The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-24
polN0s OF THE 4isT SESSION.

schools; approprlatlng 1000 acres OF
state. tax lands in the township of
Whitney, Arenac county, and in the
township of sherman, Iosco county,
for the purpose of clearing out the
channel of the Au Ores river; provid-
ing that in cases before the state cross
ing boards the expenses ard per diem
compensation of the clerk shall be
paid by the railroad applying for said
hearing; providing for the registration
of grange libraries; providing for the
licensing and regulation of itinerant
peddlers; to organize the township of
Iiarsen; providing that teachers must
deposit their certificates in the county
where they teach; making IL misde-
meanor for messenger boys to divulge
information entrusted to them; pro-
'viding for the acceptance and -eollee-
tion of requests TO the state of Michi-
gan; exempting salt manufactured by
the Williams IL Albcrger process from
inspections; compelling township treas
urers TO have their stub tax receipts
compared with those of the county
treasurer; to prevent the employment
of women or children on emery:wheels
or buffers, and placing such establish
| ments under the control of the labor
commissioner; amending act incorpor-
ating Ancient Order of United Work.
men, so as to provide that dependents
as well as blood relative can share in
the beneficiary fund; amending law
relative to fraternal beneficiary fund;
amending law relative to fraternal
beneficiary societies SO as to define
specifically that such organizations
must have a lodge system and a repre-
sentative form of government; sena-
torial re-apportionment bill; represen-
tative re-apportionment bill; congress
sional e-apportionment bill.
The senate finally disposed of the
garnishee bill on the 14th by passing
it, "a TO .. In committee of the whole
Senator Cannon tried to have the "a
exemption granted single persons
stricken out, but this failed, and the
bill was agreed to- When it came up
on third reading Senator High rose to
a question of personal privilege, and in
n long statement eXonerated Fred Coz
zens. of Detroit, from having pocketed
any money in connection with the
measure last session. He also stated
that he was satisfied that Cozzens had
not made the remark attributed to him
to the effect that money had to be
raised to grease the legislature High
read statement showing what money
Cozzens had raised, and what he had
done with it, and he concluded by urg-
ing the passage of the bill. 1t will
now have to go back to the house for
concurrence in the 81 exemption.
The senate passed the following bills
on the 14th: TO amend the charter of
Battle Creek; to amend Grand Rapids
charter; to amend Day City charter;
to organize the union school district of
Mitchell township, Altoona county; to
defend the legal affiliations for kim
dergarten, music and drawing teachers;
to enable the faculty of the Agricul-
tural college TO appoint secretary;
dairy and food commission bill; to
license embalmers; garnishee bill; to
amend the act relative to corporations
for buying and selling real estate; to
amend the law relative to quaran tine
nuisance and offensive trades; to amend
the law relative 20 corporations for
owning Office buildings, etc.
The Senate passed the following
bills on the 18th: To amend Petos-
keys charter: TO enable Alpena to
build and operate an electric lighting
system; to rearrange school districts
in Marathon township. Alpena county;
to validate special assessments for
sewer purposes in Highland Park,
Wayne county; to protect fish in Sagi-
nav river and tributaries; to revise
Jacl<son's charter; to amend Alpena's
charter; to regulate fishing in Oakland
county; to secure greater comfort and
safety for persons travelling on subur-
ban street railways; to allow life in
surance companies to deposit in Michi-
gan the bonds of Michigan corpora
tions; to exempt mortgages from tax
alton.
The conference committees on the
railroad ad valorem taxation measure
reached an agreement on the night of
the 14th. The bill agreed upon pro-
vides for the taxation of railroads,
uulOu SbdbfDu duO ucpOb COlIl pdulCS, en-
press companies, car loaning, refriger-
ator and fast line companies. The cor
porations excluded from the bill are
telephone, telegraph and sleeping car
companies, and if the agreement ar
rived at is upheld by both houses they
will continue to pay specific tax.
The following bills were passed by
the house on the 18th: Amending
charter of Alpena; allowing use of hobs
and tip-ups for fishing in waters of
| Oakland county; increasing salary of
state librarian from 81, 200 to $500 a
year; authorizing state auditors to in
vestigatc claim of Ben Stresen Reuter-,
of Kalamazoo, who was injured by the
explosio Of rifle at Island Lake.
agricultural mill tax, 500, 900 year;
authorizing state auditors TO investi-
gate the claim of Fred L. Wait, of Ma
| son, who was injured while drilling at
Island Lake; providing an additional
salary of Sl,so0 a year each for the