, and it is now law.
1t makes the county which permits a
lynching to take place within its bor-
ders liable for damages to the estate of
the victim. The bill was drawn by
Judge Albion w. Tourgee.
Governor Bushnell to-day appointed
the following trustees: ID. S. Gardner.
Stark county. Cleveland insane asylum;
II. B. Perkins, Trumbull county, Cleve-
'sSeID "A u :mnIfsB eugsu! pueG
Clermont county, Ohio RefOrmatory.
and S. J. Sullivan, Cleveland visitor to
S. e S o Home, at Xenia. All were
confirmed by the Senate.