The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-23
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

BILL amending sections 24i-2f2 Howell, roll
alive to Presidential electors; and given Inn
mediate effect was passed by the Senate on the
10th inst The following bills were introduced
In the senate Repeating act ll2 OF 1885. au-
thoSizing the minority OF stockholders In cor
porations TO elect representation on Boards OF
Directors. For the building Of an executive
mansion at Lansing; also, declaring certain
binations, unlawful, ard To provide punish
ment for those who shall enter into the
same 10 provide punishment for the fraud,
property 'Inder chattel mortgage. TO provide
for the manner OF conducting general elections.
To repeal act No. lis OF 1881, entitled to provide
for the better protection OF lives OF passengers
and employees ON raj road trains also TO amend
act No. .62 OF 1897, in relation 10 the reporting OF
mortgages for taxation; also providing for u
special tax telephone companies, and TO
peal all acts and parts Of acts inconsistent
herewith; also authorizing the Board of Trus-
tees OF any village and the Common Council OF
any city, in this State. TO fix and establish the
rent for telephone apparatus and instruments;
also To provide specific tax upon the receipts OF
telegraph companies doing business in the State
OF Michigan, and to repeal all acts and parts OF
acts inconsistent Herewith; The following
bills were introduced in tho House: Relating to
taxes on real estate encumbered by mortgages:
amending section 1855 How, relating 10 county
superintendents Of the poor; also, reducing as
sessed value OF lands by amount OF unpaid
mortgages thereon; also, exempt. ng mortgages
from taxation, and TO repeal act 262 of 1857;
for the protection of fish in Round and Whit
more Lakes for the assessment OF property.
THE Senate, in executive session. confirmed
me following appointments OF the Governor on
the 18th inst. Hiram +. Hatch of jackson, to
be Warden of the State Prison for two years ;
Prof. Victor c. Vaughan, of Ann Arbor, and
Delos Pond ofe Albion ltbe latter vice Senator
Columbus V. Tyler, OF Bay City, who resigned
Oct. %, 1883, to be members Of the State Board
of Health for six years Herbert A. Forest Of
East Saginaw, member Of the Board OF Chart
ties and Corrections for eight years The SEN
ate also confirmed a long list OF notaries. Mark
M Powers, Of Grand Rapids. was ag-
m No Of
Big Rapids, Clerk OF Finance; Alex. T.. Ross
South Haven, Clerk OF Railroads Chas. +. Rug
giles, Coldwater Clerk OF Cities and Villages
The following bills were introduced: Amending
section 6l4 How, relative TO fence-v viewers;
amending act 173 Of 1873 relative to fees Of sher
ifs; relative to actions for libel. House bill g.
to repeal the ect which forbids fishing in Round
Lake Hillsdale County. and Whitmore Lake.
Washtenaw County. was passed by the House.
Bills introduced Joint resolution TO amend sec. !,
art. Z OF the Constitution, relating to elections.
Amending the game laws, For the admission
of insane patients of the Soldiers Home into
State asylums. Relating TO actions for libel.
Regulating charges upon sleeping. parlor. and
chair cars; also for the regulation of sleeping
cars. Amending section 2l2S How, relating TO
tax on dogs To preserve the purity of elections
by new system of voting wherein the elector
will check off by pencil mark tho names of tie
candidates voted for.
AT the evening session OF the Senate on the
18th inst, bills were introduced for the erection
OF the Executive mansion and for the punish
ment OF those setting fire 10 mines and mining
property. Senator Giddings introduced joint
resolution for the amendment to the Constitu-
ton, fixing the salary of Governor at $500;
Attorney General, 5000; Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, 5000; and OF all the other
State officers, -, 800 including Lieutenant Gov
error. Bills were Introduced in the House to
amend the law fixing the legal rate OF interest;
To amend the law relative to maintaining
FISH chutes in dams, and TO amend the law
relative TO the organization OF railroad corpora
lions.
BILLS were introduced in the House, on the
18TH for giving authority TO administrators and
executors OF other States to prosecute suits in
this Joint resolution appropriating $1,000 for
"A statue of General Custer, to be placed in the
old Representative Hall at Washington; bill to
amend the law relative TO maintaining chutes
and fishways in dams across Michigan streams
bill to fix the legal rate of interest at per cent.
ana preventing usurious contracts. Bills were
introduced 10 provide for the incorporation OF
the Benevolent Order of Elks; TO require the
Lake shore and Michigan Southern Railroad to
abandon and dismantle its line from Palmyra 10
Corbet's Station, Lenawee County; to amend
the city charters of Jackson and Battle Creek.
Ara Joint convention OF the Legislature on
the 18th. James Mcmillan was formally chosen
United States Senator. He received 90 votes
and Melbourne II. Ford AZ. The following bills
were introduced in the Senate: For the APP
pointment of an assistant prosecuting attorney
Tor Allegan County also amending Sec. 1. act
III of 1887, relative TO the appointment OF not
aries revising and consolidating the laws
lating to the State Prison, the 81 ate House OF
Correction and branch Of the State Prison in the
Upper Peninsula and the State House OF Cor
rection ut Ionia requiring railroad companies
TO give notice at stations whether passenger
trains on schedule time or not making an
appropriation for the Michigan Pioneer and His
torical Society defining and Furnishing the ofense
of embezzlement by special administrators;
providing for the parole and conditional release
of criminals under sentence at the State prison
and at the lonia House OF Correction also to
provide for indeterminate sentences; prohibit
ing township county officers from holding
any other township county office also regu-
lating the descent Of real property Of married
women dying intestate; also TO provide FOR the
fees of officers making returns OF the service OF
proofs in certain cases releasing to the United
states all the right, title. and interest OF the
State OF Michigan to certain lands granted 10 the
State by act OF Congress. approved June 8, 1886,
A concurrent resolution, adopted by the Senate
and concurred in by the House, fixes the date or
the recess from January 81 TO February II. Jas
+. White, OF Kalamazoo, was elected clerk OF
the liquor traffic; Henry Truax, of Saginaw.
clerk of State affairs. Bills introduced in the
House Requiring sureties on bonds in judicial
proceedings to justify in writing under oath;
creating commission on toll roads and toll
bridges amending section 1888, How, relative
to the appointment OF commissioners on Claims
against the estates OF deceased persons amend
ing Section u, Act 10 OF 1885, relative TO the min
ing school requiring the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern Railroad to abandon its line from
Grosvenor TO Corbus, Lenawee County. res
olution for the printing Of the Governors mes
sage in different languages, as follows, was
adopted, viz: English, 25O0 German. ], 500;
Holland, l., %; French, 500; Norwegian 500;
Polish, 90; Bohemian, 800. Yeas, 6l nays, ~.
Bills passed TO punish burning or setsng fire
to mines mine buildings to punish willful
and malicious injuries to mines and property
used in mining.
Mr. HoIBRooK introduced his stringent anti
trust bill in the Senate on the 18th, and senator
/ German n bill To prot ct the lives of railway
passengers, allowing the use OF car-stoves under
certain conditions. The House, by an almost
unanimous vote, adopi ed resolution calling
for an election next April to vote upon consti-
tutional amendment increasing the Governor g.
/ salary from Si,OOJ TO $1,000 per annuIn. Mr..
Watts Introduced a bill TO protect shade trees
along highways. Mr.. Cole gave notice of bill
to prohibit the sale or giving away OF liquor
within five miles of the State University at Ann
/ Arbor. Mr.. Murtagh gave notice OF bill for
the creation Of n State Board OF Arbitration and
Mediation in labor troubles.