Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-06
MICHiCAN'S LEGISLATORS.

| has now passed both houses and been
! given immediate effect The Senate
also passed bills TO designate the apple
blossom as the state flower; providing
that graduates of Detroit College of
Law may be admitted TO practice
without further examination; for the
care of young children by women while
being transferred from the Coldwater
public school to homes provided for
them. Rep. Eikhoff succeeded in get
ting his bill through the House to pro-
hibit corporations paying its labor IN
any other manner than by money,
check or draft This is principally
to prevent the store order system. The
House also passed bill TO enforce MAX
ing of factory improvements ordered
by factory inspectors, by fixing the
responsibility upon the owner of the
building unless contract makes the
tenant responsible, but in case the
owner lives in another state, the ten
ant is to make the charges and deduct
the cost from the amount of his rent.
The Senate committee on finance cut
SEQ, 750 from the mining school appro-
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lie health committee of the Senate OPP
posed the House amendment TO the
antl-cigarette bill, placing the age of
persons to whom the sale Of cigarettes
and tobaccos are prohibited under 81,
and the committee cut off four years.
Gov. Pingree's latest appointments
received more respectful treatment
| from the Senate than previous ones.
Joseph l.. Cox, of Battle Creek. was
confirmed as state labor commissioner
without his appointment being referred
to committee. A batch of minor Sc
lections went to the committee on exc
cutive business. Prize fights and glove
contests are to be prohibited, in all
forms, in the state by bill passed by
the Senate by vote of II to O. SEN
ator Warner offered concurrent reso-
luton to bring express companies to
time in the matter of taxes 1t directs
the Encouragement to collect from
the express companies a one per cent
upon the gross moneys collected by
them in the state instead of collecting
one per cent. upon the gross earnings
within the state. The Senate also
passed the bill to pension Detroit fire.
men totally disabled while on duty at
the rate of S72 per month. 1t provides
that those totally disabled previous to
the passage of the bill are entitled to
pension. The anti-cigarette bill was
passed by the Senate as were the fol-
lowing measures: Prohibiting the kill
ing of prairie chickens for five years;
a.. . 4.
ance policies by the violation of any
condition of the policy when such vio-
lation has been without prejudice
to the insurer; providing that
the bodies of the paupers of
the Saginaw valley be sent to the
Sag nav Medical college. The House
helped Gov. Pingree by killing the bill
which provides that the governor must
make appointments to all official va
cancies that exist during the legis-
lative sessions. Game laws were
altered considerably by the House in
committee of the whole, the principal
changes being: To prohibit hunting of
quail with dogs; making the open sea-
son for deer Nov. to 80; permitting
any one hunter to kill only four deer
in season; prohibiting hunting of
deer with dogs and making presence of
hounds in woods lumber camp or club
house prima facie evidence against the
owners of violation of the law; open
season for bird game Oct. to Dec. /;
including squirrel as game and making
a closed season. The House passed
bill to allow $40 per day for actual SER
vice as members of the state crossing
board rendered by the secreta of
state, the Encouragement and clerk
of the board.
The house has voted 10 adjourn sine
die at noon on May 81. The appropri-
alton of $500 for Michigan exhibit
at the Tennessee exposition after be-
ing turned down in both the Senate
and House was resurrected i'm the form
of "A concurrent resolution and pushed
through the House after hard strug-
gle. The curfew bill which both
houses passed has been vetoed by Gov.
Pingree who says he Is opposed to in
reference on the part of the state in
matters of purely domestic concern, or
the interposition of police for parental
authority He opposes the idea of ar
resting children, and says the arrest of
n boy or girl for being out at night
may put a blot upon an entire life. 1t
not only tends to disgrace one in the
eyes of others, but To destroy self-re-
spect. The House passed bills appro-
priating Ssl ,0l3 for special improve
ments at the Newberry insane asylum,
and $4,000 for maintaining the L. of
NJ. hospital during the summer months.
The House concurrcd to the Senate
amendments to the anti-cigarette bill
and it now goes to the governor. Sena-
tor Robinson made hard fight to carry
the bill making the railroad passenger
fare for the upper peninsula three
cents per mile. but il was defeated by
a margin of two votes lie secured a
reconsideration, however, and the bill
was tabled. The bill to prevent the
spread of the San Jose scale in peach
trees was passed 10y the Senate. The
rumors that an attempt had been
made to push the medical league
hill throuUh tho House hu tha noa IF