The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-01-29
The Senate has begun TO show its


to confirm nominations made by him
of important state officials. The
senator's followed the lead of Thomp-
son, of Wayne, sworn enemy of the
governor, and after he had made
speech they referred TO the committee
the appointments of Gen. VIM. Hart
suff, of Port Huron, as inspector-gen-
eral, and Jabez b. Caswell, of Bay City,
as state salt inspector. The appoint
ment of Il. o. Grosvenor, of Monroe,
as dairy and food commissioner, was
promptly confirmed, because, it is al
legged, he is ''solid" with the political
leaders who are back of the anti-Pin-
gree sentiment. The Senate commit
tee on the constitutional amendments
reported in favor of the Barnard bill
TO raise the salary of the attorney-gen-
eral from $500 to SO, 500 a year. The
concurrent resolution, to observe the
sixtieth anniversary of the admission
of Michigan to statehood, Jan. &c, was
tabled by the Senate. The would-be
iunketers of the House attempted
again to secure an adjournment and
go with the Senate junketers but they
were sat down upon hard. A very
strong antitrust bill was introduced
by Rep. Madill, of Huron; it prohibits
all combinations of manufacturing or
industrial institutions of any kind. 1t
proposes to take from any Michigan
concern entering into a combination
its franchise for doing business, and
outside corporations are to be denied
the right to do business in Michigan in
case they enter into combination.
Rep. Moore, of Colhoun, offers a bill to
reduce the pay of justices of the SUI
preme court from 1000 to $1,000 per
year.
When the senatorial junl1eters
started on their tour they left Senators
Mason, of Delta; Robinson, of Houghton,
and Nudge of Clinton, to go through
the farce of meeting once a day as the
Senate and adjourning for "a hours.
If all the business of that body was
performed with the smoothness and
dispatch which characterized the do
ings of these three there would be no
need of the legislature dragging itself
far into the summer months, as is
usual. At the first afternoon session
after the junketers had gone the House
failed to find quorum. That greatly
pleased the lonely three Senators and
the House members who had favored
the attempt to have the House go on a
junket also. But in the evening 50
representatives responded to the roll
call and considerable business was
transacted. Among the new measures
of Importance are these: To prohibit
the wearing of high hats in theaters;
to prohibit the manufacture, sale and
use of cigarettes; to prohibit prosecu-
tors appearing in the defense of Grim
inals in the counties which elected
them 10 office; to require that all town
ship officers shall be citizens as well as
electors; TO amend the constitution so
as to make the clerks, probate judges
and treaSurers of counties into board
of auditors to audit general bills, which
will save the counties the expense of
supervisors meetings for that purpose;
to provide for the sale of real estate
upon execution in the shelter of boards
of trade and chambers of commerce
quarters in cities where such organiza-
tions exist; to provide one cent per
pound bounty on beet sugar; to COM
bine the Office of drain commissioner
into that of highway commissioner so
drains can be built in highways at the
expense of abutting property. A bill
is being prepared to place tax of so
cents per barrel upon beer and it is
said that it will raise a revenue of
nearly 100000 for the primary school
fund.