Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-02-28
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings In Borh the Senate and
House.


originally carried an appropriation
of 100000; then it was reduced to
100000, and finally to $4,000. Among
the other senate bills passed were:
Repeating the act dividing Rose town
ship, Carroll county, into two elec1
ton precincts; establishing law uni
form with the laws of other states
on negotiable instruments; fixing n
penalty for the unauthorized pre-
sentation of plays and pusical COM
positions; to promote the efficiency
of the o. N. G. by providing thnt the
state pay the expenses of the annual
encampment.
House.-Bills passed.: Providing
that the age limit in schools for the
deaf be from to 21 years, instead of
3 to Is, as at present; empowering
judges of election to seal up disputed
ballots and send them to boards of
election for decision; prohibiting
members and clerks of boards of cleo
ton from being candidates at any
election Of which they are officials.
The house sat down emphatically
on the effort to amend the Australian
ballot law. The cry was, Let well
enough alone"
Columbus, o., Feb. 2o.-Bills intro
duced. Prohibiting the use of rail-
road, steamboat or other passes by
public officials under penalty of re-
moval from office; to provide state
board of examiners of horseshoers,
to consist of one practical horse
shoer and one veterinary surgeon, ap-
pointed by the governor,
Senate.-A bill was introduced in
the senate to authorize an annual
levy for the maintenance of hospitals
by cities and towns.
Columbus, o., Feb. 22.-Compara-
lively little was done by either
branch of the legislature to-day, be-
fore adjournment for the week at
IL a. m. krause, of Cuyahoga, intro
duced bill in the senate to regulate
the sale of poisons and provide for
proper registration of such sales in a
book to be kept by all druggists.
Herrick, of Cuyahoga, introduced n
bill appropriating $1,500 for the care
and preservation of the battle flags
in the flag room at the state capitol.
The Chamberlain bill making it COM
pulsory for courts to sentence first
offenders, between the ages of 16 and
81 to the state reformatory, and the
Tenney bill removing the limit of two
days which road supervisors may re-
quire from voters in public highways,
were passed by the senate.
House-Bills introduced: To in
crease the wages of county survey
ors from 81 to Sc per day, and of
chain carriers from 81 to 81; to estab-
lish special school district at Ster-
ling, Wayne county.
The Beal local option bill was
made special order of business for
next Wednesday at 10:30 a. m.
Columbus, Feb. 24.-House.-Bills
introduced: To enlarge the powers
and duties of fish and game commits
sion and to require annual reports
from commission, wardens and depu
ties; to compel railroad companies to
erect sheds for protection of car re
pairers,
Senate.-Mr. Hosea offered a reso
luton fixing March II as the date fol
joint session to hear all inter
ests in proposed canal abandonment
The senate passed the bill to require
patients at Gallipolis epileptic hos
| pital to vote in counties from which
they were sent.
Columbus, Feb. 25.-The Cole ex
else tax bill passed the house to-day
| The bill provides for the levying of {
tax of 1 per cent. upon the gross an
nual receipts of electric light, gas
natural gas, pipe line, waterworks
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telegraph, telephone, express ol
union depot companies doing bust
ness in Ohio. A tax of one-half oi
1 per cent. is now imposed upon tn,
gross receipts of all except the las
four named classes of corporations
The house passed the bill providing
for paying the interest on and re
demption of bonds issued by the state
board of agriculture.
The house indefinitely postponed
the resolution providing for an in
vestigation of the state treasurer.
office, the committee to whom tn,
resolution had been referred report
ing that it was unable to find from
an inspection of the books of the of
flee any grounds for an investiga
tion. Another resolution was intro
duced, however, at the request o
State Treasurer Cameron, calling TO
specific charges and providing com
mittee to investigate them in cas-
any are made.
Senate.-The Patterson redistrict
ing bill was passed.
"A joint resolution was introduces
in the senate providing that the peo
pie be given an opportunity at tn
fall election in 1903 to vote on con
stitutional amendment giving tn
governor the veto power. Senate
Harding introduced a bill to amen
the insurance laws so as to brinI
guarantee companies under the gen
| eral statute