Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-15

Cured in this semi-annual collection, as off,
GERS would simply be required to do the addi-
tional work at the present cost
THE UNIVERSITY.
This institution is one in which every citl-
actually necessary fof -tffc- dIfcfent" 'depaft-
ments named arc made up rs follows:
Assistant in the mechanical laboratory. $1,000
Homeopathic College. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2,OJO
Additional profes sor for the same. 200
Homeopathic Hospital ............,...... 2,OJl
Dental Cohegc. ;'''.''..'.. 0'VOV
University Hospital. ..................... 1000
Libraries. .''...''''''.''.':'''' o'OVO
Total ....................... .........$ 200
In addition TO these items there must be ex-
pended from $1,000 TO $4,000 for repairing
buildings. Nothing has been done In the way
of such repairs for many years, and tho sum
named seems absolutely necessary to preserve
them. l am sure your committee will see the
necessity for these expenditures when they
visit that institution. As biennial appropria-
tons have to be made for its maintenance 1
suggest that the committees look into the
matter and sec IL some feasible plan can not
be devised for increasing the regular tund,
thus saving the necessity of asking for money
to defray its necessary expenses at every ses.
sion of the Legislature.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
] recommend the adoption of u joint resolu-
ton submitting an amendment to the Constr
tuition creating Board of Pardons, who shall
have full and exclusive power over that de-
- a $50 INIT IA joint r5-oiutiou uuupt,,n
hitting an amendment to tho Constitution
prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquors In
the State.
on account OF the large number of disabled
soldiers in this State, and tho healthfulncsS OF
its climate | recommend that joint resolu-
ton be adopted asking Congress TO make an
appropriation for II Soldiers Home 70 be To-
Gated ut some favorable point within the
As all the railroads in the State use central
standard time, and many of its cities and
towns have adopted the same, recommend
that n law be enacted making central STANDARD
| time legal within the state.
| | recommend that the state Swamp Land
Commissioners appointed for the ensuing term
| be allowed n clerk, but not a deputy; that all
| matters pertaining TO the Office be closed with
| in that time aud turned over 10 the Commits
| sioner of the State Land Office, and that
| the Office be then abolished.
| COMMISSIONER OF EMIGRATION.
| have debated somewhat in my own mind
| as 70 which is the wiScst course to recommend
| i'm relation to this ofice that Is, whether 10
| continue or abolish it. There have within the
| last two years over two million people passed
through this State or close by its southern
| boundary for the great Northwest who have
| migrated from other States or have come to
| this country to make homes for themselves.
Men are constantly leaving the Old states Tor
| be made to turn a portion of this great tide of
| people into our State by informing them of
| the superiority of its soil and the advantages
! of living near market, the cost OF
conducting the Office (which is much
| pay for advertising their busness) wou Id be
! well invested, and returned to the State
many fold In the way of taxes upon improve.
! ments made by them. OF course, the great
| railroad corporations hold out every possible
| inducemcnt to people going West by glowing
inc their transportation. / think if Michigan
| would properly advertise her undeveloped
lands and at a small cost prudent man were
stationed in New York to select from tho en-
igrants those who have money to purchase
lands and induce them to come here, the ben
efts would justify the expenditure. ! have
therefore, decided to recommend that the
former be carefully tried and that the Office
be not abolished until such trial Is fairly
made.
cial efforts should be made to import labor
purely as such, while so many men are unem
ployed as at present.
THE IONA HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
This institution needs, in my opinion, n thor
ough overhauing, and 1 commend TO your
careful conslderatlon many suS yestIonS m hI.
official report. Under the present law thi:
prison is filled far beyond ifs capacity will
cOnvicts, nearly one-half of whom are sen
fenced by Justices OF the Peace from diheren
parts of the State, mostly for drunkenness
and many instances of its abuse are known
and doubtless many more exist which arc no
known. man found intoxicated by con
stable or other officer is frequently taken be
fore Justice of the Peace and sentenced e
this prison for that oifcnse. lie is thus dis
, graced for life, as is also his family for thu
offense of getting drunk, or perhaps Deca,,s
: he has no friend To intcrcede for him. TIT
abuses that arc liable To occur can best be de-
scribed by the following, which took plac
4 during Governor JprOmcs term OF Ofhce. IN
facts were given me by Hon. Il. Q. Watkins
, then its Warden:
man arrived in Saginaw and applied a
, the Office of a lumber firm for work. He wa
1 told TO come i'm the afternoon and he woul
! be hired. Upon going out no met n man upol
the street who asked him IL nc was a stranger
y and answered that he was, and from Canada
and seeking employment The man accostin
him, who, 1t seems, was an officer, tnfOrme
! the stranger that IL was necessary to regis
| ter upon coming there and took him to n
I | Office whore another man, who IL appears wa
, | n Justice of the Peace, was sitting ut n desk
: | After remaining there short time he wa
a taken out aud conducted TO the depot 10y tn
= | officer and taken directly To lona under ~
. rest. Arriving at tho House Of Correction th
: Warden examined his papers and found h
4 had been committed for year as "a vagran
4 He protested his innocence, and the Wardc
i | Immediately wrote the facts as RiVCn by tn
q man to Governor Jerome, who pardoncd hin
Il | and understand, took some action agains
= the officer aud Justice of the Peace who ha
n thus conspired to send this man to prison fC
: the purpose of getting tho fees
, | How fur this abuse can extend can only
= | imagined; i therefore recommend that a la
q be passed prohibiting any person from bein
= sentenced to this institution by Justice O
= the Peace, and that no prisoner be sent ther
4 for a less term than six months. This institr
r. ton should not be used as " sObering-on
4 place for men who occasionally get intOX
NJ Gated. Such men should be kept In tn
NJ county fails where the OtIopse Is committed
a am informed that officers frequently max
4 long journeys with a single prisoner wheI
r. there are several TO be taken, simply to II
a crease their travel ng fees. According TO III
\ State Treasurers report there was paid IL
r. transportation of convicts to that institutio
II during the past year the sum Of S26,1S2. l
~ State Prison at jackson FOR the sarr
II period was S4,o00o2 Convicts received