The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-11
AMOUNT OF WORK DONE

up to the time of the adjournment at half-past
8 yesterday consists of the introduction of 1873
bills and fourteen joint resolutions in the
House, and seventy-seven bills and ten joint
resolutions in the Senate the passage OF per-
haps dozen or twenty Of the most unimport-
ant bills by each house. only three or four of
winch heye yet received the sign manual
"David II. Jerome, Governor and the blocking
out and planning III committees and otherwise
for the long list Of bills OF every name and nat
ure that are sure to be introduced during the
nine days remaining Of the fifty (the constitu-
tional time for the introduction of bills and
joint resolutions), after the reassembling of
the Legislature. Unless all signs fail, each
member will return at that time fresh from his
constituents the dear peope-with a good
sized grp-sack full OF bills, good, bad and in
different, and then the one who knows the
Legislative ropes best will be the one whose
balls will be most likely to pass and receive the
executive approval, as that one point often
times enters more largely into the question OF
the success or failure of a bill than does real
merit.
A SENSIBLE PROPOSITION
is before the Legislature lii the shape of
proposed constitutional amendment regarding
the appointment Of the Clerk Of the Supreme
Court. At the time of the adoption OF the
present const tuition, the court, then u de-
cldedly one-horse affair, migrated from county
they met was for the time being the Clerk OF
the court. The migratory part has been
changed, but the Clerk part hasn't, so that for
years the court has sat at Lansing, with
Clerk appointed for them by the Clerk OF lug
ham county CASUALLY Deputy CouutyC lerk),
and with no power to choose their own Clerk,
though they have the power TO render decisions
in ali other matters that cannot be disputed or
appealed from. The court thinks g she
knows herself" and therefore asks the priv
ilege of choosing her own Clerk. The people
seem as afraid of constitutional amendment
a. n cat does of hot SOAP but 1t IL hoped they
may think twice before voting down this one,
if submitted TO them, as they did two years
ago.
PROBATE JUDGES SALARIES.
The subject of Probate judges salaries has
been vexed question with other Legislatures,
a. it is with this. Since the Supreme Court de-
cided two years ago that the Office was not
county office, and that the Supervisors of tho
several counties had no power to raise or lower
their salaries, II has come 10 be necessity that
such salaries should be fixed by Legislative en-
actment, the standard being the total popula-
ton of the several counties. The trouble now
is, az two years ago. TO agree upon figures that
shall please the Legislators and inha bitants of
all portions of the State. bill OF the kind
was defeated by the last Legislature. and now
the Senate has just considered a similar one,
fixing the salaries, rs a rule, from $500 to $500
higher than the same Judges are nowreceiving,
which was lost by vote Of 10 TO 16, and then
reconsidered and tabled. Tho figures will
doubtless be cut down somewhat and it,
passage again attempted, when 1t will quite
| likely pass.
The proposition to appropriate $4,000 with