The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-05-05
NOT YET FIXED.
Senate Refuses to Agree to Ad-
journ on May 81
Synopsis of Proposed Changes I'm the
Game Laws-Gov. Pingree tetoes
the Curfew BilI-Othcr News
from Lansing.
Especial CORRESPONDENCE


n resolution making the last day for
transactng regular business for this
session of the legislature May 20. After
that no business is to be done except
the enrolling of bills, and adjournment
lis TO be taken at - o'clock noon OF May
Fl. The resolution went through tiy-
ing, the vote being SIS to ?. When it
reached the senate, however, that body
refused to consider it.
A sensation has been created by the
d. report that Senator Lawrence is pre-
pairing bill to redistrict the First,
Second and Third congressional dis
tricts. Two or three wards of Detroit
and Hillsdale county are to be put in
the Second district, while Jackson coun-
ty is TO be put in the Third district. 1t
is understood that this is a move to
make the Second district solid for re-
Publican aspirant for congress. 1t will,
however, make the Third district doubt
full. The proposition is seriously OBJ
jected to by the Third district repub
licans.
The committee on state affairs in the
house has been selected to investigate
the charges of boodling relative to the
medical bill. The medical league bill
is now>on special order for Mays.
A bill for a general revision of the
game laws was agreed TO by the house
In committee of the whole. A synopsis
of the measure follows: Hunters will
not be permitted to hunt quail with
dogs; the open deer season is changed
from November 1-25, inclusive, to No
Q-Q0 in.1tsiya. Anlu fnnr fla.r
per year instead of five can be killed by
any one hunter; hounds must not be
used in the woods at all; the presence of
hounds in either the woods. hunting or
logging camps or at clubhouses is made
prima facie evidence of their owners
guilt and subjects him to arrest for
violating the law against chasing with
hounds; the partridge season in the up
per peninsula is changed from Sep
TENDER 15-November Is, inclusive, TO
October 1December 1, inclusive: the
open season for all bird game is made
from October l until December /. in
elusive; the bill also includes squirrels
as game within the meaning of the
game laws, and provides them with a
closed season.
The war on express companies has
been commenced in earnest in the leg
islaturs. 1t is proposed to push senate
bills doubling the specific tax paid by
these companies. and there is pend
ing resolution instructing the attor-
ney-general to proceed to collect taxes
claimed to be due for former years.
his claim grows out of the contention
that the companies have paid only on
their actual business in Michigan. max
ing no account of interstate business.
Gov. Pingree won a round Tuesday,
the house killing the Covell bill requir-
ing the governor to make all appoint
Tnents requiring confirmation during
the Legislative sessions, otherwise the
persons in office should continue until
the next legislature convenes.
The governor has vetoed the Donovan
-curfew bill. He holds that such legisla-
tion is step backward; an attack on
personal liberty and an attempt to sub
,stitute police for parental supervision.
He calls attention that cases arising
under il would be enforced by courts
of inferior jurisdiction and thus place
young girls just budding into woman
hood at the mercy often of incompetent
officials.
The following appointments were
made by Gov. Pingree. the first-named
-flisposing of all speculation as to the
governors intentions to make Prof. G.
J.. Bemis, of Chicago, Michigan's labor
comm ssioner:
Joseph L. Cox. Battle Creek. commission
or OF labor; Jerome II. Bishop. Wyandotte.
to succeed ]. T. Hurst. OF Wyandotte. as
member Of board Of control Of state house
of correction at Ionia; Frank Wells. Ian
sing, to succeed himself as member of state
board of health; Albert Pack Alpena to
succeed Edward Lowe, Grand Rapids as
member of board OF managers Of Mack
fnaw Island park: l.. l.. Reynolds, st.
Joseph, to succeed G. A. Buglee, Charlie
voix as member of state board of phar-
macy; Thaddeus G.. Brooks, Jackson, TO
succeed Albert Styles. Jackson. as member
of board of control of state prison; Samuel
Post. Ypsilanti, to succeed William ].
Stuart. Grand Rapids, as member OF board
of control of Michigan asylum for insane
at Kalamazoo.
Gov. Pingree has signed the bill re-
quiring railroads to carry bicycles free
of charge, and the bill becomes law
at once. 1t provides that the roads
shall not be held for damages if they
provide racks or hooks in baggage cars
Tor WneelS.
The house has concurred in the SEN
ate amendment TO the cigarette bill
providing that no person under IL shall
smoke cigarettes on pain of being jailed.
AS Gov. Pingree gave it out before he
was naugurated that he would sign
such n measure, there is little doubt
that the bill will become law.
The apple blossom is now officially
the state flower of Michigan, Gov. Pin
gree having signed the Harris bill to
that effect.
In the senate the bill to reduce the
fare on railroads in the upper peninsula
from four to three cents per mile was
killed by n vote of Is to IA The meas
Gre is now beyond resurrection.
Commissioner Giddngs has made
his report to Gov. Pingree. lie says
fire and marine Insurance companies i'm
Michigan have lost money during the
past year.
The house killed bill appropriating