The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-04-14
OUR LEGISLATURE.

The Senate, Tuesday, passed the fol-
lowing bills: Providing that where the
stealings of employe within three years
amounts to sS5 he may be prosecuted for
| felony; the West bill, relating to i'm
munities to witnesses in liquor prosecu-
tiOns; making it a misdemeaDOr for man
ufacturers of high explosives to fail to
| report plans of factories to the State In
spector of Workshops; requiring mine
| owners to keep at mines stretchers, blank
cts. oils, ETC., for the temporary relief of
persons injured or burned in the mines;
authorizing County Commissioners to
care for burial grounds and monuments
of soldiers and sailors.
The House passed the following bills:
Giving Mayors power to close saloons
during riot, penalty for violating the Or
der 500 to 500 fine and ten to thirty days
Imprisonment or both; requiring that
reports of County Commissioners shall
show balances or deficits of funds: Town
ship Trustees authorized to expend not to
exceed $40 in repairs of County bridges:
making general the legal half holiday on
Saturday which now applies only in the
large cities of the State. 1t is asked for
by the smaller banks of the State.
The House, under suspension of the
rules, passed the Senate bill, authorizing
the Governor to receive from the National
WOmen's Relief Corps the colleges and
buildings at Madison. in Lake County.
now used as home for war widows and
army nurses, and to appoint Board of
Trustees to look after them.
The Harrison. or Administration school
code. also known as the Bonebrake code,
was passed by the Senate Wednesday,
after debate which lasted all day.
The House passed the following bills:
To ammend Section SOP of the Revised
Statutes of Ohio, relating to divorce and
alimOny, by providing that Sc, vice in ali
mony cases may be had by publication;
providing for establishing law Libraries
in all counties with salary of librarian
limited to S5O0per annum in counties hav-
ing but one Common Pleas Court; to fix
compensation of COuncilmen in villages
at 81 per meeting for not more than
twenty-fOur meetings per year; to en-
power Village Councils to assess abutting
property for Improvements at not more
than one-third its actnal value.
The Senate, Thursday, passed the fol-
lowing bills:
Making the chief clerk to the Auditor
Of State the Deputy State Auditor, with
power to act as State Auditor in the alb
sence of that official; empowering the
sheriff of any county to appoint, subject
to the approval of the Probate Judge,
three Jail matrons at salaries not to ex-
ceed $50 per month, payable out of the
general revenue fund of the county; pro-
viding five of $500 to $1,000 for any rail-
road company that employs as flagman,
hOstler, or assistant hostler, any person
whe cannot read or write or speak the
English language.
The House defeated the bill increasing
the powers of the clerks of the two houses
and authorizing them to assign the subor-
diate clerks.
The House passed fifteen insurance
bills. Tehy were all drawn and their pas
sage asked for by the State Insurance
Commissioners.
The following bills were introduced in
the House Friday:
Making of general application the stat
ute forbidding the blocking of any high
way by railroad cars for more than five
minutes at time; requiring that in viii
lagos the health Office must be practic-
ing physician; to increase the salary of
members of the general assembly to $500.