The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-27
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

THE furniture dealers OF the State won a
substantial victory on the 10Th, the special
| Senate committee having adversely re-
ported the bill appropriating $4,000 for
the purchase OF machinery and extension
OF the furniture plant at the Ionia prison.
The committee recommended the sum OF
S13,9sO for repairs of machinery and build
ings, also an appropriation of $4,000 for the
Introduction and maintenance of new In
du stries, and also recommended that the
selection be confined % those that will pro-
vide manual labor for the convicts. being
opposed 10 the purchase OF improved ma
/ chinery for the manufacture OF products
that'come in competition with skilled labor
outside. The House passed Il bill authoriZ-
Ing life-insurance companies making secur-
ity deposits with the State Treasurer To have
/ such security consist of State county and
municipal bonds. instead OF being confined
To those of the United States, as now. The
House committee OF the whole PASSED a bill
substituting county c mmissioners OF
schools for the present board of school eX-
aminers consisting OF three members
So FAR as the Legislature Is concerned
two important measures, the consideration
OF which has occupied more time than that
of any other two bills which have thus far
come up for consideration during the pres
ent session, were disposed of on the goth,
when the Senate passed the bills creating
the county OF Dickinson and appropriating
S3O, 900 for the q. A. X. enteri ainment fund.
| The senate put in the whole forenoon
over the Fish Commission appropriation
bill, and finally passed IL at S54,-
066, striking out the item OF S3.2S0
for n new hatchery at Sault Ste. Marie.
This body also passed the bill appropriate
ing S116,250 for the current expenses OF the
State Reform School in 1891 and 1892. The
Judiciary Committee OF the House has re-
ported substitute for several joint resolu
tions to amend the constitution. The sub
stitute provides for submitting the question
of calling n constitutional convention 10
the people at the November election in 1892,
TO convene the first Tuesday in December,
1893. The House Committee OF the Whole
has killed the Henze bill, providing for
| State Board OF Medical Examiners which
was designed to operate against quacks.
| The Legislature, by concurrent resolu-
tion accepted an invitation of the Detroit
Common Council to visit that city.
THE Patrons OF Industry in the House on
| the 2lst agreed in caucus 10 oppose any
measure appropriatlng over 100000 for the
Michigan exhibit at the Worlds Fair. As
| the members OF the order in
the majority this will undoubtedly be the
| limit. The State Affairs Committee
| reported adversely a bill providing n sepa-
rate prison for women, and n bill pro-
| hibiting the shooting OF partridges for five
! years from September, 1891. The Senate
had under consideration in committee of
the whole the Doran bill, making the liquor
TAX UNIFORM AT S+OO, out no result was
reached. A concurrent resolution intro
duced in the House, fixing the date OF final
adjournment at June 20, was laid over one
day under rules. Bills were passed in the
Senate requiring dentists to submit to
nm examination, pay license fee OF so.
and lie graduates OF reputable dental coll
lege
THE House spent the greater portion OF
the 22d in discussing the Fildew bill, to pro-
hibit more than ten hours abor on street
car lines, and failed on third reading by
vote Of ~ to 36. The vote was recon
sidered and bill tabled. Bills were
passed adding four companies to the
military force OF the State for trans
ferring the remains OF Governor Stevens
r. Mason from New York State and rein
terring them in the Capitol grounds here.
The Senate passed a bill appropriating
| $50 $50 for the current expenses OF the In
dustrial Home for Girls in 1912; to vacate
Copper Harbor Township, Kewcenaw
County, and incorporate it with Grant.
Both branches adjourned until 0:15 the
evening OF the 25th. and will be the guests
Of the city of Detroit in the interim.