The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-09
1AELEoIsl.AruRE.
Pfoceedings Of Both BrAncheS,o of the Ohio
General. Assembly.

from securing the assistance VI olectlOu omvers
in marking their ballots for the reason that
they cannot read or write, occupied the atten-
tion Of the senate for q long time to-day, but
was lost Bills introduced: Abolshing the
Cincinnati board OF supervisors; permitting
corporations desiring TO issue preferred stock
To make portion OF their original stock pre-
ferred; authorizing consolidation Of gas and
electric companies; applying to the whole state
the special school law of Ashtabula, Lake and
Stark counties for hauling pupils TO the CEN
trail school in district; providing that vacan-
cies in the ONCE OF prosecuting attorney be
filled ,bycounty commissioners insteRd OF by
common pleas court: abolishing jury trials IN
all civil cases. II litigants SO desire.
HoUsE-Bills passed. TO provide for the
election OF an additional judge Of the court OF
common pleas in the Tenth judicial district;
providing for expenses Of governors inaugura-
tion. Among the bills introduced was one
making church property exceeding S2,000 In
value subject to taxation.
Columbus. Feb. 2-SENATE-Bills passed:
Granting courts power TO grant additional
compensation to appraisers where expert
knowledge is required; authorizing the elec-
tion of an additional common pleas Judge In
the first subdivision Of the Third judicial dis
trict Bills introduced Pensioning Charles
Alspach. q private in Co. E, Home Guards,
crossings and intersections in maximum levy
for street improvements; creating ONCE OF
state inspector of OIL gas and artesian wells;
providing for,an ofncial stenogrepher in Han,
cock county; permitting attachments on nom
residents to satisfy judgments for malicious
prose cutions, civil or criminal; providing for
an additional circuit court Judge for Hamilton
county and an additional Judge for the Ninth
| circuit.
HousE-Bills introduced To provide for
the enforcement of collection OF delinquent
state taxes by collectors appointed by the gov
ernor and insurance commissioner; to empow-
| or township officers to certify to work done in
townships and to authorize township treasur-
ers to pay for such work; to authorize village
| or city officers to compel street railways to put
| conductors on their cars within the corpora
| ton limits; to require coal weighers to make
oath that they will faithfully perform their
| duties, and to give bond in $500; to compel
steam railroads to carry full crew Of train
men on all freight trains-the bill provides
heavy fines and Imprisonment as penalties.
| Bills passed: Authorizing q special tax for O
free public library in Warren; making the pay
ment of tuition for graduates under the Box
well law mandatory upon township trustees,
not to exceed 81 per month providing for the
erection and maintenance Of o telephone or
telegraph line along the line Of surface rail-
roads; extending the operations OF the Evan
gelcal Lutheran synod Of Ohio 10 other states;
to provide for the payment of one-half the
taxes received from foreign insurance COM
panies in Toledo to the police relief fund
Columbus, Feb. 3.-SENATE-Bills intro
duced Appropriating $4,000 to encourage the
production Of beet sugar, by paying bounty
OF one cent a pound on all sngar produced In
the state; raising The age of consent to Ii
years; making labor. material and personal in
juries prior liens over mortgages; providing
for board Of waterworks commissioners fol
Cincinnati; providing for q . per cent direct
inheritance tax on estates worth 300 and over
revising and codifying the poor laws; glvinl
the state live stock commission quarantine
powers; providing for from oae to five years
Imprisonment in penitentiary for inducing boyI
under IS years to enter dsreputable houses
providing for the submission to the people a
the November election OF proposition u
amend the constitution so as to permit womal
suffrage; providing that will contests shall b.
brought within two years from the time th
will Is admitted to probate. but minors per
sons Of unsound mind. or those who are i'm
prisoned may begin action within two year
after such disability is removed
The bill appropriating tl,csO to pay expense
Of Gov. Bushnell's Inauguration passed bot
branches Of the legislature
HoUsE-Bills passed: Making failure t
protect machinery in shops priraa facie evi
dence of negligence on the part Of employers /
damage cases for injuries incurred for the re
lief OF the sureties OF Jacob N. Yoder, Henr
Staley, Richard Phillips and Scott White, a
: Of Columbiana county; providing that town
: ship assessors shall in the future make retur
OF agricultural statistics to the secretary {
[ | the state board Of agriculture. Representativ
, Parker introduced bill requiring all person
applying for licenses TO marry to pass med
cal examination. Persons having dipsomanii
| any form Of insanity, hereditary tuberculos
: or consumption, or syphilis, are barred froi
marriage by the bill. An examining board {
three physicians in each county will be create
by the bill II it becomes law.
: resolution was adopted calling for the al
= pointment Of q committee Of hve 10 investgat
the penitentiary, with especial reference
the present system Of working prisoners
U contract
a Columbus Feb 7-SENATE - Bills intrt
e duced: Authorizing city councils to prohlb
n by ordinance the blowing Of steam whistle
within the city limits; placing the work no
i' done by the state live stock commission in Il
Is hands OF the state board Of agriculture; ALLOW
d ing the use OF convicts now confined in Il
;. state prison and the Mansfield reformatory,
the making Of public roads; making 1t oblig
tory upon prosecuting attorneys to proceed
h the collection of monies improperly spent
N county commissioners; giving to wards in citi
the over to adopt local option, on the san
:, plan now possessed by the townships
Ii Senator Shaffer introduced a bill to PROV
20 for free school books and school supplies
" creates aAcommi ssion Of education, four mel
- bers TO be appointed by the governor and /
y NTH to be the state school commissioner. T
y four appointive members are to get annr
salaries Of g. 500 each, and the state schC
A. commissioner such additional compensate
astNNl make his total salary 5000. This col
mission is to select standard series Of schC
hi books, and to determine what supplies O
d. books are needed and to advertise for bids I
/ the same and award the contract The
~ authorizing Springfield to issue waterwor
bonds passed the senate.
w HoUsE-The most important bill introduC
is was that OF creating salary commission
al seven members in each county to fix the S
- aries to be paid the county officers. This CO
w mission is to be appo nted by the govern
and to submit the result Of their labors to
a vote of the people. II the verdict is satisf
IN tory, the commission is discharged from f
L Their duty. Other bills introduced: Author
ing justices OF the peace TO require depc
IN from plaintiff for costs and to require paym
OF costs before transcript is giVen permit
s- use of-fyle and set nets without rings or le,
- in all rivers and streams in Ohio; providing
te filing OF chattel mortgage in township VIII
tn property is located.
u Charged with ApproprIAting S1b,OOt
d Cleveland, Feb. 5.-Archibald \
nu Laren was arrested Friday by Det
'e' tive Mintz, on charge of appropri
NJ ing to his own use $4,000 belonging
ot the Order of Scottish Clans of wh
ial A. McT,oren was treasnrer. The w