The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-01-23
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Joint Session Today to Declare
Alger Formal & sctsd.
SOME VOTES FOR DuRAND
Junket Trip overwhelmingly Re-
cess Begins January 80 For Annual
Observation-Disclosures Of Bills Up
For Consideration.

Lansing, Mich, Jan. 21.-Tuesday af
ternoon the vote, was taken in the
house for the election of United
States senator, to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senator James McMil
Ian. Werline of Nadeau, who stuck
for Alger, was the only Democrat who
did not vote for Lorenzo T. Durand
The vote in the house was IS to 8.
In the senate Scullen OF Wayne reg
istered his Durand vote against rs
Alger Republicans. Today at noon
both houses will meet in joint session
when General Russell A. Alger will
be formally declared elected.
The jurket trip has been postponed
A recess will be taken on Friday. Jan.
80, until Tuesday Feb. 10, to allow the
senators to make their annual inspec.
tions.
Senator Scullen and Representative
DeLisle each got their school bills
passed by their respective houses, the
former for Crosse Pointe bond issues
for district No. 1, and the latter for
The senate in executive session con-
firmed Governor Bliss last gTist of APP
pointments which have been in the
hands Of the executive.
The house had getaway session
in the afternoon. Representative Ferry
of Detroit introduced his insurance
bill relating 20 minors.
That no life insurance company
shall be permitted to set up a plea
of defense against any policy on the
ground that the person who took out
the policy was not in fit health for in
surance, provided that duly accred-
tied medical officer had certified to his
good health, is the purport OF a bill
introduced by Senator Westover.
At the request of several of the
medical professors Of Detroit, Senator
Simons will soon bring in a bill per-
hitting literary and scientific socie-
ties to acquire property to the value
of $1,500,000. The law as it stands
places the limit at $150,000.
The bill Of Representative Byrns Of
Marquette, introduced yesterday, is to
provide for a central bureau for COM
piling records for measurements of
criminals, to be located at Jackson
prison.
Representative Galbraith Of Hough-
ton introduced bills affecting corpora
lions, one changing the date of annual
meetings Of trust companies to that
Of banks, and another providing for
one instead of two state reports Of cor
porations each year.
Representative DENLY completed the
score of house bills presented with
two. One Is to permit the directorate
Of semi-public institutions to fix the
number Of a quorum, and the other
would give municipalities the power
to purchase plank roads within their
limits.
The incorporation and government
of cities under a uniform state law Is
the purport of bill of which Senator
Scripps of Detroit gave notice of in
PRODUCTION in the upper house yester-
day afternoon. "The measure does not
contemplate the enforcement OF any
radical change in the administration
of municipalities in Michigan" said
the senator. 1T has been devised to
allow cities of 10000 population and
over to put into effect all the more
advanced ideas that make for the bet
terment Of civil government; to give
them the advantages of the largest
measure of home rule, the federal sys-
tenn, civil service examinations, mu-
nicipal ownership, and above all to
make the referendum supreme.