The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-03-17

THRoUGH-BEeINNING OF THE END.
The tax bill was taken up by the Senate
on Tuesday Of this week, and gone over
as carefully in committee of the whole
as it was by the House, Tuesday and
Wednesday and part of to-day being
occupied in its consideration, until
finally at noon ts-day the vote on its
final passage was reached and the bill
passed by vote of yeas 30, nays 2,
Senator'S Amber and Brown voting no.
in the course of its cOnsi deratiOn the
Senate made forty amendments to the
bill as it passed the House. A few of
these, on being submitted to the tax
commission as required by the law Gre
ating the commission, were disapprCved,
and the Senate recOnsidered and rejected
such, yet leaving about thirty actual
amendments to the bill. At a session
of the House this evening these were
all cOncurred in and the bill now goes
to the governor for his approval, which
it is sure to receive at the earliest Op-
portunity. The state will then have a
new system of assessing and collecting
taxes, which no previous legislature
with all the other work on its hands
has been able TO devise and pass.
After comparatively little wrangling
less than was supposed-the Senate
on the Sd took up the congressional re-
apportiOnmeDt bill, hurried 1t through
the committee of the whole and finally
passed it by vote of % to 5 nays.
those voting no. being Senators Amber,
Andrews, Fitzpatrick. TOOker and
Welch. The title of the bill was chang
ed so that it is simply "a bill to divide
the state of Michigan into eleven con-
gressiOnal districts." Each district
shall be entitled to elect one represen-
tative, the districts TO be constituted of
the several counties, and numbered as
follows, to wit:
First, The First District shall consist OF
the county Of Wayne.
Second, The Second District shall consist of
the Counties Of Monroe, Lenawee, Hillsdale
and WashteDaw.
Third, The Third District shall consist OF
the counties OF Jackson, Calhoun, Branch,
Barry and Eaton.
Fourth, The Fourth District shall consist Of
the counties Of Berrien, Cass, st. Joseph, Kal-
amazoO and Van Buren,.
Fifth, The Fifth District shall consist Of the
counties Of Allegan, Kent, Ottawa and Ionia.
Sixth, The Sixth District shall consist OF the
counties Of Livingston, lngham, Oakland,
| Shiawassee and Genesee.
Seventh, The Seventh District shall consist
| OF the counties OF MacOmb, st. Clair, Saniac,
| Lapeer, TuscOla and Huron.
Eighth, The Eighth District shall consist Of
the counties OF MOntcalm, Gratiot, Saginaw
and Clinton,
Ninth, The Ninth District shall consist of
the counties OF Bay, Midland, Isabella, Meoosta,
Osceola, Glare, Gadwin, Missaukee, Roscom-
mon, Ogemaw, IOscO, Altoona, Osc0da, Craw-
| ford, Kalkasks, OtsegO, MODtmOrency, Alpene,
Presque Isle, ChebOygan aud Emmett.
Tenth, The Tenth District shall consist Of
| the counties of Muskegon, Oceana, NewaygO,
Lake, Mason, Manistee, Wexford, Benzie, Grand
Traverse, Leelanaw, Antrim, KaIkaska, Char
| levOix and ManitOu.
Eleventh, The Eleventh District shall con-
sist OF the counties In the Upper Peninsula.
viz, counties Of Mackinac, Chippewa, School
craft, Delta, Menominee, Marquette, Hough-
| ton, Baraga, Keweenaw, Isle Royal and Onton-
agOn.
1t was generally understood at once
that the House would not pass the bill
without considerably amending it, and
so the sequel showed. After spending
two or three days in "fixing" bill to
suit certain would-be congressman who
are now members of that body, the
House on the 9th instant, by vote of
SO yeas to 28 nays, passed one that left
the first FIVE districts as in the Senate
bill, but so materially changed the last
six that we herewith give them as fol-
lows:
| Sixth. The sixth district shall consist of the
cOuntiss Of Clinton, Ingbam, Livingston, Cen
esee and Oakland.
Seventh. The seventh district shall consist
OF the counties Of Macomb, st. Clair, LAGER,
Sanilac and Huron.
| Eighth. The eighth district shall consist Of
/ the counties Of Shiawassee, Saginaw, GratiOt,
Montcalm, Isabella and Midland.
Ninth. The ninth district shall consist OF
the counties Of MuskegoD, Oceana, Newaygo,
Mecosta, Osctola, Like, Mason, Manisteee, Wex-
ferd, Benzie and Missaukee.
Tenth. The tenth district shall consist
the counties Of Tuscols, Bay, Gladwin, Clare
Roscommon, Ogemaw loscO, Crawford, Osco-
d., Altoona, Apsna, Montmorency, 0tsego,
PresQus Isle, ChebOygan and Emmett
Eleventh. The eeeventh district shall consist
OF the counties OF Grand Traverse, Kalkaska,
Antrim, Leeanaw, Charlevoix, Manitou, Mack
mac, Chippewa, Sch0olcraft, Delta, Menomiuee.
Marquette, Hought0D, Baraga, Keweenaw, Isle
Royal and 0ntOnagon.
In these amendments the Senate re-
fused to concur, and committee Of
conference consisting of nine Zone from
each district) from each house, has been
ordered, and is now in session. 1t is
quite likely that an entirely new deal
all around will be the outcome, as
neither house seems disposed to accept