The Yale expositor., 1895-02-08
STATE LEuIsLATURE.

tnat one member or the board or trustees or
the Agricultural college should be graduate
OF the same; 10 incorporate clubs OF League OF
American Wheelmen; for submission or con-
stitutional amendment for educational qualit-
cations OF electors; doing away with cumulative
voting for members OF the House. the
one district one man bill; for 1000 appropria-
] ton for Pioneer and Historical Society; amend
ing divorce laws; for jury commission for Bay
county. The Senate concurred IN the House
resolutions indorsing Col. Edward Hit for
member OF the National Gettysburg commits
sion, and FOR the loan or war relies TO tempor-
airy G.. A. II. exhibition at Kalamazoo. Bills
/ Introduced: TO secure safety in use OF local
and portable boilers and engines and compe-
tency in those who manage them; amending
election law relative TO oath to be taken;
amending law relative TO the powers and duties
OF onicers authorized TO sell real estate; bill
relative to the testimony OF husband and wife
in criminal cases. allowing them TO testify
against each other: TO establish college or
eclectic medicine ana surgery in the University
| of Michigan; amending law or original writs as
TO commencement OF suit; for working home for
adult blind men to be established IN saginaw
/ and approprating $4,000 therefore: amend
ing law for incorporation OF cooperative and
mutual beneht associations; TO authorize al
! lowance by decree OF court of reasonable solic-
ttor and counsel fees; proposing amendment
/ TO constitution relative to Incorporation or
cities; allowing cities TO incorporate; for the
protection OF street car employees in Indictment
weather; approprlntlng $4,000 for improve
ments at kalamazoo asylum; amending
law relative to the taxing ana catch
! ing OF fish in the inland waters of the state.
HoUsE.-The village charter bill drafted by the
state municipal charter commission consumed
almost the entire DAY, being considered In COM
mittee of the whole. The bill TO change the
name OF Wayne county to Blank county was
killed Bills introduced: TO prevent deception
in manufacture, sale and use OF substitutes for
butter; amending law relative TO equipment of
Michigan National Guard; providing for exam
ination OF persons elected or recommended for
appointment TO certain ohces In the Nj. n. e.;
regulating and governing the appointment OF
STAFF on1Cers In NJ ~ e.; prohibiting assem-
blage OF armed companies for drill without per-
I pp-l n-pn
attorneys fees in justice courts; amending law
relative to limitation OF personal action; for
appointment by courts of physicians to examine
persons in suits for damages on account OF per-
sonal injuries; for taking OF testimony of
parties to causes and witnesses before issue
Joined therein amending pharmacy law;
amending nsh law; giving justices of the peace
jurisdiction over foreign corporations: regulat-
ing taxation OF costs in actions for malicious
prosecutions; amending law relative TO print
ing and distribution OF public documents: re-
quirlng county treasurers TO furnish transcripts
and abstracts OF record: amending law relative
TO probate registers. amending road law; for
compensation of persons isolated by order of
heath officers; amending marriage license law;
! for Incorporation OF temples OF the Mystic
Order OF the New kaaba.
SENATE. go Fourteenth Cay. - Senator Nc
Laughlin's joint resolution for a constitutional
amendment providing an educational qualifca-
ton for electors was adopted. An effort was
made 10 strike out the word male so that
women could vote, but IL was decided TO allow
that issue TO come up separately Another OF
senator McLaughlins resolutions was also
adopted. changing tue form of oath TO be adj
mlnistered to electors ch lllenged at the polls
to make II conform with the new nve-year
residence clause for foreign born citizens.
