The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-30
MiCnl0AN'o LeGisLArURo.

a-ddy Legislature, anu tnen uecldreu
for an early adjournment. On top of
this, however, an attempt was made TO
pass the resolution to adjourn May 81,
but this was tabled. The House passed
bill TO permit Kent county to bond
for $50, 900 to encourage the establish
ment of beet sugar plant there.
The House passed the following meas
ures: Authorizing the issuance of stock
in telephone companies at $40 instead
of 500 share, in order to facilitate
the organization of telephone compa-
mics in smaller cities; to regulate and
determine the fees paid to coroners and
justices of the peace for holding in
quests; permitting members of the De-
troit College of Law TO practice upon
diplomas the same as L. of NJ students;
eliminating the provision of the pres
ent law that applicants for admission
TO the bar must have studied two years
in an attorneys office; providing that
the state board of legal examiners shall
meet semi-annually instead of quar-
terly; permitting villages, upon n
majority vote of citizens TO vacate the
corporation, vote to be taken upon pc
tition of citizens; prohibiting shooting
of prairie chickens for "a period of five
years; making an open season for trout
from May Is To August IL. This last
bill has already passed the Senate and
is given immediate effect as soon as it
is signed by the governor. The Senate
killed the bill for branding baking pow
ders with list of their ingredients.
Some horrible examples of the re-
suits of cigarette smoking were re-
lated in the House when the anti-cig-
arctic bill was under consideration.
The bill as amended fixes penalties of
from $40 to 500 fine and so to 90 days
imprisonment for the act of giving or
selling tobacco in any form to minors
under II years of age and like penal
ties for selling or giving cigarettes,
cigarette paper or other materials to
any minor under II years of age. The
bill also provides for the arrest of
minors under 81 for smoking cigarettes
or having them upon their persons.
/ The House in committee of the whole
agreed to the bill in this form. The
following bills were passed by the
House: Providing for an extension of
the corporate life of life insurance
companies; providing an appropriation
of s7,s75 for the asylum for dangerous
and criminal insane at Ionia; permit
ing the practice of osteopathy; making
the services of members of soldiers
relief commissions gratuitous except
in Wayne county, and providing for a
relief commission record TO be open to
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A. X. posts, and to the commander and
adjutant of the Michigan G.. A. r. The
bill to allow Kent county to bond for
$50, 900 to encourage the beet sugar in
dustry failed to pass, but was recon-
sidered and tabled by the House. The
Eikhoff resolution requesting Secretary
of War Alger to Withdraw the musl-
clans of the United States war and
navy from competition with civilian
musicians. was passed by the House
The Senate passed the following bills:
To empower probate judges TO license
executors. administrators and guard
ians to borrow money by mortgaging
or otherwise pledging the estates Of
deceased persons TO pay requests. debts
or complete buildings; (Substitute) per-
hitting Grand Rapids I bond for $500.
900 for improve ments To Grand river,
To become operative in September.
1898: the Holmes lien bill placing the
material men on the same footing as
the laborer; for branding high explo-
sives; permitting a reduction in the
number of county road commissioners
to two in counties having the county
road system law in operation.
After all the talk occasioned by the
recent action of the Senate in recall
ing the bills to permit the con-
struction of an electric railway from
Port Huron to Bay City the railway
people have secured the passage, in the
Senate, of the bills permitting the
various townships lying between Bay
City and Port Huron to authorize the
laying of an electric railroad. The
bills prevent the construction of steam
roads and brings the proposed line:
under the supervision of the railroad
commissioner, and also provide that
the local township boards and villages
may tax the electric roads as they see
fit. Property owners who are dam
aged by the electric roads may recover
at law any damages they may suffer
There was a eCtle row in the Senate
over the bill to prevent liquor dealers
from furnishing bonds by fiduciary
companies, but it passed, as did the
following bills: To permit electric
roads To carry light freight under Ger
tain conditions; authorizing Dickinson
county 10 build bridges in conjunction
with Wisconsin authorities across the
Menominee river, appropriatiug 3,s0o'
for the Michigan pioneer and historical
society. In the House committee o
the whole there was a contest Owe
the bill, amending the garnishec Law
by making the exemption SO per weel
and 81 per week additional for cacl
member of family above two. Rep
Eikhoff aud others opposed the bill OF
the ground that IL was a lawyers meas
urc TO make the collection of judg
ments from working men easier, bu
it was finally agreed to. The commit
tee of the whole defeated the $500
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