The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-09
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


Clark showed telegram to the effect that |
congress had just passed . bill making an ap- |
propriation for that purpose He said that |
Ohio would get T.o,o Of the fund Bills intro. |
duced: Requiring . foreign insurance com. |
pany TO deposit with the Insurance commits |
sionef the sum Of sioJ0o0, Of the hrst
mortgage bonds Of any electric or steam rail.
road within the state Of Ohio The present
law requires these companies to deposit mu.
nicipal, state or government bonds: providing
that telegraph company shall be liable to
special damages for mental suffering occs-
stoned by the failure Of the company to prop
erly and speedily transmit messages received
from the other companies or from individuals.
HousE-Sixty -seven bills were introduced
Monday night, which breaks the record for
the present session. Mr.. " illiams got in .
bill prohibiting the killing Of skunks for two
years Another bill by the same member pro.
vides that militia officers forming court-mar-
tials shall receive the same pay and allow
ances as when ordered out for actual duty.
COLUMBUS. O., April 1-SENATE-The sem
ate committee on railroads and telegraphs
Tuesday night agreed to recommend the Fos-
dick high hat theater bill. 1t is said that
votes enough have already been pledged to in-
sure the passage Of the bill The senate
passed a bill by Mr.. Cromley exempting
Picksway county from the law, giving
the probate and common pleas courts
concurrent jurisdiction in certain
cases. The senate passed a bill by Mr.. john
son. providing that in cases In which the pro-
bate and the common pleas courts have oon-
current Jurisdiction, the record shall be kept
In the common pleas court only instead Of In
both. The committee on judiciary Of the sem
ate recommended for pa 'sage Mr.. Avery's bill,
prohibiting the payment or solicitation Of po-
litical assessments by or Of state officials
HousE-The undivided profit fund bill, i'm
troduced by Senator Adolph Pluemer, Of Gin
cinnati some weeks ago and defeated by the
senate, was reintroduced in the house Tues
day by Representative Levi c. Goodale. Rep
resentative Richardson, Of Glendale intro
duced bill providing for the creation
of state board of land surveyors,
composed of four prominent members OF
the profession, to be appointed by the
governor at a salary Of SO per day while
in session. The Fosdick bill to modify tho
present unjust r wings law tax upon manu-.
factures was defeated by decisive vote. The
house committee on railroads and telegraphs
recommended for passage one of the most
notable bills Of the session. 1t is the Breck
bill to place street railroads under the juris.
diction of the state commissioner Of railroads
and telegraphs
COLUMBUS. April 2-SENArE.-Bills intro
duced: Furnishing by three years in the peni-
tentiary person inducing q boy u 1der IS to
visit house Of ill-repute: to authorize Sl0,-
600 bond issue for public hall and city prison
| at Athens: ssuthorizing Gallipolis to operate
city electric light plant; to extend
the usefulness OF the state library:
and to extend to 1t civil service reform. Sem
| ator Whittlesey got through his bill punish
| ing by fine of S25 to 500 druggist who sells
| LIQUOR for medicinal purposes where no pre-
| scription iy furnished. The bill applies only
| to Townships where there Is local option
| Senator Pluemer's Saturday half holiday bill
| was passed Wednesday morning after being
killed twice, once last week and once Wednes-
| day.
HousE-Bills passed: Giving magistrates
four Per cent Of judgments not paid within
| ten days; to provide for o teachers pension
fund and life tenure for those who have
taught seven years, conditioned upon
good behavior: to empower the man
ayers of the state reformatory to com-
plete the building and to pay the managers Z
salary OF $500 year to each; to punish by fine
OF not more than $50 any person who puts tacks
nails thorns. glass or other substances ON q
roadway to injure pneumatic tires; to appro.
pirate $500 for the use Of the adjutant genera
in purchasing nets to inclose and protect the
flags in the hagroom ct the capitol
COLUMBUS, O., April 8 = SENATE.-Mr
Tleischman Thursday morning introduced {
bill to provide for permanent home for Ohio'i
chief executive Senator Heron introduced
two bills Thursday morning, which emanatt
| from the bar association. One bill SEEK
to relieve the supreme court from con
sidering litigation for minor sums o
money 1t bars out all cases In which
the amount involved Is less than $500
The second bill seeks to relieve the circui
court 1t prohibits the appealing of easel
rom the common pleas to the circuit court
he bill of Senator Avery to protect of1ceri
nd employees of the state from political as
essments lacked only one vote OF receiving
constitutional majority and passing the sen
ate After tho bill was defeated 1t was recon
sidered and put on Wednesdays calender
sod tho irlr mt f0h IA
bill
HousE-Bills passed: Providing for tn
establishment and inspection of armories 70
the state militia creating retired list for tn
Ohio National guard; for the relief Of Mat
thew c. Miraden; making it misde
meanor to malic.ously ininrs o o. re
soldier or sailors grave; to make valid certai
bond issues of the city Of Cleveland creatin
an additional common pleas Judge for tn
, counties of Adams. Jackson Lawrence, PIX
and Scioto; providing for the official inspec
tion of private and public hospitals. reforms
; tory homes, ETC., passed the house Thursda
J evening: increasing the proportion OF convic
labor that may compete with free labor to
per cent
. COLUMBUS, O., April 4.-SENATE-Bills ir
, troduced: To issue $4,000 Of bonds for tn
house Of refuge at Cincinnati. The bonds 81
! to run 80 years at four per cent, and the pre-
sNs~@H
/ to the present buildings: to prevent boards I
! education authorizing the expenditure OF moi
ey which is not paid into the treasury. III
bill does not apply to cities of the first-clas
2 which now work under some such provision
! Bills passed: To authorize Cincinnati B. OF !
\ to transfer 1881 SO, unexpended balance
. bowlder pavement fund to the general funt
creating a highway commission: to exter
the powers Of the state board OF arbitration.
HousE-Seventy bills were introduced Frida
|. among them the following: Reducing the pay
!. road viewers to u day; authorizing to col
struct cutters and alleys at the expense
q abutting property owners: to give Cleveland
J. Russell law; appropropriating $500 for the u
a of the adjutant general to purchase volumes
to 10 of the Roster for the purpose Of sellil
them; to regulate the practice OF proba
courts In appointing guardians of imbecile
1t requires that three days notice must
l- served upon the party who Is Il
i. subject Of the writ making incomplete
as testimony, the written or verbal stateme
y OF person charged with murder or with eau
: ing death by abortion to require the inf1rma
u directors of the state to turn over to the pr
posed Home for Aged and Infirm Deaf Perso
all such persons confined In the various
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