The Yale expositor., 1897-03-05


| for or against any candidate for Office;
to protect the people from trusts or
combinations; TO reduce fees of sheriffs
for serving processes; providing that
| old soldiers shall be first considered in
| the distribution of offices; to permit in
surance against loss by theft; providing
| that inc ebriate inmates of the Detroit
| house of correction and the Ionia re-
formatory may be scientifically treated
and the state to bear the expense; to
increase the bonding limit of Detroit
from ? to per cent; to provide for a
curfew regulation in cities and towns;
| to inspect and license all milk peddlers'
outfits in cities; to limit interest on
chattel mortgages of $50 or less TO !
per cent per month; for a state board
of examining plumbers; to provide for
legal advisor for the governor; to per-
NIT street railways to use their roads
| for express purposes without the con-
sent of municipalities in which they
operate; to prohibit public officials
from accepting railroad passes; for the
| inspection of the quality of ice; TO
make insane and mentally incompetent
persons in the eyes of the law the same
as deceased; providing for re-registra-
ton in townships prior to elections; to
prohibit physicians using Latin and
technical expressions in prescriptions;
| to license horseshoers; ompelling
street railways to report to the railroad
commissioner; providing that members
of the Legislature shall receive S5 per
day for 100 days in session and any
| further time shall be without pay; pro-
viding that persons convicted of rape
shall be emasculated; providing a fine
of $500 for any person publishing in a
newspaper anything about an electro
cution in Michigan beyond the mere
statement of the electrocution; to per-
init saloons to keep open on legal holi-
days except Thanksgiving and Christ
mas; to create state department of
building and loan associations; provid-
ing that once every year local option
on liquor traffic must be submitted to
a vote of the people; to compel drug
gists to pay tax the same as other
| liquor dealers; to make the tax for
selling liquor in cities of less than 1000
inhabitants, $500 year; granting free
to old soldiers, sailors and marines, per-
| mission to peddle in the state; to regu-
late freight rates and greatly reducing
the present rates; to make the inter-
state commerce law operative on Mich
| igan railroads within the state; pro-
viding that the supreme court and cir
cult judges shall have 10 year terms,
all appointed by the governor, the
former being eligible to one reappoint-
ment, the latter being eligible for one
term only-the first 10 appointments to
be made in 1900; to make a one-ninth of
mill tax for the U. of NJ. instead of a
one-sixth of mill; prohibiting the wear
ing of bloomers higher than half way
between the knee and ankle; to annex
Highland Park to Detroit, the latter
TO assume its debts; limiting the rate
of interest in sales of tax titles to per
cent per annum; for the biennial sub
mission of the question of prohibition
of the liquor traffic; permitting the use
of public records as evidence; to allow
street railways to carry baggage; per-
mitting cities to operate municipal tel
ephone systems; to permit no prefer
ence on the part of banks between liza
bility to savings and commercial depos-
itors, and to compel the payment of in
terest on daily balances of saving de-
posits; to create a state bureau of adj
vertising, requiring all advertisers out
side of the state to register with the
secretary of state so that their ability
to do as they advertise may be in
quired into.
Without the privilege of introducing
more bills the Senators seemed at a
loss for some way to spend their time.
There were only one or two matters of
deep enough interest to stir up their
spirits. During the discussion of bill
to permit Ludington to exempt factory
buildings from taxation Senator
Thompson, of Wayne, spoke against
such action and declared that it, like
many other ideas of Gov. Pingree, was
dangerous and vicious. A report was
received from the Senate committee
recommending appropriations S94, ,920
for the maintenance of the Michigan
mining schools for the next two years,
and $40, ,s15 for refitting the building.
Several bills passed the most important
being these: Oh. B. 12D TO amend the
law for the incorporation of mutual
benefit societies by providing that they
shall have 200 policy holders at 81, 900
each before starting in business; Is. B.
229) for an additional ward for the city
of Owosso; Oh. B. 3ss) for bonding the
Midland County Agricultural society
to pay 1900 indebtedness; (H. Il. 50I)
for bonding Munising for water works
by two-thirds vote of the electors.
The House session was much more
lively. The Representatives. were
stirred up by a resolution offered by
Rep. Atkinson, Gov. Pingree's right
hand man in the House, fixing April 13
as the time for beginn ing the consider
alton of bills relating to railroad leg
islation. A score of arguments were
advanced for and against such action
and when the vote was taken
the Pingreeites lacked the neces-
sary two-t thirds votes and the resolu-
tion was then laid ON the table.
The resolution of Rep. Eikhof, of
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