The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-04-07
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


tielo to issue license for use of natural gas
meters: relieving heirs of John j. Burke treas
urer of Crawford county, OF u liabihty claimed
to be mistake in accounting; empowering
officers to enter places where they suspect
gambling is carried on. and TO arre't any per-
son found in the room. and to take away such
gambling paraphernalia AS is discovered
HoUsE-A bill introduced in the house Mon
day by MIR. Bennett. OF Williams county. pro-
vdes for very radical changes in the method
of taxing insurance companies. 1t amenus the
existing law so that for purposes of taxa
tion insurance companies shall be divided
into three classes Domestic state and for
eign The house judiciary committee reported
II substitute for Mr.. Roths bill regulating ex-
aminations for admissions to the b;f The
substitute provides that the supreme court
can not adopt rules requiring applicants for
admission 20 the bar to be college or high
school graduates, or to hold teachers
certificates. The only legal require
ment is that applicants must have
studied law with pructicing attorney for
three years. or have been students at a law
school for that time. The house judiciary COM
mittee has agreed to recommend the indefinite
postponcmpnt of Mr.. McIInnons bill which
s.nl;s, 10 place The legal work OF the pure food
department in the hands of the attorney gen.
eral.
COLUMBUS. March 30.-SENATl:-Bil passed:
Authorilu the board of trustees as well as
council of aveland to receive petitions for the
laying Of N.tcr mains or pipe. ana levyn" tax
IN property owners for the expense of same;
providing Tat no township FUNDS shall be paid
out except upon an order signed personally by
at least two o, the township trustees and
countersigLed personally by the township
clerk; appointing an official Stenographer for
the supreme court of Ohio; authorizing MaSsil-
Ion TO issue $4,000 bonds for library purposes.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Providing for the ed
ucaton of children VINO are both blind and
deaf; providing that costs in cases
OF prosecution for non-support of
children shall not be paid by the state;
providing that nonresident guardians may
give their written consent to the marriage of
ward; repeating section of the law requiring
safety devices ut railway crossings; providing
that when n discharged patient becomes in
sane an inquest of lunacy is necessary to re-
commit him to the state hospital;
providing for refundng the direct inheritance
tax; making it II misdemeanor to solicit busi-
ness for corporations not licensed by the secre-
tary of state.
COLUMBUS. o., March 31-SENATE.-For at
least two years longer men will be led to the
eiectrocution chair in the penitcntiary annex
to be killed. BY Il tie vote of Is to Is. the Sui
livan bill 10 abolish capital punishment in
Ohio failed of passage in the senate Senator
Voight's important bill revolutionizing COM
mercia methods by forbidGing all
preferences in business assignments
unless made than ninety
days before assignment or receivership PASSED.
Senator Plummer. of Clark. led the onslaught
on the Schafer bill to have the state manu-
facture and sell all school books and school
supplies. except furniture used in every
schoolhouse in Ohio. This gigantic scheme
was killed by vote of "a.
HouSE-The house spent much Of the day in
committee of the whole, considering the Nc
Cauley bill to place all county officers in the
state upon II salary basis. The bill was amend
cd lnnv Nc
they now are. save for ntirmary directors who
will be increased S75 year. Changes were
made in almost every other county. but before
completing the list the committee of the whole
arose at pm and the bill will come up again
at O'Clock Thursday. Representative Rothe's
bill to reduce telephone charges will be report
ed back to the house without recommendation.
according to q decision OF majority Of the
committee Wednesday night. Some members
of the committee wished to recommend indef-
mite postponement but that radical action,
which doubtless would have killed the bill,
was not taken, largely from consideration for
the author of the bill
COLUMBUS, April L. SENATE - senator
b urke' S freight discrimination bill. which for
bids railroads charging less proportionately
for car load lots, is de d. Sanator Williams
offered joint resolution, which was adopted,
in the senate authorizing the Ohio state uni
versity to purchase the valuable geological
and archaeological collections and library
of the late samuel A. Miller, of Gin
cinnati. Senator Harper introduced an assess
ment insurance bill, which is the second he in
troduced. and the sixth now pending in the
senate. The senator later withdrew his Bill
No 2, and will try to have it indorsed first by
the insurance committee.
HoUsE-Only three changes affecting the
aggregate sum carried were made in the gen.
eral appropriation bill before it passed the
house by unanimous vote Thuraday after
noon. The estimated revenue of the state for
the current fiscal year, for which appro-
priation is made in this bill, "A, 900.
or. including the unexpended balances on hand,
a. 646 600. AS passed by the house, the general
appropriation bill carries an aggregate Of S3,-
2OO 1888. Other appropriations already
made by the legislature amount to
$433, ,60342 The amounnt covered by
the partial appropriation is 1887 3s2. 36, This
makes the aggregate appropriations this year,
if the senate does not change the general bill
as 1t passed the house, S4,471, 3l9.l4. The ag-
gregate Of appropriations for 1895 was s4,7O0-
3l4S5, and for 1857 it was "a, ,330.si
COLUMBUS, April 2-SENATE-A bill by Mr..
Sullivan, of Trumbull became half law by
passage in the senate Friday, prohibiting in
surance companies or associations authorized
to do business in this state to rensure their
risks in organizations barred from operat-
ing in Ohio. Under a bill introduced in the
senate Friday by Mr. Pugh, OF Franklin, COM
panies guaranteeing titles are to be required
to deposit with the state insurance commits
sioner only $50 900 instead Of $3.50 900, and shall
not be compelled to have capital stock OF
more than a250 900, instead of s50O,00O Bills
introduced: Changing the name of the insti-
tuition for the blind to the State School for the
Education of the Blind; providing that town.
ship trustees shall pay the rent of the office
rooms OF justice of the peace: providing that
in sale of chatte property to satisfy mort
gage the title shall be thereby vested in the
vendee
HoUsE-Bills introduced Providing that
judges and clerks of election shall take the
oath of office once instead of twice a year;
taking off the age limit in the Sunday labor
law. The penalty is made to apply to persons
of all ages Sunday labor is not permitted ex-
cept by persons who observe Saturday as the
Sabbath fixing the fees of court stenographers
in all sections of the state at IS per
day and cents per 100 Words providing
penalty OF 500 for failure in the payment OF
Dow tax, half Of the amount to be paid to the
informer; reducing the percentage Of pound
age on sheriffs' sales from 1h to one per cent !;
providing that unclaimed deposits in banks or