Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-05-26
STATE LEGISLATURE.

sENATE-Ninety-third day-Bills passed:
amending the charter OF Adrian;
Amending charter OF Port Huron; amend
ing charto OF O"oSso; amending law
tort: creating Thlrty- fourth judicial
| circuit: appropriation for colony house,
new boiler and eng ne house and other i'm
provements for Michigan Asylum for the
! insane; amending act Incorporating village
or IT johns; for separate boards OF control
! for penal institutions amending charter OF
| IetrOit by providing two recorders; organ
! ling township OF Newl,irK Lake county,
! for the protection Of fish and regulating the
! fishing In waters of this state, TIE appro-
priations committee filed an adverse report
! on the House bill for a normal school at
Mt. Pleasant Committee on military af-
| fairs reported bill for naval militia with
out an appropriation but recommended its
/ passage Committee on railroad taxation
reported "A bill in IA or of bringing the
| Michigan Central railroad under the gem
er0l railroad law senator Fox S tate
prison bill DIVIDING for board of control
/ OF three members and limiting the number
/ OF conVicts employed In any one industry to
/ 5per cent OF those engaged on that work In
/ the state. was under considera' ion. II also
| provides that IL any emp.oye OF the prison
assists "A life conN let TO escape, he may, upon
! con, ictiou, be imprisoned Tor % years. The
/ 8 per, cent clause was stricken ont
/ and the bill vas then tabled. tilt
! was ai-o made at the contract system.
/ HoUsE.-Bills pa sed; Incorporating the
/ village OF roSse Point Farms In Wayne
! county, Amending school law OF Grand
Rapids amending cuarter OF Adrian; for
/ the FORMATION OF corporations to improve
/ AGRICULTURAL lands in the upper peninsula:
/ defining fraternal insurance societies and
| regulating their management; for the aD-
/ pc intment OF state dairy and food COM
/ missioner and Ceputy and n state analyst
amending the laws Felatlng TO sa AIRY OF
! registers of pro ate allowing the use OF the
/ Myers vut n machine. Bids lost: Amend
/ Ing act relating 10 soldiers Home so as to
/ permit the Grand Rapids riving Park club
! 10 sell liquors at race meetings-reconsid-
! cred and laid ON the table; approprating
! II 800 for the Industrial Home or iis-
charged Prisoners; for the inspection of
steam boilers and the appointment OF
/ state ana district boiler inspectors.
! At the evening ses ion in committee OF
! tho whole the capital punt hment bill was
! under discussion and was listened to by "a
! great many visitors, among item Gov Rich.
! The bill was placed on the order OF the
! third reading before the committee arose
! SENATE.-Nincty-fourth day-A two-thirds
Republican majority was present and par
/ tisan measures hich re uire a " O-thiras
| vote and which have been held In allowance
| for such an occasion were brought to the
/ fore. The first move was to take from the
/ table and give Immediate To the bills for the
! new boards OF control OF state Institutions
/ viz: The State ublic school the Industrial
| Home for Boys, the As lum for the Grim
! lnal Insane and the school or the Blind
| The new oil inspection bill was ordered to
| take eject July L The bill was passed TO
| allow inmates OF the Soldiers Home al
! though residents OF other parts OF the state
| TO vote in the township in which the
/ Soldiers Home Is located. The Pierce con.
]
/ and Joint re OlutiOn was also passed sub
! hitting u the people an amendment 10 tie
constitution pro lding that cities which
! elect more tnan one representative may be
/ divided into one or more single distr OTIS,
/ each OF which shall be entitled 10 one
/ representative. IN committee OF the whole
! the liquor law bill was taken mp and amend
ments were adopted as follows; For
uniform tax Of o,0J TO allow saloons To open
| on " ashington's birthday; Fourth of July,
Labor Day ana after p, IN. on
Decoration lay. christmas, Thanksgiving.
Sundays and election DAYS and after II
/ O'Clock en- IA evening esides municipal
! ing the Sons OF Veterans. HOU bills
/ pa 'sed: mending the law relative TO
! tal ious TO fruit trees; Increasing salaries
maintenance, csc, OF the school for the
! of the military forces for the sale or lease
! of or consolidation OF railroad companies
| being the House substitute for 5. o. TO amend
act 10 of lss9; 10 provide for the control and
! management of the state Industrial Home
/ for Girls at Adrian; providing the penalty
! OF death for the crime OF murder In the first
! degree.
! SENATE.-Niaety-fif day-Bills passed:
Enabling any town, county or district agri;
I cultural society, heretofore Organis ed
/ under the laws OF the state. whose corporate
eXis ence has expired. TO reorganize for a
! period OF thirty Years; the Gilbert liquor
/ coruer in the elections OF this state; amend
Ing law relative TO maintenance OF high:
y yellow in peaches; ' to p'0I provide
! for and confirm the board of
| health of the city of detroit; for the. incor:
| poration OF associations for the purpose Of
/ erecting and owning buildings TO be occu-
| pied by stores etc prohibiting killing OF
| Huron, Macomb and st clair for the period
! OF 10 years The committee on judiciary
/ reported favorably on IA bill to increase the
] Gn "a rio nj i'm a. of hp IN
! sI,yO per year and re luirlng them to reside
/ in Lansing. The capital punishment bill
/ and the woman suffrage bill were referred
/ 70 the committe on judiciary. The liquor
/ hill was further considered and the amend
ment TO allow saloons TO open after p. m
! on election days was killed, HousE-BillS
/ passed: Appropriating 2J.0O TO erect and
/ q uip n bull ing for physical ed ucation and
| training at the state normal school at y l.
! lanti securing TO women citizens who are
/ otherwise quail ed the right to vote in
/ school village city anu other elections; for
| n county and township system of roads;
amending laws for the appointg ent OF a
/ game and fish warden; for an additional cir
| cult udge for Wayne county; amending the
! constitution so that none but native born or
fully naturaliled citizen shall he emit led
| to Vote. Bills lost: To pre- vent the unla6-
| full keeping OF intoNi rating IL uors in Coun-
| Ties HAHN local option and to provide for
search and seizure OF such ii uors
wherever they may be found-re-
| offered extending the session to June Is,
| tabled. senate amendments in the oil In
! spec ION Illl-reuuclnB tne test 10 lSOO ana
! making inspectors salary t1,j0l instead of
| II 20J-were concurred In The evening SEES
sion was monopolized by the committee OF
| the whole.
NiRety-slxth day Almost the
entire day was spent In committee OF the
/ whole whore a number of bills were agreed
| to- HOUSE, bills pas ed: Detaching ter
tao ing the same % the township OF Mar:
| guette amending the charter OF the city OF
| Battle Greek for blowers In establishm me nls
where emery wheels are used; authortking
| the townships of Gullford and Wlsner. Tus-
! cola county to construct drains; authoriz-
| ing the Incorporation of associations for
| the prevention OF cruelty to chlldreni pro-
| vidIng a penalty for cruelty TO children.
| Considerable time was spent In committee
of the whole.
Charles Lendberg, Peter johnson,
John Larsen and John Swanson were
drowned from yacht off Lake Bluff,
Ill.
Dowagiac and vicinity was visited by