The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-01-29
STATE LEGISLATURE.

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appointed, but great deal of the cry
for retrenchment is looked upon as
bluff. For instance, the Senate adopted
a resolution for final adjournment
April 23-about 40 days earlier than
usual-and at the same time prepare
tions were being made for an adjourn
ment of 10 days to go on a junket
about the state. Not only that but
the visiting committees would not
agree to pay their own expenses if
they made other junlSets as committees
To state institutions after the 10 days
blowout. The Baker income tax bill
will be fathered by Senator Hughes in
the upper house. Senator Youmans,
of Saginaw, has bill providing for
sugar produced in Michigan. He also
offers bill to make election days holt
days in order to encourage voters to
go to the polls; also, measure to APP
propriate $4,000 for a working home
for the adult blind The House unani-
mously adopted resolution cutting
mileage of members of committees
visiting state institutions from 10 cents
a mile to and cents in the lower and
upper peninsular respectively, and
making uniform allowance of SO per
day for expenses. Formerly large bill of
expenses were sent in and the junketers
often made $3.50 on single trip. Both
houses appointed committees to inves-
tigate the state printing and hold
down the bills as much as they
possibly can.
The first gun fred at the liquor traf-
fic was by Senator Mason who advo-
Gates an increase of the license on the
sale of liquor from $500 to $3.50. While
the railroads are paying the state
about 100000 per year as the specific
tax on their gross earnings Senator
Merriman has bill to increase the
tax one-half of one per cent or about
$4,000. 1t may be that Senator
Campbell wants to cut off one appoint
ment from Gov. Pingree, at any rate
he has started a bill to continue the
term of office of State Statistician De
Land from March /, 1897 to March /,
1899, and then abolish the Office. SEN
ator Barnard says that the salary of
the Encouragement should be in
creased to $500 and that officer com
PEELED to reside at Lansing. The iso-
lation by the board of health. of per-
sons exposed to communicable diseases
often works much hardship and loss to
the persons thus treated, and Senator
Moore thinks such should be compens-
ated. Senator Forsythe introduced
bill providing for board of commits
sioners for a uniform system of text
books. Senator Jibb desires to pro-
vide permanent quarters for the Mich
igan q. A. X. in the capitol building.
House committees reported favorably
bills to extend the taxing of franchises
to foreign as well as Michigan corpor-
ations; to have the law as to dust
blowers in factories enforced by
either the prosecuting attorney, sher-
if, factory inspectors or constables
The House refused to concur in the
Senate resolution to adjourn April %.
Rep. Donovan, of Bay, stirred up the
animals when he called attention to the
fact that the House committees were
doing little if any work and offered
resolution requesting the speaker TO
urge upon them immediate action
The resolution was tabled, but it had
its effect for as soon as the House adj
journed seven committees went to
work. A bill TO give cities the right of
home rule is backed by Rep. Lusk.
The present law provides thst relatives
OF inmates of poor houses and insane
asylums must pay all of the costs of
their maintenance or none at all. Rep
Smith, of Houghton, would permit
judges of probate to assess part of the
costs on the relatives when practicable.
Gov. Pingree's nomination of j. e.
Just, of Ionia, as state banking com
missioner for four years from April 1,
was confirmed by the Senate.
If bill proposed by Senator Robinson
becomes a law Ontonagon county, in
the upper peninsula, will be divided
into two counties, the new one TO be
named Pingree county. Since the gov
ernor refused allow employees of the
railroad commissioners Office to ride
on railroad passes the subject has been
agitated considerably and now bill
has been prepared to get around the
difficulty by requiring all railroads to
furnish free transportation TO the rail
road commissioners force, upon appli-
cation, for state business. Senator
Youmans believes he has solution of
the prison labor problem. He would
have state prisoners employed in the
copper mines on Isle Royale in Lake
Superior, and establish the state prison
there. The state ut present owns H.
900 acres on the island Rep. Sawyer,
of Washtenaw, has a bill making the
watering of stock of business enter
prises a serious crime This bill has
the strong Endorsement of Gov. Pin
gree. Mr.. Sawyer would also have
professors of the u. of NJ. give the
whole OF their services to that institu-
ton, aside from lectures;.ihe would
have the drinking water of any mu-
nicipality analysed free at the Univer-
sity upon application, and would re-
quire free operations upon children
born cripple of poor parents The
House voted to celebrate Jan. 20, the
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