The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-21


Gift 10 the Michigan Uuiverslty--T The
Minority Bill Vetoed Reg strstion and
Election Laws-Moro Appropristions.
From om Own Correepondentl
LANSING. May IL. 1886.
When the tv> n.rses met at $50 last
Monday evening. the H ouse roi -caii showed
thirty eight members absent without leave.
in additioa to all that were absent with
leave. AMI the Senate found thirteen nom
come-atal,le members. As n consequence
neither house had quorum-result, no
business.
y.EoARDING PARDON BOARD.
On Tuesday t5th) the Governor notified
the two houses that IL il should be thought
best to create pardon board. in accord
ance with his former message, he would
suggest that the law be So framed as not to
allow the board TO sit more than six months
during any one gubernatorial term, the por-
ton of the six months to be determined by
the Executive. and the pay of the members
of the board to be fixed accordingly.
A GRAND GIFT
Representative ParKhurst, on the 9Th,
presented communication from James Il.
Angel. Ii. d., President of Michigan
University, in regard to magnificent gift
that is to be made to that institution. DIR.
Angel wrote:
DEAR SIR-We have to- day received in
formation from Mrs Randolph Rogers,
wife of the distinguished Michigan sculp-
tor (who is himself now an invalid), that
her husband is making preparations to send
from Rome, as a gift to the University, the
casts of all the works which he has com
p'eted in the course Of his long and labori-
GUS life. These works comprise a number
IF tho hocf I'm our, rnopurue eonrnamn.
rative of events in our late war. statues Of
eminent statesmen and military and naval
officers, the bronze doors of the Capitol at
Washington, and several ideal statues
whose fame is world wide. They are of
the very greatest value.
The eminent sculptor having been born
in this State, and having lived here till
early manhood, has had the generous and
patriotic desire to place his great collection
of his works in Michigan for preservation.
"Many of these works are so large and
must be packed with so great care, that the
boxing and transportation Of them must
necessarily be expensive. We have no
means ut this time of making correct es-
innate of the cost of removing them from
Rome to Ann Arbor. But there can be no
doubt that it will be beyond the means now
at the disposal of the University for such
purposes.
Il therefore venture to make known the
facts through you to the Legislature, and
TO raise the inquiry whether that body may
not be disposed to appropriate sum not
exceeding $500 for the removal OF the
gifts of Mr.. Rogers, and providing that only
SO much Of said sum as Is needed for the
purpose shall be drawn by the University.
"The Rogers collection, added to the col
lection of works of art left to the Univer-
sity by the late II. C. Lewis, Esq, o. Cold
water. will furnish the University with
such a gallery of art as is possessed by no
other university in America. Very re-
specially yours,
JAMES b. ANGELL, President
The communication was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means and it is
hoped that the small appropriation can and
will be set apart for the purpose.
VETO OF THE MINORITY BILL.
Gov. Alger on the 5th vetoed the bill "to
secul the minority of stockholders in cor
porations organized under general laws the
power OF eecting representative member
ship in boards of directors, as it had all
along been expected he would. The veto
message is very long. but in substance the
Governors objections are that he thinks
bill that seeks to take away from stock
virtue of laws in force at the time they
helped organize the corporation, or gTves to
any stakeholder any rights over other stock
holders in the same corporation that they
did not possess at the time OF such organi-
zaton, would be clearly unconstitutional.
After citing numerous authorities to prove
his positions, he closes with this paragraph:
Il believe thoroughly in the principle, and
unless this shall become a law notwith-
standing these objections, shall In my re-
firing message strongly urge that law SIM
liar to this be enacted, bu to affect only
corporations organized under it, and then
people who associate themselves together
will have due notice of the law under which
they are organized"
The vote by which the law was passed
was reconsidered and the bill tabled. 1t is
very strongly limited by the friends of the
measure that when the signs are right the
bill can and will be passed over the veto,
but if SO it will be the first instance of the
passage of a bill over veto in Michigan in
the last decade, at least
ELECTION AND REGISTRATION LAWS.
The Senate spent nearly the whole day,
on the 9th. in the consideration of bills for
q general remodeing of the registration
and election laws The bills have been
gotten up by special committee on cleo
ton laws, with Senator Belknap as chair
man, and after long and careful study of
the whole subject. The discussion and
amendments made developed the fact that
no man or committee can make bill SO
good that other men will not pick flaws in
it and insist upon amendments to it. This
reminds US of the petulant leg slator who
objected to amendments to his Till. saying:
If the ten commandments were undencon-
sideration here to-day, some fool would