The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-05-12
THIS IN TURN IS RE-REFERRED
Bills Affecting the Retail Liquor
Business Advanced
by House.
Manufacture and Sale OF Coin Slot
Machines Prohibited I'm Mich
igan by New Measure
just Passed,

Lansing. Mich, May 9.-The pri-
mary reform kaleidoscope was given
another shift during the past week
and this time the picture shown is
rather more startling than anyone was
expecting. The consensus OF opinion
was that the Ivory DOuble-DickinSon
bill providing for the nomination by
direct vote of candidates for governor
and lieutenant governor leaving the
balance of the state ticket to be nomin-
ated in convention, would he reported
by the senate committee substantially
as it was passed by the house. only
minor amendments being made to per-
feet the measure. However, when the
senate committee got ready to report
II handed out an exceedingly "hot one
in the shape Of an amended bill pro-
viding for the direct nomination or all
state. county and city officers. leaV-
ing none Of these candidates to be nom
mated i'm convention unless the pri-
mary vote failed to give n candidate
a majority of all the votes cast.
Goes Further Than Demanded.
This. II will be noticed, is going
further than was generally demanded.
All would have been very well salts
fed with a law including governor and
lieutenant governor only. Although
Governor Warner consistently stood for
the local option measure advocated in
the last Republican state PLATFORM he
gracefully yielded. as noted last week,
when a majority Of the house took
step i'm advance of that proposition and
PASSED the Doube-Ivory-Dickin bill
The governor still adheres to that
measure and will use his influence to
induce a majority Of the senate to re-
form the bill along the lines fixed by
the house. There is much opposition
to the senate amendment to the house
bill so far as it requires the success
full candidate to receive a majority in
stead Of a plurality only Of the votes
cast at the primary. failure to do SO
sending the nomination to n party con
vention
This. IL is argued. would destroy the
entire object Of the bill, inasmuch ms
experience has cOnclusively demon
strated that the instances Of candidates
receiving a majority vote would be ok
ceedngly rcrc. 1t is not believed thai
the house would ratify any sucl
amendment if made by the senate anC
the result would he n deadlock be
tween the two houses at the close o.
the session.
Bill Is Re-Referred.
The report of the senate committe,
was allowed to stand but a day whei
q fight was precipitated on the foo
by motion to re-refer the bill to tn
committee with instructions to repOr
out a measure today for consideration
as special order tomorrow. This mo
ton was adopted hv n vote Of rs =
il. The new bill will he reported thi
afternoon and the real fight over tn
entire question will come tomorrow
Just what the provisions Of the bill I
be reported by the committee will b
has not yet been divulged.
Various bills affecting the reta
LIQUOR business have been advanced /
the house during the past few days
That body has agreed i'm committee G
the whole to the Mckay bill, which il
creases the retailers annual licenS
from $500 To 81 900. and also the Hue
son bill prohibiting the sale Of liquor
Mt retail I'm stores where groceries AZ
other commodities are dispensed to tn
public for a price. Should this meas
ure become law It would put ont {
business scores if not hundreds Of I'll
outlying groceries in the larger cite
of the state as vol as the roadhoust
and country stores on roads leadin
out from the larger cities. There is
well grounded suspicion that both {
these bills will fall outside the breas
works in the senate.
Townships and Wards the Unit.
After a delay Of several weeks. u
house committee on liquor traffic hi
finally reported by majority vote Il
Hudson bill amending the local optic
prohibition law so as TO make tow
ships and wards the unit. instead
the county Ms M present This amen
ment was fercely opposed by Il
saloonmen and hotelkeepers Of Il
larger cities. some Of whom fear TIL
they will be put ont Of business If Il
bill becomes law. These persons pr
fer to have the present law left u
disturbed. but If any amendment
made i'm the direction indicated. III,
want the unit to stop with the cit
This same committee has made n T
vorable report on the Kelly bill makir
It a misdemeanor for a person to ire
another to intoxicating beverages. III
fate Of these two measures is pro
iematical.
While the virtuous mood was on Il
house also passed the Gordon b
which absolutely prohibits the man