The true northerner., 1883-03-23


THE attempt to hold a Legislative session
on Mondoy evening. the 18th inst. was lament
able failure. but the late trains brought In many
members, 40 that the adjournment until night
insured good attendance for next day. In the
Senate, seventeen, just quorum, were present.
They simply met, called the roll and adjourned.
In the House, about twenty present, who
disbanded without delay or formality.
On Tuesday, March 13. the House passed
the following bills Relative to the inspection OF
Illuminating oils: To repeal ar act to provide
for the incorporation of savings associations:
TO authorize the formation OF clubs for social
purposes. The House joint resolution providing
for the appointments Of Commissioner for the
purpose of inquiring into and reporting upon
Michigan Central and Michigan Southern rail-
roads under the provisions of the respective
charters thereof was reported favorably and Is
passed House bill No. 22 relative to the protection
OF game Both houses passed numerous
other bills OF local nature Arguments for and
against the removal Of the county seat of lngham
county from Mason to Lansing were heard by
the House Judiciary Committee.
The Senate passed the House bill to pro-
tect and preserve State bitches on the I4th inst
also the following Senate bills: To provide for
lums In certain cases Ito provide for laying out
State road In the county OF Leeanaw, and
the law r,s TO- provide for the protection au OF
the bill to provide for special
inspector OF illuminating oils In the city OF De-
troit and adjacent townships, and the bill to
amend the act establishing an insurance bureau
were reported adversely, and laid on the table.
The following House bills passed: To
relative to public instruction; to provide for the
construction of sidewalks along highways In
townships and villages: to provide
for and establish Board of Poor Commissioners
in the city of Detroit; to amend the
laws of 1881 relative TO the levy and col
lection OF taxes; to organize the township OF
Warner In the county OF Antrim; to incorporate
the village of Moreley, Mecosta county: to pro-
hibit law partners of Prosecuting Attorneys from
being engaged or interested in the defense OF
any person, charged with any offense, that such
Prosecuting Attorney IL required to prosecute; to
amend the act incorporating the village OF Cedar
Springs, Kent county; to enable the Board OF
by loan to purchase or build bridge across
Portage Lake, In said county. large number
of bills were passed to the order Of third read
ing. The Governor has approved the bill to
amend the act Incorporating the City of Wyan-
dotte; to authorize the City Of Ypsilanu to con-
struct bridge over the Huron river; to detach
certain lands from the township OF Houghton
and attach the same to the township OF Frank
lin, Houghton county; and the bill to authorize
the city of Saginaw to raise money for the build
ing of a Court House.
No BILLS were passed by the Senate on
Thursday. March Is. Gov. Begole vetoed the
Saginaw Charter bill with this message: Il can
not approve those provisions which require
Aldermen and Supervisors to be property-hold-
ing taxpayers. / am opposed to any test which
shall prevent an honest and intelligent electOr
from holding any municipal office, and certainly
think his fellow-citiZens are competent to judge
of his honesty and intelligence. With property
holding qualification as to Aldermen and Super
visors, extensive fire or the payment of honest
deb might deprive a Common Council OF it's
quorum or leave ward without a Supervisor.
/ certainly can sec no good reason why man
possessed of all of the necessary qualifications
for Governor or member of the Legislature
should be declared ineligible to the Office Of
Alderman or Supervisor. The appointment of
Supervisors by the Common Council IL equally
Objectionable, and opposed to our customs and
the spirit of our free institutions" Bills passed
by the House: House bills to prohibit the
catching Of fish with nets in Lake st. Clair; to
revise and consolidate laws relating to public In
struction and primary schools; granting and de-
filming the powers and duties Of incorporated
villages relative to the organization, regulation
and management Of the asylums for the insane.
and effectually to provide for the care, mainte-
nance and recovery Of the insane; Senate bill
relative to notices Of diseases dangerous to pub
lie health. The Senate bill relative to divorce
was lost. reconsidered and recommtted. House
bill to extend and regulate the liability Of en-
ployers to make compensation for personal in
juries suffered by workmen in their service was
indefinitely postponed. In the committee OF
the whole House bill to revise the laws provid-
ing for the incorporation OF companies for min
ing, smelling and manufacturing iron, copper,
silver, mineral, coal and other ores and minerals
was tabled.
The business in the Legislature on Friday,
March l6. comprised the following: The Senate
passed the Senate bill to amend an act TO provide
for the assessment OF property and the levy and
collection of taxes thereon and seven House bills
to incorporate villages or amend charters. The
House passed one Senate and two House bills OF
the same nature; also the Senate bill to provide
for the purchase and use in the general courts Of
this State of the compilation Of laws made by
Judge Andrew Howell. The vote stood 63 TO ls,
and the bill is now ready for the Gov
ernor's signature. The book il published
by Chicago firm. similar bill
passed two years ago, but was vetoed by Gov.
Jerome; The Governor approved an act pro
viding for the protection of game and several in
corporation bills. He withdrew his veto Of the
Saginaw Charter bill. Ii was sent back to the
Senate, where 1t was relieved of its objectionable
features, passed by the House, and finally
approved. lively discussion occurred in the
House committee of the whole over bill tp Sc
cure to the minority of stockholders In corpora
tions the power of electing a representative
membership in the Board of Directors. 1t was
amended so as to exempt the Upper Peninsula
and passed to third reading.