The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-13

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The Election Recess-Liquor Legislation
Another Good Bin-Insurance Nattsrs--
sundry References.
from Our Own Correspondent
LANSING, March 81, 1883.
As indicated in my last, both branches OF
the Legislature adjourned on the forenoon
Of the Goth for the
ELECTION RECESS
which will continue until the morning OF
April 4, and to certain extent for a day or
two longer, as it is quite probable that both
houses will find themselves running very
short handed all next week As the election
to be held next Monday is State election,
there being two Justices of the Supreme
Court and two Regents of the University to
elect those of the clerks who have still re-
tanned their residences ut Their former
homes, and who can be spared from tho
State departments. have gone home to vote,
as well as the Legislators so the Capitol in
all its departments is somewhat deserted at
present
Under this head may as well add that the
election recess IL in great measure the
cause of the small amount of work done by
the Legislature since my last and conse
quently for the Hthinness" of this letter. In
the three full days and portion of the
fourth In the Senate and two and fraction
by the House, good progress was made so
far as the time would permit, yet / am not
able to report a very large yield Of work.
THE LIQUOR LEGISLATION
Is beginning to find its way to the front,
and it Is expected that next week will, quite
likely, witness some lively skirmishing over
the proposed prohibitory constitutional
amendment and other bills on the liquor
question The amendment has been favor
ably reported in both houses ordered PRINT
ed and is now on the general order and
ready for discussion in committee Of the
whole. III 1t does not receive the necessary
two-thirds vote to provide for it's submiss-
ion to the people, IL is bound to come very
near to it. In the House the first encounter
OF the session was had on the question on
the 9th, when the liquor interest received
a black eye and came out of the discussion
second best The bill under discussion was
one by Representative Dodge, of this city,
to allow bondsmen and sureties for saloon
keepers to be taken from anywhere in the
county, instead of combining them to the
city or village where the liquor is sold rs
now motion to strike out all after the
enacting clause prevailed, yeas 26, nays 10
In the event of the failure of tlfe prohibit
tory constitutional amendment to pass it's
friends propose to turn the screws down up
on the traffic as tightly as possible. and
to that end Representative La Du
on the 10Th reported two bills amending the
law regulating the sale of intoxicants. The
first bill applies to section IL, and, in addi-
ton To the persons now authorized to forbid
the sale OF liquor TO miners or persons in
clined toward drunkenness, names Mayors
of cities, Supervisors of townships and all
officers having oversight or charge of the
poor The other bill amends section 2 and
in 1t provision is made for the collection of
apenalty from the liquor dealer or druggist
who sells to persons after being formally
forbidden TO do so by the father mother,
wife, husband, guardian of the individual,
or by any of the public authorities men,
toned in section Is. The penalty is made
payable to the individual or those who are
authorized to forbid the sale of liquor to
hun, and is not to be less than 81 or more
than $500 in any one case The suits are TO
be brought before the Circuit Court, and
summary methods of collecting the penalty
have been devised.
ANOTHER BILL
Is that Of Senator Koon, that passed the
Senate on the 9th, and provides that no
Prosecuting Attorney shall receive any fee
or reward from or on behalf of any prose-
cutOr or other individual for services In any
prosecution or business TO which it shall be
his official duty to attend nor be concerned
as attorney or counsel for either party other
than for the State or county in any civil
action depending upon the same state Of
facts upon which any criminal prosecution
commenced or prosecuted shall depend, or
in any action for malicious prosecution
brought in consequence of any criminal
prosecution commenced or prosecuted dur
Ing his term of Office in the county of which
he Is Prosecuting Attorney; nor shall any
attorney be permitted to prosecute or aid
in prosecuting any person for an illegal
criminal otfense where he is engaged or in
terested in any civil suit or proceeding de-
pending upon the same state of facts against
such person directly or indirectly.
INSURANCE MATTERS
are becoming decidedly interesting, and q
lively row is imminent as there are two
sides TO the question, and the adherents of
both are numerous, energetic and stick-to-
alive. /
MERE MENTION
President pro tenn Buttan, who has been
presiding in the Senate this week. directed
the flag over the Senate chamber to be dis
played at half mast on the 18th, in memory
of the late Postmaster General Howe
Since Gov Begoles recent Illness some
weeks ago, he seems in better health and
spirits than before. He is evidently not al
lowing the cares of state to trouble or worry
him seriously, and to prove that he isn't he
said TO your correspondent day or two ago
that he was like the old farmer who sold
pair of oxen, and on being asked IL they were
unruly replied: They have never troubled
me any" On finding them very unruly the
purchaser returned in a passion and said:
Il thought you said those oxen were not un-
rulyn Il didn't say So" he replied, ~
said they had never troubled me, but never
allow such things to trouble me-"
The Legislative Manual for 1883 Is out and
is book of 514 pages, neatly bound In the
regulation red morocco, and is of itself
whole library. Under the present law the
work of compilation and publication is in
the hands of the Secretary of State, and it is
safe to say that the laborious and compli-
Gated work has been as well done by Secre-
tary Conant and his clerks as it is possible to
do 1T. Much annoyance has been felt by the
compilers owing to the fact that many
members of the two houses and others have
not accepted the first nor even second in
vitation to furnish data or figures when
asked to do so. The work is one that Is
very valuable as a ready-reference, and is
always eagerly sought after.
Senator Fast's bill making 1t the duty Of
all hotel keepers to provide rope ladders for
each and every room above the second story,
with a heavy penalty for neglect SO to do,
was lost on the 9th by just one vote, but
was reconsidered and will doubtless pass at
a later day. The Senator was himself absent
on duty with the special investigating COM
mittee The bill is copy of one that was
introduced, and it is understood, passed the
Wisconsin Legislature soon after the famous
Newhall House fire at Milwaukee,
The statistics of the members show that
at least two served their country in the ca
pacity of legislators at least two decades
ago. Senator Shoemaker served as Senator