The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-04-19
ACTION RESCINDED
Senate Recalled the Grand Rapids
Ripper Bill
MAYOR PERRY WILL BE HEARD
Public Criticism and Action Of Grand
Rapids Council Causes a Recall Of
Senator Loomis' BllI-WiII Try and
Have II Passed Once More.

Lansing, Mich, April 17.-Public
criticism and the action of the Grand
Rapids common council in asking for
a hearing have combined to cause Sen
ator Loomis to arrange for the recall
of the Furniture City ripper" bill
aimed at Mayor Perry.
After reading the published reports
of Monday nights meeting of the
Grand Rapids common council, and af-
ter talking with Gov. Bliss. Senator
LOOMS yesterday afternoon had res
olution adopted recalling from the
house II. q. 1856, the bill providing
that no defaulter shall hold Office in
Grand Rapids. He said he did this to
have the bill referred to the commit
tee on cities and villages, so as to give
a hearing to mayor Perry.
Senator Helme sat with a broad
grin on his face while LOOMS was
talking, but said nothing. After the
senate had taken two recesses waiting
for it, the vote ny which it was passed
was reconsidered and the bill was re-
ferred as above. Senator LOOMS will
again try to have the bill passed. He
is chairman of the committee on cities
and villages.
Behind locked doors the senate COM
mittee on railroads discussed the
Chandler house bill to tax the property
of railroad, telegraph, telephone, ex-
press, sleeping car and fast freight
line companies on the ad valOrem Sys-
TEN. The meeting was intensely Sc
cret, the committee clerk being kept
near the door to keep away newspaper
men. 1t lasted from s until nearly IL
o'clock Afterward, the members of
the committee, when questioned as to
what had been done or discussed, re-
ferred the newspaper men to Chair
man A l.. Holmes, more Familiarity
known as Vanderbilt Holmes. The
senator declined to state what had
been discussed in the committee ex-
cept in a general way.
After nearly two hours debate, the
house, in committee of the whole,
agreed to the Handy bill appropriatlng
$1,000 for the Michigan fish commits
sion, thus overruling the report of the
ways and means committee cutting
the amount down to S60,015 Later
the house concurred.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion of the house, Speaker Carton
called attention to the unusually large
general order, there being 70 bills on
it. The speaker continued: II do not
wish to dictate, but in common with
you, | am interested in the dispatch Of
the business of this house. So far your
work has been done intelligently and
ably. You have worked industriouslYus
| hope the house, in its wisdom, may
find some method by which we can
catch up in this work"
Fred Fl. Cozzens of Detroit, who has
been here for some time lobbying for
the garnishee bill, is persona non
grata with the senate judiciary COM
mittee. Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Coz
Zens, accompanied by Grocer Marks of
Detroit, came out of an open meeting
of the committee and announced TO
newspaper men that it had been de
cided to report out the garnishee bill,
with amendments offered by Senator
Holmes, giving unmarried men and
women an exemption of not less than
81 nor more than SIS and 40 per cent
of the amount owing on his or her
wages"
But the committee Immediately
went into executive session and recon
sidered the action to report out the
bill as amended The bill was prac-
tically pigeon holed, for while, at
least
Members of the committee say they
have had too much CoZZens."
By a vote of five yeas to four nays.
the house ways and means committee
last night decided to report out the
bill carrying an appropriation for the
college of mines at Houghton
The committee also decided to re-
4t. LII
for the upper peninsula normal school.
The committee decided to cut out the
$4,000 asked for new steel cells for
Jackson prison, leaving the appropria-
ton at $4,000 for new walls, guard
house, etc.
The senate passed 20 bills. On Sen
ator Persons motion his graduated in
come tax bill was taken from the table
and placed on the order of the third
reading.