Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-01-24
DoINos OF THE 4isT SESSION.
Gov. Bliss on the night of the l4th
sent another batch of appointments TO

Erastus N. Bates Moline Allegan county,
member board OF trustees Michigan Asylum for
the Insane; Louis Kanitz, Muskegon, member
board OF managers Michigan Soldiers home; ID.
Ii. X. Van Raalte, Holland, Ottawa county
member board OF managers Soldiers home;
Theo. w. Crssey Midland, member board OF
control Michigan school for the blind; Freeman
H. Dickerson, Detroit, member state board OF
fish commissioners; Chas. =. Brown, Flint,
member board of trustees School for Deaf Geo.
j. Vinton, Detroit, member board OF trustees OF
the Eastern Michigan asylum; Delbert II. Prall,
Saginaw, member board OF trustees OF the East
ern Michigan asylum; VIM, 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. r. Bates, Tray
erse City. member board of trustees OF the
Northern Michigan asylum; Timothy G. Quinn,
Caro-, member OF board of control Michigan
State prison, TO ill vacancy and for full term;
Russell r. Pealer, Three Rivers member OF the
advisory board in the matter OF pardons; VIM.
X, 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-MorTis Osborn. Owosso. r. 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, II. Gill
bert Bay City. member board of control OF the
Michigan Home for the Feeble Minded ana Ep-
ilCptie; Henry ~ Loud Au Sable member
state board library commissioners; Cyrus G..
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sioners
The following bills were passed in
the house GA 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 81 600 for an electric light
plant authorizing the village of Ago
nae to borrow 81 600 for water works;
authorizing the township of IIillman
to borrow $4,000 TO pay outstanding
debts; increasing salary of judge of
probate of Wayne county to $4,000 a
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
S4, 900 bonds of the village of Algonac.
Immediate effect: to legalize the float
ing debt of Algonac to the amount of
81 600 Immediate effect; 10 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 NJ Ooothout to Carlton NJ.
Dodge. Immediate effect.
Members of the legislature are OBJ
jecting to section of the Atwood rail
road tax bill, which reads: 'Said
board (of state assessors) shall not in
clude in its assessments against said
companies any property already as
sessed upon it's value for taxation pm
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, il it should be en-
acted into law. They say the rail
roads would. when the state 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 its 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
al<er, Dem, of Dexter Washtenaw
county, gave notice Of the introduce
ton of a bill for that purpose on the
l4th. He 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,
VI flSc nave luutllpiy ilSCIipCh On tdcn
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 a 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- ofiico 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
900 year.
Rep Mccall, of Charlotte, on the 18th
noticed a bill providing for Sunday
closing Of all theater~ ia Michigan;
also bill to specifically tax sleep ping
car companies opcl ating IN this state.
Both houses of the legislature dis.
posed of business in less than half an