The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-03-06
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

THE Legislature reassemblsd on the 25th ult..
but did no business OF importance in either
oommi,,ss ., sss Whole s, rna spsn. ,. IA
tion bill is before the House. 10 provides that
ballots shall be uniform in color and width
throughout the State. Those for constitutional
amendments, Presidential electors, State officers
and Justices OF the Supreme Court 70 be white
and prepared under direction OF the Secretary OF
Judges and county officers to be blue, and
prepared by county clerks. Those for members
OF the legislature and city and township on
OF city or township clerks. Ballots must have
names OF all candidates upon them for each
party the ts expense Of preparing ballots to DO
ors, and they IS each. Thoss ON blue tickets
ficial and bear upon their back a fac smile OF
the signature OF the officers preparing
them The blu also provides for proper
tional inspectors at each precinct; shelves or
compartments for preparing ballots, not less
than one for each seventy-hye voters; for not
more than four voters inside the guard rail at q
time besides the election officers for duplcat-
ing the ballots and penalties Of mis- statement,
interference or intimidation. Parties applying
10 vote. II their name Is on the check list, are
supplied with a ballot, admitted inside the
guard-rail and their name checked on the list and
the ballot must be either deposited in the ballot
box nr returned 20 the clerk before going out,
and the voter can not return.
BILL authorizing the sale OF the property
and franchise OF one railroad company TO an
other was passed by the House on the 18th ult.
The real object OF this bill is TO allow the sale
of the Port Huron and Northern Narrow Gaugo
Road TO the Flint and Pere Marquette. The
consideration Is said 70 be 80 500 OO0 The gauge
OF the former will be made standard, and by aid
OF a connection with branch Of the Canadian
racine at r., Sarnia new trunk line TO
sixty miles shorter TO Buffalo than any other.
This bill went TO the Senate. Other bills passed
the House enlarging the powers of Probate
judges in appointing guardians in cases OF pa
rental incompetency; also a bill, which passed
the House in the morning. providing for an ex-
prohibit the summoning OF talesmen az
jurors in courts OF record for the m ain
tenance OF neglected and destitute W ives
of drunken husbands from the husbands es-
tate. bill passed the House TO relieve lessees
OF liability 10 pay rent for property destroyed
by the elem nts. The Senate Military Commit
tee reported adversely upon the resolution pro-
viding for a monument 70 General Custer Tho
Committee on State Affairs will report favorably
a bill for the collection OF divorce statistics.
Several other bills Of local i'm portance were
passed, and some work done in committee Of the
whole IN both houses.
THE Potter raj road bill passed the Senate on
the tn ult., and now goes 70 the Governor.
The Senate passed proposed amendment 10
the Constitution TO legaltze the reorganization
OF mining corporations the charters of which
have lapsed under the constitutional thirty
yrars limit, provided nine-tenths of the
stockholders vote for such reorgentza-
tion. The Senate went into executive session
and confirmed a large number OF notary public
appointments from the Governor. bill passed
the House authorizing the city Of Jackson Co
cede 10 the United States certain lands for
Government building site. All other business
in either branch was OF purely local character,
and both branches ad burned until Friday