Several bills were favorably reported from
committees: To require the secretary OF state
ana other officers to give bonds for the per-
Torrance OF their duties: for the immediate
registration and prompt return OF births and
deaths; for the Incorporation OF mutual benent
associations; for vestibules for the protection
of motormen on street cars. Bills passed were:
Amending law relative to suits against foreign
corporations: repeating act requiring certain
terms OF circuit court OF losco county TO be held
at Au Sable; 10 re iuire board OF auditors TO
pass on accounts OF members OF the geological
survey; for submission OF constitutional quail
Lcations for electors. New bills introduced:
Amending law relative 10 printing and distri-
button or documents: amending law for wind
ing up affairs Of mining corporations; for in
corporation OF Masonic associations; for state
uniformity OF text books: for division OF prop
erty held in trust: amending law for incorpor-
alton OF manufacturing companies; amending
law regulating recording of notice Of lis pendens.
HoUsE-Rep, Redfern noticed bill for the
submission OF prohibition amendment. Rep.
Foster wants stockholders OF banks held per-
sonally responsible for losses OF depositors.
Rep Matthews noticed a bill to raise the limit
OF bonded Indebtedness OF Detroit; the bill pro-
vides for issuing 5000 bonds for a highway
either bridge or tunnel-to connect Detroit and
Belle Isle The village charter bill occupied
nearly the entire day. Bills introduced: To
amend the statutes relative to county offcers;
for appropriation for asylum for criminal in
exemption OF church property: to amend law
relative TO competency OF witnesses; TO aid
county agricultural societies; authorizing and
regulating the parole OF convicts; amending
general tax law, to decide whore individuals or
corporations having more than one ONCE in the
state shall pay their taxes; to amend the
general tax law TO repeal mortgage tax; TO
provide for division OF property held In trust;
a congressional apportionment bill; to provide
for solicitors fees IN foreclosure OF real estate
mortgages; TO prohibit posting private adver-
tisements on public bridges; amending law
relative TO the salaries OF justices OF the SUI
preme court; requiring probate judges In GER
tain cases TO give notice TO foreign counsel OF
application Tor administration of estates OF
deceased persons: providing for an aSsaylng
building and for appropriation for the Michi-
gan Mining school; amending law relative to
sale OF liquors within one mile OF Michigan
Soldiers Home.
SENArE.-Fifteenth day.-Scnator Thomp-
sons Detroit board of health BILL which
has raised such row. was re-
ported favorably by the cities and
villages committee with the recommendation
that 1T pass The amendments made In COM
mittee provide for minor appointments by the
board, such as inspectors OF meat, milk. food
and plumbing. and two sanitary inspectors, one
for the eastern and one for the western dis
uict. The judiciary committee reported favor
ably the Joint resolution for an indeterminate
sentence law. The governor transmitted the
voluminous report OF the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga Commission detailing the work
done looking to marking the positions OF Mich
tgan troops In those engagements. Important
:. flags for school houses by each school district
in the state; TO amend the law relative 10 trade
and labor unions. so that they may incorporate
and sue and be sued; to repeal the charter OF
Detroit and attach the territory to Windsor,
Ont; to prevent absolutely the killing OF deer
previous to Nov. /, 1891; an appropriation OF
S75, 1872 90 for the fish commission for the next
two years. repeating the law exempting from
taxation for ten years railroads organized north
OF the forty-fourth parallel Bills introduced:
TO allow street railway corporations to con-
ton OF swamp lands to improve Maple
river; amending election law. House.
The morning session was consumed
by the village corporation bill prepared by the
municipal charter commission, and IL was not
until the afternoon session that vote was
taken. which resulted in the passage OF the bill
TO take immediate effect Bills were noticed:
To prevent the importation OF convicts from
other states and territories to Michigan, blow
az the Detroit House OF Correction; providing
that justices OF the peace shall have jurisdiction
In civil suits where the amount involved does
not exceed SOD instead of $3.50, as at present,
and also forbids appeals in cases where the
amount is less than $50, unless the circuit court
orders such appeal. All bills introduced for
protection OF nsh and gamo are TO be cod1hed
INTO general bill revising present laws. New
bills introduced: Amending law relative to age
OF consent making IL 10 instead OF IL years;
amending banking law; amending election law;
amending law for appointment or probate reg
listers; amending law for payment OF salaries
OF officers and employees OF legsi ature; exempt
ing upper peninsula from franchise fee law;