The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-05-03
COUNCIL WILL ACT
In Place Of the Mayor, Say the
Detroit Ripper Bills ~ sssI..s
PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE
Senator Helme Leads the Opposition
In the Senate and Made Fierce At.
tack On the Police Bill Particularly
Other Work

Lansing, Mich, May In the house
work for the Navin-McMillan push was
done by Reps. McCallum, Hurst, Ames
and Martinuale. Speaker Carton also
quietly assisted. So did Fred r. Fen
ton and j. Herbert Cole of Detroit.
AT noon they declared that they had
n of the 100 members OF the house in
line. However, only II voted for the
public works bill.
Senator Homes handled the McMil-
Ian forces in the senate, with the as
sistance Of ex-senator w. Ct. Thomp-
son, George Bussey and Tom Navin.
In both houses w. c. Thompson was
toasted numerically.
In the house, Reps. Hemans of Ing
ham county and Colby and Hunt of
Detroit, opposed the ripper bills.
Over in the senate Senator Helme
made a red-hot speech in opposition.
Senator Lockerby Of Quincy, republi-
can, voted with Helne against two Of
the bills.
Rep. Hurst's house committee on
SAly SOl pOI GliOlo WtuI Inc lOI-
mality of reporting the bills out.
Shortly after the house reconvened
in the afternoon, Rep. Ames moved to
suspend the rules for the purpose Of
putting en- It's immediate passage his
bill to amend the recent Detroit board
OF public works reorganization act so
as to authorize the common council
to make the provisional appointment
Of CT Of, Ia tn
succeed Supt. Fowle. Rep. Colby
called for the yeas and nays.
BY vote OF 66 yeas to l3 nays, the
rules were suspended and the substi
tute Detroit public works bill was
placed On its immediate passage. The
nays" were: Reps. Boyd, Branch
Colby republican,, Dupont, French,
Hallenbeck, Hemans, Hunt, Kanouse,
LATER, Rich republican,, Stumpen.
husen and Vandercook republican,.
The bill to convert the Detroit park
board into a one man head organiza-
ton and empowering the common
council to appoint the commissioner
was passed by vote Of 67 yeas to 10
nays.
Ihe vote was substantially the same
as on the police department bill
The ripper" bills reached the sen.
ate at o'clock. Many OF the senators
evinced a disposition to dodge, and to
prevent this Senator Holmes moved a
call Of the senate to bring the timid
brethren up to the voting trough. The
first one up was the pa.k bill. Sena.
tor Holmes moved a suspension of the
rules, and its immediate passage. He
said it was purely local affair"
Senator Helme moved that the bill
be referred to the committee on cities
and villages He cited the evil effect
of hasty legislation, the former B. O.
w. bill, the Grand Rapids ripper bill
and others. Said he: why this
haaty legislation; simply because the
promoters Of this scheme fear the eff.
feet of public sentiment lii Detroit if
any delay is had"
The motion to refer was defeated,
only Helne and Robson voting for it,
The bill was then passed, only Helme
voting no. The amended d. Q. w. bill
came next on deck, on Holmes motion.
The bill was passed without discus.
sion. only Heime and Lockerby of
Hill5dale-Branch district, voting no.
The police bill was the last one up,
and on this Helme made fierce at
tack, charging that the bill placed the
police control of the city of Detroit in
the hands of two individuals, but the
measure passed just as the others did.
The three measures are now up to
Gov. Bliss for his signature.
Rep. Hurst, representing the speak
er'S steering committee, had Q resolu-
ton adopted in the house late in the
afternoon, taking six bills Off the gen
eral order and placing them on the
special order for to-day. Thus the
winnowing process relative TO the
pending bills has begun. The bills Sc.
lected for special consideration are
considered important. Four of them
are: Tctten's, to amend the garnishee
law; Gillettes, relative to cities Of the
fourth class; Hursts, to amend the
law relative to societies for ioaning
and investing money, and Nevin's, rel.
ative to title to real property by de-
scent.