The Yale expositor., 1897-03-19
MICHIoAN's LEGISLATORS.

the passage of the bill to repeal the |
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 ii failed by a
tie vote, IA to IA. 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. Il. 259) Authorizing the viii
lage of Allegan to borrow money for
improving dam and water power; (H.
b. 1870 authorizing the township of
Carrollton, Saginaw county, to borrow
money for the construction of stone
road; I'll. Ii. 06) appropriating So, 200
for the Michigan Agricultural college;
(H. b. 400 providing for the collection
of highway taxes prior to March l
when common councils so desire, so as
TO permit highway work to be done
early in the season; Gil. j. r. IL paying
TO Margaret Heimes $4,000 for the
death of her son while on duty in the
NJ. n. G. during the big miners strike
in the upper peninsula in 1895; Oh. b.
267) appropriating $50, 900 for the Mich
igan school for the blind; Oh. b. 2l9)
providing that Wayne's jurors shall be
drawn in alphabet 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 a
law it will break the practical moDop-
oily of the two or three companies now
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
ernor's nominations of eX-Gov. Cyrus
G.. Luce for a 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.
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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 so as to abol
! ish the July !. lS97 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
i 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
! feared the committee would report the
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 salary. The Dudley beet sugar
bounty. bill was also agreed in commit
tee of the whole. The House passed
the customary bill to vote So eX-
ira per diem to the upper PEN
insula members of the legislature.
$. Il. 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 roadmalSing. The bill to permit
trust and security companies of $50, 900
capital stock in cities of $4,000 came
before the House committee of the
whole. Rep. Adams tried to kill it by
providing that each company must file
a 81, 900, 900 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 Senate settled
down to work for a couple of hours
and passed 10 bills, the most important
of which were as follows: For the APP
pointment of a deputy-a
eral; for the incorporation of compan-
les for the insurance of bicycles; TO
prohibit the killing of beaver until De-
cember /, 1905, and providing closed