The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-01-25
poINos OF THE 4isT SESSION.
Gov Bliss on the night of the 14th
sent another batch of appointments to

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| member board Of trustees Michigan Asylum for
| the Insane; Louis kanitZ, Muskegon, member
| board OF managers Michigan Soldiers home; d.
/ b. K. Van Raalte, Holland, Ottawa county,
| member board OF managers Soldiers home;
| Theo. w. Crissey, Midland, member board OF
| control Michigan school for the blind Freeman
b. Dickerson, Detroit, member state board of
! fish commissioners; Chas s. Brown, Flint
member board of trustees School for Deaf Geo.
j. Vinton, Detroit, member board of trustees of
| the Eastern Michigan asylum Delbert Il. Prall,
| Saginaw member board of trustees of the East
ern Michigan asylum; Wm Mcpherson, How
| ell, member board of trustees of the Industrial
| School for Boys A. j. Mills, Kalamazoo, MEM
Der board of trustees of the OF the Michigan
| Asylum for the Insane; Harris B. Osborn, Kali
amazoo, member board Of trustees of the Mich
| igan Asylum for the Insane; Geo. A. Hart, Man
| istee, member board OF trustees of the Northern
! Michigan asylum ALLISON l.. Wright, Bad Axe,
| member board of trustees School for Deaf;
| Peter White, Marquette, member state board of
! library commissioners; Thos. Il. Bates, TRAY
| erse City, member board of trustees of the
! Northern Michigan asylum; Timothy c. Quinn,
| Caro-, member of board of control Michigan
State prison, to fill vacancy and for full term;
Russell II. Pealer Three Rivers member of the
| advisory board in the matter of pardons; VIM.
| II. Kendrick, Saginaw, member Of the advisory
| board in the matter of pardons; Jas. X. Flood,
| Hart, member railroad and street crossing
| board Members of the board of control of
railroads-Morris Osborn, Owosso, E. Il. Wal
dron, st. Johns; Geo. w. Crawford, Big Rapids;
VIM. l.. Smith, Flint; Chas. Ilgenfrtz, Monroe,
and j. w. Hance, Mt. Pleasant. w. w. Mitch
ell, Cadillac, member board Of trustees of the
Northern Michigan for the Insane; N. r. Gill
bert, Bay City, member board of control Of the
Michigan Home for the Feeble Minded and Ep-
ileptic; Henry N. Loud, Au Sable member
state board library commissioners, Cyrus G..
Luce, member state board Of library commits
sioners.
The following bills were passed in
the house on the 18th: A bill pro-
viding voting precinct in the town
ship of Baldwin; repeating jury
commission law in st. Clair county;
authorizing the village of Algonac to
borrow $4,000 for an electric light
plant; authorizing the village of Algo-
nae to borrow $4, 900 for water works;
| authorizing the township of Hillman
to borrow $4,000 to pay outstanding
debts; increasing salary of judge of
probate of Wayne county to $4,000
year The senate passed the follow
ing: A bill changing the name of HUI
bert Clark, of Tekonsha, to Hubert
Teller. Immediate effect; to legalize
$4, 600 bonds of the village of Algonac.
Immediate effect; to legalize the float
ing debt of Algonac to the amount of
81, 900. Immediate effect; to author.
ize Hillman township, Montmorency
county, to issue bonds; to give Detroit
Homeopathic College of Medicine its
share of Wayne county cadavers. I'm
mediate effect; to change the name of
Carlton M. Ooothout to Carlton M.
Dodge. Immediate effect.
Members of the legislature are OBJ
jecting to section o of the Atwood rail
road tax bill, which reads: Said
board (of state assessors) shall not in
clude in it's assessments against said
companies any property already as
sessed upon it's value for taxation UNI
der any other laws of this state" Mem
bers of both house and senate profess
TO see in this little section a loophole
for the railroads to escape taxation uu-
der the Atwood bill, if it should be en-
acted into law. They say the rail-
roads would. when the estate board of
assessors" attempted to tax them I'M
der the proposed new law, say that
this could not be done as they were al
ready being assessed under other state
laws.
The success of the state tax commits
sion in it's work of raising assessed val
uations throughout the state has re-
suited in a move to abolish all the
boards of review in the state of Mich
igan. Representative Byron c. Whit
aler, Dem, of Dexter, Washtenaw
county, gave notice of the introduc-
ton of bill for that purpose on the
14th. lie says that the state tax COM
mission has the power to alter the
work of the various boards of review
throughout the state, and in face of
that he sees no necessity for the
boards.
In the senate chamber at the opening
of each session there is placed near the
desk of each senator an elegant and
costly cuspidor. When the last legis-
lature adjourned Dearly every senator
took the cuspidor near his desk away
with him. Senator Helme suggests as
a remedy for this petty thieving that
the cuspidors be riveted to the floor,
or else have indclibly inscribed on each
these words: This was stolen from
the state"
The members of The house went on
record in committee of the whole on
the 18th as being decidedly in favor of
accepting railroad passes and almost
unanimously refused to pass provi-
sion prohibiting members from ac-
cepting the bits of paste board, which
extends TO them the privileges of the
different roads.
The following bill was passed in the
house on the 18th: Making president
of village of Pinconning eX- ofiicio mem
Der Of the board of supervisors of Bay
county. The senate also passed one
bill, as follows: Increasing salary of
probate judge of Wayne county to So
600 year.
Rep. Mccall, of Charlotte, on the 18th
noticed bill providing for Sunday
closing of all theaters in Michigan;
also bill to specifically tax sleeping
car companies operating in this state.
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