Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.


The House passed the bill to reapportion the
State into Representative districts by a party
vote-yeas 81, nays 43-on the 18th 1t was then
sent to the Senate, the rules suspended, and the
bin put through that body-yeas IL. nays 10. In
both houses the same parliamentary tactics were
resorted to to delay defeat the measure as
the Senatorial apportionment bill, and both
houses passed 1t by strict Republican vote,
they did the other. The bill takes one Rep
resentative from Branch, st. Clair, and
Clinton Counties, and adds one to Marquette
and adds the other two to districts IN the upper
portion or the Lower Peninsula. The Sen to
also passed a bill to change the boundaries OF
school districts in Marquette County, and to
os naa .ne act 70 provide Ior the construction
House passed bills for the purchase of addition
al land at the State Prison, and to amend the
charter OF Bay City. Both houses held
a joint convention to listen to
short address by Senator Palmer. The Gov
ernor sent to the Senate tie following appoint
ments: Cornelius Van Loo OF Ottawa, member
OF the Board OF Corrections and Charities, vice
Van Dnsen, resignsdi Geo spauldine OF hon-
Home for Girls, vice T. H. Htnchman resigned;
members of Board OF Management OF Soldiers
Home. Aaron t: Bliss OF Saginaw and Samuel
Remick of Wayne and ]. r. Pierce OF Kent.
four years; Michael Brown of Mecosta and
SesTs Ssas smbsTs 0sSorn Of Mharqpsse for two
Pharmacy, whose commissions date from Dec
81, 1884, Geo. Mcdonald Of Kalamazoo and
r. n. ian Euster OF bay Tor TWO years, JeHSOn
or Muskegon for three years, James Vernon OF
Wayne for four years, and Christian Eherbach
OF Washtenaw for five years; members of State
Livestock Sanitary Commission, Charles r.
Moore OF St Clair for four years. Henry II.
Hines of Montcalm for four years, and Thomas
Foster Of Genesee for two years, ALSO, j.. A. A.
Grange OF 1nRham to be State Veterinarian for
two years. Members of the Board OF Control OF
the MICHIGAN School for the Blind, Townsend
North OF Tuscola for six years. Thomas s. Ap-
plegate Of Lenawee for four years, and James
ID. Turner OF Ingham for two years.
THE following bills passed the Senate on the
18th inst: To amend the charter OF Bay City;
for the purchase of additional land at the State
Prison; to est blish board of building in
spectors for Detroit; regulating the manner Of
counting votes of elections; amending the
school laws, so as to pay the primary school
money to districts emi-annually instead OF an
Clerks during TIE session and $500 70 Tho Cnfef
Clerks for indexing the journal; $500 was ap-
propriated to the Secretary OF the Senate for a
like service. All immediate effect acts were
ordered published for immediate distribution.
Bills were passed for the purchase of additional
land for the State Prison; regulating the man
ner OF counting votes: and amending the gen.
eral school laws SO that the primary school
money shall be paid 10 districts semi annually
instead OF annually, as at present.
THE following bills were passed by the Sem
ate on the 10th inst: To enroll as Michigan
volunteers the Michigan men who served in the
First New York Artillery; to regulate the tran
sit of Texas cattle through this State, amend
amending the statute relative to the service of
process on railway companies so that service on
station agents will suffice; and authorizing the
transfer OF transcripts of judgment from one
Justice to another. The bill relative to the
transit of Texas cattle through this State pro-
vides severe penalties for not shipping such
cattle in separate cars and herding them by
themselves. The House worked all day in com
mittee of the whole advancing large number
OF bills TO third reading
THE following bills passed the Senate on the
To-
kfivet6 the deii1sefS of gram 5y fdtfroad com
panies; appropriating swamp land to improve
lands in lngham County; to prohibit teachers
or pupils using tobacco on school premises: to
authorize purchase of a bridge across Saginaw
River, Saginaw County; making an appropria-
: ton for improvements at the State Prison.
The House bill to abolish the convict con
tract labor system was passed TO third
tions and Finance presented a statement show
ing the estimated State expenditures for 1885 to
be ,09l, 1890; for SS6, $795,975: estimated
eeipts for 1885, other sources than taxation,
$191.1OO; for 1886, $l96.1O0 The House passed
House bills to protect the health, comfort, and
safety of persons employed in shops and
factories; smending the statute ella i've
to the probate OF wills: amending the
general highway laws; prohibiting the use of
tobacco by teachers and scholars in and about
school-rooms and grounds; and to place
statue of General Lewis Cass In the gallery at
Washington. Also Senate bills authorizing the
mastering of military companies at atMenominee,
Muskegon, Detroit, jackson, and Grand Rap
ids; amending the law relative to damages for
injuries received on defective sidewalks; and
amending the law relative to punishment for
libel and slander. The Attorney General re-
ported the Marine City Mutual Marriage Asso-
ciation to be delusion and q snare, and was or
dered by resolution to wind up the affairs of the
concern.
BOTH houses did large amount of work on
the closing day Of the session-Wednesday
June IL. The following bills passed the Senate:
The general appropriation bill; House bill con-
solidating the management OF State Prisons and
abolishtng the contract system; House bill
amending the act relative to mechanics liens;
House bill appropriating swamp land TO drain
Dowagiac Creek, Van Buren County; house bill
amending the election laws; House bill relative
TO the liquor tax; House joint resolu-
tion amending the constitution relative to
salaries of State officers; House bill rel
atiye to the confinement of prisoners
in the Detroit House of Correction; House bill
to clear Swan Lake, in Midland County. The
general appropriation bill proviso was amended
so as to spread the sum required over six
years, $j4, ,207 to be AT propriated each year. the
first appropriat on to be in 1886. Resolutions
thanking the Lieutenant General for his cour-
tesy and efficiency were passed unanimously,
and Mr.. Buttars resi- uded in graceful speech
President pro TEN. Belknap and other officers
were similarly complimented The Senate then
adjourned sine die. The following bills passed
the Houses Senate bill amending laws re ative
10 Iairoad % iences senate & Dill relative 70 IN
for the incorporation of manufacturing compa-
nies; Senate bill relative to the law OF libel.
Ut. II. % BAKER, secretary OF me state BC ara
OF Health, presented memorial refulIng the
charges made upon him in the report OF Mr..
Dodge, of the House Inve stigatinR Committee.
Aresolution to lend State tents to the knights or
Pvthtoo onoaappuaent at KoiaEno1OU passed..
Resolutions of thanks were Tassed to the
Speaker, Clerk, Postmaster Josephine Robinson,
and the keeper OF the cloak-rooms w. Tomlin-
son. Adjourned sine die. The following nomi-
nations by the Governor were confirmed by the
Senate In executive session: Members Of the
Advisory Board of Pardons-For four years.
Henry G. Wisner and Geo. r. Richards, of De-
trot; for two years, Albert NJ. Henry, of De-
troit, and Chester Warmer, of Jackson. To Be
Members of the Board Of Phai imacy--Ottmar
Eberbach, of Ann Arbor, vice Christ an Eber-
bach, resigned.