The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07

PROVISIONS OF The MEASURE
Michigan May Cooperate with
Other States to Secure Uni-
form Fishing Laws.
Anti Hazing and Anti-CiGarette Bills
Likely TO Pass the House
Agricultural College
Fares Badly.

Lansing, Mich, Aprl al ne l"l III
ers in the house have won out over
their city brethren in the animated
FIGHT over the Holmes bill regulating
aho r,,rpino of outomobilcs on tie
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TOOK hoid oI 'l'e III" '''i III '''i - -.
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with petitions for the passage OF 'l'e
bill. The Ancient Order OF Cleaners
n fraternal beneficiary society, WHOSE
membership is confined exclusively 10
farmers. broke all records III the mat
tier of petitions by sending III Il oocu-
sment embodying some 2O,oUo names
As finally passed the blll makes lne
maximum speed limits as follows: On
streets in business sections o. ci'leS
and villages. ten miles per hour; on
residence streets, twelve miles; on
rural highways, twenty miles. All
automobiles are to be licensed by the
secretary of state.
For Uniform Fishing Laws.
Michigan will co-oDcrate with Hi
.nois. Wisconsin, Minnesota and on
torio I'm an effort TO secureuniform laws
regulating fishing in the great lakes.
both houses have authorized their
committees on fishing 10 attend joint
conference i'm Chicago this week. called
flor the purpose of considering the
duestion of uniformity. The legisla-
hnre Of all the states mentioned will
be represented at this conference by
committees.
Representative Ming is making salts
factory progress with his anti-haZlng
and anti-cigarCtte bills. which were
mentioned in these columns recently.
both measures have been agreed TO
by the house in committee of the
rwhole and are altogether likely to ne
pesSed by that body. The anti-ciSar-
ktte bill is 4 sweeping measure whose
provisions run against everything in the
Zine of traffic in the coffin nails" eX-
cept interstate business. IL passed
and enforced the other bill will eff
fectually dispose Of haZing in the edu-
cational institutions of this state.
The agricultural college Jared very
BADLY at the hands Of the senate COM
nnittee on finance and appropriations,
the items of 100000 for n mechanical
engineering building and 100000 to re-
place the dormitory recently destroyed
10y fire being eliminated. The COM
1nittee takes the position that it was
mot originally designed that the institu-
tion should teach engineering. Never
Hheless the mechanical department is
the most popular department at the
To Amend Banking Law.
Two bills materially amending the
state banking law have heen intro
kluced bv Chairman Lord of the house
x,ommittee ON nrivate cornorotions
None Of these measures normits state
a,anks 70 invade the field now occu-
hied solely Nv trust comnanies among
kbe cornorotions and serve ne trustees
under mortgages and trust deeds. The
ntter enlarges the line of securities in
(which tbe funds of stote hanks NAV
Id invested by adding thereto railroad.
kns- electric light steamship and wotor
nonds. The hill nrovides however,
That investment shall not he made in
bonds of this character unless sucb
bonds have been approved bv n state
securities commission consisting of the
commissioner of banking. attorney
general and state treasurer The OK
pense Of the examination of securities
Inv this commission is IN ba borno nv
the bank which submits the bonds for
approval.
Dealers who sell household articles,
etc, on the installment plan will be
~. Fl -. g a.
dill introduced by Representative Bal
lie, Of Saginaw, should become law
Mr.. Bailie. in common with many 9TH