Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-26

quoted as laying that Upper feninsula eiectlon
returns were held back last fall 70 be ixed % a.
TO make the State Republican. The extract was
accompanied by resolution directing the STATE
Affairs Committee 20 make an investigation;
Mr.. Hubbell said II IL were parliamentary, and
Mr.. lines was present, he would say 70 him.
In the language OF Horace Greeley; You
lie, you rascal; yon lie The resolution was LAID
the following bills were introduced: Amending
section article 1872 Of 1853, relating 70 selecting
petit jury for the Upper Peninsula; 20 provide
treasurers; TO increase the number OF justices
OF the Supreme Court: to amend the constitu-
pire Feb. instead OF Jan. /; to compel State
officers and commissioners OF institutions 20
Publish a. list OF employees. with tneir
salaries and perquisites In their annual reports;
appropriating money for the purpose OF
purchasing books for the State library. The
following bills were passed: Amending act 2iS.
1881. relative to highways and bridges: author
ling the killing OF English sparrows. In the
House the following bills were introduced: To
facilitate giving OF bonds Teantgu a pD law'
stables fees; to repeal sections and 2, act ITS,
1888, relative to width of wagon tires: amending
amending section 0os2, Howell, relative to the
payment of debts and legacies OF
deceased persons: to protect owners
hunters; amending Section 359, Howell, relit
to the salaries of State officers; amending Sec
ton 760s Howell. relative TO documentary evil
dence; to provide for the number or Jurors In
civil cases in courts OF record; amending Sec
tions IS and 76 1871, relative to holding general
and special elections; to repeal Act III, lSsJ.
relative to financial reports OF mutual insurance
companies; amending Act 100. 1871, relative TO
proceedings to recover possession OF land; 70
col ect and publish divorce statistics IN miom
ing Act IL. 1869, relative to interest on INSTALL
ments; amending Section 9063, Howell, rela-
I'VE 10 ices o. snS a. &c
levy, and collection of taxes; to increase use
fulness of the Michigan weather service; amend
held by Justices of the Peace; authorizing the
Auditor General to pay County Treasurers for
amending section 157, Howell, relative to time
for opening and closing polls at the general
election. The following bills were passed:
Providing for the adjudication and payment OK
certain claims for State bounties due Michigan
soldiers, and supposed to have been paid by the
State upon forged or fraudulent orders; rela-
tive to the proof OF instruments in writing: for
the preservation of public maps records, and
papers; to provide for the Incorporation OF
mutual insurance companies to insure against
cyclones. winds. storms, and tornadoes.
THE following bills were introduced In the
Senate Feb IA: To retire on pension Judges Of
State Courts at the age OF 70 or after twenty
years service; to establish a House of Correc-
ton and branch Of the State Prison In the Up
per Peninsula; to organize the county OF Good
win in the Upper Peninsula; to provide for
bringing suits against cooperative and mutual
insurance companies; to repeal Act 1872, Laws
of 1879. which provides punishment for libel and
SANDER; to enlarge the supreme Court and in
provide for the reargument of the case
OF the State against Iron Clin Mining Company.
The following bills passed the Senate: bill to
sstaeisA gHitSEm tins tRa ssRats i4tRt rfsaRs
exhibition of the American Pathological Society
at Grand Rapids in September The House bill
to amend the act to establish the Detroit House
of Correction to prohibit the sentence there
to of prisoners from other States and Territories
majority Of the Committee on LIQUOR Traffic
reported favorably joint resolution for sub
uniting the prohibition question to the people.
In the House bills were introduced: To pro-
hibit the running of traction and portable en-
Rines over bridges by steam power; to prevent
teachers from using tobacco in or around school
buildings or grounds; to amend the act relative
to the sale OF swamp lands.
TIE following bills were introduced in the
Senate on Feb. 16: To amend Sec. s0e5, Howell's
Statutes. relative to garnishees; to regulate the
incorporation Of societies to hold and manage
property for religious purposes; to amend Sec.
