Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-30
SCORE one
Their Apportionmsnt Bill Goes
Through With . Whoop.
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Dock Line 8iit.


mittes on ssylums for the insane this
forenoon reported fayorahly Represen.
tatlve w. y. JAckson's bll to provide
for committing pauper insane persons
70 the Wayne county insane asylum
and transferring them between thai
and the State asylums. The judiciary
committee favorably reported Repro.
sentative Whites bill to raise the salary
of the stcnogrspher of tho Grand Rap.
ids superior court 70 $1,000 and the bill
Was passed and giveu Immediate effect.
The senate passed Representanve
HaywAfd's bill 20 pension members ol
tho police and hre departments OF
Grand Rapids, rs soon as IT WAS re-
ee.ved this morning, and returned II to
the House. 1t will soon be III the Gov
ernor's hands. Representative Cook:
OIL TO consolidate the management oi
the State Public Sc hool, School for the
Blind and Institution for the Deaf. and
create Central Board of Contfol, .
passed by the House yesterday, WAS re-
ferred by the Senate 20 It's judiciary
commttee for the confederation Of Ger,
tam legal questions.
Appropriatisns and Elections.
The Senate committee on the Normal
school this afternoon favorably reported
the two House appropriation bills fol-
that institution, giving $4,000 for clos
cts and sewer connections, $45, 266.9
for expenses for 1871, and $46, 230. .92
for 1892. The Committee on Elections
recommended the passage of Senator
Ba-tone's general election bill. The
committee on apportionmcnt favo-ably
reported Representative Whites bill tc
reapportion representatives 10 tho Leg
islature among the counties, and it wa.
made the special order for Thursday
April 80, at D. N. The committee or
the school for the bind recommended
the passage of the House appropriation
bill, giving $23, 900 for each of tine year,
1872. Tho Miner electoral bill wa!
the special order for this afternoon il
the senate. II was passed, rs amended
5y the Senate, to provide for an east
| ern and q western district, by Is yea
to l3 nays, Senators Bastone and Ben
son going With the Democrats, as wa
expected. Senator'S Brown and vii
COX voted against the bill. There wa
no debate on the bill. Tho Senate alst
passed the Congressional apportlon
.nent bill prepared by the Patrons. i
went through unanimously.
Routine of the House.
When the House received the appro
prlaton bill for the State library, from
the Senate this morning, with tht
amendment increasing the appropria
| ton from 5000 10 $4,000 for the two
years. it took time TO reflect and re
ferred the bill TO the Committaes- OF
State Library and Ways and Mean
! jointly. This appropriation is = mate
rial increase over those of former years
Representative Richardson's bill tt
bring all the special chartered railroad
of the State under the general Law fo
purposes of taxation was passed. Tn,
vote was taken under . call of the Hous,
and the bill received S5 yeas to 4 nays
The House Committee on Education re
| ported without recommendation, thi
afternoon, several bills pertaining x
uniformity of text books introduced by
Representative Virgins. Lester, A. F
| Ferguson and Senator BastOne. Tn,
first TWO we're laid on the table, but tn,
| others we're referred to the Committe,
1 VI tuc w uOits uC AlOuSc paSScu hcpI
sentative Miners bill to aPpOin
stcnographers for the justices Of the
Supreme Court, after amending it by
striking out the nondescript oath o
office. This leaves the stenographer
TO take the same oath that is pre-
scribed for all officials. Representative
w. U. Smiths bill to prevent the explo
sion Of dynamite, etc., in the stream
of the State containing Ash, was passed
Representative Doyle's "local option
fish bill, to authorize Boards of Super
visors to permit fishing in counties, wa
defeated.
The dock line bill will be favorabl,
reported by the Committee on Mum
| cipai Corporations tomorrow.
LEGISLATION AT NIGHT.
LANSING, April Ex-senator Sharl
offered q resolution this evening to Civ,
Secretary Murphy So per day extr'
and Assistants Emery and Lsmson s
! Zach Referrad tn Co,n,usttea On Fir,