The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-02-10

pathy with the Gray bill and will aban-
don his own TO support it. The friends
of repeal insist that the bounty bids
fair to speedily become an unbearable
burden upon the taxpayers. there being
already in sight factories which, IL run
to their capacity as is intended, will
call for the payment of fully $40O 900 In
bounties during the present year, and
furthermore. that it has been thorough
ly demonstrated by the experience of
the Michigan Sugar company of Bay
City that beet sugar can be profitably
manufactured In Michigan without the
aid OF a bounty.
Will Object to Repeal.
OF course the farmers who are To-
Gated in the neighborhood Of the pres
ent factories or of those to be erected
this year, will object to repeal for the
reason that the pa n emit of the bounty
insures them liked price for their
beets, while repeal would probably cut
that price in two. 1t is stated on au-
thority that Michigan farmers who sold
their beets to the Bay City company
last year Melted from $40 to $40 per
acre, according to the length of the
profit being about $2S per acre. 1t IS
estimated that this company and the
five companies organized to erect fac
tories this year will pay to the farmers
under the existing law about s1.375 900
for beets next season, and that about
100000 of this will be net profit to the
beet growers. The percentage of sugar
In Michigan grown beets is so high
that the beets bring an average price
OF $4.25 per ton under the present law.
Lynching Bill.
The fact that an Ohio jury has, with
In the past few days, given a man a
judgment against a county in which a
relative was lynched, suggests the
thought that Representative Dickinson
of Detroit, the only colored member Of
the legislature, has again introduced
a bill fashioned after the Ohio statute.
Such bill passed the house two years
ago, but was killed in the senate. Dick
inson hopes to make it law this year.
He thinks that county whose officials
are so impotent as to be unable to
prevent a lynching should be required
to compensate the relatives of the VIC
tim for the loss sustain
Representative Dickinson has another
bill he hopes to be able to pass. This
strikes the word white" from the law
relative to the qualifications of men,
bers of the Michigan national guard.
The enviable record made by the coll
ored troops at Santiago will go a long
way toward winning votes for this bill.
Relief for Supreme Court
One of the most important measures
to be introduced this year is one to pro-
vide relief for the supreme court. I'm
der present conditions the supreme JUS
tees, aside from sitting on the bench
through four terms Of court annually,
are required to write an average Of one
opinion apiece every two days. No one
will, 1 believe, undertake to deny that
this is more than any judge, however
well qualified, can be expected to do
with justice to either himself or the
litigants. Some relief for the court is
imperatively needed, and the plan
agreed upon is to amend the constitu-
ton so as to provide for an intermedi-
ate court, to which cases shall be ap-
pealable from the circuit court, and
which shall have final Jurisdiction in
certain cases, possibly all involving ST.
500 or less. The present idea is to have
this court consist Of three members. 1t
is figured that If this plan is adopted
the supreme court will be relieved of
about one-third Of its present work and
be enabled to do far better work than
Is possible under existing circum-
stances.
Another Important Resolution.
Another important joint resolution
provides for an amendment to the con-
stitution whereby county boards of
auditors can be substituted for the
present boards of supervisors to a GER
tain extent. The scheme is that the
question of having a board of auditors
shall be submitted to the electors Of a
county upon the petition Of a given
number of taxpayers. 1t is urged that
the auditor system would result in a
great saving to the counties.
The bill to be introduced at the in
stance Of the BARRIERS Of the state will
provide for the creation of a board to
consist of practicing physician and
two tonsorial artists who shall ex-
anime all applicants for licenses per-
hitting them to work at the BARRIERS
trade. The qualifications to be exacted
are a thorough knowledge Of the tools
and their use in the trade, and Of the
nature, effect and treatment Of all
eruptive skin diseases.
Aimed at Barber Colleges"
The bill is aimed particularly at those
colleges" that graduate BARRIERS after
eight weeks of practice. 1t Is claimed
that these graduates are running the
trade.
Another effort Is to be made this win
ter to have the mortgage tax law re-
pealed. 1t is doubtful IL the effort will
succeed, however, as the state grange
and state association of farmers clubs.
which were the agencies which saved
the law two years ago, are still firm
In their advocacy of that measure and
will have committees on the ground
to put UP stiff fight for 1t.
JAMES v. BARRY.
Came from Over the Rhine.
Some time ago a German lady, ar
irving for the first time in England,
drove to a first-class London hotel,
asked for a room and was shown into