Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-23
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

THE Senate passed bills ON the 10th inst. pro-
viding for fire protection and lighting OF the
streets in section 20 OF Grand Rapids Township;
for the better observance of the Sabbath and
punishment for immortality increasing the sal
airy OF the State Librarian and Assistant House
bill hxing the compensation OF the Wayne
County Coroners legalizing certain public Inn
provement bonds in the village OF Kalkaska.
a resolution was offered appropriating 81 27O
centennial It referred to the Com
mittee ON Military Affairs. The conduct of
was commended by resolution An effort for
morning sessions failed. The House passed
bills authorizing the city of East Saginaw to
city hall providing n fixed compen sation for
the clerks and registers Of the Wayne County
Probate Court to prevent the spread of con-
tagiops diseases among livestock; appropriat-
ing SG6, 900 for the support of the State Public
School; providing stenographer for the Wayne
County Court and Detroit Police Court. bill
to pension Judge Swift, OF the Detroit Record
er's Court, at q, 900 per year, was killed. as
was resolution appropriating $4,000 for the
relief of the Waldron FIRE sufferers The Has
com bin, reducing the tax on the business OF
fire insurance companies, was lost and recon-
sidered and the bill tabled.
Born branches of the Legislature spent pretty
much the entire day on the 14th In committee OF
the whole, the most important measure being
the Tyrrel free text book bill for public schools
1t was amended to make 1t sort OF locally OPP
tionnl with the districts whether the free system
will be adopted not, and the furnishing Of
books is taken from the State Board of 'Educa-
tion aud lodged with districts. In this form
IL passed. Another bill under discussion was
that prohibiting the sale of liquor within one
mile of the State University, the Agricultural
College, and State Normal School, but no con-
clusion was reached. The House passed bills
providing for raising fund by county boards of
supervisors for the maintenance of INDECENT
soldiers. The Senate passed O House bill
thorizing East Saginaw to borrow $100, 900 for
the erection Of a city hall, and few other bills
Of local Importance.
THE Governor sent special message TO the
Legislature on the 18th recommending that the
law with reference to the cases of the insane
at asylums be so amended that each county be
charged with the expense OF patients sent from
1t instead of from general fund a. now, there.
by removing the cause for complaint from coun-
ties paying more than their proportionate share
of the expense; also having tendency to have
the mildly insane kept ut home and relieving
d%9ions 5 'SIu' at the state institution 0O The
stns the Co fsp FfEs 6rs s9sGS
tax law, which required tho recording of all
mortgages for taxation. His reason for so doing
is that the bill is step In the direction of
changing the States policy of taxation. There
are not votes enough in favor Of passing the bill
over the veto in either house, therefore the act
Of two years ago will stand. Bills were passed
by tho Senate organizing new county in the
upper peninsula to be known as Mcmillan; APP
propriating $1,000 for the Pontiac Asylum for
special purposes and authorizing the formation
Of stock company In Detroit for the purpose of
taking garbage off its hands. The House passed
the bill giving women the right to vote at all CITY,
village and school elections. Over 100 female
lobbyists, all members OF the Michigan Equal
suffrage Association, were scattered about the
hail. and after the bill passed the visitors and
members alike Joined in frantic waving OF
handkerchiefs and newspapers, and the ladies
wound up by pinning dainty boutonniere
upon the coat of every member who voted for
the BILL Other bills passed by the house pro-
vide for free text books for the public schools ;
increase the bounty on English sparrows from
to cents apiece, and authorize the formation
Of trust and safety deposit companies and cor
porations to improve summer resorts.
THE bill granting women the right of suffrage
In municipal and school elections defeated
IN the Senate, on the 18th. by vote of 16 to 10.
The ladies were very hopeful of its passage,
but the conditions were unfavorable. Another
bill is pending in the Senate to the same effect.
Another most important bill was also sum-
marily dealt with, the House capital-punish-
ment hill, which was killed in committee of the
whole and the action of the committee con-
CURED in by vote of IS to 10. The Senate passed
.he bill authorizing penal-institution boards
TO contract for the care of the United States
prisoners. At the expiration of their sentence
they arc to be furnished with transportation TO
their homes, n new suit Of Clothes and small
amount of money at the expense of the United
States. A Joint resolution was passed for the
settlement by the State Board of Auditors of the
claims of certain parties for damages sustained
by the passage of the oleomargarine act of 1885.
The most important House action was tbs
passage Of the local option bill by vote of SO TO
Al. Other bills passed by the House were either
Of q local or unimportant character.