The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
FOR A MODEL HIGHWAY.
Ex-senator Earle Has .a-Proposition
in the Interest of Good
Roads.
WANTS AN APPROPRIATION OF sIO,OOO
students Protest Against Provisions
of a Medical Biii-Sennte Passes
Measure 20 Exempt Real Estate
Mortgages and Land Contracts
from Taxation.
Especial correspondence.I

Especial Correspondence
Lansing, March 23.--EN-Senator III.
5. Earle, OF Detroit, pioneer OF the good
roads movement, has prepared the bill,
abe title Of which was introduced some
time ago. which authorizes an expen-
aiifure Of $4,000 for the building OF
roads for educational purposes lie
mas handed il TO Representative Not
tingham. The bill provides that the
expenditure is 10 be made under the
auspices OF the state board OF agricul-
fure, and, although the place where
the road is TO be built is not mentioned,
il is not expected that the board could
lind better field for such an improve
rnent than the road between the city
and Agricultural college. There IS one
requirement. made of the locallty
where the road is 20 be constructed,
that il shall pay half the cost OF the
road. III the road is built here, II would
bc principally for the purpose Of Civ
ing the coming farmers knowledge
of how good roads can be made. Sen
afor Earle also had in mind giving
students OF the College OF Mines such
instructions. The bill contemplates
stone road, l6 feet in width, but with
gravel shoulders" on each side, eight
feet in width, making the prepared
highway 80 feet vide.
The senate passed the Kelly bill pro-
Siding for the exemption of real estate
mortgages and land contracts from
taxation. The bill was passed by a
vote Of II to 10, after hard fight by
the opponents OF the measure to
amend il, both in committee OF the
whole and on third reading.
Twenty students Of Michigan medi-
cal colleges, including William G.
Wight, formerly OF Lansing now stu
dent at Detroit, appeared before the
house committee on public health, OF
which Representative Nottingham is
chairman. They object TO the provi-
sion of the Nottingham bill, which
would require allpersons, graduates or
graduates, TO submit to an exam
5nation before the state medical board
before being permitted TO practice in
the state. They contended that they
entered college on the representation
that diploma would enttle them TO
practice medicine, and while they do
not condemn the provision as one from
which no benefit can come, they be-
ficve such provision should not be
enforced until after the present stu
dents are graduated
Attorney General Blair says that the
ease in which the Michigan Central
railway sues the state for $6,O0O00 |
on account OF the repeal of its special |
charter will not come ON for trial until |
next fall, and presumably not until |
about a year from this time, owing to |
the great amount of preparation nee
,essary. 1t is expected that the report |
of the company, which will be filed |
with Railroad Commissioner Atwood |
next month, will throw considerable
tight on the manner in which the re-
peal of the special charter affected
she company's business the past year.
With the signing Of the bill which |
will soon be in the governors hands,
authorizing school districts 60 provide |
nv taxation for the transportation Of i
children TO school in large districts, !
the legislation urged by Superintend- |
cnt of Public instruction Fall TO en-
courage the consolidation Of small I
schools into larger and stronger ones
with higher branches added will he
completed. Through Prof. Falls agi-
tation the plan OF Capitalization has
gained favor with the farmers. and sew
eral rural schools centralized on the
graded basis are successfully con-
Quoted. In some northern communi-
ties pupils are already being trans
ported at the expense Of the district.
approximately 10000 names will ap-
pear in the records Of the Michigan
national guard, which are being com
piled in the Office of Adiutant General
Brown. and which now, after three
years Of work, are almost completed.
of this work in his biennial
report, the adjutant general saws:
These records. when completed. M !.
.iontain the military histp~. ->sse Corrit
sermon of the stat say' -.
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