Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-04-18
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE


Fon over three months a contested election
case has hung fire In the Senate. Theodore
hentz (Deln. was elected from Detroit by a plu-
rality OF fourteen and his opponent, M. Dicker.
son, contested the election ON the ground OF
gross bribery and vote buying. The nvestigat-
ing Committee could not agree upon report
and the matter gradually developed great bitter
ness and animosity. Three days were spent in
arguments, and the Senate on the 5th inst de
cided TO retain Rentz by vote OF nineteen to
ten, several Republicans voting with the Demo-
high license biIi was brought up in the
House special order, and a motion
was at once made to postpone its
consideration until April ~. Mr. Damon
pleaded that the date be made not later than
April A. as II IL was continued week later 1t
would then DO impossible for the bill to go into
operation before May !, when the annual liquor
tax must'be paid, and the new law thus rendered
imperative for q year TO come. After "a bitter de-
bate, the BILL by close vote was turned over to
joint committee for further consideration, q
result satisfactory to the advocates OF delay.
The Damon bill has been renodeled into gem
eral act that revises the entire liquor laws. Itis
especially severe on the druggists and social
clubs 1t fixes the tax for selling any and all
liquors at retail at $500.
THE Senate passed the following bills ON the
9th inst. Incorporating the city of Bessemer,
village of Otsego, Allegan County; providing for
the publication OF volume III, Howells Ammo
tated Statutes; providing for the incorporation
OF subordinate Temples Of Honor aud Tenn
perance also for the incorporation of subor-
dinate courts, Ancient Order of Foresters !;
legalizing certain bonds of the township of
Briley; appropriating $4,000 for the purpose
of completing the decoration of the State Cap
ital building authorizing the leasing of public
buildings to g. A. IL. posts at n nominal sum-
The House passed bills to give assent to the
granting of moneys TO the State by Congress foc
the purpose of maintaining agricultural e-,
pertinent stations in connection with the Agrt
cultural College; to authorize executors and al
ministrators OF other States TO commence n d
prosecute suits in this State; TO amend the law
relative to voluntary assignments. Bills ap-
proved by the Governor: House joint reso-
luton to relinquish all claims of the State
70 lands occupied by Charles Byron and
William Ellis; to- incorporate the city
OF Ironwood, Gogebic County; to legalize
certain bridge bonds issued by Charlevoix viii
lage. The bill providing for the appointment of
board OF arbitration to settle disagreements
between employers and employees was killed in
the committee Of the whole in the House and
subsequently revived by non-concurrence in
nctfon OF the committee and placed on general
order. Senator Holbrook introduced concur
rent resolution providing committee OF three
from each house TO inquire into the feasibility
OF engaging i'll the manufacture of twine in the
State penal institutions.
House bills were passed by the Senate on tho
10th inst. 70 change the boundaries of School
District No l, Echo Township Antrim County
authorizing the townships of Oronoko and Ber-
rten Springs, Berrien County, to borrow money
Tor public improvements. After spending some
time in committee of the whole, the Senate
went into executive session on appointments
from Jne OONefnOr. Inc House passed D1llS
amending the law relative to a union school dis
trict in the city of Alpena; to amend the law
with reference to the payment of tuition by non-
residents in school districts where they own
property; joint resolution authorizing the
Board of State Auditors to audit and settle the
claims of James Abbot for trespa3s OF the State
upon MS landS The Russ bill, ,equalizing the
bountios to soldiers, was referred to the Com
mittee on Ways aud Means. The bill for in
spection of beef on the hoof was sent to the Ju-
dietary Committee The House bill authorizing
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insure nearly all classes OF property, became a
law without the signature of the Governor after
a lapse OF ton days after passage.
BILLS were passed by the Senate on the 11th
inst. authorizing the West Side Building Asso.
ciation of Grand Rapids to increase its capital
stock to S2OOO,0O0; organizing the township of
Huron, Chippewa County; for relief of Cornelius
Dyer preventing the property of his deceased
wife from escheating; providing for trust, de-
posit and SECURITIES coinpanios adding several
restrictives to the law prohibiting the sale of inn
pure and adulterated milk establishing State
road in Bay County providing for and fixing
the compensation of an official stenographer in
the Eighth Judicial Circuit; providing for re-
copying the records in the Adiutant Generals
office and making II new roster of the soldiers
of the war from Michigan. Bills passed the
House to legaliZe certain bonds issued by the
township OF Central Lake, Antrim County; pro-
mbiting the manufacture and sale of cigarettes
in this state by vote of "a TO 3 setting apart
Bois Blanc Island, on Lake Huron as a public
deer rark Tor period OF ten years; making
an Appropriation of S39, 795 for new build
ings and repairs ut the Agricultural Col
lege for the years 1SS9-90 to provide
for the construction of bridges between
two townships when one is disinclined TO act
The appropriation bill of S15 900 for the erection
Of n chapel and amusement-room in connection
with the Michigan Insane Asylum was the sub
ject of n long discussion, and finally an amend
ment reducing it to S12 500 was agreed TO and the
bill passed. Bills also passed making an appro-
priation of $500 for maintaining the State
weather service; appropriating SS5, 700 for cur
rent expenses of the State Normal School, and
sc, 900 for current expenses of the State Library
for the years 1889 00 also bill legalizing certain
contracts made for q water supply by the village
of East Jordan, Charlevoix County.