The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-06

BILE Purchase of the Howell Compilation
by the State-Some Of the Asl<ed-for APP
propriations-"A rbor Day "-Miscellane-
GUS References.
From Our Own Correspondent
LANSING, March "A, 1888
One case which, while 1t did not come di-
rectly within the line of legislation, has Ia
ken up as much time Of the Legislators and
has been as often and as much commented
ON by newspapers of the State as any other
before the present Legislature, has met its
death-blow and will be heard of no more 1t
is the now-famous
REIILY-JENNIsoN CONTEST CASE,
to which we have more than once before al
luded in these letters II our memory
serves us rightly, we gave something of a
history OF the case in our last, and will not
need to do so now Suffice it that the case
came up for hearing and final action in each
of the two houses on Thursday cs2d), at
which time perfect flood of speeches for
and against the resolution provid-
ing for joint convention Of
the Legislature for the purpose
of recounting the votes cast in Wayne
county i'm November last, for Circuit Judge
were poured out by interested members.
The case assumed, as it has from the first
| more OF partisan aspect than any other
question that has come before the present
! Legislature, excepting, of course, the Sem
| atorial question, and the shower of eloquence
poured all day in the House, and all the
afternoon in the Senate, when night closed
In and the consideration was postponed
until o'clock a m of Friday in the Senate,
and $3.50 in the House. At those hours the
discussion began again, being conducted
mostly by lawyer members of the two
houses, and the principal question being
whether or no the Legislature had any con-
| stitutiOnal right to order recount or the
votes as asked in the petition of Mr.. Reilly,
who claims that such recount, il ordered
and had, would show errors enough to more
than overbalance the forty-eght majority
by which Mr. Jennison was declared elected
Mr. Reilly who is Democracy was
championed by the Democrats and
Greenbackers Of the two houses,
while the opposition to recount was
championed by Republicans. After the dis
cussion had lasted continuously for more than
eight hours and, as the time approached
for the final vote on the adoption or rejec-
ton of the resolution, dilatory motions and
tiibustering of all kinds began, in the ap-
parent attempt to postpone the decision as
long as possible. When the final vote was
reached, 1t resulted in a defeat for Mr.. Reilly
and his supporters by vote in the House OF
yeas, ~; nays, 40; and in the Senate by a
vote of yeas, IA; nays, 49, or total vote of
yeas, 81; nays 63. motion was next made
| to adopt the report of the Judiciary Com
mittee reporting against the Joint conven-
ton That prevailed by vote of yeas, Il;
nays, - To put an etfectual death-stamp
on the further consideration of the PROPOSE
ton, a motion was made by Mr. Austin "a
Republican Senator) TO reconsidep the vote
by which the Senate adopted it; and, on the
motion of Senator Guitars, that motion was
laid on the table by vote OF yeas, II nays.
10 That puts the whole proposition beyond
the power of n resurrection
The report of the minority OF the Judici-
ary Committee was then taken up and its
consideration indefinitely postponed, by
about the same vote as those upon the other
portions of the question. Thus ends, so far
as the Legislature is concerned, sharply
contested, and, as many think, very import
ant matter.
REPRESENTATIVES, SNYDER STAYS
As some time ago explained, two contests
for seats for members were made in the
House. For some reason unknown TO the
writer hereof the cases have been allowed
to drag along something az Is done in Con
gress until the session was more than hall
over and on the 18th inst. areport was made
on the case of MuloOney VS. Snyder, who
contested on the ground that Snyder was
Register of Deeds of Calhoun county ut the
time of the election last November, and
therefore ineligible under section of article
4 OF the constitution of the State The
Committee on Elections unanimously re-
ported against the prayer OF the contestant
citing among other precedents the case OF
Senator Lowell, of Kalamazoo, whose seat
was contested at the session of 1881, upon
exactly similar grounds The case of Null.
ooney VS. Snyder came up under special
order on the DIST, and was de-
cided in favor of the sitting member by the
very decisive vote OF yeas 53, nays -, sc
Representative Snyder will hold the fort II
ii takes all summer" This was in no sense
a partisan decision, as the committee that
first reported against Mr.. Mulooney was
composed of at least two Democrats, while
those voting for and against were not di
vided by party lines.
HowEILs COMPILATION LEGAL EVIDENCE.
Gov. Begole on the 10Th approved the bill
spoken of in our last, to allow Howells com
piation TO be used in all the courts of the
State and to be considered as legal evidence
This approval gives perhaps as general sat
isfaction rs any approval OF the new Gov
ernor. The approval will very mucf
strengthen the bill for the
PURCHASE OF THE WORK,
to the number of 1900 sets of two volumes
each, at a cost of s45, 900. This purchase
would do away with the necessity of elect
ing q compiler, and then waiting two o.
three years for the book to be prepared ant
printed One volume is now in use, and thu
other Will be very soon after the adjourn
ment of the present Legislature No ont
claims that any other compiler could do thu
work better or more accurately, while yer,
few could do it SO well, as has Judge Howell
Certain it is that the work Is far superior Il
that of the compiler of the laws in 1871
The growth of the State has necessaril.
called for larger quantity Of the books
than in 1871, yet the cost of sufficient mum
Der to supply those entitled to them was
$40 600, while now a better work can be haC
in larger quantities and for s45,O 600.
REGARDING APPROPRIATIONS.
AS many of the appropriation bills are first
sent to the committee having in charge the
special institution for which they appropri
ate and then TO the Committee on Appro
priations and Finance it is an exceedingly
difficult job to get at all, or even any consid
cradle portion, of the amounts asked for IN
the way of appropriations. Atpresent, how
ever the House Committee on Ways and
Means has the following bills under consid
Grafton: For the Deaf and Dumb Asylum al
Flint, Sl29,0 15; for the State Normal School
Mt Ypsilanti, SIS, 165; Industrial Home fol
Girls at Adrian, Sl00, $50: State Public School
at Coldwater. SIS, 400; School for the Blind
at Lansing, $751;, $50; University Of Michigan
s67 900; for frescoing the Capitol, So, 900
for the Board of Fish Commissioners, s25,
OW. These items make total OF Sbl4, !Sb
The disposition of the commit
tee il to scrutiniZe every item closely