Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-07
MICHIGAN NLEGISLATURE

bridge district In Bay County. Both were given
amend the law requiring the heating of passen-
ger oars by steam; TO amend the law to increase
the fe3s OF county clerks for marriage license (;
lum. Bills were passed in the House relative to
offt nses against the lives and persons OF indi-
yiduals; to authorize the Auditor General to
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mates of tho Michigan Soldiers Home TO
the state asylums; to project the fish
to provide for the incorporation OF associations
TO hold expos itions. The latter bill has special
application to the city Of Detroit and taks
immediate effect Bills were introduced In the
House to protect trees along the public high
way TO prevent domestic animals from Running
at large on the public highway; to protect hsh,
and prohibiting the use OF nets and seines to
amend the law relative to disorder v persons
who desert their families to become public bur
dens TO provide for reporting mortgages for
assessment purposes; for the preservation OF
deer and making BoIs Blanc Island a deer park
for ten years to declare the waters OF Great
Falls free to all persons for shooting and fishing
purposes for State inspector OF IA tories with
special reference TO child labor for prohibitory
'aw similar to the Kansas law.
TIE Senate and also the House shut down
sterny on the 25th and 26th instant, ON the
habit OF allowing its employees to make a free
lodging house OF the Capitol In presenting the
resolution ordering the Sergeant at Arms to re-
move all beds and bedding from the committee
rooms Mr. Wood stated that dsgraceful scenes
had occurred in the rooms, and in supporting the
measure Mr.. Easton said IL was in the interest Of
good health and good taste AMI good morals. On
fy tie House was in session ON the 26th and that
afterthe forenoon session adjourned Mr.. Connor
gave notice OF a bi to preserve the purity Of
elections. 1t Is basel mainly on the Massachu-
sstts law. Mr.. jackson noticed bill y with
draw from sale the swamp lands bordering on
the great lakes and connecting waters, when
not susceptible to drainage and reserve them
for public use. The Committee on Public
Health favorably report cd bill which provides
for fnfng local health officers who fail to report
contagious diseases, and adds imprisonment II
the hne is no. paid.
IN the Senate Mr.. Harshaw gave notice on the
2Sth ult. Of q bill to consolidate Oscoda and Au
Snb!e under the namo OF the City OF Iosco. Mr.
Randall introduced in the House q bill designed
10 protect wealthy and love-dazed men against
the wiles OF women who may induce their ad-
mirers 10 settle covers upon them before
marriage. The act provides that all the
real and personal estate OF every male ac-
quired before marriage by gift, grant, inher
itance, or in any other manner, except a
homestead, shall be and remain the sole prop
er and estate of such male and may be sold,
mortgaged, transferred, or bequeathed by such
male in the same manner as II he was unmar-
ried Mr, Daman gave notice OF bill to hx the
retail liquor tax at $50 and make this apply to
dealers In beer and whisky alike The bill also
fixes the wholesale and rotail tax at O, 900. The
House has passed n bill to authorize the forma-
tion OF corporations for acquiring. holding.
leasing and selling real estate, and for the erec
tion OF buildings thereon, and orders 1t to take
immediate effect.
A BILL was presented in the House, on the
10Th ult, to increase the tax paid by the express
companies from l per cent TO per cent. OF
their gross earnings. The bill to compel sleep
ingicar companies to raise the upper berth un-
less occupied was defeated promptly. State
Senator L. q. Palmer was recommended by the
Senate for United States District Attorney for
the Western District Of Michigan. local
option bill was introduced in the House.
The Legislature spent nearly the entire after
noon on the 3Oth ult. in. Joint memorial services
in honor of Lieut.. Gov. Macdonald Joint reso-
lutions deplorng his death were adopted. Gov.
Sherwood President Ball, Speaker Diekema,
and Messrs. Blackwell, Wheaton. Colgrove,
Eaton, Palmer Randall, Giddings, Connor, Hol-
brook, Goodrich Baker, German, and Brown. In
tho Senate two important corporation measures
Of Telephones, modelled after the Indiana law,
and the other to tax railroad companies upon
their real and personal property, the same as
paid now In the House Mr.. TyrrelIs garnishee
bill passed. as did three other acts OF
minor importance. Mr. Jasnowski introduced
q bill TO regulate hours OF labor on street rail-
ways. 1t provides that ten hours in any con-
secutive twelve hours shall constitute days
WORK for all employees, except in case OF accident
agreement between the employees md company
to waive the provision shall be void. N. n.
Brown introduced bill for the collection OF de-
inquent taxes by the counties instead OF the
Auditor General Mr. Wells introduced bill to
appropriate $52, 900 for the use Of the Fish Com
m ssioners during the next two years. Mr.
suall be burned in traction engines when they
are running on highways.
IN the Senate bills were introduced as follows
on the 31st ult TO prohibit the manufacture
and sails of liquors in certain counties adopting
Prohibition under local option law two years
ugo; n joi u resolution to amend the Constitu-
tiun relative TO Circuit Courts to authorize the
State Board Of Auditors to light the Capitol
Building and grounds with electrici y; to sur
nder certain lands in the Upper Peninsula 10
the United States for the protection OF homestead
and presumption settlers; to amend the. act
relative to garnishment Of property; relative 70
emb ,zzlemont and removal of property TO cede
certain land near Sault Ste. Marie to the United
States for the purpose OF building q fort thereon
Bills wtre passed to incorporate the village OF
Ashley, Gratiot County, and bond 1t for pur-
poses of protection. Tho House spent most OF
tho afternoon in committee OF the whole upon
no important matters, but recalled from the
Senate the Randall bill TO punish ohenses
against persons and property and amended II
by adding as u penalty for breaking into freight
clrs q fine OF S20J or imprisonment for six
months. The election OF o temporary President
pro TEN. OF the Senate was deferred until Feb l3
The Senate Judiciary Committee have fixed
upon the forenoon of Feb. Is for the hearing
upon Senator Germans bill for repeating the
minority representation law, House bills were
passed 10 Incorporate the villages of Chelsea
and Ashley. Bills were introduced to regulate
the hours of service on street cars and elevated
railways In the State; TO provide an additional
Judge In the Saginaw Circuit; to provide for an
| Official stenographer for the Saginaw Judicial
Circuit; to organize school districts in Saginaw
ity; 10 provide for a bounty on wolf scalps to
| authorize the laying out OF State road In Bay
County; making an appropriation OF 81 5000
for the maintenance of State reform school
state Normal School q joint resolution relative
TO ascertaining the cost OF maintenance OF the
County Board Of Supervisors system. Both
branches adjourned to Feb. IL.