The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-02-08

There was an animated debate in the
House, which consumed the principal part
1f Thursdays session, OH Mr.. Russells
antitrust bill.
The House agreed to Senate amendments
% Mr.. Atherton's bill requiring the Day
on Street Car Company to employ conduct
3rs on all ears.
The Senate passed the following bills:
House bill making partial appropriations
for the three quarters of the fiscal year
ending November IT, 1900, and the quarter
Of the fiscal year ending February 10, 1901;
making an appropriation for the principal
and interest of the funded debt; House
bill, providing for the incorporation of ter
ritOry which lies in more than one town.
ship; providing for the widening of roads
10 100 feet, and for the levying of tax for
road improvement; amending the laws so
blood relatives may be benefciaries by will
Of funds accumulated in beneficial insti-
tuition or society; requiring administrators
10 deposit with the county treasurer un-
claimed legacies.
Two bills passed the House, Friday, as
FOL. vs.: Mr.. Wirt's Senate bill, provid-
ing that one-half the tax received in the
cities of Akron and Youngstown from for
eign insurance companies shall he paid to
the police fund.
Mr.. Elmer's Senate bill, increasing the
salary of Judge Block of the Cleveland In
| solvency Court to s., 900 per annum.
| The Senate passed Senator Cohen bill,
providing for the taxation of omitted prop
| erty.
The bill introduced by Senator Howard,
apprOpriating S, 600 for the relief of Mrs.
Jane Sleffel, the widowed mother of Wal
ter Sleffel, who contracted consumption as
result of encampment with the State
Guard during the Wheeling Creek riots,
passed the Senate.
| Senator Cohen introduced a bill reduc-
ing the penalty for the theft of bicycle
or for purchasing stolen wheel from fif-
teen to three years in the penitentiary.
A desperate effort to administer knock
out drops to the Clark local option bill in
the Senate proved futile Tuesday.
Although the lobby and the floor Of the
Senate Chamber were thronged with gen.
tlemen anxious 10 throw the measure into
q trance, its friends guarded it so carefully
that it emerged from the ordeal ever
stronger than before. The bill was re.
terred to the Judiciary Committee.
The following bills were introduced in
the House: Providing that the Australian
ballot law shall not apply to election
of municipal officers of villages having
less than 800 voters when there is but ont
candidate; to provide for perpetuation o.
boards of village school examiners aftel
make owners of dogs responsible for dam
ages inflicted; to increase maximum pay o.
road supervisors from $35 to Sl25.
The House, Wednesday. by decisive
vote, passed the bill by Mr.. Satin of Ham
ilton County, abOlishing convict labor.
The death of former Representative Johr
X. Davis of Mahoning, who was member
Of the Sixty ninth and Seventieth Genera
Assemblies, was appropriately observed il
The House in the adoption of resolution
Of respect offered by Mr.. Manchester.
The following bills passed the Senate
Increasing the allowance paid for the bar.
ial of soldiers of the Civil and Spanish
Wars; providing that the tax value of bill.
payable shall be their true value in cash
providing for the exemption of church ant
civic societies from taxation; increasing
the salary of the Supreme Court Judge!
and the Lieutenant Governor; permitting
hotel keepers to post copies of the hOte
laws in five conspicuous places in the no
| tel.