Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-06

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Nothing developed Monday In the legis-
lative Doodle sensation which was broughe
to light Saturday, and the members will
probably treat the whole affair as some
thing Of joke. x-Representative John
Matthews of Detroit, who has been lob
bying for bill for the State Medical So
ciety, was discussing the measure at the
hotel with Representative Clark Of Ma
son County. The latter informed MIR.
Matthews that he was opposed to the bill,
and jokingly said something about $25
being his price. The lobbyist Is then said
to have remarked that il would be worth
S25 to him to get the bill through, and II 10
also charged that the latter said to Mr.
Clark that he lacked just six votes, and
that IL he CLARK would vote for the bill
there would be $50 in 1t for him. Later
Clark told members of the Public Health
Committee about the conversation, and
some of them were SO greatly shocked they
deemed investigation necessary. The COM
mittee will thoroughly investigate the case
before 1t Ii laid before the Legislature.
The House Tuesday passed these bills:
Prohibiting killing of prairie chickens for
five years; requiring that printing of tax
lished at least one year; to enforce max
ing of factory improvements ordered by
factory inspectors; permitting hotel or
boarding house keepers to sell luggage
held for board; prohibiting the charging
Offices In probate courts for preparation
of executors bond; to prohibit combina-
tons of fire insurance companies; to pre-
vent the debauchlng of boys; prohibiting
nf In nrdo
without consent of such employees. In
the Senate the following were passeds
Amending pure food law; amending act
to confirm the record of letters of attor-
ney relative to transcript copies of deeds
and other Instruments; requiring rail-
roads to carry bicycles as baggage, imme-
date effect; designating the apple blossom
as the State flower; for return by asylum
authorities of patients to their homes
when such patients are cured: for the
licensing Of insurance companies to in
sure against loss or damage resulting
from burglary, also the loss of securities
or money in transit by registered mail:
for the taxation of 21a per cent on the
gross earnings of plank road companies.
The following appointments were made
Wednesday by Gov. Pingree, the first
the Governors intention to make Prof.
@. l.. Bemis Of Chicago Michigan's labor
commissioner; Joseph l.. Cox, Battle
Creek, commissioner of labor; Jerome III.
Bishop, Wyandotte, to succeed j. Il.
Hurst of Wyandotte as member of board
Of control of State house of correction Mt
Ionia; Frank Wells, Lansing, to succeed
himself as member of State Board of
Health; Albert Pack. Alpena, to succeed
Edward Love- Grand Rapids. as member
of board of managers of Mackinaw Island
Park; l.. e. Reynolds. st. Joseph, to sue
coed G. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix, as men,
Der of State Board OF Pharmacy; Thad-
deus Q. Brooks, Jackson, to succeed AL
bert Styles, Jackson, as member of board
of control of State prison; Samuel Post,
Ypsilanti, to succeed William ]. Stuart,
Grand Rapids. as member of board of
control of Michigan asylum for insane Mt
Kalamazoo. The bill requiring the Gov
ernor to make all appointments during
the legislative session or leave incumbents
in Office until the next Legislature con-
venes was killed in the House. The Sem
ate passed the bill prohibiting prize fight
ing and all other fistic encounters in
Michigan.
In the Senate Thursday fourteen votes
were cast for and fifteen against the bill
reducing the rates of passenger fare on
upper peninsular roads from 4 to 3 cents
per mile. This was larger vote for the
bill than the opposition anticipated, and
the latter was still more surprised when a
motion to table the vote to reconsider
failed to carry. The vote was reconsid-
cred and another effort will be made to
pass the bill. The railway lobby is much
alarmed lest this is an index Of the close
ness of the vote on all pending railroad
bills. The bill prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes to or by persons under IL years
of age has passed both houses. Gov. Pin
gree vetoed the Donovan curfew bill,
which provided for the arrest of children
allowed upon the streets after 8 p. m. The
Governor characterizes the act as inter-
ference by the State in matters of purely
domestic concern.
The war on express companies has been
commenced in earnest in the Legislature.
1t is proposed to push Senate bills doub-
ling the specific tax paid by these COM
panies, and there is pending resolution
instructing the Attorney General to pro-
coed to collect taxes claimed, to be due
for former years. The claim grows out
of the contention that the companies have
paid only on their actual business in Mich
igan, making no account of interstate bus
mess. In the House Friday favorable
reports were made on bills prohibiting
express companies from charging extra
for delivering packages anywhere within
the city limits, and also prohibiting great
er charge being made where freight goes
over two lines than for like package fop
similar distance over one line. The House
has agreed to a bill providing a heavy
penalty for exhibiting kaleidoscope repro
auctions of prize fights or glove contests.
The Senate passed the Sawyer bill requir-
ing railroad companies to maintain ben
signals at all crossings designated by the
Commissioner of Railroads.
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