The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.

TUESDAY, March 15.- SEsArB.-Several re-
monstrances and petitions were presented.
The following were read q third time and
to drain a certain swamp in Clarencs amend
ing the law In reference to the transfer of in
sane soldiers to the Kalamazoo Insane Asylum
House bills requiring an annual statement from
the Manistee River Improvement Company: in
cooperating Bloomingdale incorporating Fort
Gratiot In committee OF the whole the SEN
ate agreed to the bills making clear distinction
as to what are legal holidays repeating the
law Furnishing an accessory before the fact the
same as the principal fclon to amend the nav
igation laws relating to the government o.
the Ioaia House OF Correction.
HoUsE.-The following passed House bills
for a standard form Of fire insurance policy
making the signal service records evidence
authorizing the formation Of electric light COM
panies amending the railroad laws in respect
To tickets revising the charter OF Hudson for
the collection OF information regarding the
deaf, dumb, blind and insane incorporating
Lolldrd Christi III Reform Chur ;hes /; amending
the laws relative to industrial schools amend
lug section 3.040 relative to charitable
associations Senate bills amending laws
relative to burying-grounds amending laws
relative to the republication OF Supreme
Twelfth and creating the Twenty-fifth judicial
circuits amen iiog the laws Of 1875 relative to
manufacturing companies TO provide for the
sale of lands by executors in certain cases to
make signal-service reports testimony In courts.
Representative Frazer offered concurrent
resolution OF coincidence aud sympathy regard
ing the assassination of the Gear Alexander H.,
which was ad0pted-yeas, A nays, 20.
WEDNESDAY, March 6.-SENATE.-John I.
for
Congress in the Seventh district to succeed Con-
ger, will resign his seat i'll the Senate here
saturday. The following Senate bills passed
Desig nating legal hOl days. amending section
2,73l relative 10 navigation OF rivers trans
ierring the appropriation IRON the stale House
If Corrections; regulating tue Iona House
Of Correction; regulating the granting o.
diplomas to the Normal School; apprUpr1atlne
1860 for improvements at the Iona House o
corrections; Amending section 8, l54, relative L.
Detroit House OF Correction; House bills APP
proprlatng 81, QUO Tor The State lteiorni
school; amending the laws relative to pro
ceedlngs against debtors by attachment The
committee Oh judiciary reported III favor of
amending section u, arCclo q, ut the constitution
The Senate table the resolution OF condo.en.e
with the Russian llu perial family and concurredin
the House amendments 10 the bill for publish
ing the Supreme Court records. The speciai
order on the contested election case in kala-
mazoo county came up TINS afternoon The
sitting Senator, Mr.. Lowell, was accorded his
scat.
HoUsE.-In committee Of tho whole, the
question Of buying Ives painting of Zachariah
Chandler came up, and the hottest kind of do
bate ensued, SURPRISING anything yet heard
this session IN earnestness, and, toward the co1c
III bitterness of spirit. Finally a substitute wan
adopted by the committee. The committee OF
difference on d. agrcements relative to the Oil
inspection bill agreed to retain the inspection
fec Of l6 cents per package, and no package to
exceed hfty-tiye gallons.
THURSDAY, March 17.-SESArE.-The Senate
concurred in the recommendation OF the COM
mttee Of conference as to the disagreement Of
the two houses OH the Oil Inspection blli. A
concurrent resolution, recommending the Pres
ident to appoint Jonathan j. Woodmau Com
missioner OF Agriculture, adopted. The
following passed on third reading For an
amendment To tho constitution for the cleo
ton of more than one Circuit Judge in the city
oil Detroit changing the boundarl OF the Isll-
peming school district revising the charter of
Hudson authorizing Detroit to convey land h.
the q neral Government on Belle isle for light
house purposes.
HoUsE.-Tho House passed the following
House bills: Amending the laws OF 1870 rel
alive to bridges in incorporated villages for
State road along the Monastique river joint
resolution nslSing Congress to aid by grant OF
land the construction OF the Ontonsgon nm
Montreal river railroad. The Joint resolution
for the purchase OF Lewis 7. Ives portrait of
Zach Chandler was defeated-yeas A., nays "A.
The joint resolution Was subsequently recon-
si1ered and tabled. Resolutions expressive
Of the satisfaction with whi,h the House
learned Of the improving conf ion OF Speaker
Moffst,now sick at bis home inTraverrcC itv al,o
OF the apprec alton OF the rvices OF Spc X, p;
tenn. Ball, were adopted also recognizn (
services OF Irishmen in battling for the repub-
lie from the revolutionary period down 10 the
present, and OF good wishes to "ths sons and
daughters Of st. Patrick" The last WAS adopt