The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-25
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.
Daily summary OF the Work Done NJ
the Lawmakers ina the Sem
nte aad House.

the same as idboi uSOhSs
allowing game imported from other states
TO be sold at all times: Withdrawing sugar
bounty from any factory entering
combine approprating s2O.iS9 TO Mar
quette prison; repeating act creating state
court of mediation and arbitration; liking
legal rate OF interest at five per cent In
the house a sweeping antitrust bill was
introduced yesterday. IL makes II felony
for any person to be identified with any
organization formed for the purpose OF
controlling the output or increasing the
price of any commodity. Other bills have
been introduced providing for the reglstra-
tion and licensing OF hawking and ped
ding; prohibiting sale of real estate for
less than two-thirds value at sherlff's or
chancery sale detachng part OF county OF
Delta and attaching II to county OF SCHOOL,
craft: providing for registration o! births
and requiring certifcation OF birth :; au-
thoriZing OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10 insure
all military property owned by the state:
prohibiting manufacture and sale OF ciga-
rettes providing additional compensation
for soldiers and sailors OF Spanish-A meri-
can war: reducing beet sugar bount! in
creasing the liquor tax: vacating the VIII
lage OF Even; vacatng townships OF Glen
coe Yates. Eden and Lake, county OF Lake;
authorizing land commission To lease Tho
state tax land; requiring supervisors to as
certain the personal property taxable in
! the different counties: providing for incor-
poration of churches, societies and congre-
| cations of Baptsts; to amend the special
charter of the Michigan Central Railway
! company so AS TO make two cents mile
| the maximum passenger rate. to amend
the general law 80 as to reduce passenger
fares in the upper peninsula to two cents
! mile. were Introduced.
Lansing. Mich, Feb. l7,--Bllls have been
| introduced in.-thej senate to establish
! metropolitan police force In cities of the
! fourth class allowing cities of leo popu-
| laton to incorporate; allowing shcFiifs TO
| give notice of elections and to summon
| jurors by registered letters: providing re-
| lief outside of soldiers home for soldiers
/ and marines, widows and minor children
! empowering state board OF education 10
! grant threc-year certificates to graduates
/ of the four-yoar course at the agricultural
! college; prohibiting druggists selling apy
/ liquors but alcohol Bills have been passed
| to provide an additional voting precinct in
! township of II olmes county Of Mcnomince;
! provide two additional voting precincts In
| township of Sault Ste. Marie. In the
! house bills have been introduced prohibit-
! ing marriage under certain conditions;
swearing In of challenged voters: prOvid-
| ing that application for admission to In
| sane asylum for person in INDECENT clrcum-
I stances must be Endorsed by prosecuting
! attorney: appropriatlng $55.Si for Michi-
! gan home for fecblc-minded and epileptic;
! providing that salaries of bank employees
shall not exceed five per cent OF the COM
| bincd capital and surplus of bank; liking
! duties of director of state weather service;
/ Selllnp HSlue swamp ANUS on great taxes
for public parks; regulating sale of patent
| medicines: prohibiting contracts or agree
| ments tending to lessen competitions: pro-
viding compensation for persons lille galy
| charged and convicted of "A crime: exempt
ing from taxation farm buildings, crops,
tools, etc; providing salary of state game
! and fish warden and appointing chief dep
! uty; providing that convicts shall not he
| farmed out or sold or the products of their
labor sold; prohibiting sale of oleo. etc. in
.aiy1 In nf stata tiftr
brokers and providing rate of interest.
Lansing, Mich, Feb iS.-Blls have been
introduced in the senate prohibiting the
riding of bicycles on sidewalks in any viz
lage or city: making refusal or neglect OF
supervisors or assessing officers to assess
property at true cash value a mlsde mca nor
and to provide punishment: fixing sala ries
of supervisors at two dollars per day: APP
propriating S157.93O for asylum at Newber-
ry, for new buildings etc: taxing nonresi-
dent owners of logs in the state: amend
ing law relative TO fees of justices. consta-
bles and sherirfs in criminal cases; COM
| polling prosecuting attorneys and assist
ants to reside at county seats: providing
punishment for failure to comply with pro-
! visions of pure food law; placing suburban
! railways under supervision of railroad
commissioner: fixing time Of registration
| 10 days before election: changing name of
! Asylum for Dangerous and Criminal In
/ sane to State Asylum; preventing use of to-
| bacco in jails, prisons, etc: establishing
! district school librarles.,..ln the house
! bills have been introduced giving land COM
missioner control of swamp lands; dciin-
ing duties of supervisors; amending liquor
laws; appropriating $4,000 for state house
of correction: to regulate selection and or
| ganization of standing committees OF
( house Of representatives; providing for the
! election of four members of the state board
of education and fixing salaries of members
at three dollars day; providing for uni
form series of text books: providing pun
ishment for gambling: providing punish-
mcnt for unlawfuly wearing q. a. X. but
ton: providing that state shall not engage
: In work of Improvement of roads except
wagon roads designed to be used by the
| public. providing for the Incorporation OF
associations for the aid and legal protcc-
ton OF women and children; presentation
of bronze medals to the soldiers ana SAIL
ors of Michigan who served In SPANISH
American war: approprlating s92.50o for
state fish commission; appropriating $1,000
for the horticultural society: prohibiting
the giving Of ballots by election inspectors
In any place except within the railing OF
the voting-room; providing for the licens-
ing of all persons who desire to use intoxi-
eating liquors as a beverage.
Lansing Mich, Feb. 20.-Mr. Ncvins
startled his colleagues in the state legisla-
ture Saturday by introducing bill In tho
house to make persons who use intoXicat-
ing liquors for beverage secure a tive-dol-
lar license. Other bills have been intro
duced doing away with contract labor in
prisons; prohibiting beet sugar companies
from going into trusts; detaching Calhoun
from Fifth judicial circuit and creating
Thirty-sxth circuit limiting the amount
that departments shall draw from state
treasury; for the keeping of all insane fe-
males in the eastern asylum, and to be
| cared for by female attendants: appropri-
ating sl5S.470 for rev buildings. etc, at
| Newberry asylum: fixing legal rate of in
terest at five per cent: compelling counties
to pay expenses of insane persons who
seek admission to asylums; to reestablish
the Office of state statlstcan; to permit
street car companies to condemn rights Of
| way over toll roads; creating n board of
examining horseshoers; providing for APP
pointment OF township commission to de-
| stroy noxious weeds providing that dogs
on which the license fee has not been paid
| shall be killed.
| A Big Deficit.
Madrid Feb. 2U-A high authority