Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
MicHloAN.s LEGISLATORS.


mortgage tax law. The vote stood %
TO 10 after lengthy debate. An at
tempt was made to take from the table
the bill requiring an educational quail
fication for voters, but it failed by a
tie vote, IA TO H. A resolution intro
duced by Senator Colman, was passed
calling attention to the fact that the
Office of state statistician was vacant
by limitation March / and ordering the
book and papers to be turned over to
the state librarian. Considerable bust
ness was transacted in the House, the
most important bills passed being as
| follows: Is. h. 800 Authorizing the viii
| lage of Allegan to borrow money for
improving dam and water power; Oh.
| b. 1000 authorizing the township of
| Carrollton, Saginaw county, to borrow
money for the construction of stone
road; Gil. Il. o6) appropriating So, 200
for the Michigan Agricultural college;
| Gil. Il. 400 providing for the collection
of highway taxes prior to March
| when common councils so desire, SO as
to permit highway work to be done
early in the season; (H. j. II. III paying
TO Margaret Heimes SO, 900 for the
death of her son while ON duty in the
Nj. n. q. during the big miners strike
in the upper peninsula in 1895; Gil. b.
267) appropriating $50, 600 for the Mich
igan school for the blind; Gil. b. 219)
providing that Waynes jurors shall be
| drawn in alphabe teal order, from the
list of registered voters. The bill of
Rep. Edgar providing for less stringent
regulations for governing trust com
panies was passed in committee of the
whole. If this bill should become n
law it will break the practical monop-
in operation. The bill to create a
sixth circuit judge for Wayne county
was tabled in the House.
The Senate spent two hours in execu-
tive session in order to reject the gov
errors nominations of eX-Gov. Cyrus
| G.. Luce for member of the board of
control of Ionia house of correction,
and of Rev. Morgan l.. Wood, of De-
| troit, for member of state board of cor
rections and charities. Secrecy was
demanded of every Senator as to the
proceedings, but it is known that SEN
atorS Thompson and Lawrence, of
Wayne; Covell, of Grand Traverse, and
Forsyth of Arenac, took occasion to
make lengthy and heated speeches
against confirming the nominations.
The alleged animosity of the Senate
toward the governor is regarded as the
most potent factor in the action taken.
The name of Milo ID. Campbell of Cold
water, was sent to the Senate by Gov.
Pingree for the position of commits
sioner of insurance of the state. The
| bill to continue State Statistician De-
land in Office until 1899 was under con-
| sideration for some time in the Senate
and was Office amended SOFAS to abol-
ish the July /, 1897 and then passed.
Still another dig was had at Gov. Pin
gree by the Senate passing resolution
to take from the hands of the commit
tee on state affairs the bill to compel
the governor to make appointments
promptly so as to give the Senate an
opportunity to act upon them. This
committee is said to be favorable to the
governor, and his opponents evidently
|
bill unfavorably. Chairman Moore pro-
tested against this insult to the com
mittee and declared that the bill was
an insult to the governor and had been
so admitted by its originator, Senator
Covell. There was tilt in committee
| of the whole over Senator Lawrence S
immigration bill, prohibiting aliens
from working on public works or in
public institutions, or working in any
capacity in Michigan unless they de-
| clare their intention TO become Amer
lean citizens. those aliens now in the
country being exempt from the provis-
ions of the law The bill was inform
ally passed. In the committee of the
whole, the Senate agreed to the bill to
| give the Encouragement an assistant
with a salary. The Dudley beet sugar
bounty bill was also agreed in commit
tee of the whole. The House passed
the customary bill to vote 81 ex-
ira per diem to the upper pen
insula members of the legislature
| ;. Ii. 81, providing for the use of the
Abbott voting machine was passed by
| the House. The committee on labor
reported favorably the holster bill,
| providing that every county in the
state shall have the right to employ 20
convicts from the states institutions
on roadmaking. The bill to permit
| trust and security companies of $50, 900
| capital stock in cities of $1,000 came
before the House committee of the
whole. Rep. Adams tried to kill it by
| providing that each company must file
$4,000, 600 guarantee fund with the
state treasurer He failed, however.
and the bill was referred to the Judi
ciary committee.
Not having an opportunity to stab
the governor again the Sel,ate settled
down to work for a couple of hours
and passed IL bills, the most important
of which were as follows: For the APP
pointment of deputy -attorney-gen-
eral; for the incorporation of compan-
les for the insurance of BICYCLES: to
prohibit the killing of beaver until De-
cember /, 1905, and providing a closed
season for otter. fisher and marten
from May ! to November Is of each
year; to permit respondent in criminal
cases to have the benefit of executions