The Yale expositor., 1897-04-16
MicA,oAN.s LEGISLATORS.

as he took his seat he was applauded--
presumably for his part in helping To
elect Mayor Maybury, of Detroit, and
thus turn down Gov. Pingree. Then
resolution was sent 10 the clerk S desk
PRAYING thatsthe anniversary of the
| spring election be perpetual holiday |
to be known as Maybury day. An
other resolution requested the presi-
dent of the Senate to recognize Mr..
Thompson acute attack OF joyous |
exuberance contracted on account of |
the late election in the city of Detroit,
| and appoint him chairman of the com
mittee Il the whole for the afternoon
session, and then excuse him from act
i've duty for the remainder Of the
week" The Senate resembled coun-
try school room during recess as Mr..
Thompson was installed in the chair
ana then they settled down little
and agreed TO a bill TO allow the catch
ing of clubs and minnows with nets in
Les Cheneaux channel. During the
day the Senate passed the following
bills: Providing that applicants do not
have to study two years in an attor-
ney's office to become eligible to admis-
sion to the bar; providing salary OF
$500 for the treasurer of the board OF
control of the home for feeble-minded.
The House spent almost the entire da
in committee of the whole and agreed
20 several measures, among the most
important being the Green inheritance
tax bill which provides a tax Of per
cent upon the market value of all prop
erty, personal and real, over S., 900 i'm
amount, bequeathed by will, whether
bv resident or nonresident of the
state, or transferred in contemplation
of death, except in cases where the
property goes to father, mother hus-
band, wife, child, brother, sister, wife
or widow of son or husband of
daughter, in which case no tax is as
sessed upon the inheritance. The pro-
} bate Judge is made arbiter in all cases.
The House passed the following: Au-
thorizing the village of Sand Beach TO
issue bonds for water works; empow-
ering judges of probate in certain
cases to license executors, admins
traitors and guardians to borrow
money by mortgaging or pledging the
estates of deceased persons for the pur-
3 pose of paying debts, legacies, making
5 repairs To or completing buildings; pro-
9 viding for the appointment OF guard
ians for persons who are habitual
drunkards by the use of liquor, narcot-
les or noxious drugs, and permitting
superintendent of the poor, supervis-
ors or aldermen TO make complaints of
such to the probate Judge: providing
e that in bigamy cases husband and wife
: can testify without consent of each
b other.
There was a three hours fight in the
3 House over the holster anti-convict
labor bill and it was defeated, by all
n after the enacting clause being struck
Z out. The title was tabled, however,
: and the bill may come up again. The
I bill provided that all prison labor con
tracts be annulled; that the prisoners
a be employed in the manufacture OF
! articles used in the state institutions;
: that only hand and foot machinery be
; used by prisoners and that prisoners
sentenced for less than life might be
used in working on roads at the re
quest of the boards of supervisors
=, countersigned by the governor, nc
/ more than 20 convicts to be employed
by any one county. At times the fight
= was sensational Reps. Moore and
= Atkinson arraigned the wardens of the
:, various state institutions severely fol
- lobbying against the measure. Bills
y passed by the House were only of loca
: Importance. The Senate took favor
= able action on the following bills: Fol
- the bonding of Sand Beach for water
works plant; changing the name of the
Michigan mining school To michigan
College of Mines" and fixing the tut
10 ton at $40 per year for Michigan stu
IN dents and S25 per year for non-resi
20 dents; amending the village incorpora'
ton act by bringing all villages under
!, the general tax law relative to the SALE
10 and redemption of land for Delinquent
taxes.
Not being satisfied with knocking
=, out all legislation which directly af
- fected railroads the legislature is nov
trying to prevent the construction o
~ electric railways where they will com
:" pete with steam railroads. After hav
ing passed Ave bills which had 70
their object the authorization of thu
E. granting OF the right of way for sys
&c tenn of electric road from Detroit, vii
City, with n spur starting from tn
main line at Elmer and running north
east TO Sand Beach, the Senate trie'
An to recall them from the House for tn
purpose of reconsideration. Senate
r. Thompson, of Wayne. was at the bot
to tom of this move and succeeded in hay
IL ing the resolution recalling ther
ne pushed through. Four of the bills ha
,ir been returned to the Senate befor
their friends in the House saw thei
IS danger and then they induced tn
he House to refuse to return the fifth
It's Senator Thompson had the bills refer
red to the railroad committee wher
g. they will be smothered. The Hous
We killed Donovan's bill providing 70
be locking prisoners in county janis i
ty separate cells. The Lusk-Gordon HON
ng rule bill was made the special order {
the House for April 10. Rep. Ker