The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-03
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.

MONDAY, May 23.-SENArE.-No business be-
session OF the Senate.
HoUsE.-The following Senate bills we're
passed: To require Justices Of tho Peace to
make reports to prosecuting attorneys in GRIM
inal cases in reference to crier for the SUI
preme Court relative to Circuit Court Com
missoners for the payment OF interest on ed
ucatioual funds, and to repeal section 3,477
amending the law in reference to tho transfer
Of insane soldiers 10 Kalamazoo asylum for
tho relief of INDECENT blind scholars attending
the Michigan School for the Blind House
bills: In reference to township Boards OF
Health repeating the laws for payment oil
bountie5 10 volunteers and regulating appeals
from Proba courts.
TUESDAY, May A.-SENArE.-House bills
passed. Prohibiting railroad companies from
carrying inflammable oils or fluids on passen-
ger trains; amending the charter OF Ishpem-
ing; relative to the organization and manage
ment OF asylums for the insane; for the publ
cation OF the laws and documents; repeating
obsolete highway laws relative TO letting
contracts by State officers or Boards of Control.
The Senate concurred III the following appoint
ments made by the Governor: Peter h. LOOMS.
of Jackson, to be u member Of the State Board
reau s. Crosby, resigned; John Avery, of Green
ville member of the State Board of Health, in
place Of Robert Il. KedZie resigned. The Sem
ate agreed to the House concurrent resolution
for adjournment Wednesday, June 8, and final
adjournment June IL.
HoUsE.-A resolution directing all committee
clerks to assist the Engros,ing and Enrolling
Clerk in the enrolment of bills was adopted
The following House bills passed on third
reading: For the sale of portion of the De-
troit and Saline plank road, in the city of De-
trot repeating the Detroit Park act Of 1871
reorganlzng tho Thirteenth, Nineteenth and
Twenty first, and creating the Twenty-eighth
judicial circuit relative TO the State library
The House Till amending section SO, relative to
taxes, was lost, reconsidered and tabled. The
resolution for adjournment was amended sc
az to make the date for closing business June
8, OF final adj ournment June IL.
WEDNESDAY, May 25.-SENATE--The follow
ing House bills passed: Detaching Rockville
from Saginaw county and attaching the sam,
to Bay county amending the consolidated
Game laws, section No. 2,095; Senate bill
amending the laws relating to proceeding,
against debtors by attachment for an amend
ment to the constitution relative to the salaries
of Justices Of the Circuit Court Reconsid
cred and tabled: Amending the laws regard
ing the salaries Of State officers to compe
steam vessels to provide fre-screens for smoke
stacks to punish truancy.
HoUsE.-The messenger boys, fourteen il
number, presented peaker Moffat with silve
salver water pitcher and goblots, the presenta
lion speech being made by Representative
Kinnc. The bill 10 restore the death penalty
by hanging passed the House-yeas 56, nay'
81. The bill IN reference to uniform ballots wal
lost. petition was presented, signed by near
" all the lawyers In Saginaw county. asking fol-
the . sssage Of the bill to buy the Howell COM
pilation over the Governors veto. Senate bills
passed to amend the act relative t.
the compensation Of the Commissioners
Of Railroads, and for the uniform reg
uIation Of State institutions. The following
House bills passed: Amending the laws relative
10 the State Prison; relating to offeuses against
chastity aud decency. Subsequently reconsid-
cred and tabled: Amending the laws relative to
street railways; relative to the fees of County
Clerks; making an appropriation of $4,000 to
the Agricultural Colleges. The bill to confer
II land grant in the upper peninsula upon the
Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company
was lost, yeas Ga, nays 25-not two-thirds. The
vote was reconsidered and an evening session
ordered. The Ontonagon and Brule River
Railroad Land-Grant bill passed the House
his evening by vote Of yeas 50, NAYS 49, The
bill was ordered to take immediate effect.
THURSDAY, May 26.-SESArE.-The Hous,
bill to restore the death penalty by hanging fol
the crime OF murder in the second degree wat
indefinitely postponed-yeas IS; nays, 8. The
following House bills were passed: Repeating
the Park act of Detroit, and for the relief of in
digent scholars in the Michigan School for the
Blind.
HoUsE.-The following passed on the thirC
reading: Senate bill authorizing suits to b,
brought against insurance companies in Circuit
Courts; house bill making an appropriation fol
tho State Board Of Health amend
ing the act OF 1877 relative to part
nership associations; extending tho TIM,
of completion OF the Marquette, Hough
ton and Ontonagon railroad. The bill L
establish chair Of eclectic medicine in Micbi
gan University was lost. the day In the Hous,
vas passed in discussing the compilation que
ton. The substitute Of bill similar TO tn,
bill for the purchase of Judge Howeli's compil
alton was rejected-yeas 80, nays TO- The bll
for the election OF a compiler was referred [,
the committee of the whole.
FRIDAY. May 27.-SENATE.- following
House bills passed on third reading: RELATIVE
to Boards of Health and health officers il
| townships The joint resolution relative t.
the claim OF Pugh and Lowe, ex-Clerks Of thu
Supreme Court, was lost, reconsidered ans
tabled.
HoUsE.-Speaker Moffat appointed Repre-
sentatives Belden, G.. ii. Hopkins, King, Ear
and Parsons as a Special Committee on th
Compi'Ation bills. Tue session was spent IL
90 mittee OF the whole. Both houses ad
journed until Monday evening.
MONDAY, May 30.The Legislature recon
vcned at $50 this evening, with quorum il
both houses, but little was done. The Cover
ner noticed the signing OF several bills, among
which was the bill providing for tho publica
ton Of 10000 copies Of Michigan in In,
War" and the Till to tax telegraph and telc
phone lines. by resolution the use OF IN,
House was granted TO soiourner Truth TO do