Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-07
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings I'm Roth ths senate and
HOnhc.

vote.
Among the house bills passed were
the following,: Permitting domestic
insurance companies to loan money
up to 80 per cent of the value OF land
and improvements, instead OF so per
cent. of land only; giving common
pleas judges of the Fourth judicial
district an increase of $1,000 per year
in salary, payable by the county;
authorizing the publication of legal
notices and county officials reports
in Afro-American papers in all cotin=
ties having population of 100000 or
over.
Senate.-The senate passed the
partial appropriation bill; the Long
worth bill making it misdemeanor
to tap an electric light wire and steal
current.
Columbus, Feb. 2s.--House.--The
last legislative session of the week
was celebrated with. the introduc-
tion of one of the most important
bills that has yet been introduced
1t was fathered by Representative
Cole, of Hancock, but was drawn
after a conference of the administra-
ton leaders in the governors Office
The bill provides for u reduction i'm
the state tax levy of from 2.s9 mills
to 1.35 mills. All of the state levS5.
for the general revenue fund is wipeGp
out by the proposed bill; the bevy for
the sinking fund is reduced from
three-tenths of a, mill to is mills.
the levy for common schools from
one mill to .95 mills, and the levy for
universities is increased from 10
mills to % mills.
The house passed the bill providing
for the administration of the An
drews estate, so that funds can be
obtained and girls industrial school
established at Willoughby, o.
The Hosea joint resolution provid-
ing for a joint session of the house
and senate to consider the question
of canal abandonment, was adopted,
after the date of the session had
been changed from March IS to
March IL.
Senate.-The senate committee on
privileges and elections reported in
favor of Senator Hurst, the member
from Tuscarawas county, in the con-"l
test started by Guernsey" Taylor,
and the report was agreed to.
Columbus, March 3.-House.-Bills
introduced: That election reports of
| township clerks be returned eight
days instead of five days after cleo
ton; giving power to any munici-
pality to permit Sunday baseball;
to compel filing of chattel mortgages
over $50 with county recorder; to
! permit reinsurance Of fire risks; de-
claring sweet clover an obnoxious
weed and making it the duty of
| township officials to cut same; to
! provide for the incorporation of fish
and game propagation and protection
association; giving justices of the
peace jurisdiction in cases involving
election of local option laws; provid-
ing penalty for bank officials who
receive deposits knowing bank to be
| insolvent; to confer upon the COVER
nor the veto power-two-thirds vote
of general assembly can override
veto; to amend state constitution so
that every county shall have at least
one representative; providing that
the minimum salary for a common
school teacher shall be 81 per day
! after August /, 1903.
Mr.. Brown, of Mercer, offered a
resolution providing for sine die adj
journment of legislature on April IA.
Columbus, March 4.-The house of
representatives to-day passed the De-
|
tce act in buying votes in elections,
known as the Garfield law, by vote
| of 80 to "a.
The house passed, in amended
form, the bill comforting police pow
ers on conductors. The part most
violently opposed by labor, which
conferred police powers on conduc-
tors of city street railways, was
taken out of the bill.
The house also passed the Cannon
bill to prohibit the delivery or de-
posit of samples of proprietary reme-
dies, either for external or internal
use, on the premises of any persons,
or the giving of such samples to any
child under the age of IA years, under
penalty.
Another general measure passed
provides that persons riding on
horseback, on a bicycle, tricycle., tam
dem bicycle, locomobile, or automo-
bile, upon meeting carriages or other
vehicles of any description, shall keep
to the right and give two-thirds of
the road.
Senate.-iSenator Hosea introduced
a bill to repeal the valued fire insur-
ance policy law, which requires
company to pay the full amount of
the policy without question as to
whether the property was over-in-
sured.
The bill submitting to vote of the
people of Lorain the question of issu-
ing $4,000 bonds for extension of
water works, passed the senate.
The senate passed the bill prohibit
ing candidates for office from acting
as deputy supervisors or clerks of
election, and the bill to provide for
the care of graves of Federal soldiers
and sailors.
Mr. Herrick, of Cuyahoga, intro
duced bill in the senate fixing the
salaries of members of the Cleveland
decennial board of revision for past
services at $40 per day.