Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-18
Why They Are Not Signed.

Gov. Luce gives the following reasons
for declining to sign certain bills:
House Joint resolution No 3, ito provide
for the relief of Robert Lake" who was
contractor for the erection of ceii blocks
at the state prison. IL appears that owing
to unfavorable weather he suffered a loss
said TO be at least 5000, in completing and
complying with his contract. This joint
resolution authorizes the board OF auditors
to examine and adjust this alleged claim
for damage. The Governor thinks the
resolution is a clear violation of the sec
tion of the constitution which reads
"The legislature shall not gr. mt nor au-
thorize extra compensation 10 any public
Ofcer, agent or contractor, after the SER
vice has been rendered or the contract ell
tered into
House lille No 27 II being IAN act to
provide for the committing of pauper in
sane persons TO the Wayne county asylum,
and Tor the transfer of such persons to the
state asylums; and from the state Usy,ums
TO said county asylum; and TO provide for
the support and maintenance of such in
sane persons
The Governor points out that the law in
force since ISIS providing for the care Of
the insane has imposed unequal burdens
upon the counties. For inst nee, during
the ten years Hillsdale county has con-
tributed SIS, 40 for the support of the IN
digent insane in state institutions, and
there has been paid for patients sent from
Hillsdale county S8,ajI; Calhoun county
has paid S23, SIS more than has been paid
for the care Uf patients sent from that
county; Cass county has paid S)3,490 for
the care OF state patients and has received
50, 536; Tuscola county has paid so, 100
and the patients sent from that county
have cost the state IS, $40; Wayne county
has paid $4,000, aud its patients have
cost the state sS3. 100 He continues:
''This inequality of the distribution of
expenses caused the introduction of a bill
providing for return 10 the system in oper-
alton requiring each county to pay the eX
penses of its INDECENT ms ne in the state
institution, providing If Wayne county or
Hillsdale or Cass county cares for its un
fortunates at home, they should pay for L,
and IL they were sent 10 the asylum, do the
same thing there 1t seemed TO me as If a
measure so Just and meritorious would GER.
tsinly commend itself to the good judy
ment and fairness Of the members of the
legislature. But through the influence
largely of the chairman of the board of
corrections and charities and the members
OF the different asylum boards, who present
ed a sort Of special message To the legisla-
ture. that Just and righteous measure wis
defeated. And as an almost inevitable re-
suit of this defeat the bill now under con-
sderatiou passed be h houses. Some fea
lures OF the bill are certainly meritOriOus
and commend themselves to my Judgment,
but do not think II wise Tor the state 10
depart from its settled policy Of many years
without careful and can lid consideration
and deliberatiou of the questions involved
The Governor recommends that the
whole subject receive such consideration
that just and feasible plan for remedying
the injustice may be submitted to the leg
islature at its next session He says that
he declines TO sign the bill with less regret,
because if it were 10 become a law there is
no provision for paying Wayne county for
the care of its patients under two years,
and before that time the whole question
ought to be considered and al listed.
Senate file No. 80, relating TO railroads
This entire bill is embraced IN another act
known as tue Chapman bill with the Gil,
more amendment, rendering this act I'M
necessary.
House file No. 400. IAN act providing
for an increase of fees of justices of the
peace, in civil cases" The Governo~ says
that the provision which it strikes out in
the present lava restriction upon the
charge for issuing subpen. Is a whole.
some one and he c.nIOt believe it ought to
be amended as this act provides.
House file No. j2G-"An act to provide
for the incorporation Of beneficiary sCcie
ties Every legitimate and material pur-
pose of this bill is provided for in act No.
lS7 of the session laws OF 1881, rendering
this bill unnecessary, il not mischievous.