The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-03-24
STATE LEGISLATURE.


go down on the statute books, Gov.
Pingree having signed it.
The following big batch of appoint
ment were made by the governor i'm
mediately after he signed the Atllin-
son bill: Members of the board of as
SCISSORS under the Atkinson bill-Col.
Edwin NJ Irish, of Kalamazoo; Geo.
b. Horton, of Fruit Ridge, Lenawee
county, and Robert Oakman, OF De-
troit. II. L. Harvey, of Battle Creek,
Calhoun county, member of the state
board of examiners in dentistry, for
the term of three years from and after
Jan. /, 1899 Joseph l.. Cox, of Battle
Creek, Calhoun county, commissioner
of labor, for the term of two years
from and after March /, 1899. Caleb
ID. Randall, of Coldwater, Branch
county, member of the board of con-
troll of the state public school, for the
term of six years from and after Jan.
1. 1899. +. O. Grosvenor, of Monroe,
Monroe county, Office of dairy and food
commissioner for the term of two years
from and after Jan. /. 1899 Milo ID.
Campbell, of Coldwater, Branch
county, TO the Office of commissioner Of
insurance, for the term of two years
from and after July l, 1899. Chase ).
Osborn, of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
county, commissioner of railroads, for
the term Of two years on and after Jan.
/, 1899. Jabez c. Caswell, of Bay City,
Bay county, to the Office of state salt
inspector for the term of two years
III 90. l.,
Musselman, of Grand Rapids, Kent
county, member of the board Of con-
troll of the state house of correction
and reformatory, for the term of six
years from and after Feb. -, 1899.
Writ u. Doty, of Detroit, Wayne
county, member of the Michigan
board of pharmacy tor the term of five
years from and after Dec. 81, 1898.
Samuel n. Biclserstaf, of Kalamazoo,
Kalamazoo county, member of the
board of trustees of Michigan asylum
for insane, for the term of six years
from and after the second Tuesday of
February, 1892 Charles L. Backus, of
Detroit, Wayne county, member of the
board of trustees of the Northern
Michigan asylum for insane, for the
term of six years from and after Jan.
/. 1899. VIM. Judson, of Ann Arbor,
WashteBaw county, to the Office of
state oil inspector, to take effect at the
expiration of the term of Il. X. Smith.
Grant NJ. Morse, Ionia, to the Office of
state game and fish warden TO succeed
Chase S. Osborn, when the latter be-
comes railroad commissioner.
The committee on education will
take junket to the upper peninsula
TO look at normal school sites. The
committee who will thus be wined and
dined and generally feted and jollied
from one end of the upper peninsula
to the other are Shisler, Whitney,
Scully, Hall and Waterbury. The sem
ate committee on education or normal
schools or both may go too.
Robt. Y. Ogg, secretary of the De-
troit board Of public works, is trying
to induce Rep. Mcleod to drop his
election bill, providing for keeping the
polls open until s o'clock in the even
ing, and substitute another one MAX
ing election day legal holiday.
Rep. McLeod's bill requiring all
electric street railways III inc SJdte 10
equip their cars with air brakes was
sent back TO the labor committee to
prevent it from being killed by So
called unfairness.
The governors appointments of
Robt. Oakmap and Col. L. NJ. Irish
were rejected by the senate in cxecu-
tive session. The vote by which Oak
man was turned down was 20 to 2;
Irish, "a to 4.
Rep. Gustin's fish bill, repeating the
closed season law which was passed
two years ago, went through the house
with flying colors. The vote for the
open season in the great lakes stood
"a to Is.
Rep. Dudley's pet tax bill, requiri
property owners to file sworn state
ments of all their taxable property,
passed the house after being slightly
amended.
The bill for an additional circuit
judge in Wayne county was knocked
out in the senate by vote of Ia to 10.