The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-13

Tax Commission tO He Appointed
ReapportiOning The state - Young
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t['Vr LANSING. May 2, 1881.
Possibly no other measure before the present
Legislature has attracted more attention or has
wider bearing with reference to the future
Of Michigan than the one relative to q
TAX COMMISSION,
which passed the Senate some weeks ago, and
which passed the House on the 5th inst. by
vote Of yeas 81, nays none. We give here
with the bill entire, as follows:
A bill to provide for the appointment OF q
commission to prepare and report bill for the
assessment, levy and collection of taxes, and
to prescribe their duties and provide for their
| compensation.
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michi-
gan enact, That it shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor by and with the advice and consent Of
the Senate, to appoint commission, consisting
of five proper and discreet persons, whose duty
it shall be to prepare suitable bill for the as
sessment, levy and collection of taxes and TO
report the same to the Governor on the COM
pletion thereof. In case of the death, refusal
or inability to act of any members Of SAID COM
mission before it's labors are completed, the
| Governor shall appoint some suitable person or
persons to fill the vacancy.
SEC. 2. The said commission shall forth With
after their appointment meet at the Capitol
and proceed, with all reasonable Dispatch to
prepare and complete such bill, and report the
same Ak above provided and, upon the said
bill being 80 reported, it shall be the
duty Of the Governor to cause the same to
4 be printed by the State Printer, and forward
| copy thereof TO each newspaper in the State
applying therefor, to each member of the
Legislature, and each County Treasurer, and
submit the same TO the Legislature, if then in
session, and If not, then at the next general or
| extra session.
SEC. 3. After the submission of said bill to
the Legislature the members of said commits
sion shall be entitled to seats upon the floor of
4 the Senate and House, for the purpose OF ex-
| planning the provisions OF the said bill and
for that purpose il shall be the duty Of said
commission to remain IN attendance during the
session of the Legislature until such bill Is
! finally passed or otherwise disposed Of, and no
amendment shall be made to said bill in either
| House until after the same shall have been
proposed and submitted TO the said commits
sion, for at least twenty-four houis, or until
they have an opportunity to report to the
House in which such amendment originated
their views in relation thereto.
SEC. 4. The members of said commission
shall receive reasonable compensation for
services and expenses, to be fixed and allowed
| by the State Board of Auditors and such COM
mission may employ clerk, at compensation
to be approved and allowed by the Board OF
State Auditors.
! NEW APPoRTIoNMENT.
State anew into Congressional districts at this
session, under the census of 1880, owing to a
failure Of the Apportionmcnt bill to pass the
Senate in the closing hours of the last Con-
gress, it cd, redistrict the State into Senatorial
aud Representative districts and to that end
the Senate, on Friday, passed a bill with only
one negative vote ''to apportion anew the Rep
resentatives among the several counties and
districts of this State" 1t reads substantially
as follows:
SECTION /. The People of tie Slate of Michi-
gan enact, That the House or Representatives
sha be composed of members elected agreea-
bly, to ratio Of one Representative for every
| 1888 persons, including civilized persons of
| Indian descent, not members of any tribe, in
each organized county, and one Represent tive
for fraction equal to moiety OF said ratio,
and not included therein that is TO say, within
the county OF Wayne, ten within the counties
Of Kent and Saginaw, four each within the
counties Of Lenawee and st. Clair, three each !:
within the counties of Alegan Bay, Berren,
Branch, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee,
Hillsdale, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo,
| Lapeer, Macomb. Monroe, Montcalm Muske-
gon, Oakland, Ottawa, Sanilac, Shiawassee, st.
Joseph. Tuscols, Van Buren, and Washtenaw,
two each within the counties OF Alpena, Bar
ry, Cass, Grand Traverse, Gratiot Houghton,
Huron, Isabella, Livingston, Manistee Mar
quette. Mason, Mecosta, Menominee, Newaygo,
Oceana and Osceola, one each; the coun-
ties Of Ontonagon, Isle Royal Baraga and
| Keweenaw shall constitute a Representative
district and be entitled to one Representative !;
the counties of Delta, Schoolcraft, Macknaw
and Chippewa shall constitute Representative
district, and be entitled to one Representative !;
the counties of Emmett, Cheboygan and Presque
Isle shall constitute Representative district,
and be entitled to one Representative the
| counties of Otsego. Iosco, Crawford, Oscoda,
Altoona and Ogemaw shall constitute a Repre-
sentative dstri {, and be entitled to one Repre-
L.
zle and kalkaska shall constitute Representa-
tive district, and be entitled TO one Representa-
tive the counties of Manitou, Cnarlevoix, An
trim and Leelanaw shall constitute a Repre-
sentative district, and be entitled TO one Repre-
sentative; the counties OF Missaukee, Clare,
Gladwin, Midland and Roscommon shall consti-
tute one Representative district and be entitled
to one Representative.
If this bill passes the House in it's present
form it will go far to show that the march of
population and power in our State is to the
northward. No county of the four southern
tiers gains Representative while Barry, Berri-
en-. Calhoun, Jackson. Oakland and Washte-
nav each lose one, az does Marquette. of the
| northern counties. Montcalm Muskegon,
Saginaw, Sanac and Tuscola each gain one,
while Alpena, Grand Traverse, Isabella, Mason,
Menominee and Osceola, having all risen above
q moiety of the 6,363 required, will no longer
be classed with other counties to form dis
| trict
| NOT FOR LADIES.
1t seems, after all, that the Michigan Agri-
cultural College is not yet for young ladies-if
ever. Notwithstanding the favorable report
from both the Committees on Agricultural Col
loge and Appropriation and Finance, ON the
bill to appropriate :12, 600 for building hail
for young ladies, and $4,000 to furnish the
same and pay the salary of q teacher and mat
ron for 1882 the Senate on the Sd inst.
struck out al after the onacting clause of the
bill and tabled the title.
| AN INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
For some weeks past rumors have been fyipg
in the air, and have appeared In the Ionia Stan
ddrd and other papers OF the State, charging
Warden John j. Grafton of the State House
of Correction, with neglect, incompetency and
mismanagement of the institution. and on the
81 the Warden and President OF the Board Of
Managers, Hon. Hampton Rich, united in re-
quest to the Legislature for the appointment by
the President OF the Senate and Speaker of the
House Of committee OF two Senator'S and
three Representatives. to IN Ike a complete and
searching INV estgation OF the management OF
the institution in all its parts. Such COM
mittee has been ordered, and consists OF 81, ma
tors Lowell and Fitzpatrick, and REPRESENTATIVES
CutchsoD, Cobb and Litte. The first and last