Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-25
HUBBILL HAS 4 HOBBY
IL Is the Mining school at Houghton
and He.
MAKES The SQUASBuCKS SEE IT
some Of fts Nssds-fhey bess His Bill
Ants-RAiirsAd LsgisiAtion sqa sleh-
ed-Eiection and Tax bilis-
Odds Aad Ends-

Hu5bell addressed the senate N the
forenoon u pom the merits of the bill ap-
propr sting s44, ,s47 for erecting build
ing for metallurgy and equipping the
same at the mining school. His argu-
ments were so convincing that the ball
passed the senate by vote Of twenty
Gree to SIX. The bill was passed re-
curing the return of tho names OF all
stockholders IN the annual reports OF
mining companies.
The Senate refused to concur in the
conference committee report on the
Richardson bill for an increase OF the
specific tax upon the gross earnings os
railroad companies by vote OF eleven
10 seventeen. This Was followed by
the defeat Of the Park bill providing
for the local taxation of railroad prop
erty by vote of ten to sixteen and an
ti-rallroad legislation has suffered a Sc.
rlous temporary defeat.
TIE agricultural college appropriation
bill was taken up. and lending its pas
sage Senator DGIsn moved to amend
by striking out TIE item OF $40, 900 Tor q
botanical labratory. The motion did
not prevail. The oil was then passed 10y
a vote of % to 2, the opposition gensr-
ally falling into line after enough votes
had been secured for its passage.
A hIll was passed authorizing only
actual expenses for legislative commit
tees visiting state institutions.
House Proceedings.
The Senate amendments 10 the Cold
water school consolidation bill were
concurred III hy-a strict vote. The
judiciary Committees substitute cleo
ton bill was adopted and the bill
placed upon the general order. A long
discussion was had upon the substitute
OF the Judiciary Committee for the tax
bill reported by the special taxation
committee. The report was not con-
Cured IN, and the report of the special
committee was placed on the general
order. There is likely to be warm
contest ever this measure. The special
committee spent much tims upon
this bill as claimed, and are inclined to
look upon the report of the judiciary
| committee Us usurpation. The men,
bers of the committee are prepared to
defend the report and show the original
| report TO be worthless on account OF
legal defects. 1t proposes to establish
the auditor general system for collec-
tion of delinquent taxes and recon-
mends the California system for taxa
ton of mortgages. The bill reported
by the Judiciary retains the presen,
system for COLLECTION of delinquent
taxes. and aims to strengthen tax titles
with Il view of making 1t more for the
interest OF taxpayers to make prompt
payments than to break tax title.
Bills were passed authorizing pro-
ceedIngs IN the circuit courts IN chan
cery, in relation to laying out and plat.
ting real estate of infants, idiots, luna
Tics and other lncompetents; authOrlz-
ing the Incorporation of woman's
Equal Suffrage Associations
of Michigan.
The senate bill to protect bees from
poison by spraying fruit trees was lost.
Also bill providing for fish chutes in
dams across the streams of the state
under supervision of the fish commits
sion. The vote on the latter WAS re-
considered and the bill tabled.
The Cook bill authorizing the forma-
ton of companies for the construction
and maintenance of sewers was
amended to apply only to cities in Mus
kegon county and passed.
1t was discovered today that the gen.
eral game bill. which had been en-
crossed and sent TO the Governor, was
not that which passed both Houses at
all. The Governor bad signed the bill
and deposited it in the Office of the
Secretary of state. but he will recall it.
Representative Fildew's bill provid-
ing for the appointment OF two State
factory inspectors was lost by A. to II.
Representative l.. S. Johnson's bill
amending the law OF 1889 for care of
INDECENT soldiers and sailors outside
the Soldiers' Home, making county
instead of a township relief fund, was
passed; also the Cook lien bill.
The committee on apportionment
reported out the congressional and the
senatorial apportionment cries. The
farmer has again been amended-by
taking the Twelfth, Fourteenth and
Sixteenth Wards of the City OF De-
trojt. from the sixth district and plac-
ing them IN the fret and the Nlneth,
Eleventh and Thirteenth, from the
first district. and placing them in the
sixth. The Fifteenth Ward Of Detroit
and the Township of Hamtramck were
placed in the seventeenth districts. The
former was- committed to the com-
ynittee. The latter was put upon Its
passage on motion by Representative
W. b, Jackson, pending which q call Of
the House was ordered and the
sergeant dispatched to the race track
for the ahsen;ees. He was evidently
overpowered for At 5p.m. he had not
returned and a recess was taken until
7:30 pm.
Ala caucus OF the Democrats of the
House today is was decided to consider
no bill upon the question of the liquor