The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-04-28
THE lEGlSLA1Ure.
Proceedings of Both Branches of the Ger-
nral Assn,xp,uw

COlumOuS. April 1V.-SENATE- Bills rneseC'
Allowing holders Of junior NOR cages forc
= force. .osure sale before expiration i'senior
nortRage; making valid the law Of 1s9 ,yainst
lynchlng; allowing mutual coit ngent abi.it
compants 10 insure goods In transi, over In
land roads; requiring courts t. sentence TO life
Imprisonment persons convicted OF fir; degre"
murder, in case the jury recommends mercy;
authorizing issue Of 81 100000 in bonds to build
court house in Cuyahoga county.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Creating special
school districts in certain townships of Ser
eca and Sandusky counties: for relief of Chris
tan Kramer, treasurer of Richard town>hir,
Marion county; for relief Of estate Of John G.
Btrk late treasurer Of Crawford county: plac-
ing Justices Of the peace in Mahoning county
on salary.
on Joint ballot tonight decided in favor Of
Toledo as the place for holding the Ohio CEN
tennial exposition in 1908.
SENATE-The Ohio regiment of Sons of Vet
Grams Guards is now q recognized auxiliary Of
the Ohio national guard. The senate con-
Cured in the house joint resolution recog-
nizing them.
The senate made law Of the bill providing
for AL tax on bicycles to build cycle paths.
Persons not paying the tax may be fined SO
Bills passed: Prohibiting employers from
combining to fx'a price upon labor: making
deficiency appropriations: providing that if
FLO o per mile has been expended in construc-
tion Of railroad the land shall not revert even
ifroad Is not completed in required ten years;
creating Judicial fund in counties of Ohio.
House The new Cuyahoga county court
house bill was made a law by the house by
vote of 81 to B The structure will cost .1,500,-
600.
Bills passed: Requiring appellate court to
| review all refusals of lower courts to grant
| trials: permitting the sale of private ceme-
teries to township trustees: requiring railway
| companies to allow gentlemen escortng ladies
to trains to pass derot gates forbidding sa-
looms and disreputable houses in the vicini y Of
state Institutions: prohibiting derositng OF
public funds in banks not public repositories;
general appropriation bill for 1899, carrying ~
| 179,ss7.
Columbus April 2l.-SENATE-Bills passed:
Authorizing the erection of q soldiers monu-
ment and memorial in Fayette county; provid-
ing for sundry deficiencies and carrying t2i',-
900: enisting in Ohio national guards
| corps of engineers the Cleveland Grays: allow
ing villages to lease electric light plants; ox-
| empting the state homes of the Masons, Odd
Fellows and X. of p from taxation: permitting
| the use of voting machines.
A bill was introduced appropriating 10000
to improve the road from Wooster to the agri-
cultural experiment station.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Establishing bat
talon of engineers, so as to attach the Cleve-
| land Grays to the o. N. G.; providing that only
Incorporated banks can be made county depos-
tories; providing that aged or intirm deaf and
dumb persons in county infirmaries may. on
approval OF the state board of charities lie sent
to homes provided for such intirm aged deaf
| and dumb persons; amending Australian bal.
lot law to make 1t obligatory on election
| officers 10 provide cloth screens other OBJ
structions to the view at voting booths: au-
thoriztng Toledo to have Bay View
| park for centennial exposition pur-
| loses, to issue. bonds to improve Bay
| View park and providing for q commission
| Of nine to superintend the improvement:
| reorganizng the city government Of Akron;
| requiring listing OF coal and ore on docks and
defining who are residents Of the state for taxa
tion; requiring agents to list property Of nom
| resident owners; requiring taxing officer to
| give notice to owner before placing omitted
| property on duplicate: giving railroad COM
| missioner greater authority to examine busi-
| ness of railroads where violations of laws
| suspected; exemptng from taxation property
| OF Odd Fellows X. Of p and Masonic homes:
| providing more severe penalty for attempting
to take q prisoner from Jail for purpose of
| lynching; making felony Of any attempt at
| intercourse with a child under 12 years; appro-
| priating $50, 900 to pay interest on war bonds;
extending the time of the state canal commits
| sion two years; changing time of school emu
| meration to two weeks previous to the fourth
| Saturday Of May; providing that where no
other provision Is made for filling vacancies on
| political party ticl lets the county executive
| committee shall ill vacancies; making it a
| misdemeanor to kill carrier pigeons; providing
| that not more than one new trial shall be
granted upon weight OF the evidence.
Columbus, April .2-SENATE-Bills passed:
| Giving senate employees ten days extra pay;
| allowing appeals from decisions of county COM
| missioners in ditch matters; requiring the
| making OF foot paths On roadsides in villages
and special school districts; permitting the
| governor to discharge militia officer on re-
port of court of inquiry; to increase the sal
| ary of the clerk OF Canton township, Stark
| county: to increase salaries of trustee OF Can
| ton township Stark county; creating COM
mission to ascertain and mark the p sitons of
Ohio troops in the battle of Shiloh and appro-
| priating 1000 for expenses; authorizing Co.
lumbus to issue $4,000 in bonds for poor fund:
| creating commission to codfy municipal laws;
appropriatng $4,000 for an edition of Howe's
Historical Collections of Ohio: providing an
official stenographer for Erie county: provid-
ing that railroad companies which have ex-
pended IL 900 u mile in construction shall not
| forfeit right Of way under the ten-year law;
placing all county officers in Ohio on q salary
basis; dividing Pike township, Stark county,
| into two elective precincts providing that
| executor need not return an inventory IL he is
| residuary legatee allowing poundage to sher-
| IFS in mortgage forecl> sures giving agents
| Of humane societies enlarged powers over
| children: authorizing tl,J00000 park bonds
| for Cleveland; requiring condensatio rs of par
ty platforms to be placed at top OF party tickets
on official tailot and voted for: authorizin'
Toledo to issue tlJ0UOj bonds for centennial
| purposes; providing ten-year Imprisonment
| for attempt to break into Jail or attack
officer in order to seize prisoner to lynch him
HoUsE-Bills passed: Providing a levy for
| library purposes in Akron; providing for CIV
| ing the home and hospital in Findlay sl.s0
year of the dog tax; authorizing commission
crs of Ottawa county to expend $4,000 in
| building the court house; authos.zing Windsor
| township, Ashtabula county to issue al,0O0 in
| bonds; also Ashtabula TO issue 200 in bonds
o improve river, harbor and streets: extending
| for three years the time for completion of the
| Hooking railway; permitting holder Of junior
| mortgage to institute proceedings in foreclos-
| ure: authorizing village councils to levy tax
to pay waterworks and electric light trustees
| for lighting and fire protection; authorizing
| farmers mutual insurance companies to insure
grange property; giving juries the option OF
| saying VIII ther o first Gegree murderer shall
| be electrocuted or imprisoned for life. Pardon
| ing power is operative only on proof Of inno-
| cence beyond reasonable doubt. The penalty for
| second degree murder is fixed at not more than
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