Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-25
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE

In the House Monday Representative
sawyer's bill. providing for the treetment
Of deformed children or those aflictsd
with durable maladies, ut the UniverSity
Of Michigan hospitals. passed. The anti
buckwheat adulteration bill was sent
through flying. 1t Is an absolute prohibi-
ton of the sale Of adulterated buckwheat-
The Kimmis bill, providing for women
physicians In asyIums where female pa
tents are confined. went through easily.
The bill amending divorce laws Of Micht
gan by demanding residence Of one year
IN State preceding filing Of bill; also that
marriage must have been solemnised In
this State, was given immediate effect.
These bills passed the Senate: For the
preservation Of deer In Monroe CountyS
allowing fire and accident insurance COM
panies to do boiler, plate glass and fidelity
insurance business without reorganizing,
amending law for protection of children.
The Dudley beet sugar bounty bill pass
ed both houses Tuesday, and only the con-
sent OF the Governor keeps it from being
law. Other bills passed by the Senate
affected the village incorporation act by
providing boards Of public works by q
'two-thirds vote of the Common Council,
to have shade trees trimmed whenever
they obstruct street lights, and providing
that villages now having water works may
make repairs on same without a vote Of
the people. These bills passed the Houses
Providing for care Of female insane BY
women physicians and attendants; pro-
viding that State Board submit plans OF
proposed buildings to the Board of Cor
rections and Charities and the Board Of
Health. no money to be paid out until APP
proval Is secured: amending the law rela-
i've TO taking school census, making 1t In
cumbent to take residence and street num-
Der and providing penalty for refusal to
give informatiOn; making it unlawful to
wear q. A. II. button by anyone except
members of the order in good standing.
A bill making counties liable to persons
or the families of persons injured or killed,
and for property destroyed by mobs, was
agreed to by the House in committee Of
the whole Wednesday. The $40, 900 ap-
preparation asked for by the fire sufferers
at Ontonagon has been cut by the Senate
Finance and Appropriations Committee to
$4,000. The Senate has passed a medi-
cal registration bill designed to shut out
the graduates Of bogus medical colleges.
The bill provides for State board. Every
physician practicing in Michigan will have
to pass IN examination before this board.
The nomination Of Milo ID. Carpenter Of
Coldwater to be Commissioner of Insur-
ance was confirmed. The House, in COM
mittee of the whole, agreed to the Dickin-
son bill for the suppression of mob vio-
lence. bill was passed providing that
none but property owners shall be eligi-
BILE to serve as school officers.
The House devoted its entire session
Thursday to the consideration of the joint
resolution proposing an amendment to the
constitution so as to give cities and viii
lagos home rule, permitting them to amend
their charters by popular vote instead Of
appealing to the Legislature. A vote
showed twenty votes less than the two
thirds necessary to pass the measure. The
bill appropriating $4,000 for the aid Of
the victims of the fire which destroyed
Ontonagon village has passed the Senate
and bids fair to 60 through the House.
The fight between the commercial fisher
men and the State Fish Commission is be-
ing waged vigorously. The fishermen say
that to increase the size of the mesh
would practically ruin their business, in
which they have more than 81, OOO, 900 in
vested, and that imposition of the pro-
posed tax would be n greater burden than
they can bear. On the other hand, the
commissioners say, that unless the mesh
is increased the best Of the food fish in
the great lakes will have disappeared
within three years. The fishermen appear
to have the whip hand thus far.
The special Railroad Committee, which
was given thirty days In which to make
it's investigation Of charges of discrim-
nation in freight rates, has exhausted
the time without completing the work
and been granted an extension until April
Z. The committee created a sensation
Friday by dismissing its clerk, John N.
Foster Of Ludington. The committee has
given no reason for Fosters discharge,
but it Is known that information gathered
by the committee and supposed to be
carefully guarded has found its way into
the newspapers and that important let
tiers and other documents have mystic
riously disappeared. The bill appropria-
ting $500 for Michigan's exhibit at the
Nashville exposition, which passed the
Senate last week, was killed in the House.
The city of Ann Arbor desires to con-
struct an art gallery for the university
and the Senate has passed bin permit
ting the city to bond itself for 100000
for that purpose.