The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-03-22
The Law-Makers.

The joint resolution TO submit TO the
voters the question of increased salaries,
which passed the House and received an
unfavorable report from the Senate COM
mittee, was taken up Tuesday afternoon,
and, much 10 the surprise of nearly every
one, received the necessary two-thirds ma
jority. The proposition will be voted on
April 1. Should the amendment be car
ried, the only officers who will receive
increased salaries are the Secretary of
State, State Treasurer, State Land Com
missioner, Superintendent of Public In
struction and the Attorney General. The
latter will receive $500 per annum, and
the others $500 each. The Senate pass
ed bill prohibiting circuit judges from
practicing law in their own circuits.
The Senate Wednesday passed bill
compelling manufacturers who exact bo-
muses. from cities, il they afterward leave
the city or suffer their plant to be impair
ed so that the value to the town is di-
minished, to refund the bonus paid. In
the House the Committee on State At
fairs favorably reported a bill to pro-
vide for a normal school at Mount Pleas
ant and another in the upper peninsula.
The anti-fusion bill preventing any candi-
date for office from having his name ap-
| pear more than once upon the official
ballot has passed both branches of the
Legislature. Committees reported in ia
| yor of special appropriation of $262, 900
for the new insane asylum at Newberry,
| IN the upper peninsula. and S97 900 for
| the regular and special needs of the In
dustrial Home for Girls at Adrian for
the years 1895 and 1896
Thursday the Governor filed his first
veto. The Legislature had passed a reso-
| luton instructing the Board of State
| Auditors TO pay the claim of Joseph
| Schefnecker, who, in 1861, under promise
OF reward, recruited one Of the companies
composing the Fourteenth Michigan In
| fantry. He claimed either n commission
or money reward, and the Legislature
| voted him SI3S. In vetoing the resolution
| the Governor said that the claim was not
| legal one, neither was it equitable un-
| less its provisions were broadened so as
| TO include the hundreds of other men who
| performed a like service for their coun-
| try, and who had never been rewarded
| In the House the committee Of the whole
passed bill providing for jury commission
crs in the counties of the upper PENN
sula; amending the live stock law so as to
| prevent the spread of horse distemper.
and providing for travelling Libraries un-
der the supervision of the State librarian.
Both branches hurried through law
compelling the Council of Detroit to APP
propriate money to defray expenses of
the Health Board.
One of the four measures which the
| State Grange has been endeavoring to
push through the Legislature provides
for the appointment by the Governor of
n State tax statistician, whose duty il
shall be TO collect and compile statistics
relative TO the assessment and collection
of taxes with a view to furnishing data
to be used as basis for legislation de-
signed to more evenly distribute the bur-
| dens of taxation and TO institute q more
uniform system of assessment throughout
the State. The bill provided an annual
salary of 81 500 and an appropriation of
$1,000 for expenses. 1t was called up
Friday in the House and killed. In view
of the meager attendance, however, the
vote was reconsidered and another eff
fort TO pass the bill will be made. The
Senate passed bills authorizing Alpena
County TO bond itself for 100000, with
which to construct county roads, and APP
propriating $4,000 for the furnishing of
| the Home for the Feeble Minded.