Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-04-23
THE LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings of Both Branches of tho Com
oral ARacmhlN.

Columbus, April 13,-Senate-Bills passed:
Providing for the incorporation and regulation
If stipulated premium life insurance compan.
les; providing for the sale or lease OF the Gin.
cinnati Southern railway; repeating the law
levying the Goodale tax upon express com.
S. ESQ, ,S5S; appropriatins $Si 900 for defeier,
cics Mansfield reformatory and Massillon
state hospital.
Housc-Bns passed; Providing regulations
for sweat shops; appropriating S96S for the re
lief Of Harry Perkins. private in. Co. b, 9th
riots ~ at the u Brown Hosting Works; al appro. S5
priating $l500O0 to establish custodial 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-
yyiding for the use Of voting machines IN elec;
Glenville to issue S25, 900 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- 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 ril hit of township trustees to hire physicians
to care for pauper residents; providing for ap-
port.oning the cost of diliing marsh lands upon
the owners Of such lands; providing the man
uer In which county commissioners may be
De compelled to have county bitches cleaned;
submitting to vote a constitutional amendment
granting the governor the veto power; to abolish
capital punishment; appropriating $4,000 for
relief of Joseph T. Garvin of Youngstown,
injured by premature explosion of u can
non in 1879; nbolishing the black list
OF persons to whom saloon keepers shall
not sell liquor: providing that the state
centennial shall be celebrated by an eXposi-
ton: 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 hospital tax
in Youngstown: creating a county levee 0om-
mittee in Ottawa county; creating the office OF
official stenographer, Stark county
Columbus, April l5.-SENATE-BIlls passed:
Providing an OFFICIAL stenoGrapher for Logan
county; permitting a simplitcation OF the
directorates of companies doing joint cleo
trio light and power and street transportation
business; abolishing office of marshal in Mt.
Vernon: author zing township trustees to fill
vacancies in office of justice of the peace; au-
thoriZing Steubenville to build n bridge across
the Ohio: abolishing the Franklin county board
OF elections and yes ing its powers in Columbu
city board; establishing deaf schools in Cleve-
land: for an additional school tax in Coiumbi
ana county.
Bills introduced: Cutting down fees OF county
clerks % per cent; authorizing issue OF $4,000
in bonds for Willow street bridge at Cleveland:
authorizing board of education of GAINESVILLE to
issue sl5,OOO bonds authorizing mayors of all
cities of population in excess OF 10000 to
create board of tenement and lodging house
inspectors
HoUsE-The house passed the senate Joint
resolution for adjournmel 1t sine die on April 20
Bills passed: Regulating cooperative saw
inuS and Investment COmDnnieS other than
building and loan associations: permitting re-
course in the event of q misapplicat'on Of coun-
ty funds; providing that sherifS shall receive
n percentage on all SnleS: giving members OF
Cleveland board of election $500 salary and
secretary OF board $4,000 permitting u simpli-
tication OF the directorates of com Inies doing
a joint electric light and power and transporta-
tion business; permitting non-resdentS to
hold the office OF solicitor Of n 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.
Columbus, April l8-Bills passed: Making
definite the law allowing election officers only
S3 day; allowing farmers to manufacture II
barrels of vinegar year for private use, with
out complying with food and dairy laws re-
Quiring new examination in lunacy before in
sane patients discharged as cured can be re-
committed; forbidding the employment OF
boys under l5 years Of age in mines; requiring
weghers at coal mines to give bond repeal
ing the law protecting muskrats and
minkS; author zing erection OF public
vault in cemetery in Findlay: requiring bake
shops TO be eight feet high and giving district
inspectors larger powers; to protect emery
wheel workers by use OF hoods and suction
pipes; reducing from 80 to 25 per cent the
number OF cars railroads must equip with au-
tomato couperS and air brakes by January l,
1899; allowing consent Of Parent to marriage of
minor child by affidavit in court Of record in
other county than one in which license is reg
istered.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: Authorizing the
appointment OF Il law librarian in Steubenville:
to change the notation of time to count
the hours cOnsecutively from to "a; author
zing the village of Ashtabula to issue s25. 900
in bonds for paving purposes; authorizing
Ashtabula 10 issue $50. 900 in bonds for the i'm
provement OF Ashtabula river.
Columbus April l9.-SENATE-Bills passed:
Allowing holders of junior mortgages to force
foreclosure sale before expiration OF senior
mortgage: making valid the law of 1896 against
lynching allowing mutual contingent liability
ompanies to insure goods in transit over in
land roads; requiring courts to sentence to life
Imprisonment persons convicted OF first degree
murder in case the jury recommends mercy:
authorizing issue OF 81 100000 in bonds to build
II court house in Cuyahoga county.
Mr.. Williams introduced a bill authorizing
library tax in Canton OF two-tenths of mill
HoUsE-Bills passed: Creating special
school districts in certain townships OF Sem
u and Sandusky counties: for relief of Chris.
tan Kramer, treasurer OF Richand township,
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.
Scores Wish to Enlist.
Upper Sandusky, April 2O.-Capt. Fa,
sig, of Bloomdale, the commander OF