Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-21
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

NOTICE OF bill to provide for uniform as
sessment OF property was given irfthe House ON
the 18th inst. The Dleasure is the severest
blow that the corporations have yet received, as
IL provides for full taxation OF the rairoai tel
egraph, and telephone companis now paying
special taxes, and includes elevators, churches,
and charitable institutions as well. bill was
introduced which calls for an inspection before
killing OF ell meat sold or offered for sale In
Michigan cities OF ten thousand people
nearly forty bills was given. Among
them 10 a bill to detach the counties OF Gogebic
and Ontonagon from the Twelfth Judicial Cir
cult and Iron from tho Twenty NTH, and erect
them into q new circuit to be known as the
Thirtie b ; to apply cog tax money TO the pro-
posed free textbook fund to increase justice
ices for adjourning cases from Is to 30 cents TO
authorize the appointment OF State agent TO
look after discharged convicts; to increase the
terms OF county clorxs from two to four years;
to prevent owners of artesian wells from using
pipes larger than one inch in diameter when the
flow has an appreciable effect on the supply in
tho wells of surrounding property owners.
A bill was introduced which provides that If a
pers son murders or attempts TO murder any
one by who's death he would SECURE property BY
Inheritance he sEal DO disinheritod in addition
TO suffering tho N uai Tenalty for the crime.
Mrs. Helen r. jenkins and other Detroit ladies
petition the House for the appointment OF an
equal suffrage standing committee 10 receive
petitions and listen TO the delegations that are
yearniny 10 plead for equal suffrage Speaker
Diekeman referred the petition 10 the Commit
tee Oh Elections. In the Senate Mr.. Blackwell
introduced bill for tho adoption OF the towns
ship school system in place OF the present dis
trct system.
IN tho Senate bills were introduced. on the
18th inst. to provide for posting copies OF the
proposed constitutional amendments in tho
polling places when thoy are submitted; TO
provide against contracts, agreements and
combinations to affect prices; to amend the
law respecting the appointment OF notaries
public TO amend the act authorizing the in.
corporation of building and loan associations;
to amend the act with reference to the uso OF
sleeping. parlor. and chair cars; joint resolu-
ton for the enforcement: OF the State constttu:
estate held by corporations; Joint reso-
luton to amend the constitution with
reference to the power OF the Board OF Super
visors to borrow money for building and repair
ing bridges Joint resolution authorizing the
Auditor General to discover the safe containing
the books belonging TO the depopulated county
OF Isle Royal and becoming the CUSTODIAN
thereof; n joint resolution authorizing the
printing OF map OF Michigan for distribution
in the public schools. A bill passed requiring
civil license for marrying and providing pom
atty for neglect. In the House bills were in
troduced to prevent the growth and spread OF
Canada thistles; to authorize the city OF Ann
Artor to raise S25,0 900 for public hospital pur-
poses to provide for a board OF arbitration Con-
sisting OF the Commissioner and Deputy Com
missioner of Railroads, AMI the mechanical
engineer OF that department, to settle disputes
between railways and their employees to author
ize mutual fire insurance companies having
$1,000 assets to insure all classes Of insurablo
property TO authorize said companies to change
their method OF making assessments; to pro-
vide compensation of 50 per month for metero-
logical observers who report to the State Board
Of Health to provide tor the uniform assess
ment of property and the lew of taxes and re-
tuIn of delinquent taxes. The following bills
passed: To provide for a Second Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney for the county OF Wayne;
to authorize the Auditor General to balance the
accounts of tho State Industrial school by a
transfer.Iof funds; to provide for the MAIN
nance OF chutes in dams across Michigan
streams.
In the Senate bills were introduced on the 18th
inst. to make an appropriate N FOR completing
the decoration of the Stale Capitol; to amend
the fire and maine insurance laws to amend
the act establishing a Police Court of Grand
Rapids; to provide for standard fro insurance
policy; to define the rights ON 1 liabilities o.
vido fer Crater purity of elections TO pro-
vide for uniform ballots constitutional
amendments; to provide for the selection OF
jurors for tho Circuit Court OF Saginaw
| County; TO provide for Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney OF Allegan County. Some litls OF
minor importance were passed. Senator Gid
dins was elected temporary President pro tenn.
In the ouse bills were introduced to repeal tho
act for the collection of cereal statistics OF the
State; making an appropriation for an indus
trial school for girls; to authorize disorganized
railroad companies to convey their property
AMI franchises to other companies; TO
! authorize local boards of health TO draw
on County Treasurers for funds in sup
pressing con agious diseases; to authorize
/ the introduction of the kindergarten methods
I into tho public schools to provide for ihs re-
vision and consolidation OF tho primary school
laws to provide for the preservation Of game
4 to regulate the movement OF steam cars ut
crossings OF street-raiiway companies 20 recon-
struct the Gratiot and Isabella Judicial Circuit.
l rearly all the afternoon, discussing the famous
/ "accretions" to the Warner Island bill, and that
providing an additional Circuit Judge for the
Saginaw Judicial Circuit