The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-01-04
The Law-Makers.

| Speaker Reynolds distribution both O
| charmanships and committeeShipS wa.
generally satisfactory to the members. n,
faction and no section Of the State was tx
nOred. The Democrats. according to tn,
custom, were not given any chairmanship.
in the House, as they were in the Senate
but they did not expect any, and say tina
the Speaker was eminently fair in his divi
sion among them of the minority places OF
the committee which were allotted them.
Peter Mckenzie, the Cleveland Repre-.
sentative, introduced far reaching street
railroad bill. Designed primarily forsap,
plicatiOn in Cleveland, it nevertheless is
general in its scope, and applies with full
force to the street railway lines of Cincin-
natl and other cities. The chief provision
of the bill is the requirement for sub
mission to vote Of the people Of street
railroad grants and extensions of existing
grants.
The House refused to express sympathy
with the Beers of South Africa, and by a
vote of 63 to 4S indefinitely postponed the
Brumbaugh resolution, which was the
special order of the day. The vote was
strictly party one.
Representative Comings of Lorain, in
trOduced bill providing for carrying on
the Important work now being done by the
State of Ohio in conjunction with the Ma
tiOnal Government Of making tOpO-
graphical map of the entire State.
Senator DOdge's joint resolution, pro-
viding for another issue of Howe's History
of Ohio. was variously amended and
finally adopted by the Senate. As amend
ed, $500 copies will be printed, the Sena-
tors to be allowed seventy-five copies
each: eX-Lieut. Gov. Jones and ex-GOv-
Bushnell, fifty copies each; the members
of the House fifty copies each, and the leg
islative correspondents one copy each
Provision is also made for the supplying of
certain libraries and historical societies.
The remaining copies will be sold under
the direction Of the Secretary of State, at
81 per set, the proceeds to go to the general
revenue fund.
Both branches adjourned until Monday
Chairman McKinnon of the Finance
Committee, introduced in the House Mon
day the first sundry appropriation bill. 1t
appropriates the following amounts: For
the MassillOn State Hospital, current ex.
pense, $4,000; Columbus State Hospital,
current expense, $4,000; Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home, salaries and cur
rent expenses, $3.50; Boys Industrial
School, current expense, $3.50; Secretary
Of State, stationery, 5000; Ohio Peniten-
tiary, current expenses, $4,000; Attorney
Generals office, current expenses, $500.
A large number Of bills OF minor impOr-
tance were introduced.
The Senate passed the Elmer bill, pro-
giding for an increase of the tax for school
purposes.
A bill by Mr.. Marchant provides that
State or county claims against railroad
shall be in the nature Of first liens,
Neither the House nor Senate convened
Monday until 4:S0p, m.
The Senate, Tuesday, passed Senator
Roudebush's salary bill, reducing mate
rally the salaries of county officials of
ClermOnt County.
Senator Williams introduced two bills,
one abOlishing the use of dog in quail
hunting, and the other requiring a state
ment Of ingredients of all fertilizers made
in Ohio,
Senator Bright introduced bill in
amendment including in the list of taxation
exemptions the properties Of all societies
1eyoted to the relief of INDECENT soldiers
and INDECENT preachers and the families of
both.
Bills were introduced In the House as
follows: Extending to police and justice
courts the law prohibiting any but attOr-
neys from practicing law and fOrbidding
judges to act as counsel in cases; granting
a s, ,0QO pension to William Virgins of the
Forty fourth o. V. l., who lost his left
eye, right thumb and left fOrefnger firing
salute at the Soldiers Home at Sandusky
on the Fourth of July, 1891; permitting the
villages lying In two townships 10 incOr-
porate On petition of thirty freeholders of
the largest township.
The Military Committee reported favor
ably Senator Browns bill providing for
the appointment of a commission Of six to
locate the positions of Ohio soldiers at the
battle Of Vicksburg.
Two bills passed the Senate Wednesday,
Senator Wightman's, providing for the
election of an additional Common Pleas
Judge in the Second Subdivision of the
Fourth Judicial District, Lorain, Medira
and Summit Counties, and Senator
Browns, providing for the appointment of
a commission to locate the position of Ohio
soldiers in the battles about VickSburg.
BY resolution of Senator Dodge, John
BOpp and Walter Brooks of Cleveland,
were allowed ten days extra pay for serv-
ices at the opening of the session. The
names had been omitted in the original al
lOwance.
In the House bills were introduced as
follows: To compel township trustees to
pay the cost of removing bodies from
abandoned church burying grounds; pro-
viding closed season for all feathered game
until Nov. Is, 1902, after which open sea-
son to be Nov. 15 to Dec. 1, inclusive; per-
hitting township trustees to build side
walks and foot bridges on petition of
twelve freeholders; giving probate judges
concurrent jurisdiction in injunctiOns,
when common pleas and circuit judges are
absent from the county seat; authorizing
appeal of cases from justice and police
courts to the Cleveland Insolvency Court.