The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25
THE LEGISLATIVE GRIST
NO FINISHED PRODUCT YET
TURNED OUT.
Tho Mass of Bills Introduced for the
Week-The Railroads Receive Marked
Attentions Scheme for the Employment
Bureaus-Locai Option Ballot.


Week-The Railroads Receive Marked
Attention Scheme for the Employment
Bureaus-Locai Option Ballot.
Especial correspondence
LANSING, Feb. IS.
The following measures have been in.
troduccd in the Michigan Legislature
the past week: To restore capital pun.
ishment, and TO use electricity In execu-
tions; providing for weekly payments by
corporations to employees, and penalty
Tor Noncompliance Of not less than $40
nor more than $50; abolshing the State
Advisory Board i'm the matter of pardons;
To make the first Monday in September,
now known as Labor Day, a legal holiday;
providing that any person who shall malic-
iously or wilfully give libelous information
TO newspaper reporter or publisher shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by fine of 500 or ninety
days in jail, or both in the discretion of
the court; establishing State Normal
School in in the Upper Peninsula, appro-
priating S4O,0 for the purchase OF a
site, tho erection of buildings and the
equipment OF the same; for the abolish
ment OF the State Board of Corrections
and Charities and tho State Forestry
Commission; prohibiting attorneys who
are members OF the Legislature from
practicing law during the session. Sem
ator Browns local option bill provides
for the following form of ballot:
should the manufacture OF liq-l
VEG uors and the liquor traffic, or No
either OF them, be permitted to NO'
be- carried on within the county2)
The elector to make a cross on either
the word mo" or "yes," to conform to
| his desire.
tntt No. 49, l.
provides that where the shipper loads
and the consigneo unloads freight cars
no more than SIS shall be charged for
transportation for distance not ex-
ceeding ten miles, nor more than so
cents per mile for the second ten miles,
nor more than 25 cents for the third ten
miles, and for distances exceeding thirty
miles the charges shall in no case, be-
tween any two points, exceed the mini
mum charge on the entire line Tho
provision does not apply to Upper PEN
insula roads, nor TO any company operat-
| ing less than fifteen miles Of road.
| The rates OF passenger fare shall
| be: Not exceeding FIVE miles,
3 cents; for other distances on
roads whose gross earnings are
! $4,000 per mile, . cents per mile; compa-
MES whose gross earnings exceed So, 900
and are less than $4,000, "a cents; and
! companies less than $1,000, 3 cents per
mile. When by return OF earnings TO
the railroad commissioner any company
comes within the above classification, it
shall conform to the rates thereof, upon
receiving notice from the railroad COM
missioner. One hundred and fifty
pounds OF baggage is allowed for each
passenger. Passenger fares on Upper
| Peninsula roads, whose earnings exceed
So, 900 per mile, will be not to exceed
cents; less than that amount, not To eX-
coed cents per mile.
The bill prohibiting the killing be-
tween April 30 and Nov. / of any kind
Of fur-bearing animal was tabled.
Representative White introduced a
! bill for consolidation Of the Michigan,
Pontiac, and Traverse City asylum
boards. 1t provides for the appointment
of resident trustee for each and three
others.
Representative Jackson, of Detroit,
has introduced sweeping bill, destined
to shut of completely the extortng OF
/ confessions from prisoners by police and
prosecuting officers The bill provides
that no confession obtained from per-
son in custody under a criminal charge
l
confession is made in open court.
Senator Sharp's bill for establishment
of free employment bureaus in each of
the cities of Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kali
amazoo, Saginaw, Manistee, Sault Ste.
Marie, Ishpeming and lronwood pro-
vides that the Commissioner of Labor
shall appoint superintendent for each
OF these Offices, who shall establish an
Office and post i'm front sign board
! bearing the words, Free Public En-
ployment Office" He shall receive all
applications for labor of those desiring
employment, also those desiring TO en-
! ploy. and keep a record thereof, deSig-
mating opposite the name the character
/ of employment or labor desired and adj
dress of applicant Each superinten-
dent shall be provided with necessary
/ clerical assistance, I'm the Judgment OF
| the Commissioner. who shall fix
1 the salaries, and determine them
as airy as may be by the
relative population of the said cities,
/ provided in no case the salary of super
! intendent shall exceed $1,000, and that
| OF clerks 5000 per annum, and no more
/ than $500 be allowed for Office rent in
each city. The superintendent TO make
weekly reports to the Commissioner OF
Labor of all persons desiring labor or
employment and the character thereof,
and shall make a semi-snnual report OF
the expense OF maintaining their Offices.
A weekly list OF all applicants for either
labor or employment shall be printed
weekly by the Commissioner and mailed
to the superintendent, who shall post
them conspicuously in their offices
for the inspection OF all persons desir-
ing employment. Any superintendent
or clerk, receiving directly or indirectly
any compenss ton for securing employ
ment or labor shall be deemed guilty OF
m,sdcmeanor and fined not exceeding
fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the
county Jail or workhouse not exceeding
thirty days. or both The superntend
ents shall on the last day of the month
make an itemized statement TO the com
missioner, duly certified, OF the amount
of money necessary to Jay the running
expenses of their Office for that month
the same To be audited and paid from
the general fund.