Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-01-11
SOME PROPOSED LEGISLATION
Recommendations Made by Governor
Bliss IA His inaugural Message
10 BE Carried Out.

! be Transacted. After hearing The mes
sages of the incoming and retiring
governors read last week, the leglsla-
ture adjourned until tomorrow morn
itii i+ iii tl PlsLi IN. nIl-
GERS Of TIE two houses an opportunity
10 arrange these committees. This is
comparatively easy task for the
! pre>id OF the senate maSmuch rs
he has only thirtN-two statesmen To
satisfy and Las known that the task
would he his 10 perform ever since
election day when he WAS chosen.
| With the speaker of the house. how
! ever, ii il altogether different In
/ the first place he has 100 names 10
/ chase around the checkerboard until
| all have been fairly dealt with, and ii
cannot he definitely known who viii
! have this job To do until after HE leg
lslature conNenrs and the speaker Is
actually elected. Both presiding Off
GERS expect To be ready 10 announce
their committees tomorrow. Bu one
change has been made i'm the Standing
committees, the house having divided
the committee OF nine Oh tiShand game
and provided Il separate committee Of
tive OH each subject. This viii give
the speaker one more craftsmanship
and thus make his task easier 10 per-
form
Listened to Mrs,age,.
Michigan had the greatest thing in
the Way ui governors messages last
week that 10 ever experienced and IL
j. d,uItful IT, any state i'm ilc union
eyrr aruru,.hrd II The Two houses
,r tIa iegi.ltture s,t i'm ioiul runyeu-
lion ror NOR. tLou five hours listening
- words nt ,d,ic.. and ofhp, thiuaS.
anal .-an tb.u .nmo rhilty uap,> of
t,I,I,. vbt,.n constituted - nor. ON of
t.nveruor pinuiec'. u.oSs,I.,r were
onirtad proh.ni, mover. befor. i'm the
li,t,i.v of The .out,rr.y vera Two >uch
,.,.tl, difr.r.ut san. Documents >uh-
,nfttoJ T., , leoi.luturr either ON The
s,p,. day al. al, different dnK, i'm dif-
rareut vaar> Cnn~fd.robly more. than
finn. bnurs wore ,,l,~i,uY.l ina tup. read
inc of fine pfuore. ue..aue while
CnN.runr Miss accounted oul, y lille
more tb,u thirty Minimize, Tho mes
sac of tb4 rotii..ua GOVERNOR .,ya. de-
,.iJe5lv tine u.,.t pIroree-u1. do,u.
mont ever submitted and Al The uu-
mrrou> rr.lilar and special sessions
during his four years ~ governor
some characteristic me~SagpS have
been sent 10 Tire legislature lie Ger
taiuIv went out of office I'm a blaze of
Pingrcc glurN. 10 which nothing i'm
tie line of luridueS> could be- added
lnaSmuch a. hc has since declared
himself entirely satisfied with his fin
iSh. there j. no occasion for anyone
10 hyd fault with it, The relative
merits OF the TWO messages will. ~
course. always be a matter Of opinion.
They represent TWO wholly different
schools of Sjate>manShip. and. there
fore. will necc> Sarily find both favor
and condemnation
A. il always Tie case both the in
coming governor and the presiding of
ficerS of the TWO houses of the lcgiS-
lature recommended short. business
like sessions. and. a. usual. the result
viii Ice = session Of about the average
length. II j. possible that the pres
ent may bp a trinc shorter than some
of it, more recent predecessors for the
reason that the utmost harmony is
likely To prevail between the two
houses. and there will be no delays
due To fractional ouarrelS.
IntiI Constitution l. Changed.
However. Michigan can never hope
10 cut the sessions of the legislature
10 n proper limit until the coustitu-
ton is changed 80 that the legislature
cannot Ice called upon 10 do vast
amount of work every two years that
proprrIv belongs 10 the various boards
of supervisors TO perform. As mat
ters now stand "A very large portion
of each session of the legislature is
consumed with the works of consider
ing Village and city charters. and bills
extending the time for the collection
of taxes ian certain townships and au-
thorizing municipalities 10 bond. etc.
An idea of the amount of time that
Is consumed during a regular session
with this class of bills may he gained
from the fact that at the last special
session. which lasted less than ten
DAYS. no les, than five special mes
sageS were submitted by Governor
piuuree recommending tho enactment