The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-06-04

confer with the House on the question
of extending the time of adjournment
until June Ia. The House was in
duced to be more generous with the
state fish commission than the com
mittee had been and the appropriation
was increased from $4,000 to sal 800
for 1s07-s and the bill passed. Senator
Moore made two unsuccessful attempts
to force the Senate railroad committee
| to report the Widoe 5o0-mile book bill
and Donovan interchangeable mileage
book bill. The House passed the SEN
ate bill appropriating $4,000 for an
electric lighting plant at the u. of NJ;
also the following bills: Providing that
money from deer licenses shall be used
for protection of fish and game, and to
prevent use of licenses by more than
one person, and raising fee for resident
hunters from % TO rs cents; appropriate
ing S2,50s, 951.21 for general expenses
of the state for 1S07-s; providing that
no person shall be admitted to insane
asylums or poor houses who shall not
have been resident of the state,
county or city for one year prior to his
application for help. Capt. Joe Nichol-
son, of the Detroit house of correction,
saw the bill, to extend his contract to
care for u. 5. prisoners two years,
basely slaughtered, as was Eikhoff's
bill to permit saloons to keep
open on New Years, Labor day and
Fourth of July. The Senate also did
some killing and the Wagner capital
punishment bill was one of the bills to
come under the AK. The bill to place
a tax of one cent on every gallon of
beer made in the state met a like
fate. The following bills were passed:
Amending factory inspection law by
providing that owners of buildings
shall be liable for fire escapes and
hatchways; making it mandatory for
manufacturing institutions to file re-
ports with the state authorities; appro-
priating 50. 200 for the Ionia re forma-
atory; for the punishment of incorri-
gible truants; providing that the mayor
of Detroit shall sign resolutions before
they become operatives; providing that
the 7O-cent fee in case of delinquent
tax land sales be liens on such dcscrip-
ton of lands; making oral threats ac-
tionablc as olfcnses against persons
and property; TO prohibit the use of in
decent or insulting language in the
presence of women; for the protection
of the interests of the state in es-
cheated estates; appropriatlng S3l, 500
for state fish commission; appropriate
! ing So, j0S, 05l.2l for general expenses
of the government for the next two
| years The Senate also passed the
Mackinac island appropriation bill pro-
viding for $1,000 improvements, over
the governors veto, there being but
Sin negative votes.
The closing scenes of the Michigan
legislature OF 1897 were noisy and al
most disgraccful. During the day the
House voted TO sustain the governors
veto Of the Mackinac island improve
ment appropriation. A message was
received from the governor appealing
to the legislators TO give further
conside ra ton TO the Merriam bill.
He called attention TO the fact that
there Is serious objection 10 the Mcrri-
man bill from a legal standpoint. The
only action taken on the request was
an order given by each house to have
the message printed. The principal
bills passed were of only local i'm
portauce, the principal measures passed
by the Senate being. For reciprocal eX-
change of products of the state instr
tutions-being Rep. holsters bill to re-
duce competition of prison labor with
free labor; for the incorporation of
companies for the manufacture of flax
fibre; for the incorporation of CONNER.
cial reporting agencies; for appoint
ment of commissioners for the destruc-
ton of noxious weeds; deficiency APP
preparation of S., 900 for the state fish
commission. The Senate refused to
pass bill to tax bicycles for the pur-
pose of building side paths. The
House passed the following bills: APP
preparation of $1,000 for printing
worlds fair commissioners report; au-
thorizing the bank commissioner to
make more than one examination of
banks per year at his discretion;
amending libel law, so as to give OPP
portunity for retraction; providing for
incorporation of companies making
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poor children at L. of NJ; the Mason
tax title bill, providing that the tax
title buyer shall give personal notice
to parties interested in the property of
intention to apply to courts for abso-
lutte title, the tax title men TO rest con-
tent with 100 per cent profit in case
the owners redeem the property within
six months, owner TO pay S. adver-
Using fee and So service fee in addi-
ton; to permit electric light companies
to furnish gas. An attempt was made
in the House TO pass the anti-cigarette
bill over the governors veto, but it
failed. The evening session of both
Senate and House was devoted almost
entirely to horse-play, songs were
sung, foolish speeches were made for
and against more foolish fake bills, and
the Representatives finally broke up
the session by throwing books, papers,
files of legislative journals, etc, at each
other. They then went over to the
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