The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-02-26
MICHIGAN SOLONS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE
LEGISLATURE.
Summary of the Principal Bills Intro
duced and of the Doings of the Both
Branches-Pingree Reform Measures
Beginning to Cut Quite a Figure.

rection, but without expense TO the
state- AS the time limit for the intro
duction of bills approaches both houses
are flooded with measures more or less
important. In the Senate the follow
ing are presented: To license firearms
for the killing of game; for soldiers
relief commissions In cities and town
ships; TO repeal the law requiring two
years active work in an attorneys Office
before admission of applicants to prac-
tice Vat the bar; TO prohibit normal
schools taking up university work;
cutting amount of Immediate relief for
the poor from $50 TO SO in each case
and having such accounts audited by
township boards instead of poor COM
missioners; TO establish reformatory
for women; for state forestry COM
mission; appropriating So, 600 for the
Central Michigan normal school The
flood of bills was still greater in the
House, the most important being these:
For "a state board of steam boiler in
bpectors; requiring patent medicines,
etc, to be tested by the state board of
health; TO prevent the use of animals,
dead or living, for scientific purposes
In the public schools; providing that
assaults made on women under guise
of professional confidence shall be
prosecuted the same as rape cases with
the same penalties attached; providing
that only SITS shall be the limit of
exemption from garnishee, instead of
SIS; for the incorporation of cyclone
insurance companies; providing that
only taxpayers may vote on questions
Involving the disposition of money; to
abolish the state live stock sanitary
commissions to provide women physi-
clans and attendants upon female in
mates of insane asylums; TO reduce the
penalty for receiving stolen goods
under S25 in value from five years inn
prsonment to one year; appropriating
$50, 900 for the Ypsilanti normal school;
providing for imprisonment at hard
tabor for from three months TO one
year of parents who torture, starve,
abandon or willfully deprive of shelter
children under 16 years of age; to
change the name of West Bay City to
Wenona; to provide for the collection
of village taxes by the county treas
urer; to authorize the formation of a
corporation for the prevention of cru
city TO animals and children;
for the stamping of boots and shoes,
composed partly or wholly of
imitation leather; for a homeopathic
college of medicine at Detroit;
for the supplying of state institutions
with Michigan products; to prohibit
any contractor or debtor from paying
any money to a laborer in a saloon;
for the licensing of sleeping and parlor
car companies doing business in Mich
igan; to prevent monopolies in articles
of general necessity; requiring bills of
fare in public eating places TO be
printed in English.
. Gov. Pingree's appointments are be-
ginning to receive more respectful con-
sideration from the Senate. Col. Fred
III. Case, of Three Rivers, was con-
firmed as inspector-generai of the M.
N. G.. by vote of IS to 8, but the OPP
position MADE hard fight. The APP
pointment of A. C.. Bird, of Highland,
TO be a member of the board of control
of the Agricultural college, was also
confirmed. Senator Wagar noticed %
bill making a wholesale reduction in
salaries of state officials and which
will make an annual cut of 10000 in
the salary list. Senator Campbell
wants to make saving in the same
line by cutting down the capitol en-
ployes. Other important Senate bills:
Creating the Office of Legislative proof
reader and doing away with engrossing
and enrolling clerks; to suspend the
printing of all state publications for
two years except the state manual and
laws; amending the village incorpora-
ton act SO as to provide for boards of
public works; for the examination of
persons elected or recommended for
offices in the National Guard from
lieutenant up; providing for boards of
county auditors for every county
amending the law relating to mutual
fire insurance companies so that every
company must have 500, 900 worth of
insurance before beginning business;
amending the liquor law, making the
closing hours o'clock at night to
o'clock in. the morning, provided that
in cities of over 10, 900 population, com
mon councils may permit saloons to
keep open on all holidays except
Thanksgiving and Christmas, and open
up at a. m. and remain open until
1880 o'clock. Among bills passed by
the Senate were these: For the incor-
poration of labor organizations; fixing
a penalty of 20 for unlawfully wearing
badges of the G.. A. X. or the Loyal
Legion. Pingree Legislation got in on
the ground floor of the House. The
much-tallxed-of move to get at the rail
roads appeared in resolution offered
by Rep. Widoe which was adopted by
a vote of 90 to @. 1t provides for the
appointment by the speaker of com
mittee of three members to investigate
any violation of the law relative Il
freight charges on the part of the rail
ways operating under the general Law
or under special charters, and to re
port remedial legislation with refer
cnce thereto. The committee is au
thorized TO subpoena witnesses, to cx
anime books and papers, and to emplo,