The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-16
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.
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LANSING. Mich. Feb b.-The senate adopted
suitable resolutions upon the death OF Senator
Watts Eulogies were spoken by Lieut. Gov.
Miner and Senators Brundage. Clapp. Nc
Laughlin and Fitzpatrick A committee OF I'VE
from each house will act as honorary pail
bearers, and the senate will attend the funeral
IN body at Jackson on Wednesday.
LANSING. Mich. Feb 6--The Thompson bill
providing for the appointment OF o health
board for Detroit by the governor was passed
by tho senate IN committee Of the whole
without opposition. Bills were intro
duced rs follows: Appropriating s7644s
for support Of the state fish commission
for the use OF the Myers voting machine ut all
elections; requiring the guaranty fund OF fra
ternal benevolent associations to be deposited
In the state treasury; authorizing women to
be elected trustees OF Baptist churches pro-
viding for filing chattel mortgages with regis
ters Of deeds
LANSING. Mich. Feb. Ton account OF the
funeral OF Senator Watts the senate was not
In session Wednesday. Bills were introduced
In the house as follows: Approprlating
t3i 900 for improvements at the Traverse City
insane asylum; abolishing the annual tax
upon registered pharmacists to sustain
the board OF pharmacy to create jury
commission for the upper peninsula: appro-
priating $4,000 for support OF the blind school
and providing for u state tax statistican. Rep
amending the primary election law which up
plies TO cities OF 20,oo0or over 1t provides that
the inspector Of caucuses shall be appointed for
one year, the same rs committeeman, and Is
aimed to do away with the packing OF cacuses
In the interest OF any candidate. It also pro-
vides that only resident members OF the party
holding the caucus shall vote, and
they are compelled to take solemn
oath that thoy are members OF the
party The bill also provides a penalty for
taking brides or voting for candidates for nom
ination under promise OF Office The only bill
OF Importance passed was one providing that
inmates OF the soldiers home admitted TO in
sane asylums shall at once become state
charge
LANSING, Mich, Feb. a-In the senate the
bill empowering tho governor to appoint a
health board for Detroit came up for third
reading, when tho roll call showed but sixteen
votes for 1t, one less than was necessary to
pass it, and the vote was reconsdered and the
bill tabled, to be taken up when the absentees
were present. Bills were introduced for in
corporation OF labor and trades unions: re-
curing lobbyists TO register their names with
the sergeant-at-arms, with the measures upon
which they are engaged and subsequently to
file an itemized account of expenses incurred;
appropriating sIl5,0O0 for the mining school at
Houghton.
LANSING, Mich. Feb. 9.-In the senate
Friday the bill authorizing the governor to ap-
point health board for Detroit was passed
Bills were passed requiring that one half
the members OF the state board OF agricul-
ture be graduates OF the agricultural col
lege; for the incorporation OF clubs OF
american wheelmen, and providing jury
commission for Bay county. Bills were intro
duced rs follows: Authorizing the making Of
contracts to care for United States prisoners;
making the office OF state railway commits
sioncr elective instead OF appointive: au-
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guardianship to demand an accounting
from the guardian; prohibiting railroad COM
panies In Michigan from charging an excess OF
ono cent per ton for each mile for hauling iron
ore; appropriating $4,000 for the industrial
school for boys and $4,000 for an electric light
plant for tho state capitol building; dividing
the state into sixty-four legislative districts
instead OF 100 as now; prohibiting theaters.
opera houses and dance halls from opening on
Sunday
House.
LANSING. Feb. 5.-In the house Monday the
following bills were introduced Appropri-
attng S9,572 for improvements at the Marquette
prison; prohibiting the shooting OF quail and
their shipment out OF the state; reducing tho
rental OF telephones from "a TO 50 per month
for single instrument and 81, 80 for each addi-
tional; for the establishment OF u normal SC hool
in the upper peninsula: also, u joint resoIu-
ton fixing the compensation OF members
OF the legislature ut $50 per annum and no
mileage allowance and five dollars per day for
extra sessions not to exceed twenty days: also
joint resolution providing that at the general
election OF 1896 members In odd -num bered sem
atorial and legislative districts be elected for
two years, and those with even numbers for
four, half OF the new members being elected
each subsequent two years
LANSING, Mich, Feb. g. Bills passed
the house tuesday uppropriating SO 900
to mark the positions OF Michigan regi-
ments at Chickamauga and Cha:ta-
nooga and providing for q hearing be-
fore judges OF probate for persons who
have been adjudged insane with reference to
their restoration TO mental soundness The
following bills were introduced: Making the
secretary OF the state board of health superin-
tendent OF vital statistics; increasing the num-
bes OF companies Of the Michigan national
guard from forty to forty-four: requir-
ing registration and inspection ut primary
elections; providing for q legal verdict
on civil cases by nine jurors on panel of
twelve and OF four jurors on q panel OF six;
prohibiting the wearing OF big hats Mt thea
tcrs. and one requiring all lobbyists to register
with the sergeant -at-arms OF the two houses,
and prohibiting persons not so registered from
appearing before the legislative committees IN
behalf Of pending measures
LANSING, Mich, Feb. Sin the house
favorable report was made on the bill repeal
tax law. Bills were introduced providing for
the death penalty for murder; providing for
uniform liquor tax OF 500. and providing that
saloons be permitted to remain open on the
Fourth OF July, New Years day, WASH
ington's birthday and Labor day. Bills
were noticed to prohibit corporations
from requiring any OF their employees to
take out life insurance in any particular COM
pany; providing for the closing OF theaters and
similar places OF amusemsnt on Sunday;
making it unlawful to mesmerize or hypnotic
u person without his consent; requiring the
regents OF the university to cover into the
statertrcasury ali money held by them In trust
and empowering the regents to take and hold
In perpetual trust land and other property
LANSING, Mich, Feb. 9-In the house FRI
day bill was introduced to constitute eight
hours legal days work Also one providing
that United States prisoners confined In the
Michigan prisons should be returned to the
states from whence they came ut the expira-
ton OF their sentences.
Judge Longs Pension.