The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
AT THE CAPITAL.

Resolutions al COndOlcnce-lsefOr form
school Appropriation
and Insurancc-Chandlc Portrait
One Contest Settied-Swamp Lands
Another Recommendations -'rrib-
utcs tO, and ResignatiOn "a Senator
Rich-Odtls and Ends.
LANSING, March 10, 1881.
The war regarding the
COMPILATION AND PUBLICATION
OF the laws OF the State, before alluded TO,
is gaining in interest and intensity. So many
and so varied have been the bids for doing the
work (all agreeing, OF course, to do first-class
job in every respect) that the hackers OF the
so-called "Howell BILL that passed the
Senate some days ago have author
lied the committee to whom 1t was
referred in the House to cut down the
figures from SO to $3.50 per volume for the
completed work, and, az the State proposes to
buy at once IL, 500 sets OF the complied laws, or
25,0 900 volumes, the reduction makes a nice lit
tie difference of 80, 500-almost q fortune 10
any ordinary man. 1t is not certain that the
bill will pass even In this modified form.
THE SHORTEST BILL
OF the session IN that of Senator Patterson, and
reads
" The people of he State of Michigan enact,
That the name of Ella Il. JONES' of Calhoun
county, be and the same Is changed to Ella L.
Tompkins."
The distribution OF the book entitled
MICHIGAN IN THE WAR,
which was assigned To special committee Of
the two houses, has proven to be such big
job owing to the fact that only !, 500 were pub
lished, OF which amount the Governor receives
500, leaving 1000 to be distributed among a
l.alf 49, -. -
posed TO issue an edition OF 20, 900 or more, to
be bound in cloth and retailed at 81 each. 1t
certainly seems but just that the soldiers
should each have copy OF a work that il con-
sidered 30 valuable that as high as $40 has
been offered for single copy.
- "PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISH"
This is what the legislator proved himself,
who, when the bill WAS under consideration to
appropriate money for building our Capitol
building, moved to insert q proviso that the
roof should be OF copper only on condition
that the price OF the copper should not exceed
a certain sum. In that form the bill passed,
and when the roof was needed it was found
impossible to buy the copper without exceed
ing, by small sum, the price designated, So as
result, 1t became nt cesSafy to Use TIN instead.
That roof now leaks badly. and bill to appro-
pirate several Thousand dollars to put on such
u roof as few dollars additional would have
put on then, Will now pass, without doubt. A
State, as an individual, may be penny wise
and pound FOOLISH"
CoNDoLENCE
Representative Fraser attempted. on Tuesday
last, TO immortalize his name by introducing "A
long-wnded resolution of coincidence to the
family of the late Emperor of Russia, in which
he spoke of the deceased as zone of the
greatest reformers of the age" The resolution
was adopted, Al to 20, but, when the Senate
% sat down upon it by tabling it. the House
recalled IT. As buresque anoth. L Represen-
tatlve offered q very elaborate resolution Of
sympathy toward the surviving friends of the
late Adam, at his sudden and uutimely taking
of.
REFoRM-scHooL APPROPRIATION.
The Senate on Wednesday passed the bill
previously passed BY the House. which appro-
pirates $4,000 for the current expenses of the
state Reform School for 1881 and 1882 one
half to be drawn from the treasury in each year.
RAILROAD AND INSURANCE. COMPANIES.
These are two important subjects, aud ones
that necessarily require and will receive quito
large amount Of legislation at every session of
the Legislature. The present session lis no ex-
ception IN this respect and tue thrd house "
contains quite a e>pectable sprinkling of those
who are here in the interest of one or the other
OF these interests. Notably among the former
class, Is the contest over the old Ontonagon
and State Line land grant, made by Congress
twenty-five years ago. The proposed bill liz to
confer TO anoth,r road the lands, rights
The question affects great interests in the
Upper Peninsula, and az there are two sides to |
all questions, so this has its two two classes OF
interests claiming to own or control the lands
In the grant. Az both sides are here and will be
heard by counsel before the joint committees on
public lands, we may give the particulars more
In detail in subsequent letter.
As every profession and class has its mutual
insurance company, so a b II is now pending for
the incorporation Of Michigan Millers' Mutual
Company.
THE CHANDLER PORTRAIT
has taken up considerable time and stirred up
much bad blood during the week, the discus
sion in the House of the proposition to pur-
chase the portrait-a very fine and very life
like representation of the late Senator Chandler
calling out some sharp criticisms and some
unpleasant illusions on both sides. When the
resolution came up next day it was lost by the
following vote:
leas-Messrs. Austin, Ballentne, Barton,
BeldeD, Bennett. Bdleman, Bergman Carpen-
ter. Cobb. CottreD, Dundas, Earle, Easton Ed
wards, Estabrook, Fyfe, Gale. Garfield, Grang-
or, Grant, Horford, II. J. Hopkins, Howard,
Hubbard, Klnne, Klei, Markham, Martin. Mer-
ser. w. Nelson, North. Oliver, Parsons, b. Il.
Partridge, Pomeroy, Prndle, Remick Seymour,
Stephen on, Ward, Waring, J. II. White, Wing,
Woodruff
Nays -Messrs. Alvord, Baldwin, Bishop.
Blood, Bloom, Carus, GARNER, Cooper, Capley,
oOrph, Outcneon, davenport, Dewey, Dler,
Eakins Eaton, Eisenman, Fraser. Gibbs. Cor
man, Goodman, Hackett Hawkins, Hitchcock,
G.. H. Hopkins, Hendricks King, Knapp, La Du,
Littell Mulvey, Park, A. s. aItridge, Perham,
Root. Rose, Van Loo, j. f. White, Willett,
Wolcott, Wyckof, Warrington. Young and the
Speaker pro tem.-44
1t was subsequently reconsidered and tabled,
and may fare better at the next attempt.
ONE CONTEST DECIDED.
The contested case of Kirby w. Lowell for
the seat from the Eleventh Senatorial district
was, ''after many days" settled on the 10th. by
vote OF 10 to lin favor Of allowing Mr. Lowell 10
retain his seat notwithstanding he was Treas
urer of Kalamazoo at the time OF the election
and up to the day before he took his seat i'm the
Senate. The vote in detail may be interesting,
and Isl
Yeas -Messrs. Billings. Brown, Dickinson.
Farr, Ford, Goodwin, Greusel fitzpatrick. Nc
Gurk, Mars, Morrison, Patterson, Rich, Shaw,
slant II. Swift, Tooker, Epson and Wel.h-19
all Republicans.
Ndys-Messrs. Dow, Eds,l Rose and
ST. ong-4-the fir I two Republicans and the
last two Democrats.
SWAMP LAND
is the theme Of about one-fourth of all bills
passed, and, at the rate the State has voted it