The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-02-25
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.
Daily summary of the Work Done by
h Lawmakers I'm the Sem
ate and House.

klNE VI EltIklQln anu ~ umIu0n
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 three-year certificates TO graduates
OF the four-year course at the agricultural
college; prohibiting druggists selling any
liquors but alcohol. Bills nave been passed
20 provide an additional voting precinct In
township OF Holmes. county Of Menominee:
provide two additional voting precincts In
township OF Sault Ste. Marie....1n the
house bills have been introduced prohibit
ing ma tiage under certain conditions.
swearing In OF challenged voters: provid-
Ing that application for admission TO In
sane asylum for person In INDECENT circum-
stances must be indorsed by prosecuting
attorney; appropriating $55. Sf5 for Michi-
gan home for feeble-minded and epileptic;
providing that salaries OF bank employees
shall not exceed hve per cent. OF the com
bined capital and surplus OF bank: liking
duties of director OF state weather service;
setting aside swamp lands on great lakes
for public parks; regulating sale OF patent
medicines prohibiting contracts or agree
ments tending TO lessen competition; pro-
viding compensation for persons Illegally
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 be
farmed out or sold or the products OF their
labor sold; prohibiting sale OF oleo. etc, I'm
lower peninsula OF state; regulating pawn
brokers and providing rate OF interest.
Lansing. Mich, Feb. 1S.-Bilis have been
introduced In the senate prohibiting the
riding OF bicycles on sidewalks In any VIII
lage or city: making refusal or neglect OF
supervisors or assessing officers 10 assess
property at true cash value a misdemeanor
and TO provide punishment; fixing salaries
OF supervisors at two dollars per day; APP
propriating 1857, $50 for asylum at Newber-
Wwr fnr ,axf lalldtnUa afn o "a xfno nnnRagf-
dent owners OF logs in the state: amend
ing law relative TO fees OF Justices, consta-
bies and sheriffs 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 ursler supervision OF railroad
commissioner. fixing time OF registration
u days before election. changing name OF
Asylum for Dangerous and Criminal In
sane TO State Asylum; preventing use OF to-
bacco In jalls. prisons, etc, establishing
district school Libraries -. In the house
bills have been introduced giving land COM
missioner control OF swamp lands; denn-
ing duties OF supervisors. amending liquor
laws; appropriating $4,000 for state house
OF correction: TO regulate selection and or
ganization or 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 a day. providing for uni
form series OF text books; providing pun
ishment for gambling; providing punish
ment for unlawfully wearing @. a. X. but
ton: providing that state shall not engage
in work OF Improvement OF roads except
wagon roads designed 10 be used by the
public: providing for the Incorporation OF
associations for the aid and legal protec-
ton OF women and children. presentation
OF bronze medals 10 the soldiers and sail
ors OF Michigan who served I'm Spanish
American war: appropriating S92, 500 for
state fish commission: appropriating 5000
for the horticultural society; prohibiting
the giving OF ballots by election inspectors
I'm any place except within the railing OF
the voting-room providing for the lcens-
ing OF all persons who desire TO use intoxi-
eating liquors as a beverage.
Lansing Mich. Feb. 20-Mr. Nevins
startled his colleagues I'm the state legisla-
ture Saturday by Introducing a bill in the
house TO make persons who use intoxicat-
ing liquors for a beverage secure a fve-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-sixth circuit: limiting the amount
that departments shall draw from state
treasury. for the keeping OF all insane fe-
males in the eastern asylum, and 10 be
cared for by female attendants; appropri-
ating si5S, 47O for new buildings, etc, at
Newberry asylum: kim legal rate Of in
terest at five per cent. compelling counties
to pay expenses OF Insane persons who
seek admission 10 asylums; TO reestablish
the office OF state statistician: TO permit
street car companies TO condemn rights OF
way over toll roads: creating a 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.
ALL ri o. HtfI .uaa Ia
troduced In the house yesterday providing
for the appointment of a commission 10 me-
gotiate with the Michigan Central Railway
company for the surrender OF Its special
charter. There was also introduced a joint
resolution proposing an amendment TO the
constitution under which the legislature
can provide for a state board OF assessors
OF corporate property. a bill TO apply the
principle OF the interstate IN law
20 Michigan was also presented.
Lansing. Mich, Feb. 22.-Yesterday was
the last day for the Introduction OF new
bills. In the senate bills were introduced
20 stop the manufacture and sale OF ciga-
rettes. 10 establish a state hospital for the
care OF c-onsumptives; providing for a
specific tax on all corporations. In the
house bills were introduced to prevent the
watering OF stock by railroad companies
and an antitrust bill: 20 abolish the three
days OF grace on notes. etc. TO ALLOW all
boards OF supervisors TO fix the pay OF JUS
tCes or the peace by nNeu Saiufles lnSttau
OF continuing the existing fee system: 20
provide a penalty OF $1,000 or Imprisonment
for violation Of the election law. A resolu-
ton calling on congress 10 pass a service
pension bfl for soldiers OF the war OF the
rebellion was adopted.
Lansing. Mich. Feb. 23.-Bils have been
passed I'm the senate authorizing Wayne
county supervisors 10 hold special meeting
20 borrow 100000 to complete courthouse,
Immediate effect. For tbs organization OF
corporate Methodist Episcopal churches.
Immediate effect. Joint resolution 70
amend the constitution relative to circuit
courts, which provides for additional cir
cult Judge I'm 81. Clair county. Given i'm
mediate effect. T.. Bills have passed the
house vacating the village OF Even, on
tonagon county; detaching territory from
township OF Milwaukee. Saginaw county,
and attaching II 60 Buena Vista township,
permitting oliver township. Huron county,
TO bond Itself for $4,000 for the building OF