The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-03-06
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

The House, Friday, Ieconsidered the
vote whereby it defeated the Hypes BIZ.
which places private banks on the same
plane with incorporated banks so far as
supervision by the State Board OF Bank
Equalization is concerned and made it q
special order for Tuesday.
The House has placed itself or record as
being in favor of electing the United States
Senators by direct vote Of the people.
This action was taken when the Worth
ingtOn resolution came up for cOnsidera-
ton. 1t being adopted by vote OF % to
%. The resolution asks Congress to take
the necessary action.
Among the new Senate bill introduced
were: Providing that no poison shall be
sold without proper registration in book
to be kept by the druggist. The measure
prevents the sale OF cocaine and morphine
without the prescription Of a physician,
except in original One-eighth ounce pack
ages; Looking to the better care and
preservation OF the battle flags in the State
House flagrOOm and making an appropri-
alton of 81 500 therefore; Authorizing
County Commissioners Of counties in
which there are located free hospitals to
give aid in the sum OF s., 500 per annm.
During the usual Monday flood OF new
bills the following which are out Of the
usual order, were introduced:
Amending Sections Ais, 40S. 400 and 4O9a,
to better define the powers of the Fish and
Game Commission and the officers ap-
pointed by il.
Amending the present lien laws so that
in all cases claims Of laborers and mechan-
les shall have preference over all other
claims and shall be paid before claims Of
persons Furnishing material to a contractor
and claims ofpersons furnishing materials
upon claims OF subcontract0rs before
claims of principal contractors.
| Making lien OF judgment in all Courts
Of record effective from day OF Judgment
is rendered instead Of dating back to first
day Of term.
Authorizing Ohio mutual fire insurance
companies to extend their insurance Of
member after death until the estate is set
tied and new insurance is obtained II de-
sired. Time cannot exceed two years,
however.
These bills were passed by the Senate:
To compel inmates Of the GallipOlis Epi-
leptic Asylum to 20 to their homes to vote.
thousand per year for preparing abstracts
was enacted into law by the Senate. To
put Clark County Commissioners on sal.
ary Of s., 400 per annum each was enacted
into law.
Two important bills passed the House.
Tuesday. One was the bill to establish
schools for the training OF public school
teachers, and the other the Cole-Longuarth
bill which doubles the excise tax on the
quasi-public corporations Of the State,
domestic and foreign. The latter after an
all-day debate.
These bills were passed in the Senate:
Putting the Natural Gas Trusteesiof Toledo
out Of business; Authorizing Georgetown,
Brown County. to sell its interest in rail-
way begun under an act Of the General
Assembly; Fixing the compensation Of
Commissioners Of Noble County at 5000;
Designating ArbOr Day also as Bird Day,
and requiring the dissemination OF infor-
nation to school pupils regarding protec-
tion of trees and birds; Appr0priating
s., 1000, 900 for the support OF the common
schools: Relieving surety companies OF
making a deposit Of So, 900 with the State.
The House, after stormy session,
Wednesday, passed the Beall municipal
local option bill by vote OF So to l6. The
bill provides for local option elections in
municipal corporations Of 40 per cent. Of
the qualified electors.
Other bills passed as follows: To amend
Section 2SO6 of the Revised Statutes Of
Ohio. The bill provides that unincOrpo-
rated banks or joint stock banks, with cap
ital stock divided into shares. shall be
placed on same basis for taxation as in
corporated banks; To supplement an act
authorizing the appointment Of commits
sion to ascertain and mark the positions
occupied by Ohio troops in the siege OF
Vicksburg, and to make An appropriation
to pay the personal expenses of the COM
mission; To erect a monument to the
soldiers and sailors Of Harrison County.
Among the bills passed in the Senate
were: That incorporated companies may
dissolve " without Court proceedings where
all stockholders agree to dissolution;
Amending Section 5O27 SO that suits may
be instituted against nonresidents in any
county where property Is found or where
an action originates; Extending to all
wOrkhOuse boards in the State the right to
establish parole rules; Requiring certih-
cate from Auditor Of Board Of Education
that money is in fund before any contract
can be entered into by the board involving
an expenditure; Amending the law ore
ating the Fish and Game Commission.
The amendments overcome the difficulties
of making prosecutions under the present
law.
Among the bills passed by the House,
Thursday, were: To provide fJf the con-
struction and maintenance Of building
to commemorative services of the soldiers,
sailors, marines and pioneers Of the sew
eral counties of the State; To amend an
act to provide for the placing Of low-water
alarms on steam boilers, and providing q
penalty for noncompliance; Providing for
the burial Of INDECENT soldiers and sailors
and their mothers, wives or widows and
army nurses by increasing the amount
allowed from SIS to $50, to be paid by the
county; To abolish the Office Of lnfirmary
Director in Toledo; Requiring Township
Trustees to keep fences around abandoned
burial grounds in repair and to cut weeds,
grass and briers in such grounds.
The Senate passed the Patterson redis-
tricting bill, which leaves the congressional
districts as they now are.
Other bills were passed as follows:
Amending and codifying Boxwell school
laws. 1t provides for uniform examina-,
tions twice year in township and joint
sub-district schools; Requiring petition Of
tvo.thirfs of the electors. instead of one