The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

Final Adjournment Day Fixed-The Tar
BiIl Through Both Houses Home for
Michigan's vcterans--Thc New State Pris-
on-Rapidiy Closing Up business.
From Our Own Correspondent
LANSING. June 3. 1885.
AS has become usual in cases of an adj
journment to Monday evenings. no bust
ness was done last Monday evening the
Senate falling to have q quorum and the
House having no more than bare quorum.
FINAL ADJOURNMENT.
At last the die is cast and both houses
have concurred in the adoption of reso-
luton providing that no new business
shall be done after June IL, and
that final adjournment shall take
pace at IL m. or June 20
This will make the session 165 days in
length, or just one week longer than any ever
held in the State. That of 1888 lasted for l5S
days. that of 1881 for l5S. that of 1879 for $50,
and that of 1877 for l40 The taxpayers
have fallen into the habit of grumblng at
the fact that the sessions are gradually
growing longer as the years go by yet they
seem to forget that our beautiful State is
constantly and rapidly growing in every
conceivable way, and that State with all
the varied interests possessed by Michigan
has matters that need legislating upon in so
many ways that the sessions can never DO
made shorter SO long as they are held only
once in two years.
THE TAX BILL PASSED.
After q long struggle in the House on
Thursday last. the tax bill passed that
body with only q very few unimportant
amendments, and one of considerable i'm
portance, that of striking out sections 115.
ZIG, and III. These provided that no
mortgage should be recorded until the reg
| lister OF deeds was first shown receipt
from the County Treasurer that all taxes
had been paid. 1t was very uncertain
about the passage of the bill be-
fore the sections were taken out, but
after the amendment it surprised its
friends by receiving SO yeas to -
nays. 1t is now being engrossed, and will
receive the Governors approval early this
week. Those who have examined it the
most carefully say it will be the best
tax law Michigan has ever had. On the
other hand, those who opposed its passage
say it will not hold water for single year,
and that an extra session next year will be
inevitable. 1t is. however. hoped that it
will prove good one and meet the OBJ
jections urged against the one of 1882 by
the Supreme Court.
THE SOLDIERS HOME.
The Ill ITO authorize the establishment
of home for disabled soldiers, sailors,
and marines in the State of Michigan,
passed the Senate on the 4th by the large
vote of yeas ~, Senators Carpenter Sher-
wood and Shoemaker being absent or not
voting It was given immediate effect
The Senate amended it so as to cut down
the total appropriation from 5000 900 to
$4,000, of which $4,000 shall be col
lected and used in 1885 and $40, 900 in
1886. OF the $4,000, the board to be APP
pointed under the provisions of the bill
/ o,.4b Cd 70 m IN
in caring for those entitled 10 assistance
under the act during the time the home is
being built The Governor approved the
bill on the evening of the 9Th, and is now
scanning the State over to find six men
who shall combine the most qualifications
for the board of managers This board
will be appointed early this week. and 1t
will not be long before the old veterans will
have life home dedicated to their use
and that they may call their own. 1t is now
generally understood that Representative
Northwood, the father of the bill, will be APP
pointed Commandant of the Home. He
is a well-to-do farmer of Saginaw County,
and the fact that he left his right arm on a
Southern battle field is proof that he was
brave soldier. The law provides that said
Commandant shall receive an annual salary
of 81 200. 1t may not be out of place
Though we some time ago published the
bill entire) to again copy section IL, that
will explain to the soldier boys who are
eligible to the benefits to be derived from
the bill. 1t is as follows:
SEC. IL. All honorably discharged sol
diers, sailors. and marines, who have served
in the army or navy of the United States IN
the late war Of the rebellion, and who are
disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise,
and who have no adequate means of sup
port. and by reason of such disability are
incapable Of earning their living, and who
would be otherwise dependent upon public
or private charity, shall be entitled to be
admitted to said Home, subject to the rules
and regulations thai shall be adopted by the
Board Of Managers to govern the admission
, of applicants to said Home: Prorided,
That no applicant shall be admitted to said
Home who has not been a resident of the
State OF Michigan for one year next pre-
ceding the passage of this act unless he
served in a Michigan regiment or was ac-
} credited to the State of Michigan.
UPPER PENINSULA PRISON.
The House PASSED on the 4th the Senate
bill ito establish a State House of Correc-
ton, and q branch of the State prison in
: the Upper Peninsula, and to provide for
the location and erection thereof and max
!, ing an appropriation therefor" by vote
of yeas So nays 20, and ordered it TO take
immediate effect. As explained at the time
; the bill passed the Senate. it appropriates
$l50O00, of which $4,000 shall be as
sessed, collected, and expended in each Of
the years 1886, 1887, 1888. To say that
the Upper Peninsula delegation are well
pleased at the success of the bills for the
} State prison and the mining school to be
both located in their Iich and growing Sec
ton of this great State, is putting it mild
. ". To show their pleasure the delegation.
under the head of Senator Hubbell, Friday
evening. gave n grand reception and ban
quet to 200 members and officers of the
Legislature and their wives. The supper
was elegant. the toasts and responses ex-
cellent and all who attended voted it the
most enjoyable sociable event of the sea-
, son.
GATHERING THE FRAGMENTS.
. Now that the stakes are set for final adj
journment every man of the 1872 is pushing
his own pet measure to the front as rapidly
as possible, and the work of gathering up
the fragments is now under full Roadway.
Much very important legislation was in
troduced and large portion of it has been
brought to successful ending.
OBSERVER.