Daily Ohio Statesman

The Ohio Legislature

Tuesday, January 13.

Senate—Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Smith. Mr.
Bierce was excused for an indefinite period.—
Petitions were presented by Messrs. McBurney,
Perrill, Sines and Gunckel, which were appropriately
referred.

In the temporary absence of the Lieutenant
Governor, Mr. Hitchcock was sworn in, and
entered upon the discharge of his duties as
President pro tem. Sundry bills were read the
second time and committed. Mr. Sprague gave
notice of a new bill. Mr. Lang introduced a
bill, which was read the first time, To amend
an act entitled an act to provide for the creation
and regulation of incorporated companies in
the State of Ohio, passed May 1, 1852.

A manuscript copy of the Quartermaster-
General's report was sent in, and the Senate
ordered the printing of four thousand copies in
English and one thousand in German—
Mr. Perrill offered the following preamble
and resolution, which were adopted:

Whereas, Frank W. Knox, formerly a resident
of the county of Franklin, in the State
of Ohio, but who has for two years previous to
the breaking out of the rebellion, been residing
in Marshall county, in the State of Missouri,
and was driven therefrom by the rebellion and
his personal property taken from him, he returning
to and taking up his residence in Columbus,
Ohio, his wife and children being permanently
here, and he himself intending to make this
his permanent residence; and

Whereas, Since his return to Ohio, the
said Knox has become very much deranged, so
much so, as to render it unsafe to keep him in
a private family, nor can such attention be given
him outside of an Asylum as would be likely
to insure his recovery; therefore

Resolved, That the standing committee on
Benevolent Institutions be instructed to inquire
into the facts of the case, and if found as above
stated that they report to the Senate such action
as they shall deem just, to secure his admission
into the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum.

On motion of Mr. Sherrard, one hundred
copies of the joint resolution, authorizing the
joint committee to inquire into railroad charges,
were ordered to be printed.

On motion of Mr. Lang, it was

Resolved, That the Military committee be
required to obtain all necessary information as
to the manner in which hospital stores are
transmitted to Ohio soldiers in the field; whether
the same are delivered to them as directed
by the several committees organized for that
purpose; and to report at an early day, what
legislation is necessary to enable our soldiers
in the field to receive such
stores without loss
or delay.

The Senate spent the forenoon
and all of the afternoon
in committee of the
Whole, discussing the proposition of Mr. Hitchcock,
providing for a tax levy in each county
to aid the families
of
soldiers in such county.

Those who oppose this proposition favor the
present mode of levying the tax—making it a
State levy, like the school tax.

After the Senate came out of
committee, it
adjourned until to-morrow at ten o'clock.

House—Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Grover.
The Clerk informed
the House, through the
Speaker, that he had appointed D. C. Cox, of
Belmont county, an Assistant Clerk, pursuant
to the authority
given him in the resolution of
yesterday, on
that subject. Mr. Cox was sworn
in; and entered upon the discharge of his duties.

Petitions were presented by Messrs. Keyser, of
Noble, O'Harrow and
Vance, which were appropriately
referred. Among them was a petition
from Noble county, numerously signed, for a
law to prohibit the immigration into this State
of "Free Americans of African descent."

House bill, making partial appropriations of
the General Revenue for the year 1863, was
read the second and third times, and passed.

Sundry bills were read the second time and
committed.

Mr. Bradbury offered the following joint resolution,
which was over under the rule: