Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-30
DOINGS AT LANSING
WORK or THE STATE LEolsLA-
TuRE.
An Impartial Record Of the Work
Accomplished BIZ Those Who Make
Our Laws-How the Time Has Been
Occupied During the Past Week.

occupied During the foot " ecks
The Lawmakers.
Monday evening the Michigan Legisls-
.ure met In joint session and memorial
exercises were held In honor of United
States Senator Stockbridge and other
lately deceased officers of the State. The
House passed the Senate bill providing
for the pensioning of teachers In the De-
troit schools after twenty-five years SER
vice, and killed the Senate bill making It
unnecessary for landlords to give the re-
quired monthly notice to quit.
Donovan's interchangeable mileage bill
was the subject of lively debate in the
Senate Tuesday, an attempt being made
to get into the hands of the Committee
on Railroads and Judiciary for the pur-
pose Of giving the railroads q hearing and
to look up constitutional objections. The
motion to refer did not prevail, bat the Dill
was laid on the table to give the Judiciary
Committee chance to consider Its al
legged unconstitutionality. The bill re-
ducing passenger fares on upper peninsula
roads to cents n mile passed the House
The House killed the congressional reap
portionment bill and agreed to the bill
appropriating $25, 900 for the removal OF
the homeopathic department at Ann Ar
Dor to Detroit. and also to the famous
Waite bill, which makes it unlawful to
treat a person to a glass OF intoxicating
liquor in a saloon. Similar action was
taken on the bill establishing permanent
State weather service. The Senate pass
ed the hanging bill, fixing the death PEN
atty for murder In the first degree, provid-
ed, however, that 1t shall be inflicted only
when recommended by the jury and APP
proved by the judge. The vote was IL 10
II. one Senator being absent.
Both houses Wednesday passed the biz
appropriating $25, 900 for the removal Of
the homeopathic college at Ann Arbor TO
Detroit, where it will be attached to
Grace Hospital. and the Governor will
approve it. Similar action has been had
on the bill establishing an additional
State normal school at Mount Pleasant,
The inheritance tax bill was amended to
exempt real estate and then agreed to in
the Senate, which body advanced to third
reading the bill providing for the assess
ment at their full cash value of the cars
of all dining, sleeping and parlor car com
panies which run over lines either wholly
or partly in this Stnte. The bill requir-
ing all roads to sell interchangeable mile
chaser's family was sent to the Senate
Judiciary Committee. Vesselmen have
secured the passage by the House of
bill providing that maritime property shall
be assessed in the township, village or city
where the companies see fit to locate their
headquarters. Representative Fuller's
bill making the month of November
closed season for whitefsh in Lakes Erie,
Huron, Superior and Michigan was killed
in the House, which passed the bill pro-
viding that vacancies on delegations To
any political convention shall be filled only
by a majority vote of the balance of the
delegation, and a bill making'it unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to des-
ignate the company in which their EN-
ployes shall take out insurance. Repre-
sentative Linderman's favorite scheme for
a State commission to experiment with q
view to reclaim the 100000 acres Of
Michigan pine barrens was defeated in
the House.
The Waite anti-treating bill passed the
House Thursday by vote of IS TO IL.
and was given immediate effect. The bill
makes ii unlawful for any person to pur.
chase for or give to another any spirit
uous, malt, brewed or fermented liquors
in any saloon, bar-room, club-room or tav-
ern where the same is kept for sale by
the drink, or to treat another in any way
in any such places to a drink Of liquor. II
also prohibits the selling of liquor for
such purposes and provides a fine and
Imprisonment for violation of its provis-
ions. When the bill appropriating $116,-
600 for the home of the Predetermined
at Lapeer. the Governors home, came up
on special order Chairman Waite, of the
University Committee, led an attack on
it which resulted in the appropriation be-
ing reduced to $4,000. The joint resolu-
ton submitting to the people n constitu-
tional amendment providing system of
home-rule government for cities and VIII
lagos through the initiatory and referen-
DUN system was passed by the House by
a decisive vote. The House decided to
amend the Smalley hanging bill which
passed the Senate Tuesday by providing
that no convict shall be executed until
one year after being sentenced. The
Senate slaughtered Senator Jewels bill
providing for the taxation of inheritances
and for the taxation of the rolling stock of
sleeping car, dining car and other similar
companies.
The bill increasing the specific taxes OIL
the earnings of Michigan railroads which
passed the Senate has brought down UPON
the Legislature large lobby in the in
terests of the railroads to attempt the
slaughter of the bill in the House. The
bill will increase the taxes on the rail.
roads $15O,OOO. and the railroad men ara
stubbornly fighting it. The Senate Com
mittee on Liquor Traffic Friday reported
the Waite anti-treating bill without rec.
ommendation. The Smalley bill, provid-
ing for the restoration of capital punish.
ment, which passed the Senate early in
the week, has been made special order
for Monday. The work of reapportioning
the State into congressional districts was
taken up, the House passing the Kelly
bill, which changes slightly the bound
aries of every district except the fourth
and fifth. The fifth and sixth districts
are slightly Democratic, on the basis of
the vote of 1902. The remaining districts
are strongly Republican. Senatorial and
representative apportionment bills have
also been acted upon. but no radical
changes in the present districts are made.
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