The Yale expositor., 1895-04-05
STATE LEGIsLATURE.


SENATE.--0th day.-Bills passed: To pre-
vent the transportation OF cOrpses on Hight
ways as well as railroads when death has re-
suited from communicable disease; for ex-
animation OF witnesses in open court In
chanccry proceedings: for appointment OF
receivers for solvent though embarrassed cor
por; tons, TO prevent sacrifice or assets
Soldiers Home appropriation bill: liking from
Nov. 10 Nov. 20 as open season for deer ia
both peninsulas. The event OF the senate
session was the discussion OF the bill To raise
the age OF consent which was finally passed at
/. years OF age. Tie normal school commit
tee recommended the passage OF the following
appropriations for that institution: 500 800 for
laos and sjAI 40 for 1895, 5000 each year TO be
available for library purposes, $4,000 for a
practice and training school. ana for perma-
nent tax OF one-fifteenth of mill for normal
current expenses. HoUsE.-Bills passed were
mostly local The one OF general Importance
provides for a physical and military eXamina-
ton by state board OF persons elected or re-
commended for appointment as officers In the
National Guard below the rank OF MAJOR.
The mortgage tax law OF 1893 came as near be-
ing killed as q thing could ana stu not give
uD the ghost. There was hard light by its
friends TO save it. All the old arguments pro
and con which have been used for years were
brought forward, and when the House, in COM
mittec OF the whole came to vote on the mo-
on TO strike out all after the cnacting clause
Il was carried-42 TO 80. But when the COM
mittee reported the House refused To concur
by tie vote OF a. to a., and the thing was
given a new lease OF life-but evidently short
one-by being laid upon the table. The bill
authori ing the use OF the Myers ana Abbott
voting machine was reported without recon-
Inendation and laid on the table. The commit
tee of the whole struck all after the enacting
clause out OF the bill providing that formah-
ties should not effect the legality OF tax pro-
ccedings. The opinion was entertained that II
might be OF advantage to tax sharks A reso-
luton was adopted providing that committee
be appointed To investigate toll roads which
refuse TO make an annual statement of their
disbursements and expenditures.
oEGATE-Jlst day.-BtIls passed: Graduated
salaries for county agents: kedferns county
m . 90 n n
Delta county in creating county hospital; liking
age of consent at rs years. In executive ses-
sion the nominations OF Mrs. Mary G. Spencer
rs state librarian and George III. Newett
mining statistician, were confirmed. Senator
Mclaughlin has n bill which will probably
evade the opposition OF country legislators
who voted against the repeal OF the mortgage
tax law. IL Is To arrange tho law so that cities
may not have 10 tax mortgages and contracts
for their municipal affairs. HoUsE.-Bills
passed Amending the act relative to the APP
pointmenr OF special administrators authoril-
ing damage suits for In, uries incurred through
failure to make repairs on toll roads; Joint res
oiution submitting TO the people a proposed
constitutional amendment fixing the compen-
sation OF legislators at $50 per session. with
mileage ut cent per mile. Liquor legislation
was the principal feature of the day. Apin
uniform 40 license bill was informally passed
by,a very close vote aud against the wishes OF
Mr. Aplln was made the special order OF April
& Another step in liquor matters was the
action taken on the bill providing an exception
TO the law which prohibits the sale OF intoxica-
ting liquors within one mile OF the Soldiers
Home at Grand Rapids. Rep. Graham wished
70 allow the West Michigan fair the privilege
of the except on. This was defea.cd in CON-
mittee OF the whole and an amendment to eN
tend the limit TO one and n half miles went
through to the third reading when il was tabled.
Senator Nc .aughlin's bill prescribing elective
qualifications. which requires every voter in
Michigan TO be able 10 read the state constitu-
ton in English and to write his name in full
was under discussion in committee OF the
whole but no action was taken. The Senate
bill providing that L. =. flags shall be dis
played on all public school buildings was
agreed to in committee of the whole. The bill
was informally pissed to abolish the present
state board OF health. The judiciary commit
tee reported favorably the bill providing PEN
pointed Rep. Graham, McNall and Holmes as
the special committee TO investigate toll road
companies.
SEHArE.-59d dny.-Nothlng OF Importance
transacted. HoUsE.-Bills passed. Preventing
fraud in contracts. chattel mortgages, etc, all
such papers TO be filed with township or city
clerk provid .ng tor the purchase aud display
OF United states tlags on public school build
tngs; for the reorganization OF the lire ana
marine insurance companies whose terms eX
pre- by limitation; re luiring Judges OF probate
to notify foreign consuls OF applications for the
appointments OF administrators in certain cases:
amending act in regard to suit against foreign
corporal ons; relative TO wills OF personal and
real estate: re luirlng personal actions To be
begun within two years; amending law for the
Incorporation OF mutual beneut associations.
The date for the hearing on the II uor tax bill
was reJonsi icred and Eually place NJ April IL.
The committee on the state University made
report on the special appropriation bin Tor
that institution. The bill originally called for
$4,000. but the committee recommended that
the amount be cut to sl5l00O-s10OOt levied in
1895 and 5000 in lS0h The items: For electric
light plant, s. jOJ1: repair OF chemical laDora
tory, si5.0O; home for nurses and superintend-
ent OF hospitals, sSi.OOJ; enlargement OF law
library $4,000; to reimburse geaeral fund for
deficiency caused by new heating plant : o.
OO0 The items OF s35 90 for an addition TO the
chemical laboratory AMI OF S4lO0l for enlarge
ment OF the anatomical laboratory were stricken
out OF the bill.