Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-11
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

I'm the House Monday the committee Of
the whole passed the anti-high hat bill
The bill to prevent adulteration Of buck
wheat -four was refereed back TO commit
tee, after striking out the section provid-
ing that any person having mixed Hour
in possession should be fined. This places
the responsibility upon the miller. A res
olution to investigate the pardon OF con-
vice David Wixom was adopted. But
twenty-one Senators were present Mt the
session of the Senate, therefore no at
tempt was made to take mp the Tennes-
see resolution for the Michigan exhibit
at the exposition. Ii went on the table,
TO be taken up later 1t did not take the
Senators thirty minutes to clear away
their devotional exercises, present patches
Of grange petitions and pass two bills, one
for the.repeal of the act for the collection
of cereal statistics, the other for the re-
peal of the act for the collection of sta
tistical information relative to deaf. dumb,
blind and insane.
The trip of some of the legislators to
Washington left noticeable vacancy In
the seats of the House Tuesday, but few
faces were missed from the Senate. The
Senate passed two measures: To legalize
certain sewer assessments of Negaunee;
and for the Incorporation of homes for
aged, infrm or INDECENT men or women.
Bills passed the House as follows: Per-
hitting the bonding of Chippewa County
for $40, 600, immediate effect; authorizing
Tawas City to issue bonds for $4,000, i'm
mediate effect; prohibiting. life and acct
dent insurance companies from taking ma
rine or fire risks; for service of Circuit
Court processes upon corporations; for
care of insane persons at Kent County
insane asylum; barring dover right of
insane women; providing that townships
and cities in st. Clair County take care
of their own poor
The Legislature Wednesday violated a
long-established precedent In disposing of
the Baird-Ker election contest. Hereto
fore. without exception, the contestant
has been seated whenever his politics was
in accord with the majority. In declaring
neither party entitled to the seat, and
leaving the people to decide the question
at the approaching election, novel way
out of the difficulty has been employed.
Both Representative Baird and Contest
ant Kerr are allowed 5000. The House
passed many bills, all of local character.
Local measures occupied the greater time
of the Senate. To such an extent was
this true that Senator Thompson was led
to remark that when the Senate was not
engaged in authorizing some town of 500
or 800 to bond itself for $4,000 or so,
| though he did not see where they could
dispose of their bonds, that the august
body was engaged in legislation of the af-
fairs of the animal kingdom. He thought
at least two-thirds of the time of the
Senate should be given up to legislation
| for the human kind. The bill for bounty
of SO on wolves was then under discus
| sion. Thompson declared that the bill
| should really be termed a measure for the
| fostering of the wolf industry. He de-
clared for bounty on twins or triplets
rather than little wolves.
Both houses of the Legislature Thurs
day adopted resolutions congratulating
President Mckinley on his Inauguration
and pledging his administration unquali-
| fed support. Every silver Senator made
an address in support of the resolutions.
The Senate killed the bill to repeal the law
providing for the taxation of real estate
mortgages. The vote was close and the
bill may pass later. The House unseat-
ed James Kerr, member from the Second
district of Saginaw County, and ordered a
| new election to fill the vacancy on April 3.