The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-04-12
ADJOURNMENT QUESTION
Date Will Depend Much on Action Of
the Supreme Court on the
Atkinson Bill.
A GREAT VICTORY FOR The FISH TRUST.
The senate Defeats a bill Repeating
the Closed season Law-QuestiOns
Regarding Trusts Receive Much
Attention An Alleged Scandal
Over school hooks.

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again rife as to the date of adjourn
ment, and il is now said action of
the supreme court on the Atkinson
bill will be one of the factors deter
mining it. 1t will probably be some
time before that body will pass upon
its constitutionality, and should the
Legislature adjourn before decision is
reached, and should the court decide
against the law, the state would be left
without any law under which the rail
roads could be taxed. At least, il is said,
a special session would be necessary to
pass the measure again amended so as
to make il constitutional. The Cham
berlain resolution, If passed, will make
the date of ad journment May Z.
The fish trust won a victory in the
senate Thursday, securing the defeat
of the Gustin bill repeating the law es-
tablishing closed season for fish and
trout in the great lakes. The only
amendment made TO the present law
was to extend the open season for rough
fish-such as perch, pickerel, herring
-25 days, making it from September !
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20, as now. There was warm fight
over the bill, and charges of trust influ-
ence were freely made. Every COM
mercial fisherman in the state asked
for the passage of the bill, which was
favored by the state fish commission
and opposed only by the trust.
A scandal is brewing over the Nevins
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that the measure is in the interest of
st. Louis publishing house and a
Michigan paper manufacturing COM
pany, who are about to establish a
branch in Michigan, combining forces
to publish school books. Charges that
blocks of stock have been freely offered
forvotes and influence for the bill have
been made, and it is also alleged that
in two instances offers of cash have
been made. 1t is not improbable that
an investigation will be ordered.
The house committee on private cor
porations has recommended the pass
age of the Hammond antitrust bill.
which is drastic in every provision. 1t
is designed to absolutely prohibit the
to prohibit those organized in other
states from doing business here. 1t
4, provides severe penalties for all per-
sons, including agents. guilty of vio-
lations of its provisions, the penalties
running as high as $4,000. 1t further
provides for enjoining the operation of
trusts and for commencing action for
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late the law. The bill is much more
radical than the present antitrust bill
enacted in 1889.
Secretary of State Stearr.s has asked
Attorney General Oren for an opinion
as to his right TO receive and file the
articles of association of foreign cor
porations in cases where such articles
provide for a capitalization and term
of existence in excess of those allowed
Michigan corporation. The question
has been raised by the filing of the ar
ticles of incorporation of the Con-
tinental Tobacco company, and the
probable application of other huge
New Jersey corporations to have their
articles filed here. Some of these cor
porations propose to engage in bust
ness in Michigan. and their larger cap
ital, etc, will give them privileges
withheld from Michigan corporations.
The determination of this question will
have an important bearing on the ac-
ton of the legislature on pending anti
trust legislation.
\ bill passed the senate Wednesday
which provides that no person not the
owner of property in his own right shall
be entitled to vote at school elections in
this state.
II is generally believed here that all
the constitutional amendments voted
on at the late election have been adopt
ed. In the event of the adoption of
the state printing house amendment the
legislature will endeavor to frame
law which will prevent the Office from
becoming a political machine, and BIZ
partisan board to supervise its opera
ton has been suggested. The board
of state auditors, according to the talk,
would continue to purchase the paper
stock and keep the accounts of the in
stitution. According to this plan it
is believed that the institution would
be prevented from becoming the polit-
zeal machine which the opponents of
the amendment feared.
Representative Chamberlain will sub
stitute a new bill for the soldiers relief
measure which caused so much dis
cussion when it passed the house and
was so amended by the senate that the
attorney general has declared that it
is not retroactive. 1t provided for a
tax of four one-hundredths of mill,
and was made operative until August /.
In the new bill the tax will be half
mill and the time will be extended un-
til November /. In order to take care
of all needy or sick soldiers the bill
will provide that the fund may be used
to pay the expenses of any Michigan
soldier from the time he reached the
borders of the state, whether he was
mustered out or not.
JASON.
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