9469, Howells Statutes, relative to exclusion of
witnesses and spectators at trials before mags-
trates. In the House. bills were introduced:
TO regulate the compromising by physicians and
the sale OF drugs and medicines; to amend Sec.
2O5s, Howells Statutes, to protect logs, lumber,
and timber, while floating upon the wat srs In
this State, or lying upon the banks or shores
thereof; to provide for the election of Solicitor
General.
The following bills were passed in the Sem
ate on Feb. II: Attaching Isle Royal to HouRh-
rvr JustroIur purposes, reviewing motions Tor
new trials In the Supreme Court: amending Sec
ton s727. Q. L.. relative to writs: anne ndIng
section 1900, Howell. relative TO millers' mutual
insurance companies; amending section 1905,
Howell, relative to trials OF issue of facts;
troduced as follows: For an appropriation of
State swamp lands to drain crosse Lake,
iosco County; for disposal of State swamp
section 9sOd, Howell authorizing the Auditor
General to pay accounts of the State House of
Correction; appointment OF State Game and
afw.
Librarian extending the time for the com
pletion Of the Marquette, Houghton and Onton-
aRon Railroad; for registration Of births, mar
r1ages, and deaths; making an appropri-
alton for the Pontiac Asylum; repeal
ing section 9l31 Howell, relative to State
Prison funds The senate in executive
session confirmed the appointment of Martin
s. Smith as Police Commissioner of Detroit.
The House was filled with persons who expected
to hear hot debate on the prohibitory amend.
ment, but the resolution providing for submis-.
sion went through the committee of the whole.
quietly. Bills were introduced in the House
manr a 'ns OF an and
tain buildings for the Michigan Asylum.
for the Insane; to organize Alger and Iron
. Counties . in the Upper Peninsula; to pre-
Howell, relative TO the inspection Of illuminaf,
In certain cases; amending acts relative to levy
Ing and collecting taxes; amending act 202.
1881 relative to fish shutes; amending Section
6l93, Howell, relative to fraudulent claims:
amending Section 1881, Howell, relative 70 tax
ing the liquor traffic; amending the Grand Rap
ids charter and school acts; to-repeal act II,
1869, relative to interest on installments on con-
tracts; Incorporating societies for breeding
blooded stock The following bills were passed:
Relative to town plats; detaching 0gemaw
County from the Eighteenth and attaching IL to
the Twenty third Judicial Circuit.
In the Senate bills were introduced as fo,-
lows on Feb. Is To amend Howelrs statutes
relative to punishment for libel and SANDER: 10
provide for placing under ground all telegraph.
and electric liaht wires in ali
Incorporated cities; to amend an act relative
to exceptions In criminal criminal cases:
rivers; to pro ect fish and preserve fisheries: to
provide for the appointment of q Deputy At
torney- general; and to prevent the introduction
and sale Of cattle affiicted with CHAMBERS.
Charles V. Deland, OF jackson, whom Gov.
Alger had determined to appoint Labor Com
and who was opposed by several
labor unions and by Senators who resent his
drew his name. G. v. r. Pond, OF Quincy was :
nominated by the Governor, and confirmed at
once by the Senate The House spent the
greater part OF the day In discussing n
ment to the Constitution at the STATE elec-
ton, and after a hot and exciting clehate The
resolution was passed by vote OF bf TO as. ex~
acty the necessary two-thirds vote being cnst
for It. Nineteen Fusionists voted for and two
Republicans against submission. A favorahle
report was made on bill prov ding for the eiee-S
SSdn9 for conssaf Senera while the bill pro-
81 murder was reported untavorably A hiIl
abolishing the contract Ia Ior system In the
.onia Rouse OF Corrsction was partially oonsid-
cred In committee of the whole.
A CONCURRENT resolution asking Mich,~.,
members of Congress to support the Sumner
postal telegraph bill passed both houses Feb
y Inc House debate was warm. and jaw
aould, the Western Union Telegraph Comnany
ana the Associated preea Nvera Your,1la