The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-28
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.
Daily summary of Proceedings In
Both the Senate and House of
the General Assembly.

Lansing. Mich. Feb 16.-The senate has
passed bill to prevent desertion and aban-
Comment OF wife or children by persons
charged with maintenance. Bills have been
introduced making appropriation for the
Michigan Pioneer and Historical society:
compelling nonresident fishermen TO pay
license; to provide for the erection Of an
executive mansion In Lansing; to erect a
state monumen: in the National Military
Park of Chickamauga and Chattanooga;
10 change the name OF the village OF sand
Lake. in the county of Kent to Aldrlch;
to change the name of Egleston township,
Emmett county, TO Mckinley; to amend the
laws covering parole convicts.
Lansing. Mich, Feb. 17.-No business was
transacted In the senate of any importance
yesterday.
Lansing. Mich. Feb. ia bill has been
introduced in the senate providing for
license Of SEQ on dealers in cigarettes, and
also game and fish bill.
Lansing Mich, Feb. 20-Bills have been
passed in the senate to provide for the pub
lication and distribution of a record OF
Michigan soldiers and sailors Of the war of
the rebellion. and to make an appropria-
tion therefor; to provide that all appoint
ments to office by the governor shall be by
and with the advice and consent Of the
senate; to provide appropriation for the
adjutant generals office. Bills have been
the incorporation OF villages within the
state; to provide for board of superinten-
dents of the poor for Wayne county, and
their election by direct vote OF the people;
to amend the revised statutes concerning
courts and the powers and duties OF GER
tain judicial officers; to amend the act pro-
viding for the management of the state
public school at Coldwater; to secure infor-
nation regarding all public or school libra
ries In this state; joint resolution for a
state soldiers and sailors monument on
the capitol grounds at Lansing.
In the House.
Lansing, Mich, Feb. 16.-Bills have been
passed In the house to fix the per diem COM
pensation of members of the state legtsl
ture from the upper peninsula for and dur
ing the session of 1903 at five dollars day;
to amend the general tax law, compelling
payment Of taxes on estates in the hands
of trustees, where property is located. max
Ing appropriations for the State Industrial
Home for Girls. Bills have been introduced
requiring immediate registration Of births
and the issue of birth certificates by a state
agent; appropriation for Michigan Pioneer
and Historical society: prohibiting Sunday
hunting; joint resolution authorizing the
board of state auditors to sell and dispose of
certain state property.
Lansing, Mich. Feb. lin the house
bills have been introduced to provide for a
municipal commission in Grand Rapids to
draft a bill to incorporate and revise the
charter thereof; to provide for the public
care Of country cemeteries: to provide for
the erection and furnishing of an execu-
tive residence. A bill has been passed to
incorporate the village Of Peck. in the
county OF Sanilac
Lansing Mich. Feb. 19-In the house bills
have been introduced to make the county
auditors give bonds to the prosecuting at
torney. Their bonds are now passed upon
by themselves only: to provide a maximum
annual rate of $50 for each telephone. and
proposing that toll stations shall not be
closer together than half mile
Lansing, Mich. Feb. 20-In the house bills
have been introduced providing $500 900 linn
Il for taxes to be raised for the University
of Michigan; to tax druggists who sell
liquor I'm Van Buren, and Cass counties;
amending the law relative to hunters IL
censes: repeating the game warden acts:
to incorporate the city of Muskegon
Heights; providing for a state board of
public works; amending the medical regis
tration act; raising pay of supervisors as
sessng property to three dollars a day;
to extend and regulate the liability of en-
ployers to make compensation for personal
injury suffered by employees in their serv-
ice: to prohibit marriage of first cousins;
to authorize and empower boards OF super
visors to appropriate money for the i'm
provement of public buildings, parks and
grounds In their respective counties; to
provide for placing reports OF the county,
township and municipal officers In the state
library; to secure Information regarding all
public or school libraries in this state; to
provide for bounties for the killing of En-
glish sparrows; to provide for the pre- serva-
tion of forests of this state and for the pre-
vention and suppression Of forest and prai-
RE fires