Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-02
THE LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings in Both Branches of tho Ohio
GenbraI Assembly.

COhUmbbas April oVhotV
held long discussion of the Lewis house bill
to amend the convict labor law. The latter
provides that the number of convicts In the
ohio penitentiary employed In the manufacture
OF any class OF goods shall not exceed 10 per
cent OF the number OF persons outside the PEN
itentiary In this state employed mt work OF the
same kind. The Lewis bill sought to increase
this maximum limit from 10 per cent to % per
cent. The bill was defeated
Bills passed: Amending the pure food law
so that chemicals used in the arts may not be
held under the law as impure on account OF
changes brought about in them by time; to
provide better conditions for employees of sweat
shops; empowering municipal corporations to
regulate fire escapes; prescribing the method
of arranging for the cleaning OF county and
township bitches; authorizing Chardon to issue
sS,090 in bonds for electric light plant; author
izng the city OF Cleveland to issue 81 500 900 In
bonds for watorworks pumping stations, bonds
to be redeemed from receipts of waterworkS;
to reimburse Joseph Roap, eX-treasurer OF
Crawford county, in the sum of S16O for money
stolen from treasury vault; authorizing health
officers of municipalities to determine what are
nuisances; requiring railroad companies to
place interlocking switches Mt grade crossings
with other railroads and at swinging bridges;
making q closed season against net fishing and
providing rules to govern fishing in Lake Erie;
providing for the appointment OF a commission
to investigate the canal system of the state and
report on the advisability of abandoning the
parts OF Jne system,
the city of Cleveland to issue bonds in the sum
of 900 for bridge purposes; authorizing
the incorporation of ship canal companies.
HoUsE-The senate bill to appropriate $780,
600 for the purchase or erection of a governors
mansion was defeated, the chairman of the
finance committee having announced that the
legislature has alraady arranged to spend $780,
90 more than the revenues of thu state will
probably amount to; the Cincinnati 50, 600
waterworks bill passed the house. amended so
that the proposition to issue bonds need not be
submitted to Il vote of the people, The senate
amendments to the Rogers 50-year street rail-
way franchise bill were concurred in by the
house.
Bills passed: Providing that in condemna-
tion proceedings for opening of streets, build
ings shall be appraised separately and may be
moved: creating board of trustees for fire.
mems pension fund in Akron; reorganiZing the
state library by authorizing the appointment
OF state library commission; fixing limit of
$500 on the amount of valuables an inn-keeper
shall be obliged to receive and care for; au-
thorizing the village OF GibSonburg to
issue $4,000 in bonds for waterworks;
regulating fraternal beneficiary societies;
authorizing trustees OF Polk township. Craw-
ford county, to build soldiers monument;
changing boundary line between Holmes and
Knox counties: to provide better educational
facilities in AShtabula county; authorizing
levy OF one mill additional for school building
purposes In Cleveland to establish separate
tiSCIlOu pTtCluCtS IN WASHINGTON township,
Holmes county; increasing the general tax levy
in Toledo from II to l6 mills; authorizing
Cleveland to build a garbage crematory at q
cost of 100000; readjusting fees and salaries
of county officers, excepting Hamilton, Cuya-
hoga Lucas, RiChland, Franklin and Mont
gomery counties.
COLUMBUS. April 23.-SENATE-Gov. Bush
nell sent to the senate the following nomina-
tions: Insurance commissioner, w. S. Mat
thews, OF Gallia county, to succeed William NJ
IIn1N VI nj ,Ae~t IN
Of Franklin county, and Charles w. McCrack-
en-, Of Crawford county, to succeed R. NJ Rownd
and Patrick Hartnett. Member state board of
arbitration, Joseph Bishop, of Franklin county,
to succeed himself Chief engineer state board
OF public works, Charles E. Perkins, OF Sum-
NIT county to succeed himself. The nominal
tions were confirmed.
The senate concurred in the house amend
ments to the Cincinnati waterworSs bill
Bills passed Providing for firemen S pensions
in Akron; requiring city clerks to publish their
annual financial statements in two papers OF
opposite politics; providing that the county
officers of Cuyahoga county shall be paid Sala-
rieS; providing that wholesale cigarette deal
ers shall pay tax of $500 each and retail deal
| ers OF Sl0J each per annum; providing for the
building of an addition to the state house; pro-
viding that, II township trustees fail to erect
guide boards at cross roads after being petit
toned TO do so by ten freeholders the latter
may put up boards and charge IS for each; au-
thorizing commissioners of Sandusky county to
redeem bonds in sum of $780, 900 which were
issued without provision for redemption; au-
tnorizing board of education of Youngstown to
increase tax levy for school purposes.
A bill was introduced authorizing the trustees
OF Ohio state university to permit the building
OF street railway through the university
grounds.
HoUsE-Bils passed: Ratifying the deed
given to the city OF Cleveland by Gov Bishop
in 1872, for part of the Ohio canal now occupied
by the Valley railroad; authorizing the gov
ernor to sell to the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Co.
part Of the Eggleston avenue property in Gin
cinnati and the Hamilton basin in Butler
| county; providing that guardians may settle
the estate OF q deceased ward without the ap-
pointment OF an administrators; authorizing
the state to settle claims of j. w. Stoker, ct al
| for damages because Of overflow of Mercer
county reservoir: requiring corporations for
profit to file annual reports with secretary of
! state and pay fee; authorizing commission
ers OF Montgomery county to provide police
| protection in the mile and one-half limit about
| the National Soldiers Home; authorizing the
| trustees of the Toledo insane asylum to pur-
chase the Lucas county infirmary property for
$4,000; providing for the abandonment of part
| OF the Walhonding canal: providing that in
! ditch controversies the finding of the board Of
| adjustment shall be final; to allow additional
| levy of 2-5 mills for general county purposes
where regular levy is insufficient; providing
that in the incorporation of villages the ques-
| tion must be submitted to vote OF the people.
COLUMBUS, April 24-SENATE-Nominat
| by the governor reached the senate as follows:
j. L. Broaden, jr, of Darke county, member of
the board of pardons, to succeed NJ. M. Rose,
| resigned; John L. Vance, of Gallia, trustee OF
| the boys industrial school, to succeed Thad-
deus E. Cromley; w. A. Gipson, Of Wyandot
| county, trustee OF the institution for deaf and
dumb, to succeed himself; Rutherford p.
| Hayes, OF Franklin county; j. +. McGrew, of
| Clark, and Charles A. Reynolds, OF MusSingum,
trustees OF the state library.
| Bills passed: Providing for the refunding OF
the Cleveland viaduct bonds in the sum Of
| $500, 900; for the Abandonment OF the Walhond-
| ing canal from Six-Mile Dam in Coshocton
county to the northern terminus; placing fra
| ternal beneficial associations under the con-
troll OF the commissioner of insurance and pro-
| viding rules for their regulation; prohibiting
| saloons within 1000 yards of the orphans
home of the Junior Order OF American
| Mechanics at Tinin; providing for the
| purchase by the state OF a governors
| home ut q cost not TO exceed 100000;
appropriating s., 600 for expenses of legislative
| ia,