Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-28
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

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The institution is to have n capacity OF at least
IT'S latients and the location is TO be selected by
inal insane at 1onia Senator Holbrook pre-
sented bill for the appointment of State in
spector to look after the interests AMI working
Nagel introduced bill providing for the incor
poration Of independent military companies
Senator Harshaw the enacting clause OF z
bill TO prohibit the payment OF political
assessments two-cent fare bill was intro
duced by Represen. ntive Swift In the
House; three-cent fnre is to be allowed or
roads where the gross earnings are less than
81, 900 per mile, AMI the Railroad Commissioners
is to fix temporary fare rate for new roads.
bill introduced provides for a new volume ol
Howell's Statutes OF Michigan, to be issued by
Callaghan a. Co., of Chicago. The State viii
take 1000 copies at 800 per volume: Repre-
porate the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union Of Michigan. Judge Cole introduced
bill allowing judges of Probate to perform thi
marriage ceremony; Representative Dyer one
TO confer on Michigan prisons the power OF keep
ing prisoners convicted in the United Statei
courts, and in his bill to that effect the prsoni
are to receive not less than 81 week for eacf
United States prisoner so kept.
The most important bills introduced In the
Senate, on the 18th inst, were TO authorize
penal-institution inspectors to contract for the
care OF United States prisoners; for the con
struction Of the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit from
portions OF the Twelfth and Twenty fifth max
ing an appropriation for fitting and furnishing
the State Mining School; TO further preserve the
purity OF the ballot; to provide against errors
and frauds in cases Of election inspectors
eSss III %ouss at an
tuition for the of confirmed tnebri.
ates; to regulate the manufacture and sale OF
intoxicating liquors q joint resolution provfd-
ing for the payment of money expended by ex-
Gov. Begole In an attempt to remove j. q. VIII
son from the Board Of Control Of the Deaf and
Dumb School. In the House, bills were intro
duced to amend the law relative to adopting
standard insurance policy exempting the State
Mutual TO more fully secure the Independence
RaDi1a
the State to take part in the centennial ami
| yerssry OF the inauguration OF George Washing
| ton to provide for pgovident associations fol
warehousemen travellers to provide for the
| employment of honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors s ~, IN the state PppneS service 70
| digent soldiers and sailors, not inmates Of th
| Soldiers Home, also their widows and orpuans.
| to provide and make an appropriation for
house of correction for females; to prohibit the
| sale of infected milk To prevent the introduce
tion and spead OF infectious diseases to require
| the labelling of vessels containing gasolene,
bepzne, and naphtba to provide for the crea-
tion OF a dairy and food commission; a Joinl
resolution providing for q constitutional con
vention to abolish the marriage license system
and requiring clergymen to file Ger in.
Gates OF marriage to retire Supreme
on an annual pension Of $500, they
| having been on the bench fifteen years to
| provide for capital punishment in murder eases
| IL the jury make q unan nous request and the
J Judge approves; to abolish the Board of Phar.
| macy to provide for county game wardens at
| salary OF 500, to be paid by n tax on resident
hunters of $5, and non-residents $40; to require
| the Supreme Court reporter to publish decis-
ions within sixty days after the receipt OF copy.
| resolution authorizing not TO exceed cents
/ per mile and actual expenses to committees on
| State institutions was adopted.
IN the Senate bills were introduced on the 1eth
| inst. as follows: To provide for an automatic
apparatus for extinguishing FIRE in railroad cars
/ in case Of accident; to relieve the statutes oil
obsolete laws amending the Fast Saginaw Po.
lice Court act giving police justices salary OF
| 5000 and clerks 81 900; TO prohibit the ans
| portation OF dead Cinnamon or their bones over
| Michigan territory; providing for an Assis ant
| Attorney General; providing for County Boards
| of Highway Commits sioners to make owners
| of dogs liable for all damages by them
/ to sheep; n joint resolution providing for
the participation Of Michigan in the centennial
| celebration of the Inauguration of George
Washineton In the House the following bills
| were introduced Henemans liquor bin pro-
viding for State constabulary to amend the law
| with reference to furnishing fuel and stationery
| for the use of the State; also one chan Ing the
| method of letting contracts for State printing !
