The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-17
OHIO LEGISLATURE



COLUMBUS, O., March a-SENArE-Bills In.
troduced Monday: To authorize county COM
missioners TO improve roads under the provis-
ions Of the two-mile turnpike assessment law;
providing that when guards in the state prison
ore detailed to take prisoners to distant
counties as witnesses, they shall be entitled
to fees equal to their per diem, whether
there is conviction or not requiring courts
In making their decisions to make special
findings upon all material issues Of both law
and fact involved when requested by the par
ties or either Of them.
HOUSE - Bills introduced: Authorizing
adoption Of children so as to require the writ
ten consent Of the husband and Of trustees of
children's homes before inmates ct such in
stitutions can be adopted amending the
law governing the Mansfield reformatory
30 as to provide for apportionment Of SUBJ
ordinate officials by the superintendent by
and with the consent Of the board; providing
that in all paternity cases the costs shall be
assessed the same as civil cases and not come
on the county Mr.. Kemper of Hamilton, in
troduced IL local bills. Mr.. Kemper moved to
take up the committee reports on the bid TO
refund Cincinnatfs debt with gold bonds, Hut
the house refused to consider the matter.
COLUMBUS, March 9.-SENATE-Bills passed
Tuesdays To authorize charitable and benevo-
lent societies to consolidate; authorizes the
commissioners OF Lucas county to levy taxes
to erect o Jail and sheriff's residence, at cost
Of 100000; allowing Trumbull ,So county
troduced: substitute for the bill
giving Cincinnati fireman "a hours in every
eight days and providing for contingency
deficit of $4,000 to be paid by the city from the
public funds; refunding the debt Of the o. s.
q. of s3OO, 900 from 1908 to 1902, and making pay
ments &25, 600 annually instead of S65,OO0; bill
introduced by Senator Long compels the
supreme court to pass on all errors raised on
the records.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Extending the law al
lowing municipalities to own and operate gas
plants, electric light plants and provides for
an elective board of trustees; appropriat1ng
$4,000 for a sewer for the Cleveland state hos
pital, the sewer extending down Broadway to
the corner Of Miles avenue, to connect
with the trunk sewer at that point.
The house Tuesday decided to reconsider
the Arberry bill providing that the bodies
OF paupers and inmates OF charitable institu-
tions supported by the public shall be retained
36 hours before being handed over to the medi-
cal colleges for scientific purposes. The bill
was defeated last Thursday. 1t was passed
Tuesday morning. The house committee on
railroads and telegraphs reported favorably
Tuesday afternoon on Mr. Howard's bill grant
ing the railroads an extension OF time to l9oo to
equip cars with safety couplers
COLUMBUS March lO-SENATE-Bills passed:
To pay to the trustees Of Wilberforce univer-
sity &c, ,64627, being unclaimed legacies under
the will Of Richard Randolph, who died in
Greene county in 1850; to authorize the trus-
tees OF Ohio university at Athens to re-
fund certificates of Indebtedness; to increase
the salary Of the city solicitor of Day
ton from S2,5OO to $1,000; to authorize
additional levy for county funds in Athens
county; to authorize the commissioners Of Van
Vert and Allen counties to improve Jennings
creek; to make appropriation for the support
OF common schools; to make IN appropriation
to pay the principal and interest on the public
funded debt and interest on the irreducible
debt and expense Of the sinking fund commits.
sion.
doUsE-The house unanimou .ly adopted an
amendment to the rules, providing that the
house shall convene every morning at O'Clock
instead OF 10. The committee on labor has
agreed to recommend for passage the mes
bill providing for the better protection Of the
union label; the McGlinchy bill, requiring
full crew on i'll railroad trains, and the Davis
bill, requiring manufacturers to provide
safeguards against ac;ident in the use OF
dangerous machinery. The committee on tax.
alton has agreed to report favorably the Ross
bill requiring an afidavit of ownership where
mortgages are executed as trust loans, and
thus listing them for taxatioa. The same
committee has agreed to indefinitely postpone
Mr. Bossard's bill providing for an excise tar
on wheeled vehicles and bicycles in Dayton
COLUMBUS, March 1l.-SENATE-There was
food OF oratory In the senate Thursday after.
noon, The senators discussed for several
hours the Sullivan bill to abolish capital pun
ishment, and make life imprisonment, the pun
ishment for murder in the first degree and i'm.
prisonment for not less than 10
years nor more than 25 year. Chill.
dren who are so unfortunate as to be both
blind and deaf have therefore, been
refused admission to the Blind asylum because
they were deaf and to the Deaf and Dumb
asylum because they were blind. bill by
Senator Alexander passed Thursday provides
for the education Of these children at the Deaf
and Dumb asylum. The senate committee on
finance reported favorably Senator Alexander g
bill providing for establishing farm in order
to furnish employment to imbeciles An
amendment cuts down the proposed appropria-
tion from &l5O6OO to $4,000, of which half
will be appropriated this year and half next
year.
HousE-The attention Of the house was di-
Sected Thursday afternoon to the fact that the
bill of Mr.. Payne, Of Franklin county, provid-
ing for the municipal ownership of telephone
lines was lying In state Of depressing inac-
tivity in the committee on railroads and tele-
graphs. BY vote of 80 to l6 it was taken from
the hands Of the committee and Or
dered printed on Fridays calendar. Mr..
Kemper wants the election laws relat.
ing to registration revised SO that in cities OF
the hrst-class and of the first and second
grades of the second class the board Of elec-
tions may purchase portable booths for elec-
tion purposes The bill further provides that
certificates of removal can be granted on any
day Of regular registration 1t also allows
but one witness and one challenger for each
party.
COLUMBUS, March l2-SENATE-A bill In
troduced by Senator Brorein amends the law
as to noxious weeds in highways SO that the
owner of the property shall be notified to cut
them, and If he does not do so within reason
able time, the supervisor shall cause it to be
done at his expense. The senate passed Sena-
tor Doty's bill providing that the same court
shall not grant more than one new trial on the
weight of the evidence, and that no court
shall grant q new trial under the penalty of q
party decreasing increasing the amonnt of
recovery. The senate passed Senator VOL
colts bill making it misdemeanor to shoot,
main or trap any carrier pigeons Senator
Garfeld's civil service reform bill will be con-
sidered by the senate. 1t was taken from the
table Friday and placed at the foot Of the cal
endar
HoUsE-The house Friday morning devoted
two hours to the consideration OF local bills,
and large number Of them were passed. Mr..
Shaw's bill providing for the erection OF pub