The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-06-19
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

THE Senate passed tho following bills on the
9TH inst. Amending the Smarter of East Sagi-
nav authorizing the Central Michigan Agri-
State society authorizing the city OF Detroit 10
borrow money for the improvement OF Belle
lsle Park amending the charter Of Three
Rivers; Reform School appropriation bill Deaf
and Dumb Institution appropriation for the
Incorporation OF salt manufacturing and mer-
camille companies; for regulating and enforc-
ing assignments for the benefit Of creditors for
reorganizing manufacturing companies whose
charters have expired; bill rela-
OF creditors; for the construction OF
stone road I'm Monroe County; amending the
charter OF Bay City; requiring that vessels
retail trade be properly labeled punishing EN-
beszleinei.t by special administrators 10y i'm.
prisonment for two years or ~, 900 fine; Joint
resolution authorizing the Governor Co appoint
a commissioner and an accompanying secretary
10 have charge of Michigan interests at the
parls Exposition, and making an appropriation
therefor. The House passed bill authorizing
Circuit Court judges 10 practice law outside OF
their circuits Senate bin providing for the
reorganization OF mining aud smelling com
panies. The Senate bill compromising certain
parties sustaining losses by the pas sage Of the
oleonhrgnrine act OF 1885 was put upon its
passage and lost. The House had under con-
sideration the purity OF elections bill.
ONLY the House in session on the sth
INST, and nothing was accomplished by that
BODY, It's entire time being devoted 10 considera-
A LENGTHY memorial from the several boards
OF the Michigan Insane Asylums read in
the Senate on the 10th inst. and spread on the
journal. The memorial is a remonstrance
against the bill Endorsed by Gov. Luce favoring
IA partial return 10 the old county" system
OF caring for the insane. Nothing else
was done in the upper house There
was bare quorum in the lower
house when IL was called TO order Upon mo-
ton, the members Immediately resolved them
selves into c. mmittee of the whole on the gem
afQl nrdp nfai1 nf Ran enrlta fxya Iaa
skis bill regulating the hours OF labor all
street, surface, electric, and elevated railways,
no important bills either considered or
passed the committee favorably The bill pro-
vides 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 murmur. The Governor
approved bills amending the charters OF Jack
son, Dowagiac, Detroit, and East Saginaw min
ing school Reform school and university APP
preparations bills providing a stenographer for
Wayne County Probate Court and Detroit Po-
lice Court providing for joint erection OF sol
diers Monuments, regulating me movements OF
street cars at crossings, and for the relief OF
Geo. w. Case.
A RESOLUTION providing that the Legislature
shall transact no business after june 20, except
the signing OF bills by the presiding officers,
aud shall adjourn June p, passed the Senate on
the 18th. The Senate put in the afternoon on
the local option bill. An amendment requiring
that n carry prohibition in the counties voting
it must receive a two-tbirds vote instead of n
bare majority was defeated by tie vote, but 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 10 investigate this point. II. II. Warner
OF Rochester, n Y, recently purchased Maison
Island in Saginaw Bay and also claimed the
Il fa1u
and mainland, which valuable for fishing
and duck hunting. At the beginning of the
sion Representative CoLnor Of Saginaw intro
duced Il bill declaring these grounds TO be pub
lie shooting and fishing grounds and making
Warner n tresspasser. Mr. Conner succeeded
in passing it on the 18th inst, despite the opTo-
stion Of every lawyer in the House, and also in
ordering IL 10 take Immediate effect.
THE work OF the Legislature on the 18th inst.
was somewhat desultoTy, and symptoms 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 pictures IN
public places; and amending the charter of tho
city OF Grand Rapids. The purity of elections
bill was finished in committee OF the whole and
referred 20 the Election Committee for changes
in construction, with instructions for early
report. The most important bill passed by the
House was that appropriating $4,000 for
home for the feeble-Ininded.
A BILL declaring the great lakes and their bays
anu lnlels 10 ne fee 10 ali IOr smoothing ana Dsn-
ing passed the House on the 18th. The bill is
another Mason Island affair. While general
measure il is aimed particularly at 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 n bill
providing for the accumulative system of voting
FOR members OF the Legislature in districts that
Rpprf House
passed bills prohibiting the adulteration of vine
gar and increasing the salaries of the deputy
state officers from ~ 800 TO ~, 400 each. The
bill and passed bills providing for the incorpora-
tion Of summer resort associations and provid-
ing penalties for notwithstanding.