to secure to women the right to vote IN school
| Boards OF Supervisors to fix the salaries OF Reg
listers of Probate TO prohibit gambling in any
| form in places known as temperance billiard
halls to relieve the statutes Of obsolete laws ;
| to exempt the Kalamazoo River from the opera
tion of the fish laws; to authorize Registers OF
| Deeds to correct errors in Instruments before
| recording Sixty-two bills were introduced in
| the Senate and seventy eight in the House. in
the Senate at the evening session Dllis were in,
| and game warden to provide for supple ement
to the general statutes OF the State. A bill
| passed providing for punishment for the dis
| posal of personal property under mortgage. or
under contract for purchase. In the
House bills were introduced: To authorize
the teaching of domestic industries and
the State Reform school for Girls !;
deputy county clerks % TO sS
sale OF liquors IN any place OF amusement or
room adjacent; for the better observance of the
ings In insolvency; to provide for the incorpora-
tions OF fraterna1 and beneficiary societies; to
provide for holding one-half the terms of court
In Saginaw Circuit in East Saginaw to punish
persons transporting dynamite or other explo-
sives in cars or vehicles used for carrying pas
sengers.
The fifty day limit for the introduction OF
bills has ended. There were 427 bills intro
duced in the Senate, as against 500 at the last
session, and 6O1 in the House, against 924.
Another bill was introduced on the Goth
inst, to regulate and control pools, trusts ana
Spasonted Among oher documents presented
was substitute for the mortgage tax law a
bill 10 provide for m nority representation in
corporations; to regulate the tariff on freight
traffic and a bill to tax all railroad properly at
| its actual cash value; to establish q new State
Normal School in the northern part OF the
Lower Peninsula; compelling all building
and loan associations doing business out
side their oNn county to deposit with the
| Auditor General securities to the amount OF
900. TO authorize the GovernorIro appoint a
| commissioner Gnl secretary to attend the
| Worlds Exposition in Paris providing a PEN
atty for Jury bribing; to compel all railroad cor
| porations that have owned real estate over ten
| years that il not actually used In exercise OF
franchises to sell the same within one year, ana
| providing rigid penalty for making Co.orable or
fraudulent transfers Of such lands after the bill
becomes operative. A joint resolution was in
troduced for the amendment of the clause OF
the Constitution which provides that min
ing ana manufacturing corporations shall
| not be formed for any longer time than
| thirty wears Tie amendment provides that
the Legislature by a two-thirds vote may au-
thorize those corporations TO Ieorganize for an
| other period Of thirty years. stringent meas
| ure was presented TO compel an inspection OF
all meas cattle ON foot In every city and village
IN the state within forty eight hours OF slaugh-
ter and compelling Common Councils TO ap-
poin inspectors. Among tue important House
brls were the following: Requiring all Coro-
ners to be legally qualified physciansi TO COM
pei railroad companies 10 place hagmen or cleo
trio alarms at all highway crossings where there
| are cuts, grades anytuing to obstruct the
view OF travellers TO prohibit the sale OF intoxi-
eating liquors and tne running OF any card.
| gam ng, pool, CT billiard table within
half mile Of any established camping ground foI
religious pui poses to exempt the manufactur
ing property of any town from taxation when q
majority Of the voters OF tue town snail 80 DC
eide at a general election; 10 relieve the Com.
mercial Telegraph Company OF State taxation
to prevent persons fiom unlawfully wear nc
Masonic badges or omblems; to provide for the
collection of specific taxes and liking the time
when such taxes become liens on the property.
Joint resolution was presented providing that
the Legislature shall adjourn nom April 10 tc
the LIST Of next January.
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MAX O'RELL thinks diamonds are
trumps in this country. If Max, while
in America, had got INTO row with .
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