The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-04-24
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

| the Senate. Tuesday. The osteopathic
profession is now recognized by the State.
These bills were passed in the Senate:
Amending road laws so that dirt excavated
from bitches need not be placed on the
highway; Making service of summons
upon infants over IA on said infant and
guardian OF parents, and under IA. on
guardian or parents; Repeating law giving
attorneys opportunity to file affidavits Of
prejudice against Judges of Circuit Court:
Extending six months the term OF office Of
Dayton Board of Equalization; Authoriz
Board of Education of Cincinnati to refund
school bonds: Giving interurban railways
the same rights TO condemn property out
OF municipalities as are now conferred
upon steam railroads.
One OF the most important bills of the
session was passed by the House without
dissenting vote. 1t is designed to do
away with the practice of obtaining au-
thOrity from the General Assembly to
transfer balances in township and county
funds. Fully 25 per cent. of the business
transacted by the Legislature is made up
OF this one particular class.
The Herrick bill for Juvenile Court in
Cincinnati and Cleveland was passed.
These bills were passed, Wednesday, in
the Senate: Allowing County Commits
missiOners $500 per year for travelling ex-
penses in case the Commissioners are not
on salary; Allowing gas, electric light
and electric railways to consolidate in case
they are operated from the same plant:
That penitentiary prisoner, when a
party to suit, may. at the discretion of
the Judge, be present at the trial; Provid-
ing for the State to take over the home at
Madison, Lake County. for INDECENT ex-
soldiers, sailors and marines and their
wives and widows; Authorizing the or
ganizatiOn Of installment Incorporation
companies; Allowing s5per day extra
compensation to Common Pleas Judges
who hold Courts outside of their home
counties; Requiring annual reports to the
Railroad Commissioners from street and
interurban railways: Authorizing Sandus-
ky County Commissioners to issue 5000
bonds for bridge purposes.
The House defeated the Guerin eight
hour bill, the measure receiving but forty
one affirmative votes.
The powers Of the State Fire Marshal
are enlarged in the Brannock bill, which
was passed by the House and sent to the
Senate. 1t authorizes him to summon
witnesses, to force the production Of any
book or paper, and to punish for contempt
by imposing fine and imprisoning the
cOntumaciOus person at will. q
The following bills passed the Senate,
Thursday: To allow two newspapers
in opposite politics to publish, free,
report Of Infirmary Directors; To legal
ize the killing Of the skunk between De-
cember and January Is; To allow one
stOckholder instead Of all to petition Court
to dissolve corporation; To make IS
hours constitute weeks work Of peni- |
tentiary guards instead of IS hours; Re- |
quiring Dayton interurban railways to |
pay into the City Treasury % per cent. of |
charges demanded by city lines for traffic |
accommodations; Ceding to United States |
exclusive jurisdiction over lands used for |
Federal buildings; Amending cemetery |
law so that property containing building |
may be purchased for cemetery purposes;
Amending Section 1896, so as to provide |
for insurance against sickness an temp0r- |
ary, or permanent physical disability.
Ankeney's House bill to extend the 1
the power of a Cleveland Guarantee and |
Trust Company was made a law by the |
Senate.
The House insisted ON its amendment to |
the Patterson redistricting bill and the |
Archer game bill. The House did not ask |
for Conference Committee. The Senate |
asked for a conference in the Archer game |
bill, and on the part Of the Senate, Lieu
tenant Governor Nippert named Senators |
Archer, Herrick and Moore.
The House passed the Gear bill reQuir-
ing County Commissioners and Township
Trustees to place the public money on
deposit in banks that will pay the best
rate Of interest therefor and provide the
strongest safeguards against loss.
The House passed by a unanimous vote
the Willis bill, which requires that bank
stock shall be listed by the owners as
assets, and not credits.