Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-20
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

THE Senate passed tho following bills on the
7th inst: Amending the charter OF East Sagi-
nav; authorizing the Central Michigan AgH-
cultural Society TO convey its real estate TO the
State society; authorizing the city of Detroit to
borrow money for the Improvement of Belle
p,s.r tss Park amending the charter of q Three h
and Dumb Institution appropriation for the
incorporation OF salt manufacturing and mer-
ing assignments for the benefit OF creditors; for
reorganfzing manufacturing companies whose
charters have EXPIRED bill rela-
tive to assignments for the benefit
Of creditors for the construction OF
stone road In Monroe County; amending the
CHARTER Of Bay City; requiring that vessels
retail trade be properly labeled punishing em-
bezzlement by special administrators by inn
resolution authorizing the Governor to appoint
a commissioner and an accompany secretary
TO have charge OF Michigan interests at the
therefor. The House passed a bilf authorizing
Circuit Court judges to practice law outside OF
their circuits Senate bill providing for the
reorganization of mining aud smelling COM
panies. The Senate bill compensaiing certain
parties sustaining losses by the PASSAGE OF the
oieomasearne lac act 9, iSso was put % upon @ ,Is
sideration tho purity of elections bill.
ONLY the House was In session on the 6th
inst, and nothing was accomplished by that
body its entire time being devoted to considera-
ton of the new registration and ballot bill.
A LENGTHY memorial from the several boards
of the Michigan Insane Asylums was read I'm
the Senate ON the 10th inst. and spread on the
against the bill indorsed by Gov Luce favoring
a partial return to the old county" system
Of caring for the insane Nothing else
was done In the upper house. There
was bare quorum in the lower
ouse when IL was called to order. Upon mo-
lion, the members Immediately resolved them
selves into committee of the whole ON the gem
eral order Outside of Representative Jasnow-
ski bill regulating the hours Of labor on all
street. surface, electric and elevated railways,
no important bills were either considered or
passed the committee favorably. The bill pro-
yides that ten hours, to be performed within
twelve consecutive hours in every twenty -four
hours, with an intermission OF not less than one
half hour for meals, shall constitute days
labor in the operation of every street surface,
electric, and elevated railway operated within
the State The bill passed the committee OF
the whole without n murmur. The Governor
approved bills amending the charters OF Jack
SON, Dowagiac Detroit and East Saginaw min
ing school, Reform school, and university ap-
propriations bills providing stenographer for
Wayne County Probate Court and Detroit Po-
taa .rgoyjdipg for Joint erection of sol
street cars at crossings, and for the relief OF
Geo. w. Case
A RESOLUTION providing that the Legislature
shall transact no business after June 90 except
the signing of bills by the presiding officers,
aud shall adjourn June 25, passed tho Senate on
the nth: The Senate put in the afternoon on
the local option bill An amendment requiring
that to carry prohibition In the counties voting
IL must receive two-tbirds vote instead of a
bare majority was defeatCd Dy n lie vote, DuJ IL
was not deemed safe to put the bill on its final
passage. Several Senators objected to the reso-
luton appropriating $4,000 for the Johns
town sufferers, on the ground that the money
could not be appropriated constitutionally The
resolution was handed Ito the Judiciary Com-
mittee TO investigate this point. H. III. Warner
of Rochester, N. Y, recently purchased Maison
Island in Saginaw Bay, and also claimed tho
accretions or middle grounds between the island
and mainland which are are i valuable Tor 9 ms hsnns
sion Representative CoLnor of saginaw Intro
duced q bill declaring these grounds to be pub
S shooting and fishing grounds orn and aunossdsS mess
in passing it on the 11th inst, despite tho Cpl O.
sition of every lawyer in the House, and also In
ordering 1t to take Immediate effect.
THE work of the Legislature on the 18th inst
was somewhat desultory, and sympto ms OF
Anal dissolution were apparent. The Senate
did but little committee work; The House
passed the following bills: Establishing a
police commission in Saginaw City; prohibiting
the posting OF obscene or suggestive ictures ia
city of Grand Rapids. The purity of election !,
bill was finished in committee of the whole nj d
referred to the Election Committee for changes
In construction, with instructions for an carly
report. The most important bill passed by the
House was that appropriating S27 900 for a
home for the feeble-minded
BILL declaring the great lakes and their bays
and inlets to be free to all for shooting and fish
ing passed the House ON the 18TH The I'LL is
another Mason Island affair While general
measure ii is aimed particularly Mt the Monroe
Marsh Company syndicate OF Eastern sports.
men who purchased 1000 acres Of submerged
lands near Monroe for several years have for
| hidden the public to shoot wild fowl ON their
/ grounds. The bill gives the Marsh Company
! the same rights as every one else and no more.
/ The Republicans in caucus agreed to pass bill
/ providing for the accumulative system OF voting
! for members of the Legislature in districts that
/ elect over two Representatives.. The House
passed bills prohibiting the adulteration OF Vine-
! gar and increasing the salaries OF the deputy
! State officers from 81, 800 to -, 400 each. The
\ Senate killed the Swift 2-cent-a-mile railroad
/ bill and pa ssed bills providing for the incorpora-
tion of summer resort associations and provid-
ing penalties for Sabbath-breaking