Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-04-01
OHIO LEGISLATURE


fail to label il as such. Senator Con-
nell succeeded in amending the bill TO
make the minimum fine $5, but the
bill passed without further altera-'
tion. The senate passed the bill ap-.
priating Sl2,500 for the compile
ton of the Ohio building at the ST..
Louis exposition.
House-Bills passed: Qualifying
the risks to be deemed as assumed by
employees; amending road laws relat--
ing to road districts of two to four
townships so as to authorize reap.
pointment of special road commits
sioners, increasing their bonds from
$500 to $1,000 and giving them same
powers as county commissioners In
road contracts; increasing number OF
inspectors in state department of
workshops and factories from IL to,
13 and increasing salaries of same
from $1,000 to $1,000 per annum: to
provide for the appointment of as
signment commissioners at salary
not to exceed $4,000 per annum.
The house passed these senate bills:
To organize the attorney generals
department and place all counsel en-
ployed by state departments under
his control; to reimburse Company b..
First battalion of engineers, o. N
c., in the sum of $725 for loss by fire
Columbus. o., March 25.-The house
on Thursday in effect killed the john
ston canal bills providing for the
leasing of the BERN banks of the
Miami and Erie canals to the electric
mule company for 30 years.
Instead of long drawn out fight
on the floor, as had been expected.
the bills were disposed of with sum-
mary cXpediency. When the first
bill was read Schuler, of Dayton
moved to table it. Johnston object
ed to this action and moved recon-
mittment to the committee on public
works.
Schuler thereupon moved to table
the motion of recommittment and
his motion carried-63 to 46. This
carried to the table the bill as well.
The enabling act was similarly dis
posed of and motions to reconsider
were voted down.
Representative Johnston offered
| an adjournment resolution yesterday
which is accepted as that having the
administrative sanction. 1t provides
that when the Legislature adjourns
on April Is. it adiourns until April %,
when it shall adjourn sine die at
noon.
These bills passed the house: To.
fix the time for fling bills of excep-
ton; re-enactng mechanics lien law
and including employees of public con-
tractors; authorizing the granting of
franchises for railroads and to cure.
franchises for steam heating con-
Germs repealed by the municipal code;
until successors are elected and quail
fed; general act to take the place
of a special act relating to appoint
ment of court stenographers and
providing for such appointments
maximum salary S2,4OO per year.
The following bills passed the SEN
ate: Amending the Chapman bill to
provide that terms of appointive Off
| GERS shall be extended until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified-the
bill covers the cases of appointive as
SCISSORS in Cleveland and Cincinnati:
eXempting from the application of
| the insurance laws mutual burial as
sociations allowing members not to
exceed 800 for burial expenses.
Columbus, March 26.-The house
passed the following bills yesterdays:
To enable county agricultural So
cieties to mortgage their grounds to
! purchase more land, or to renew or
extend existing debts; providing for
the payment of the expenses of treat
! ing persons bitten by mad dogs for
rabies, not exceeding $500, out of the
! dog tax fund; appropriating $4,000
for salaries of members of the legis-
| lature, $500 for contingent expenses
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expenses of the senate and $1,000 for
expenses of committees.
The senate passed bills: Appro-
| pria ting $4,000 for the use of the
state board of health in pursuing the
investigation of the water purfica-
! tion and sewage publication works
of Ohio for report to the general as
sembly at the next session; increas-
ing from $500 to $500 year the
salaries of the members of the board
of public works who are to serve as
superintendent of the canal system
and give their whole attention to the
work: providing that in reducing the
capital stock of any corporation only
the issued stock may be voted
In the senate another general cleo
tion bill was introduced by Senator
Harvey.
Columbus, March 29.-In the house
yesterday billS were introduced as
/ follows: For the relief of Paul
Shoot, a member of the national
guard at Fremont, who fell and dis
located an elbow joint while in camp
and has n bad arm as the result. 1t
proposes to pay him $500; making the
penalty for taking a horse from
where it has been hitched fine of $25
to $500.
The house passed two bills ad5
thorizing county auditors to fill the
vacancies where assessors have died
or removed from the ward and au-
thorizing trustees of townships to fill
vacancies where assessors have died
or removed from townships.
The senate passed bill appropriat-
ing $4,000 for salaries, mileage and
per diem of legislators and employees; (;
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