Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-23
THE STATE.
LOCAL OPTION PASSES.
The House Votes For Woman Suf-
frage, but the Senate Kills
tire Bill,
Legislative ummary.

bill in the house the other day and placed il
on final passage once more An amend
ment was adopted requiring that one-fourth
OF the voters in the county must sign the
petition for special election instead OF
one fifth as the bill originally provided.
An attempt TO exempt cities having 10000
from the act was voted down. Under
call of the house the biz wiggled through
by a vote of 90 TO Al. Wells and StOhet or
Wayne voted with the majority.
The event in the house the other after
noon was the discussion of the bill to Sc
cure to women citizens, who are otherwise
qualified the right TO vote in school, town,
city and other municipal elections. The
bill is as follows:
Sec. 1. The. people of the state of Michi-
gan enact, that at all school, town, city and
other municipal elections hereafter held in
this state, women shall be allowed to vote
for all school, town, city or municipal Off
GERS; and on all questions pertaining to
school, town, city and municipal regula-
tions on the same terms and conditions
prescribed by the law for male citizens.
Sec. 9. All laws of this state prescribing
the qualifications of voters at school, town,
city and other municipal elections therein
shall apply to women, and women shall en-
Joy all the rights, privileges and immuni-
ties, and be subject TO all penalties pre-
scribed for voters at such elections.
Sec. 3. Women who are entitled to vote
under the preceding sections of this act
shall be subject TO ali laws relating to the
registration of voters and be liable to all
penalties attached TO TIE violation OF such
laws, and their names shall be received and
registered by the various boards of regis
tratiOn at the time and in the manner re-
quired by law for other voters.
After thorough discussion participated
in by nearly all the members present the
vote was taken, and stood So to 81. The
bill was given immediate effect.
The woman suffrage bill passed by the
house wa brought up i'm the senate the fol
lowing day. The bill was referred to the
judiciary and election committee, whence
it was reported TO the senate without rec
concentration. IL was at once put on its
final passage and lost by 4 ayes TO IL nays.
IL WIS afterwards reconsidered.
The bill creating new circuit judgeship
for Kent county, which was called back
from the governor to correct a clerical err
ror, has again passed the house. NJ. G.
Burch of Grand Rapids, appears TO have
the call on the Office and will probably be
appointed by Gov. Luce.
The house has passed Representative
Tyrelps free text book bill.
The bill TO provide the penalty of death
for the crime of murder came up in the SEN
ate May III, Mr.. Don Herder made well
prepared and elaborate speech in favor of
the bill, in which he reviewed the history
of penal laws and drew the conclusion that
the only adequate punishment for the crime
of murder is death, and that that penalty is
the most efficacious deterrent of crime.
Mr.. Fox took the contrary view and pro-
duced statistics showing that there were
more COW ctions for a relatively less num-
Der of capital crimes in Michigan than
in New York, where the penalty
for murder is death Messrs Holbrooll and
Leavitt made effective speeches on the same
side of the question. Mr.. Palmer handed
in a letter for Mrs Minnie Ward Patterson
OF Marsh Ill, which was read by the secre
tary, charging that the Detroit Tribune had
garbled statistics and was eudeavoring to
browbeat and coerce the scna'e into the
adoption Of barbarous measure. All after
the enacting clause was struck out OF the
bill by the committee of the whole. In this
action the senate concurred by vote OF Is
TO 10.
The senate has passed the bill Of Senator
Dunstan TO allow the board of inspectors of
any prison or penal institution in this state
90 contract with the United States for the
confinement of prisoners sentenced by the
United States courts in any of the states
or territories, providing that the compensa-
ton shall not be less than 81 week and
that the United States shall return the
prisoners TO the state or territory from
whence they came after the expiration Of
their terms of imprisonment The object
of the bill is in part to allow the Marquette
prison to be opened, it being now vacant
and the other prisons in the state having at
the present many vacant cells.
bill increasing the bounties on English
sparrows from one to three cents has pass
ed the house.
rTst.z - L
message urging an important change in
the laws for the management Of the insane.
He recommends that the counties should
bear the entire expense of caring for their
insane at all times instead of having sew
eral hundred state patients in the asylums
as at present He thinks there are many
patients who are imbeciles and do not be-
long in the asylums at all and that the
change he recommends would raduce the
appropriations many thousand dollars.
An adverse report has been made upon
the new libe: law.
Gov Luce has vetoed the bill repeating
the present mortg &c tax system.
Both houses have passed the bill authorz-
lng East Saginaw to bond itself for 500, 0U0
for new city hall.
provide for the relief OF Union soldiers and
marines, outside the soldiers home, and
the INDECENT wives, widows and children OF
such This fund is raised by a tax levied
by the board Of supervisors in each county
not exceeding one tenth of one mill upon
taxable property. The Judge of probate
appoints commission OF three to regulate
the disbursement of the money.
In committee of the whole the house con
.sdered the other day the Tyrrell free text
book bill. The measure provides that
school districts, except those in cities oper
ating under special charters, shall furnish
the pupils looks in the following branche:
free of charge: photography, spelling
writing, reading, geography, arithmetic
grammar, national and state history, civil
government, physiology and hygiene. The
district DO rd of each district shall selec
the kind of books and shall not change
.oftener th1n once in five years. IL is loca
option and requires majority of the voters
OF the district to so vote. No action wa'
taken.
The senate judiciary committee recon
imend the passage OF the bill TO repeal 81
much of the Harrington divorce act OF lSS