The Yale expositor., 1895-05-24
STATE LEGISLATURE.

SENATE.-s5th dny.-Bills passed: The Red.
fern pure food bill; relative TO appeals from
the orders OF probate judges; reimbursing Kali
amazoo for constructing certain sewer used
by the state asylum in the town; requiring
registers OF deeds TO procure seals of otfice;
changing the time OF the year when certain
state contracts are let; appropriating sl2,bOJ
for improvements at the northern asylum for
insane at Traverse City; relative TO the incor-
poration of manufacturing companies; appro-
priating ll6.010 for the home for feeblc-
minded at Lapeer: amending the act relative
10 the Incorporation OF mutual insurance COM
panies: authorizing the commitment OF pat
tents from other states TO private retreats in
Michigan; providing that upper peninsula
sherlhs shall receive q salary 10 be fixed by the
board OF supervisors amending the dog tax
law so as to provide that pups OF three
months and over shall be subject for taxation:
authorizing circuit judges in certain cases to
hold court in circuits other than their own;
prohibiting corporations from forcing employees
TO take insurance in specified companies; the
Barnard primary election bill prohibiting dole
gates TO conventions from giving proxies; for
the holding OF institutes By darymeps asso-
ciations making the procedure in certifying
TO deeds and other written instruments con-
form with a proposed uniformity in all the
states; providing that there shall be police
matrons i'm towns OF over 10000 inhabitants;
creating the office of state statistlcian and
prescribing the duties OF the incumbent
thereof The removal Of the L, OF Nj. homeo-
pathlc department to Detroit was recommended
by the appr )priatlons committee with an ap-
preparation OF $4,000. Mr.. Mclaughlin made
q motion 10 reconsider the vote by which the
Senate postponed indefinitely hIs bill for the
exemption OF mortgages from taxation in cities.
His motion was lost. HoUsE.-Bills passed:
Regulating legal procedure in proceedings for
discovery In actions in courts of record and
providing for the production OF books and
papers; prohibiting the asscmblage OF armed
companies without permission from the COM
nander-i r-in-chief: providing that the mahufac-
turers OF baskets or other packages for the
shipment OF peaches, grapes and plums. shall
mark on such packages the capacity OF each in
pounds; creating the township OF Gratiot from
territory now included In Crosse Pointe Wayne
county; appropriating S7I,62A90 for the state
public school NJ Coidwater; relative to admit
ting foreign corporations TO do business in this
state; prescribing that certain reports shall be
made by building and loan associations TO the
secretary OF state The bill requiring
Donovan's ventilation bill were killed.
When the Johnson pure food bill came from
the Senate IL was laid away indefinitely, the
farmer element claiming that all the provisions
of benefit TO them having been stricken out In
the Senate they have no further use for it.
SENATE.-sIth day.-Bills passed; Extending
the anti-fusion law so as TO cover local elec-
tions for the removal OF the u. OF NJ home
opathc department to Detroit; making the
county instead OF the township the unit in af-
fording relief TO old soldiers: exempting Mar
road laws: prohibiting the use OF the 80 per
cent clause in insurance policies: for the
recovery OF premiums paid 70 upapthor-
lative TO fees of Wayne county officers.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for working
home for the blind at Saginaw, and the bill
reducing the number OF members in the lower
house to %, the constitutional minimum, were
agreed TO In committee OF the whole.
HOUsE.-Bills passed: Relative TO the placing
in certain cases of insurance in foreign corpo-
rations not authori ed to do business in this
state; amending the law relative to student la
Dor at the Agricultural college: authorizing
nrA Of frhx arpia .fa aap
under the good roads act OF 1893 TO pay their
clerk a salary not exceeding $500: relative to
the division OF villages and townships into
election districts; providing that contractors
shall have tnree months in which TO begin
proceedings for the enforcement OF mechanics
liens, and that laborers and those who furnish
material on such contracts, shall have sixty
days in which to begin similar proceedings APP
proprating SlB5OO0 for the asylum at NcW-
berry providing for the issue by railroass ~
mileage books TO be used interchasSeab on
the several railroad lines OF the state, by pur-
chaser or any member OF his family: amending
the local option law so as to provide that those
who sign the preliminary petition must be
electors whose names appear on the poll list OF
the last proceeding election. The u. OF NJ ap-
preparation BILL which had been reported
faYorably the previous day by the committee
OF the whole. was again the cause OF hard
struggle, and after being cut down to 10000
failed TO pass. The vote was reconsidered and
the bill tabled.
SENATE-s7th day.-Bills passed: Grand
Rapids charter bill amending the truancy act;
relative to the accounting by state officers for
purchases OF postage stamps; Detroit street
opening amendment; for the Incorporation of
labor organi ations and providing that they
may sue and be sued; providing that bonds for
the support OF private patients in state insane
asylums. shall be given in the probate court IN
the county from which such patients are sent;
amending act relative to dsorderly persons;
relative TO proceedings to compel the produc-
tion OF books and persons. HOUsE.-l3ills
passed Providing that improvements in roads
on the township unit plan may be made where
the county rs a whole refuses to avail itself OF
the local option good roads law appropriating
$4,000 for genial improvement at the prison In
Jackson; providing for condemnation proceed
ings against toll roads by boards OF supervisors:
for the better protection OF union labels: max
ing fences composed wholly or in part OF wire
n egal fence: authorizing the disposing OF and
licensing OF as homestead of state tax lands
which have been IN possession OF the state for
three years or more prescribing that not more
than - per car shall be charged for switching
charges where the distance is less than two
miles and furnishing exactions for alleged over
weight OF cargoes where such overweight is
found not TO tist; relative to sale OF state tax
lands; prescribing the minimum number OF
brakemen to be carried on passenger trains.
SENATE-SSth day.-No measures OF i'm
portance we're DISPOSED OF in the Senate.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Protecting fish in Sagi-
nav bay; protecting fish in Saginaw river;
amending the act relative TO the adoption and
change oil name OF minors for the relief OF the
ldlully OF ialtult0dnL JOun OOTuOus ueCtdStu.
codifyin2 the statutes relative TO warehouses
and warehouscmen lien: authorizing proceed
ings for determining the title to the st. Clair
Flats: amending act OF 1893 relative to an
advisory board in the matter OF par
dons; relative TO procedure in tak-
Ing evidence in chancery cases: rel
ative TO the retirement OF Detroit school
teachers on pension after % years service:
authorizing tax for the naval reserve eIual
to one eighth OF a cent for each inhabitant of
Michigan: providing that security and bene-
nclary companies authorized to do business in
this state may be accepted as sureties for pub
lie officers and parties to civil cases and also
in other cases in which bonds are required.
Senator Thompsons bill for the purpose of
facilitating evlctious by providing that it shall
not be necessary TO serve any notice to quit on
tenants renting by weekly, bi-monthly and
monthly periods, was killed in the House.
Mr.. Thompsons bill making changes in the
method OF enforcing claims against water
craft was also defeated as was the bill prohib-
iting the use of young fish for purposes OF fer
tiliZlng. aud the bill prohibiting corporations
from compelling employees to patronize par
ticular insurance companies and rendering
void contracts which employees may be com
PEELED to sign agreeing TO patronize such COM
panies. Both House and Senate united In ex-
ercises in the evening In honor OF the late SEN
ator Stockbridge.