The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-03-31
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

The Otis bill for the reorganization of
| Cincinnati passed the Senate Thursday
| by vote of Il TO IL, and is now a law.
Other bills passed as follows: Provid-
! ing for the sale OF a portion of the Ohio
| Canal in the event of the canal being
| abandoned by the State; to allow any
| city council to erect electrict light works
| in the same manner that works aie
| now erected; giving the Circuit Court
| final jurisdiction i'll cases involving less
| than $3.50 was passed..
When the Bracken q cent railroad fare
| bill finally came 10 a vote in the House af-
| ter an all day discussion, it was seven
| short OF constitutional majorlty. From
| all present indications that is as near as
any fiat 2-cent bill will get to passane
| in the lower branch of the General As
sembly.
The following bills were passed by the
! Senate Friday: To amend the turnpike
| law OF Guernsey County SO as TO rtDvirie
| for additional supervisors; to provld. III
| paying f6r cleaning bitches in the san q
manner that the cost of digging is Inc
| creating a fireman's pension fund for
| Sprinlitield; to authorize the improvement
o! levee in the Miami River, near DAY.
ton; amending law relating to taking eX-
cepilonS 10 a charge of a court 10 jury so
that general exception will protect liti-
giants as to ali prejudcial errors in the
record.
The House passed the following bills:
Placing the officials of Licking County on
salary; providing that estates can be
settled within two instead of four years:
authorizing West Salem, Wayne County,
to build a town hall; providing Tor tie
m nf roads in
Greene Counties.
The Senate, Monday, passed the Valen-
tine antitrust bill, but ordered the re-
printing of the bill in such manner that
the House will accept it as a substitute
for the Swain bill.
The Senate is tired of long speeches, and
adopted Senator WOlcOtl'S resolution
providing that the author of any measure
may speak only fifteen minutes in its sup
port, and any other Senator can speak
only len m inutcs.
Among the bills introduced in the
House were the following: Granting re-
turn of costs to defendants in Justice
courts In appealed judgments in reversal;
giving tax claims precedence over claims
for labor upon property held by assignee;
granting three days of grace in the col
lection OF sight drafts; prohibiting build
ing association stockholders from voting
by proxy; preventing residents of Ohio
from taking insurance in companies not
Licensed do business i'll this State; COM
pellin% railroads to run two passenger
trains each way every week day, stop
ping at every ticket station; providing
that six feet on either side of the road
ways outside of municipalities shall be
dedicated 10 the use Of pedestrians, and
fixing fine of So for riding or driving
upon the same.
The following bills passed the House
Tuesday: Providing that weighcrs of
coal as it comes from the mine shall give
bond TO correctly weigh the output.
Miners claimed that if the bill becomes Il
law it will result in both the miner and
the operator getting justice and prevent
dishonesty; legal.zing the purchase of
lant for cemetery purposes by The Trus-
tees of Miami Township, Hamilton
County; providing for a policeman's PEN.
sion fund in Youngstown and Akron;
To issue bonds TO build Il bridge over ST.
Mary's River, Auglalze County.
Among the bills passed in the Senate
were the following: Authorizing the
Commissioners of Ross County to levy
special tax for constructing free Iurn-
Wv III llS ION NHSlllp nan
cock County, into two voting pecincts;
authorizing special tax for free turn
pixies in Paulding County; paying the
family of Charles J. Mcfarland, Compa-
ny a, Fourteenth Regiment, o. n. G.,
s., 900 by reason of his death having been
contracted in military service; apprOpri-
ating 81 665.15 10 re-equip Company &,
Seventeenth Regiment, o. n. G., for
d image 10 armOry by fire.
The House, Wednc day, passed the fol-
lowing bills: Repealing the law und.r
which persons who have been absent
from The State are liable to bring action
to contest will within two years
after their return; to allow mileage and
expenses TO Sheriffs for taking insane per-
sons 10 the asylum; author zing the
Treasurer of Greene County to pay Will
tcrforce University Sc GAS left by Will of
Richard Randolph to his slaves, because
the heirs clnnot he found; for the better
protection of d rs by making them prop
erty in a legal sense.
After an unsuccessful attempt OF Sana-
tor Harper TO have the proposed commits
sion bl-partiz IN, the Senate passed the
Sullivan bill creating IA board Of three
commissioners, named by the Governor,
to cooperate with like commissioners of
other States, with a view to uniformity Of
lcgis latiOn, particularly in regnrd TO mar
riagc, divorce IrObating wills, insolveu-
~ forms of natura! car, iticateS etc.