Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-17
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE
WHAT THE STATE LAWMAKERS
IN BOTH BRANCHES ARE
DOING.


recorders, surveyors and clerks of
common pleas courts shall begin terms
on January 1 following the fall cleo
tions Bills passed: To amend sec
ton abolishing joint sub-school dis
tricts so as to conform to condition
of centralized township schools in
Geauga county; to amend section 4037
relating to the granting of teachers
certificates in counties, so that the
first certificate shall be for two years;
providing that certificates to teach
special branches may be granted in
cities; to provide against the use of
reports made to the inspector of work
shops and factories as evidence in
courts; to provide for an annual tax of
81 on meat and milk dealers instead of
so cents semi-annually.
House-Bills passed: Amending
the liquor laws so as to require saloon
keepers to furnish bond of $1,000 as
security for good behavior after their
second conviction, or to abate their
places as nuisances; authorizing city
council of Cincinnati to issue bonds for
the erection of buildings for Univer-
sity of Cincinnati; making stricter
provisions for visitation of children
placed in private homes by trustees
of children's homes and codifying chil-
dren's home laws; authorizing the is
suance of duplicate warrants on state
treasury; providing that the senior
presiding Judge of a division of the su-
preme court shall be chief justice in
odd numbered years, and junior pre-
siding Judge shall be chief justice in
even numbered years; authorizing de-
ficiency bill, carrying $345,67496; fix
ing penalty Of from six months in
workhouse to five years In peniten-
tiary for theft of any piece of railroad
or trolley equipment which might en-
danger life; amending search and
seizure" act and providing that sign
ers of all local option petitions must
affix their addresses.
Columbus, o. Senate. Bills
passed: Providing that rural boards
of education must provide schools
when there are Is or more pupils in
the district, or provide transportation
to another district; putting coroners
on salaries was reported back from
the special committee and passed. It
puts the graduations on population.
For the first $1,000 they get $700 and
for each additional thousand Sc. The
maximum is $4,000. II the house con-
ours in the passage of the Atwell bill
passed by the senate, the state school
commissioner may appoint two high
school inspectors at $4,000 per annum
each to serve two years, to inspect
high schools and fix their grades.
Their terms shall begin September l.,
1908. Senator Hafner reported on be-
half of the senate members of the
conference committee on the Atwell
initiative and referendum resolution
that they were unable to agree and
asked that they be discharged. The
report was adopted. Senator West
called attention to the fact that the
report was not signed by majority
of the whole committee and the adop-
ton of the report could not work the
discharge of the committee.
The house defeated the bill by Rep
resentative Braun of Franklin county
providing for uniform financial ad-
ministration of all municipal water
works in Ohio. Foster of Hancock
county led the opposition, saying that
the bill would interfere with home
rule. The house passed the Erwin
bill appropriating $45,000 for fire sup
port of common schools in districts
where the revenue is insufficient to
pay teachers the minimum salary of
$40 a month, under suspension of the
rules.
Columbus, O.-The following bills
were introduced in the Senate on
Monday: Authorizing board of ed
ucation of Auglaize township, Allen
county, to pay Kate Turner $4S for
term when her certificate lapsed; re-
quiring label of syrups to show per-
centage of corn syrup (glucose); re-
quiring cities to furnish free water
to hospitals that have charity pa
tients; extending powers OF library
sinking fund trustees to money accu-
mulated before they were created,
covers special case in Cleveland
where a s250,000 bond issue was de-
clared illegal, but the library people
still got the money. Bills passed:
Authorizing the city of Springfield and
state to equally divide the cost of
monument to Gen. George Rogers
Clark at Springfield; permitting Hi
ram college to cancel outstanding
stock
House-Resolution offered: au-
thorizing the governor to appoint a
state capitol commission of SO men,
bers, one from each county, to report
January 10, 1909, to plan for an en-
larged capitol. Bill passed: Author
izing 2-mill tax levy for normal
school in Lebanon.