The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-16
THE STATE CAPITAL.


The Legislature Takes It's Long Recess
Possible Appropriations - No Senator
EIected--Bribery and Corruption Charged
and AN Investigation Ordered-Fish Com
missioncrs To Be Investigated - Sunday
References.
From Our Own Correspondent
LANSING, Feb. 3, 1883
As we predicted in our last, the two houses
OF the Legislature have this afternoon en-
tered upon the usual
LONG RECESS
which IL to continue until IL o'clock n IN OF
Tuesday, the 18th inst, and during which all
committees having in charge the several
State inst tutions are expected to visit such
Institutions and spend sufficient time in
careful examination of all details connected
with the same to enable them to legislate
carefully, judiciously and economically with
regard to all such institutions, their stu
dents, Inmates. officers professors and at
tendants OF course, the items OF appropri-
alton To be recommended for the various
Stite benehciaries are the main rea-
sons why these visits should be made
and carefully made at that One OF
the most serious cha ges made against Gov.
Begole by the Greenbackers. whose party
man he was, is that in his inaugural mes
sage he recommended that the different in
situations under State control should be
dea t by as Literally as their managers and
officers ask, az much az any Republican Gov
ernor has ever done, while he was expected
to recommend large cutting down OF APP
preparations
may be able in my next to give some
thing of an idea of the
POSSIBLE APPROPRIATIONS
OF the session, though 1t IL hardly probable
that the bills for that purpose will al be in
bv that time. Even after this Introduction
such bills are so subject TO amendment that
1t Is hardly safe TO guess as TO any particular
appropriation before the passage of the bill
by both house, and the approval OF the bill
by the Governor
THE SENATORIAL MIDDLE
still continues, with no special signs Of an
immediate settlement Since my last five
Joint conventions have been held (making
thirteen in all up to date, and fourteen
joint ballots taken (making grand
total Of twenty seven) While the
voting has scattered worse than any old
musket the leading candidates have just
about held their own, the first ballot on Tues
day giving Ferry and Stout each AZ, on
Wednesday each 10, on Thursday Ferry 40,
and Stout 80, on Friday Ferry -, and Stout
-, and to-day rs each. 1t became generally
known early last evening that ut n caucus of
the Stout faction all caucus obligations had
of the Greenback wing would vote for Mr..
Ferry TO-DAY, so, when the first roll-call pro-
crossed with no especial change from those
of the last three weeks feeling of
disal pointment was man tested by the
vast audience that had braved the
binding storm to witness n scene and an
election, rs they imagined. Senator Norton,
of Oakland, was the first to make Il break"
and before the second ballot was announced
changed his vote from Stout 10 Ferry, and
was followed by Senators Roost and Whiting
and one or two members of the House. As
had been anticipated, this was followed by
Senator Duncan, OF Berrien, and two or
three members of the House who had
voted for Ferry, who as promptly changed
their votes TO others of the scattering
candidates. thus leaving the leading can
didate as far from an election rs before the
Greenback votes came to his aid. This move
on The part of the Republicans is because of
the fact, as they state, that they do not
want any Republican elected who cannot be
elected by Republican votes and without the
al OF any Greenbacker or Democrat 1t is
known that only few among all the fifty
Ferry supporters take such ultra or decided
grounds as To cause them to back out
of the Ferry traces If the opposition
believed for VI time that enough
others were liable TO turn to Ferry TO elect
him after one or two more ballots. After
the usual amount of tilibustering on each
side, the ballots proceeded until four had
been taken the last showing the leading
candidate twelve votes short of the number
required to elect As high as twenty per-
sons were voted for on some of the four
ballots taken to-day, while he last showed
seventeen in the list with Ferry against the
field, as follows: