The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-03-31

Columbus, March 24.--senate--Aft.
er a long discussion the senate passed
Senator Dunlaps bill to regulate the
manufacture and sale of renovated.
butter. The bill got 20 votes. It re-
quires makers of renovated butter to
stamp It as such. Neglect Is to be
punished by fine Of from IS to 5000.
or by imprisonment from 30 to go days
for a second offense. House bill to ap
propriate $12,500 to complete the Ohis
building at the Louisiana purchase ex
position was passed in the senate
The original appropriation was !76,
900. Mr. Silberger's bill to regulate
theaters and other assembly halls was
recommended by the judiciary com
mittee amended by the judiciary com
mittee amended so as to apply to thea
ters with seating capacity Of 750 or
more and leaving out other halls.
House-The house passed the Har.
vey bill. placing all the special attor-
neys of the several state departments
under the attorney general. Having
passed the senate, the bill Is now q
law The canal bill has been made q
special order for 1:35 p. m. Thursday.
and there Is a gathering Of the clans
here for the purpose Of boosting or
fighting the bill AZ interests of each
dictate. Bills passed: Increasing the
number of inspectors in the depart.
ment of workshops and factories by
two to reimburse Company b, Ohio
engineers, for losses; making general
an old law providing for four town
ships combining for road improve
ment purposes and making permanent
the board of trustees. The Paine bill,
to limit the jurisdiction of justices OF
the peace, was defeated
Columbus March 25-Senate---Vic.
tory continues IN nercb on the banner
of the antj.saIoon neople. In the sen.
4 ate Thursday afternoon the Brannock
/ district optiop hill was referred to the
comnittee nm judiciary in spite of thu.
f,pbt made Inv the lioi,or interests for
rs reference To the COMMITTEES ON city
affairs Senator +. T. n Austin. OF
Toledo made the motion to refer to
tbe civ afYairs committee. Senator
J,,dson of Erie. Senator Chamber.
lain. of Lorain; Senator Harris, of
/ Ashtabula. and Senator Carson, Of
Greene. all spoke against the motion.
/ The senate judiciary committee agrees
with Attorney General Ellis that the
bills for the relief of bondsmen Of pub
lie officials are unconstitutional.
House-During the civil war one of
the greatest disasters was the explo-
sion of the steamer Sultana. carrying
homeward several thousand union sol.
diers, who perished in the waters Of
/ the Mississippi Thursday Represen.
tative Well;er. of Stark county, intro.
I duced n bill appropriating $4,000 to
erect a monument in the state house
park commemorating this tragic event
During the same hour a committee re-
ported favorably the Buckley bill to
appropriate a like amount for a mon.
ument to Gen. Phil Sheridan at Som.
der the heading Of changes in the mu
ceived a bill from Jones, of Delaware
the control of boards OF public serv
ice. Another by Bassett, of Lucas, pro
vides for the construction Of new de
partment of construction.
Columbus March 26.-Senate-The
senate passed the hudson bill which
appropriates sS 600 TO he used bv the
CATION Of the two score filtration and
sewage disposal plans in the state
The bin of senator Oyerturf. which
saws that majority of the Issued
stock of n corporation instead of thu
capitaI stock. NAV direct a decrease
of captal was passed. The Moore
bill providing that the members of tn,
board of public works should deyot;
their entire time to canal work. wa,
passed. II Increases the .pay from
$500 to $4,000 per year. II reuuirc,
the members OF the board to act a,
canal superintendents and puts ont q