Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-03-20
LOCAL LEGISLATURE.
A Weeks Record Of the Work Ac-
coraplished by the Law-Mak-
ers of Michigan.
The Regular Routine of Legislative
Business Enlivened by Par
tisan Fencing.

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Business Enlivened by Par
tisan Fencing.
A Number OF Charters Amended
and Various villages Re-
incorporated.
! LANSING, March 11-SENATE. The most
exciting session so far held by the senate
| took place today. the occasion being action
on the part of the democrats in the con-
tested election cases. A motion to dis
charge the committees from further con-
sideration Of the cases was made and
amid a great uproar, carried, after which
| the senate adjourned. HoUsE.-The fol-
lowing bills were passed by the house.:
| Incorporating Hancock; TO prevent the
| introduction of dangerous communicable
diseases; TO prevent the spread of danger
Gus communicable diseases; amending sec
tions S6S-S71 Howell, relative to the mill
tary forces; authorizing the fire and water
commissioners of Marquette 10 borrow
money; incorporating the city of st. Louis;
Incorporating Buchanan. Adjourned.
LANSING, March IL. --SENATE-The fol-
lowing bills were passed by the senate to-
day: Incorporating the village of Royal
Oak; Incorporating the village Of South
Lyon; incorporating the village Of East
Grand Rapids; 10 vacate the township of
} Center and attach the same 10 Webber
township; 10 alter and detach certain lands
from the union school district of Corunna;
to secure safely in the use of portable and
steam boilers; TO re-incorporate the village
of Orion. Adjourned until Monday at 9:15
p NJ. HoUsE-Amending the charter Of
| Flint; re-incorporating South Lyon incor-
porating village of East Grand Rapids;
amending sections 3443-44 Howell, relative
10 cutting noxiOus weeds by railroad cor
porations; Incorporating Ironwood. Lost
| on third reading: Organizing Dickinson
county out of portions of Menominee, Mar
quette and Iron was lost-yeas %; nays 46.
| Adjourned.
| LANSING, March 13.-SENATE-The pro-
test Of the republicans against the chairs
action in refusing them recognition was
presented by Senator Mines, and Senator
Wilmington followed it up with another,
citing that Friedlander was not legal
member and never had been, and that a
| bill which had been passed with the aid Of
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ment This was signed by all the Repub-
lican senator's and it is understood that
this policy will be pursued. A number of
bills were passed and the senate adjourned.
| HoUsE-The house has spent an entire day
over the two reports Of the Coldwater
investigating committee. The final roll
call on the adoption Of the majority report,
which demands the dismissal of Supt. New
kirk, was taken under "a call of the house.
The minority adopted any number of par
liamentary tactics 10 delay the inevitable,
but in the end the majority report was
adopted by a strict party vote.
LANSING, March IA. -HoUsE-The house
held two sessions today and ground steadily
away in committee Of the whole One of
the bills passed in committee provides that
| any person who shall carry away flags,
emblems or decorations from a cemetery.
or destroying or injuring any shrub or
| flower in cemetery or private burial ground
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine or Imprisonment, or
| both Bills passed: To enable Norway
township to raise money to pay township
orders. Amending the act relative to
churches and religious societies. Adjourn
cd until 10 o'clock Monday morning.
LANSING, March 16. - SENATE - The
serate this evening passed the bills of
| Senator Fleshiem attaching certain lands
to the city Of Iron Mountain. A bill intro
duced by Senator Wilmington also passed,
| but not without some little discussion. 1t
| provides that at all the crossings of the
tracks of two street railways, when a car
on each road approaches such crossing at
| substantially the same time, the car on the
line first laid shall have precedence and be
entitled to the right of way. House.
| Fifty-four members were in attendance at
the session of the house today. In conse-
| quence the order of third reading was
| passed. Some time was spent in commit
tee of the whole. A resolution was
presented by Representative Cook, and
was one of the matters of Importance
adopted. The attorney general is re-
quested to give his opinion on the following
| propositions: Has the legislature at the
| present time the constitutional right TO
authorize the payment of bounties to
soldiers of the late war, which bounties
were not in any manner authorized or
promised at the time of enlistment or at
any other time during the war? Has the
legislature authority TO authorize loan by
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tain money for the payment Of bounties TO
SAID soldiers, which bounties were not
authorized or promised at the time Of
enlistment or during the war. An effort
in committee of the whole, in considering
the appropriation for the industrial home
| for girls at Adrian, TO cancel an item Of
| $40, 600 for the erection of new school
building, proved futile. The bill passed to
third reading as it came from the COM
mittec. The bill of Representative Doyle,
also considered in committee of the whole.
prohibiting the throwing of sawdust in the
rivers and streams of the state was
amended so as to apply only to Schoolcraft
county. The measure is designed for the
protection Of fish, and perhaps its real
object is Manistique river At Manistique
the mills Of Abiiah Weston have played
havoc with the river channel.