The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-25
THE STATE CAPITAL.


The Case Liquor bills squelched-
tive to Recommendations Court Hill
Approved-Mess Mention--The Local op-
ton BIN.
From Our Own Correspondence
LANSING, May IL, 1883
Michigan Legislature has so faithfully car
ied out the precept make haste slowly"
this week, IL q. it seems Almost unnecessary
to give a report of the little Dus ness done
Returning from the Sunday Adjournment on
Monday evening, neither house had quo
rum. 70 business did not begin until Monday
after noon In the House and Tue day morn
Ing In the Senate. Then both houses adj
journed On Tuesday evening to Thursdly
morning, for the Legislative excursion to
Orchard Lake Good work was then done
on Thursday and Friday, but this morning
the House I, uld itself three or four mem
beers short OF aquorIm and, after va n at
tempt to scare up quorum by call of the
il u e. they gave mp in disgust and adj
journed. Tne Senate worked until nearly
noon and tnen ado iIned TO Monday even
ing, which means Tue day before any work
Will lie done. Thus, we are not able report
n very proliti Legis Mt We week.
MORE APPROPRIATION Bills
Two appropli atil n bills per We seem to
be ibout tie craze II la g, and The aver
az has feen KIP up this week tn the
.th the House passed the bill previously
passed Ivy the Senate appropliating sl2,
TO be used as fellows: For painting and
pen Hing the front ex ericr wall or the fe-
male depar ,ment of The Michigan Asylum
at Kalamazoo, 81 100; for erecting an infirin-
airy in connection with the female depart
menu, 5000 Ibis is TO be raised in the tax
of 1885,.
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
was rem @ nbered and pIovid d fer on the
18th, by the assage by the Senate or tho
House IL app or atng Sil.Co9. to be used
a follows: Gu rent expenses for years lSS J
and 1881, $3.50, house for TO o sor Il
h rticul Oure 5000; boiler house an chin
ney, 500 steam pump and pipes, g., 2U1 !;
ia mers instiJ tes 500; library, SO, l25; de-
"a tment of mathemat cs and eng neeiing.
500, chemical de purImelt II, % zoo oy-
ical del artment Sl.!43; h rticultural de-
yartmen s AZ: arm de- artment, So, 80;
otan al department, $2,2Il; repairs on
! vi ding Si,7.0 OF this total, So, lio is to
be sessed and collected in 1888 and slS,-
81 In lSo
MINORITY REPRESENTATION
The Harnard NJ nori v Representation bill,
around which has cl ed 80 much inter-
est and hich has called SO many able men
OF the State 20 Lansing, PASSED The House
some we ks ago and came up III the Senate
on speCi order on the 10Th, and after a
half day II ent in discussing it In commit ee
OF lie VIII le it was put on it's immediate
| passage and received q vote of yeas IL, NAYS
! II. Senator Rome N then rails, d the point
that 10 required yo e two-thirds CT the
senators elect TO pass 1t. and pending very
! long discussion on the pIopoSitiCn and be-
fore the Presidrn5 had made h 8 ruling On
tie questol Senator Saw changed his
vote from yea" to sra" leaving the vote
yeas Ii, nays H. 1t was then declared lost.
was reconsidered and tabled to await the
| retlrn of one or two ab~ent Senators who
| Ennun 70 no Friendly to ha hill
IL is hoped 10 pass 1t unless the President
rules that the two thirds vote s necessary.
AS 1t Is of so much Importance, and may
pass, we give IL entire, as follows:
! A BILL o secure to the minority of stockhold-
ers in corr o-ations tie power OF electing rep
reSentatvo membership in boards or directors.
