The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-07-28

charter. Voted yes. Carried by a vote
of 65 to o. Page 4S2.
April 4. Senate Bill No. A amending
county local option law. Voted yes.
Passed. Page 40l.
April 8. Oleo bill to prevent and
punish deception in the manufacture
and sale of oleomargarine, process
butter, imitation butter, or butterine.
Voted yes. Passed. Page $40.
April II. Bill for relief of ex-soldiers
of the late Spanish war.
Voted yes. Passed. Page 52s.
April Is. Bill to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors on any grounds or
in any building under the control of the
National Guard. Voted yes. Bill did
not pass. On vote to reconsider,
voted yes. Carried Page 557. AL
though it was voted to reconsider, the
bill never came up again. those having
it in charge not seeing the way clear
for its passage.
April IS. County salaries bill. Did
not vote. being absent with the rest of
the ways and means committee on
official business in Adrian. Bill de-
feated by vote of 80 for to 80 against.
Page $40.
April 10. Senate bill 112, to prevent
deception in the manufacture and sale
of imitation butter Voted yes. Bill
passed. Page 500.
April 20. Bill to provide for COM
mission to negotiate with all railway
companies having special charters to
ascertain on what terms they will sur
render their charters and come under
the general railway laws. Voted yes,
believing that under the provisions of
this bill much Roadway could be gained
in the matter of bringing all under the
general laws, a possibility which the
former resolution along similar lines
did not offer. Carried. Page 655.
May 10. The garnishee bill. Voted
yes. Passed. Page 1853.
May IL. Joint resolution for relief
of Henry Bartrem. Voted yes. Passed.
Page 1877. 1t is highly complimentary
to the regard in which Mr.. Mason was
held by his associates that not a single
vote was cast against this bill for which
Mr.. Mason had worked hard.
Same date. Bill to provide for the plac-
ing of low water alarms on steam boilers
and providing penalty for non-compli-
ance with the same. Introduced by Mr..
Mason and passed without dissenting
vote. Page 1877. This was bill which
had been before every legislature for
some twenty years or more in one form
or another, but which had always failed
of passage until this year when Mr..
Mason undertook to see it through, do
ing it in such way as to win the
hearty congratulations of the commits
sioner of labor and all others interested
in the protection of life and property.
Same date. Bill to amend and
strengthen a section in the act relative
to preventing persons from unlawfully
wearing the G. A. R. button. Voted
yes. Carried. Page 769.
| Same date. Bill to amend section II
of act No. 313, providing for the taxa
ton, etc., of the liquor business. Vot-
ed No Bill failed to pass. Page s1s.
This was a bill to allow liquor to be
sold on July 4.
Same date Bill to provide for the
assessment, levy, and collection of tax
es upon shares in corporations, and to
require taxpayers and such corpora
tons to file sworn statements of their
property. Voted yes. Lost by vote of
3S for, to 81 against. Mr.. Cheever vot-
ed against the bill. Page s13.
May %. House bill No. 223, bill to
provide for the taxation of railroad
companies and union railroad station
companies. Voted yes. Carried by
vote of 70 to 90. Page SOL.
Same date. Bill to amend section II
of act No. 3lS, providing for the taxa.
ton, ETC., of the liquor business. Vot.
ed no. Carried. Page 1858.
June 6. Bill to provide for the col.
lection of specific taxes from the min.
ing companies of the upper peninsula.
Voted yes. Carried. Page 976.
Same date Resolution to recall sub.
stitute tax bill from senate in order to
provide way by which the M. G.
charter could be amended. Voted yes.
Carried by vote of 90 to 33. Page $50.
Same date. Bill to prohibit Sunday
shows or performances. Motion to
make it the special order for succeeding
Thursday. Voted yes. Carried. Page
9S2 The bill. however, was not brought
out ct the appointed time by its advo-
Gates.
June I. Bill to provide for addition
al compensation for Michigan Volun-
teer soldiers and sailors who served
during Spanish American war' Voted
yes. Lost, the vote of 81 for and 4
against, not giving the required two.