Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-03
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE
WHAT THE STATE LAWMAKERS
IN BOTH BRANCHES ARE
DOING,

Columbus, O.-Senate-The follow
ing bills were passed on Thursday:
Confning exercise of right of
eminent domain by interurban cleo
trio roads to private right of way; to
authorize the state board of health to
require the publication of sewage and
public water supplies; to provide for
county hospitals for the care of per-
sons suffering from tuberculosis; re-
uuiring railroads to rebuild fences de-
stroyed by storm or flood; permitting
court to draw a Jury from another
county to reduce expense when
change of venue is necessary. House
Providing for the election of town
ship officers and justices of the peace
on separate ballot; to make child
abandonment punishable by one to
three years Imprisonment; to restrict
to 20 per cent, mortgages by county
fair associations which may be al
lowed by county commissioners; al
lowing expenditure of $4,000 for
building a bridge without a referen-
DUN; appropriating for common
schools, $2,435,0 900 to be distributed
at rate OF $1.95 per pupil.
Columbus, O.-Two bills legal
izing Sunday baseball are ready
for the vote in the house at Columbus.
Smith of Cuyahoga has one giving
city councils power to grant permits
for amateur games where no admis-
sion is to be charged, and the council
is to pass upon the place where the
games are to be played.
Columbus, O.-In the house on FRI
day the Ward Senate bill, giving mus
inequalities the right to regulate the
use, control and maintenance Of
crowded tenements, private schools
and other buildings used for purposes
of human occupancy and habitation.
was passed with but three dissenting
votes.
The bill OF Mr.. Kolinsky, to compel
agents who sell steamship and rail-
way tickets for transportation to and
from foreign countries, and who trans,
NIT money to foreign countries, to file
a $4,000 bond with the auditor of state.
was passed. The measure is designed
to protect foreigners who do sort of
banking business with such agents.
The bill of Mr.. Pears of Allen coun-
ty, amending the municipal code so
that the city solicitor shall be the
prosecuting attorney in the mayors
went through with a unanimous vote.
Columbus, O.-The following bills
were introduced in the senate Monday:
Amending depository act for boards OF
education so that banks will not be re,
quired to give guaranty company
bonds, but any bond approved by the
board; providing that graduates OF
first-class high schools are to be ad-
mitted to all colleges, universities or
normal schUols supported by the state;
authorizing toWrShip trustees and mu-
nicipal councils to 1srue bonds for the
relief of people in disttessr ppuSiding
that country, golf, tenThs and similar
clubs NAV enact rules to keep stock
ISSUED in the control of. their member
shin; providing that mayors of newly
Incorporated villages may call special
elections for school purposes; making
minimum Interest rates 2 per cent for
active and per cent for inactive
funds in state depositaries; to author
iZe county commissioners to condemn
and remove dams in streams where
they are thought TO be dangerous; ap-
propriating S150,000 to erect a monu-
ment to Rutherford B. Hayes in Spie-
gel Grove, the Hayes homestead at
Fremont.
House = Resolutions offered: For
the appointment of a committee to
inquire into the subject of raising rev.
enues for the state and report January
/. 1903; for a constitutional amend.
ment providing an educational qualifi.
cation for electors; for a constitu.
tional amendment to permit general
assembly to enact special laws fixing
salaries OF county officers; that no
bills except appropriation bills be ac.
cepted by the house after April 4 pro-
viding for the appointment by the gov.
ernor of three citizens to revise and
codify the banking laws of the state
and report to the next general assem-
bly,; providing for two night sessions
to consider bills for passage to which
no objection is raised by any member.