Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-29

The Senate cleared away its work in
twenty minutes Monday night, passing nm
amendment to the Traverse City charter
and concurring In the complimentary res
olution on the appointment of President
Angel. Senators Loomis and Teeple were
named on the part of the Senate for a
conference on the Donovan factory bill
These bills passed the House: Making the
apple blossom the State flower: relative
to proceedings against municipalities;
amending act for the Incorporation OF
sporting associations; for laundry and
electric light plant at the Pontiac asylum
preventing the killing of beaver until 1905,
and prohibiting the killing of otter, fisher
and marten from May to Nov. 10; to
compel toll road companies to keep their
roads In condition.
These bills passed the House Tuesday:
Allowing telephone and messenger corpo-
rations to issue shares of stock ut $lo
share or more; for the Incorporation OF re-
ligious societies; empowering supervisors
to fix pay of coroners and justices for In
quests, Wayne excepted; fixing closed
season for trout fishing from Aug. 10 to
April Is, Upper Peninsula Sept. to May
i; prohibiting killing of prairie chickens
for FIVE years. In the Senate the bill for
the classifying of baking powders and
the labelling thereof as per classification
was dismantled of everything but the en-
acting clause The Holmes bill for the
protection of dealers In building material
by lien received Senate attention and was
agreed to.
On Wednesday the Chamberlain anti
cigarette bill was agreed to in the House.
1t prohibits the sale of cigarettes to
minor of any age and of tobacco In any
form to those under IL years of age,
penalty being prescribed for both the seller
and purchaser. Bills permitting the prac-
tice Of osteopathy in Michigan and ex-
tending the charters of life insurance COM
panies whose corporate existence is about
to expire were passed, while one permit
ting Kent County to bond itself to encour-
age the manufacture of beet sugar was
killed. Bills prohibiting the opening Of
photograph galleries on Sundays and pro-
viding that all bank stock be assessed in
the place where the bank is located were
favorably reported.
The long fight over bills permitting
townships on the cost shore to grant fran
chises for a railroad and permitting sub
urban electric lines to transport farm
produce and other light freight ended
Thursday with the passage of all the bills,
which had been held up in the Senate, all
having already passed the House. The
bills were amended so as to give the Rail
road Commissioner supervision over these
roads, but the proposition to substitute
specific for local taxation was abandoned.
Favorable reports were made on bills per-
hitting the city of Grand Rapids to issue
5000, 900 of bonds for the Improvement OF
Grand river, and allowing municipalities
to assess fire insurance companies per
cent on their gross receipts for the sup
port of fire departments. A movement on
the part of surety companies to engage at
wholesale in the business of furnishing
bonds for liquor dealers who will be re-
quired to furnish new bonds May was
nipped in the bud by the passage by both
houses of bill rendering such bonds
illegal for this purpose.