Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-25
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
An Epitome of Matters Under Advise
ment by the Legislature.
Soma Imnortnnt Mensure, rassed.

Some Important Measures Passed.
The senate committee on finance and APP
preparations discussed the bill appropriat-
ing 81, 900 for the purpose of sending an es-
cort Of state troops to participate in the
grand parade in New York on the centen-
Mil OF the inauguration Of Washington,
April 80 next. The committee ascertained
that neither Of the states OF Indiana. Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, nor Minnesota
would send soldiers 90 the parade and con-
cluded that it would not be now advisable
TO send Michigan soldiers there. Certain
military officers OF high rank informed the
committeeman, privately, that the state
troops needed new uniforms to appear in
so magnificent parade as the centennial
parade in New York. On these representa-.
tons the committee will recommend that
the expenses of the Governor and commits
siOners be paid by the state, and an amount
sufficient for that purpose only will be APP
propriated in the bill.
The senate has passed the bill allowing
the auditors to balance the acc cunts OF the
state industrial home for girls by transfer
of funds.
Senators Holbrook, Grccn and German
have been appointed IA select committee to
Investigate the prJpriety of placing ma
chinery In the penal institutions Of the
state for the manufacture of hiding Irvine
to compete with the trusts now in opera
ton.
Frank NJ Howe, engrossinF and enroll.
ing clerk of the senate, has completed an
elaborate Indian ink copy Of the resolutions
adopted by The senate and house upon
the death Of the late Lieutenant OvernOr
Macdonald.
Gov Luce received draft for $ll ,425
the other day from the general government
in Of tho SnlIinrG' hnfnn
priation for the quarter ending March 81.
The house has passed the bill repeating
the mortgage reporting law.
Representative Pealer's (of st. Joseph
joint resolution submitting to a vote of the
people in November, 1880, the question Of
amending the constitution by restricting
the right of voting, has passed the house,
having just the requisite number OF votes
and not single one over. The changes are
to require residence of thirty days in
stead of ten, as now, in the township or
ward; six months, instead Of three, as now,
in the state, and in the case of naturalized
citizens, residence for five years, or the
possession of full papers Of citizenship.
The house committee on fisheries has
struck out of the fish bill all reference TO
whitefsh. The committee has fixed the
size of mesh Ia seines and gill nets at ~
inches. The smallest marketable white
fish hereafter shall be - pounda. The
minimum weight and the size of the mesh
are in conflict, and nets can he made any
size.
The house has passed bills authorizing
the establishment of manual training
school at jackson; including wells ANA
csterns as structures on which mechanics
liens may be placed; and increasing the
Ia. Ii
prisonment for life. The house also pass
ed Representative Aleshlre resolution 10
submit 80 the people in November 1c90,
proposition for Il constitutional convention
for general revision of the constitut on,
the convention 10 meet in December, 1891
The Governor has approved the follow.
ing senate bills: Senator Berrys bill to
provide for the expenditure OF 5000 for
books for the state library during 1889 and
an equal sum for 1870; Senator Gidding's
bill to appropriate $3.50 for the signal SER
vice for two years; bill 10 provide two
voting precincts in Calumet; Senator Hol-
brooks bill asserting TO "A grant of money
from congress for the establishment of
government agricultural experiment sta.
ton in connection with the state agr!cul-
tural college.
The house bill incorporating Highland
Park, Wayne county, has passed the sen
ate and been given immediate effect
The local option bill has again been re-
ported. Its phraseOlogy has been revised
throughout and "a new section added allow
ing parents or guardians 10 collect private
damages from saloonkcepers for selling to
minors.
The Governor has signed the bill calling
for a rccompilatioE of the records pertain
ing u volunteer soldiers in the adjutaut
generals office.
Legislators favor the scheme for state
insane asylum at louia.
a numbers Of the pioneers Of the state
visited the capitol the other day, and spent
some time in the house, where an informal
reception was given them. Among the
sturdy pioneers was Col Michael Shoe
maker OF jackson, who Is one Of the sena-
RS who sat in the old capitol when it was
first opened in Lansing III 1913; and who,
TO complete the record also as senator,
sat in it during the last session in which it
was occupied, 1871; and later on lie had
seat in the new capitol Judge Albert Mil
Ter of Bay City, who was also present, is
undoubtedly the oldest living white settler
OF the region north of the Detroit q Mil
waulSee railroad. He went TO reside in
Bay county when there were but twenty
eight whites between Flint and the Straits
of Mackipac He was the first school
teacher in that section and the first Judge
OF probate. He was a member OF the lcgis
lature in lS4T, representing twenty coun-
ties, the northern hall OF the lower PENN
suia. He voted TO remove the capitol to
Lansing, town in the woods, having only
"a log house and "a saw mill" The house
received the pioneers with great respect
and listened with interest to their crisp re-
cital of cary events, with which they com
bined the wish that the usual appropriation
would be voted for the publication of the
volumes of Michigan history. Gov. Luce
also spoke 10 the same purport
The senate committee on public health, in
reporting on the cigarette bill, offered a
substitute, which prohibits the sale of to-
bncco in any form TO minors, under penalty.
| The reasons fer the change of the bill are
that 1t would be impossible u tell where
cigarettes end and small cigars begin.
| While boys could not buy the manufactur-
ed paper cigars they could buy the poor to-
| bacco and make their own rolls. The report
says that the public health demands that
tobacco in all forms be kept from undevel-
oped youths.
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