SECTION /. The People Of the State Of Michi-
gdH enact That In all elections for directors Of
cipal, every stockholdcr shall have the right to
vote, in person or by proxy, the number OF shares
OF stock owned by him for many persons as
there are directors TO be elected; or to cumulate
said shares and give one candidate many
votes as will equal the number OF directors null
tiplied by the number of shares of his stock; OF
to distribute them on the same principle among
many candidates az he shall think hit. Such
corporation shall elect its oiEcers annually. and
the entire number o It's direc jors shall be bal
loted for at one and the same time and not
separately, and such directors shall not be
elected in any other manner; and II upon the
first ballot the entire number of directors are not
elected such ballot shall be void and the stock
holders shall continue TO ballot until the entire
number OF directors shall be elected at one and
the same ballot.
DISPOSAL OF Cases BILLS.
The two ,mous Gaze Liquor bills, so IA
mo rs to be called Case twins, are nov
both as dead as they can well be. The first
modifying the liquor laws so as to allow sa-
looms TO be kept open on all legal holidays
and affixing lighter penalties FIR viola
ton Of the laws, came up on the 10th on
third reading, where The temperance ele
menJ in the House had allowed it to go so al
to beat 1T in such way rs to get rec o d
and 1t was lost by the following emphatic
| voc:
Ieas-Messrs Bixby, Bolger, Brant, Case
Devlin, Ellis, Gran Gregory, Hankerd, King
Meyer, NJ rcum, Noeker, Parker, Parks
III pelle, Robinson, Rummel, Snyder and
! Wiliams-.0.
Nays-Messrs. Adams, Bennett, Bentley
Bonnell, Brown, Black, Candy, Coiweu
CootS Darrah, Davenport, Dickson, DIler
Dunstan, Farmer, Fletcher. Fyfe, Gavelink
Goodman, Hardness, Hayes, Hin ebaug L
Howard, Howe Howell, Hull, Keith, Kelsey
In ght, La Du, North, Pengra, Peri am
Pierce, Pitt, Rose, Shepard, Stone, Van Deu
sen, Van Kleeck- Van Loo, Vincent, Vinton
Waite, Wilson, Woodruff, Wyllis and the
| Speaker-4S
A5sent-Messrs. Alvord Barnard, Bettipger
Bishop, Blacker, Carpenter Clark, Coleman
Cook, Dodge, French, Gieason. Gray, Hop
Kin, Johnson, Leltch, Mart tin, Palmer Phin
ney, Potter, Ram y Reed, Sellers, 1homp
son, Tinham, Train, Warren, Wheeler, WI
lett, Wil.se, WTighj and Youngs-32
The second of the famous bills, TO equal.
lie the tax on matt and spiriJuous liquors a
$40 per onnum and otherw SO change thu
law in favor Of the liquor d alers, came al
in the House in committee of the whole oil
the next day, and after Case and his friend
had fought hard for nearly day o save TIT
bill, the commi tie struck out al after TIT
enacting clause OF the bill and the Hous
concurred in its action in striking out, b.
the following vote
Ycas-Messrs Adams, Bennett, Bentley
Bonnell, Candy, Colwell. Darragh, Daven
rorJ, Dickson, Diller, Farmer, French, Fyfe
Carve ink, Goodman, Hankerd, Hardness
hayes. Howard, Howe, Howell, Keith, Kel
sey, Knight, La Du, Martin, Pengra Perhan
Pierce, Sc lers, Shepard, Van Kleeck, Va
Loo, Vincent Vinton, Warren, White. Wiz
ron, Woodruff, Wyllis, Young az d the Speak
Err
Aoys--Messla Bettinger, Bixby, Bolgel
BranJ, Black Case Clark, Cock. Coos, Dev
lin, Dodge Dunstan, Fletcher, Grant. Greg
DRY, Himebaueh, Hopkins, johnson, Leitch
Meyer, Morcum, Noeker, North. Parker
Parks, Phinney, Ranney Ropelle, Rose
Rummel, Snyder, Stone, Tinham, Thompson
Wright-&
| RELATION TO ADJOURNMENT.
Senator Romeyn, on the 18th, offered tn
blowing preamble and concurrent Iosolu