The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-04-20
THE LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings OF Both Branches of the Gel
eral Assembly

hpii AAs-OCndlC-Dll pdSSCu.
Abolishing justice courts in Toledo; extend.
ing the terms OF coroners and sherifis from
January to September
Bills passed both houses: Making term OF
prosecuting attorney commence in SepteIn.
Der instead OF January; providing for Joint
action in case OF joint bitches in counties on
the state border.
bilis passed: Authorizing the establishment
Ter OF $4,000 from the poor to the general fund
OF lrumbull county: creating special school
nal district in Putnam and Allen townships, Put
nam county; authoriging the village Of Cam
oridge to issue $4,000 in bonds, to provide
sewers creating a special school district ol the
village OF Grelton, Henry county.
The house adopted the following resolution
by Mr.. Monter, OF Hamilton: Resolved, That
II IS unwisc and destructive of the public
good to enact laws that authorize municipail-
ties to grant franchises or leases for period
longer than what is known as an ordinary life
generation.
Mr.. Mac Broom offered a resolution, setting
apart Wednesday for a joint session OF botn
houses, when the time and place of holding the
proposed centennial exhibition in 1903 shall\be
definitely settled
Columbus, o., April 12.-House-The Doty
barber license bill was defeated, the senate
Joint resolution in reference to giving the
governor the veto power, was defeated.
Bills passed: Authoring the establishment
OF day schools for the deaf, and the employ
ment OF the necessary teacher; providing that
the county commissioners shall keep In re.
pair bridges on transferred and abandoned
turnpikes; granting the state superintendent
the power to issue subpoenas for witnesses
in cases OF suspected violation of the insur-
ance laws; providing that state departments
and institutions may only employ legal assist
ance in the advice and by the consent of the
attorney general; placing Brown county Off
GERS on salary; providing that any action to
ioreclose title mortgage or quiet title may
be hnished in the court OF record in which
action is commenced: allowing suits to be
brought against corporations in any county in
which summons can be had on the president or
CHIEF othcer; making dogs property; author
iZing $l,OOOOO0 bonds for harbor improve
ments in Cleveland; authorizing the issue of
$3O,COO bonds to erect a bridge over Euclid
creek in the village OF Euclid Cuyahoga coun-
ty; /, providing for the collection Of garbage
in the city of Cleveland; providing that the
right to trial by jury in common please courts
shall be considered waived, unless one of the
parties, B days before opening of the term of
court, shall demand jury accompanying the
demand with deposit OF s., or an affidavit of
property.
Senate-Bills passed: Authorizing an issue
of $4,000 bonds for workhouse and city
prison in Springfield; appropriating proceeds
county; authorizing special cemetery tax In
from releasing boys from Boys Industrial
Schools; to improve roads in Fayette county
to. transfer funds in .Cuyahoga county; author.
izlng the trustees of several Fulton county
townships to levy road taxes; to repeal the
900 flushing tunnel Cleveland act.
Columbus, April 13.-Senate-Bills passed:
Providing Tor the Incorporation and regulation
OF stipulated premium life insurance compan
ies providing for the sale or lease OF the Gin
cnnati Southern railway; repeating the law
levying the Goodale tax upon express com.
panles; general appropriation bill carrying
$3,2SOS53 appropriating $4,000 for deficen-
cies, Mansfield reformatory and Masslon
state hospital.
House-Bills passed: Providing regulations
for. sweat shops; appropratng 1868 for the re-
lief Of Harry Perkins, a private in. Co. B, 9th
Q. N. g., for pistol snot received at the
riots at the Brown Hosting Works; appro
priating $l5O,OOO to establish cussodial de-
partment in connection with the state insti.
tuition for feeble minded youth; giving city
council Of Cleveland option to raise money in
any way preferable to collect garbage; pro.
viding for the use OF voting machines in cleo
tions; authorizing the board Of education Of
Genvie to issue $250O0 bonds for school pur
poses; repeating the Dana law; providing that
when prisoner is in danger from mob, sheriff
may convey him to any county in the state;
providing for an issue of 100000 armory bonds
in Cleveland
Columbus, April 14.-SENATE-Bills passed :
Allowing electric railway and electric light
companies in Piqua to consolidate: authorizing
a two mills extra school tax in Akron: author
izing four-tenths mill library tax in Akron;
creating special road districts In Crawford
county.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Making more specific
the right of township trustees to hire physicians
to care for pauper residents; providing for ap-
portioning the cost OF diking marsh lands upon
the owners of such lands; providing the man
ner in which county commissioners may be
be compelled to have county bitches cleaned;
cuh ttinU fn a titutinnul ma 4
granting the governor the veto power; to abolish
capital punishment; appropriating $4,000 for
relief OF Joseph Il. Garvn, OF Youngstown,
injured by premature explosion Of can
non in 1872 aboliShing the black list
Of persons to whom saloon keepers shall
not sell liquor; providing that the state
centennial shall be celebrated by an expos-
tion revising and codifying the poor laws OF
the state; the general appropriation bill for
1899
Bills passed both houses: Permitting acci-
dent, fidelity and security insurance companies
to guarantee titles; authorizing a hospital tax
in Youngstown: creating county leyee COM
mittee in Ottawa county; creating the Office OF
official stenographer, Stark county
Columbus, April 15,-SENATE-Bll passed:
Providing an official stenographer for Logan
county; permitting a simplihcation Of the
directorates OF companies doing joint cleo
trio light and power and street transportation
business: aboliShing office of marshal in Mt
Vernon: authorizing township trustees to fill
vacancies in office OF justice of the peace; au-
thorizing Steubenville to build bridge across
the Ohio; aboishing the Franklin county board
of elections and vesting It's powers in Columbus
ity board; establishing deaf schools in Cleve-
and; for an additional school tax in Columbi-
ana county.
Bills introduced: Cutting down fees OF county
clerks % per cent authorizing issue OF $3.50 900
in bonds for Willow street bridge at Cleveland;
authorizing board OF education of GAINESVILLE to
issue il5,000 bonds; authorizing mayors Of all
cities of a population In excess Of 10000 tC
create u board OF tenement and lodging house
inspectors
HoUsE-The house passed the senate joint
resolution for adjournment sine die on April %.
Bills passed: Regulating cooperative say
ings and investment companies, other than
building and loan associations; permitting re-
course in the event of misapplcation Of ccun-
ty funds; providing that sheriffs shall receive
percentage on all sales giving members OF
Cleveland board OF election 81 500 salary and
secretary Ct board $1,000; permitting a simpli-
ficatioh Of the directorates of com plnies doing
a Joint electric light and power and transporta-
tion business; permitting non-residents 10
hold the office of solicitor OF q municipal cor
poration; providing for the permanent plug.
ging OF abandoned oil and gas wells in this
state; requiring contractors under munich
pality to give bond equal in sum TO one-half OF
the estimated cost of an improvement, to Sc
cure sub-contractors and laborers
Preachers Form Trust.
Toledo, April 13.-The preachers of
Bluffton have organized, with Rev. S.
W. Culp president, and Rev. A. Dorr
secretary. They do not want funerals
held on Sunday; do not want them
held in churches; have made a rule
that intimate friends are to remove
their hats during services, and that
in all cases the ministers shall receive