The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-05-01
ROGERS GOT HUEFY
Impeded Legislation Because His
Bill Was Lost.
SUBSTITUTE FOR CANNON BILL


Game Warden May Lose His Job
Meat Inspection Bill Passed-DetroIt
Grain Men Kicking.
Lansing, Mich, May 1.-Representa-
tive Rodgers of Muskegon got huffy
Thursday afternoon because the house
voted down a school bill he was push.
ing. and wreaked vengeance on the
house by insisting that every bill
which came up on rnird reading, He
objected to every motion to consider
read" bills which had been Thoroughly
thrashed out in committee and In com
mittee of the whole, thus delaying
business for nearly awo hours. once
the house went into committee OF the
whole. motions for the committee 10
rise were squelched, and 1t was 6:zo
when one finally passed.
When the house came to order rep
resentative Combs had the vote recon
sidered by which his bill, abolishine
the office of chief deputy game war
den, was defeated Wednesday. Fad
dock cast the only vote against recon
sideration. When 1t comes up Tor an
other vote it will probably pass.
The committee of the whole agreed
to the house substitute for Senator
Cannons bill, appropriating $4,000 FOR
printing the records OF Michigan's sol
diers in the civil war.
The Ferry-Wells bill, to which the
committee also agreed, amends the
partnership association act, so that In
stead of companies filing articles or In
corporation in the registers office IN
the county where the company's prln'
cipal office is situated, and paying no
franchise fee, they will now have 10
file their incorporation papers with the
secretary of state and pay the same
franchise fee as other corporations do
-one-half of one mill on every dollar
of their authorized capital.
At the morning session Mr.. Combs
announced that he had arranged for
reconsideration of his game depart
ment bills, which failed OF passage the
day before If they pass it is claimed
the senate will also adopt the measure
abolishing the Office of chief deputy.
BY vote of 81 to 10 the Banghan
bill, providing for the inspection OF
block animals and meat offered for
sale, was passed.
The house substitute for Senator
Moriapty's probation bill, providing for
the parole of unsentenced convicted
first offenders by circuit judges, was
passed by vote of Go to 20. Under
the substitute, the extension of such a
parole to Frank G. Andrews would be
Impossible.
The board of trade of Detroit,
through it's committee, has sent out
voluminous protest against the Halen.
beck grain inspection bill. The fro.
test was hardly needed, for the Hill
was taken from the special order 81
the house Thursday and sent back to-
the committee on state affairs, where
it will probably remain.
The committee alleges that the bill
Is being pushed by the Hay Dealers
association, who have no established
system of inspection for that product;
while the inspection OF grain and
cloverseed has been taken care Of by
the Detroit board Of trade since 1866,
and the inspection of beans has been
under their supervision for the past
five or six years, wholly at their own
expense.
A grave defect has been found in
Representative Bottoms bill, passed
last week, increasing the length OF
trout, salmon and grayling to be
caught from six to seven inches. When
in the senate an amendment was made
in section T. In inserting the amend
ment local act Of the last legislature,
limiting the length of fish caught in
Au Sable river and its tributaries
eight inches, was forgotten. BY this
error the local act is repealed and a
large-sized howl is expected.