Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24

gineers .,.............. 200 90 1000
tory ......... e 5000 90 5000
Enlargement of dental
college .............. 1900 90 2oOo
Enlargement of chemical
laboratory ............. 10000 90 10000
New hospital .......... 25000 90 $1,000
Total. ...........Sl2 1921, $50 0S $97, 200
Representative Baker of Berrien moved
to reconsider the vote 10 spread the regents
me oral Oh the journal. The university
men voted against him and they were re-
enforced by the labor men.
CO., Atkinson has offered the following
substitute TO the libel bill drafted at the
recent meeting of the state press associa
tion;
The publication of matters of interest
shall be deemed privileged and no rec)v-
cry shall be had on account Of such p bill
cation unless the p aintiT shall prove ihat
the same was not made in good faith. and
that statements in il re untrue.
The publication of matters Of private
concern shall not be deemed privileged,
and shall be actiouaJle unless the per on
publishing the same shall prove the state.
ments made to be true and that the publ
cation w rs made for good purpo es and for
lusiifiaNle ends.
Critic as upon public affairs, public
shall be regarded as of public concern.
But sps ciic statements Of facts regarding
public officers and candidates for pubic
Office, reject ne upon them and injurious
to their caar; cters, shall not be deemed
matters Of publc interest
Proceedings in court involving sexual
relations, and arrests and charges growing
out Of such relations, shall not be deemed
matters of public interest, and the publ ca
ton thereof shall in all cases be act!onabIc.
! Tho membership of the committee on
the Marquette prison has been increased by
the addition Of Senators COlsrove and GAL
braith
l Represen alive Baker Of Berrien will in
troducc bill 10 appropriate 500 for a
statue TO Gen. Custer 20 be erected in stat
uary hail of the capitol at Washington.
This measure was prepared by friend OF
the late Gen. Custer and by his request will
be brought before the house. 1t provides
for three commissioners TO be appointed by
the governor whose duty 1t will be 10 ar
range VITA sculptor for models, etc. and
TO contract for the completion Of the work.
/ Senator Dunstan will soon introduce
bill to punish burning or setting fire TO
mines or minc buildings, also TO punish
willfu and malicious injury to mines an1
property used in mining. The penalty for
setting fire TO mines on shafts is imprison-
ment for life or any term OF years; the
penalty for malicious injury TO pumps,
hosting gear, man engine, bell signal, rope
skip, track ladders, or other material por.
tons Of mining machinery or appliances is
Imprisonment for twenty years or less, or
fine not exceeding 5000.
The senate has confirmed the following
appointments of the governor: Hiram +.
Hatch OF Jackson 10 be warden OF the state
prison for two years. Prof. Victor &.
Vaughn OF Ann Arbor, and Delos Pond of
Albion (the latter vice Senator Columbus
V. Tyler o. Bay City, who resigned Oct.
2s 1881 10 be members of the state board
of health for six years. Herbert A. Forest
of East Saginaw, member Of the board Of
charities and corrections for eight years.
Judge Pealcr's election resolution pro-
vidcs that after Jan. !, 1888, all male citizens
~ years Of age or over except persons
under guardianship GncOmpetontsl be enti-
tied to vote at all elections provided they
have lived in the st tie six months and in
the township or ward 20 days preceding
said ection. The old law provides for
three months and ten days respectively.
PHO Parsons Of Detroit has been added
to the committee to represent Michigan at
the centennial celebration Of the inaugur-
aticn of Washington TO be held in New
York April 80, next.
Senator Blackwell, following out the re-
quest of the supervisors of Chippewa
county, will present bill 10 authorize the
e4ual division Of the liquor tax collected in
cities and villages with the counties n
which they are loca cd. This is now the
law in the lower peninsula, but does not
apply to.the upper peninsula.
l Capt. Nicholson of the Detroit house Of
ION ia 4t.ns ION, Of 10
place, 50 that the legislature may be fully
acquainted with the workings Of all Iichi-
gan penal insdtut oas, and thus be pre-
pared for the most intelligent action on the
question OF contract labor, etc.
! The following house bills have been re
fered: Providing for the admission of
insane members of the Michigan 50 diers
home TO one of the state asylums or the
insane; relative TO libel; 10 regulate
CHARGES for sleeping and CHI .ir car Gccomo-
dalton; to provide for a tax on dogs and the
Great on Of a fund for the payment Of dam
agcs FOR sheep killed or wounded by them I;
TO preserve the purity Of sections; relative
to the killing Of deerin the upperpeninsula.
l The law relative TO libel has been re
fericd.
Representative Foster of st. Joseph pro-
poses 20 amend the constitution in re FER
ence to TIC qualifications or electors. The
plan is to allow all persons who are electors
duly qualified to vote at the spring elections
in s., to con inue as electors, but there
after no one VIII be allowed 10 vote who is
no Il native born or fully IL lturali cd citi-
zcn, thus abolishing the provision which nj.
lows men TO vote siy months after receiving
their first papers. In the next pl &C no one
viii tc allowed TO vote who has not resi-
dence Of six months in the state or thirty
days In the township or ward; lastly, no
person under guardianship will be allowed
10 vote.
Several bills have been introduced pro-
v.ding one way or another that mortgages
shall not be taxed
bin has been introduced appropriating
$40 900 for statue of Gen. Custer TO DO
placed in the capitol at WashngtN.
TIE people OF Kalkaslxa county have petit
toned 10 have the elective franchise g. ken
away from those lumbermen whose only
clam 10 residence in that county comes
from the fact that they are employed during
the winter months in the lumber camps
A bill has been introduced keeping tho
leg N rate OF interest at 9 per cent, but pro
viding that where usury is exacted only the
interest shall be forfeited instead Of the
whole debt, as at present