The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-05-24

ed by the state board OF education, is
now In the hands of Governor Bliss
and there Is considerable speculation
as To what he will do with it, The de.
partment of public instruction insists
that the additional school is needed
but there are other very well informed
educators who rs strenuouSly main
tain that there is room i'm the three
normal schools already in operation
Tor at least 30 per cent. more pupils
than are in attendance Another argu-
ment against the bill is that if in
| creased accommodations are needed,
| they can he provided at one of the
present institutions ut - per cent. the
cost of establishing a new school The
Fate of the bill will be watched with
interest
Salary of the state Auditors Board.
Another bill about whose fate there
Is some doubt is that which provides
an annual salary of 81 500 for eacn
member of the board of state auditors,
In addition to the salary provided in
the constitution. 1t had always been
supposed that this constitutional sal
airy was all that these officials could
receive unless the people of the state
saw lit TO amend the constitution, and
several Intellectual attempts have been
made to persuade the people TO grant
| an increase. The theory on which the
| present bill was passed by the two
! houses Is that it provides compensa-
ton for services which were not con-
templated by the constitution ut the
time that document was adopted. but
which have been imposed upon the
auditors by succeeding legislatures.
Attorney General Oren gave the legis-
lature an opinion to the effect that the
bill is constitutional and the attitude
OF that official secured the passage OF
the measures. Lawyers in the legiS-
lature. however, argued that the con-
Stltution provides that the state Off
GERS named therein shall perform such
duties as the law shall prescribe. and
argued from this THAI ii was imDoS-
slDle TO impose upon them duties that
would not be covered by the consti-
Bills Pending in the Senate.
All the apportionment bills have
passed the house and are now pend
ing III the senate. The congression-
al apportiOnment, which is the one
of greatest interest, re-enacts the pres
ent law, no changes whatever being
the uncertainty of Jackson county's
Republicanism, an effort was made
by the Second district to unload the
county onto the Third district in eX-
change for Hillsdale county, but the
representatives of the Third district
opposed and defeated the change. BY
the terms of the representative appor-
tionment bill the counties of Saginaw.
Bay, st. Clair, Eaton, Ionia, Macomb.
Monroe, Montcalm, MuSkegon and
Sinilac will each lose one member of
the lower house, while Wayne will
gain two and Houghton one. Separate
districts are made of the counties of
Alpena, Antrim, CharleVOiX, Cheboy-
gan, Chippewa, Delta. Dickinson.
Emmett, Gogebic, Grand Traverse,
Midland and Osceola. each OF which is
now combined with some other county
or counties in forming district. The
basis of the apportiOnment is one rep
reSentative for each 81 300 of popula-
ton, and one for each county having a
fraction more than a majority were
made in the present senatorial dis
tricts. There was some shifting of ter
ritory in Kent county, Arenac county
is taken from the Twenty fourth dis
trict and attached to the Twenty
eighth, BenZie from the Twenty-Sev-
enth TO TWenty-SiXth Baraga from
Thirty 10 Thirty-firSt. and
NIackinac from Thirieth to Twenty
ninth. Some ambitious senators who
figure that changes i'm congressional
districts might give them better
show for breaking into congress are
not very well satisfied with the failure
to change the congressional districts.
and they threaten to defeat the sena-
torial and representative bills. SAYING
that las the congressman have sue
ceeded in defeating any change i'm
their districts, thereby pcrDetuating
themselves in office, the proper thing
to do is TO leave all the districts i'm
the state just as they are"
They Fell Upon That Bill.
The farmers in the house fell on
Senator Palmer's bill providing for
money instead Of n labor tax for the
Improvement of highways, and killed
it by vote Of nearly two TO one The
fight on the bill was led by Repre-
sentative Award, president of the leg
iSlative farmers clubs. His main ar
gument was that the bill would defeat
the present local option system which
permits townships to levy n money
tax at the annual meeting if n major
ity Of the taxpayers see fit to do
so. In behalf Of the bill it was urged
that the present labor system results
in most shiftless and Intellectual care
of the highways.
And No Gore Split Either
The much discussed garniShee bill
has now passed both houses. and that.
too without bloodshed. AS finally
agreed 10 it eXempts from garnishment
IS of the weekly wages of household
or and also so per cent of all addi-
tional up to $50, and 81 per week of
the wages Of a single person.
Hits the Fly-by Night Merchant Hard.
Fly-by-night merchants are hard hit
by the Schumacher bill which needs
only the signature of the governor TO
become law. The bill requires these
merchants who have been wont to 90
from place to place conducting fire
sales" bankrupt sales" and the like
to make special deposit with the sec
rotary nf for N 30