The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-05-12
THIS IN TURN is RE-REFERRED
eitfs 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 o.-T'he pri-
pmry reform Kaleidoscope was given
Hnother shift during the past week
and this time the picture shown IA
rather more startling than anyone was
expecting The consensus of opinion
was that the IvOry-Do uble-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 be 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 10 report
It handed out an exceedingly "hot one"
In the shape Of an amended bill pro-
y1ding for the direct nomination Of all
state, county and city officers, leav-
ing none of these candidates to be nom-
mated in convention unless the pri-
mary vote failed to give candidate
o majority of all the votes cast.
Goes Farther Than Demanded.
This, it will be noticed, is going
Farther than was generally demanded.
AL would have been very well salts
fed with a law including governor and
lieutenant governor only. Although
EovernOr Warner consistently stood for
the local option measure advocated in
the last Republican state IHHtform he
gracefully yielded, as voted last week,
when a majority Of the house took a
step In advance of that proposition and
passed the Doube-Ivory-D Dickinson bill.
Tl8e governor still adheres to that
measure and will use his influence to
induce n majority Of the senate to re-
form the bill along the lines fixed by
The house. There is much opposition
40 the senate amendment to the house
tHIi so far as it requires tho Success
fui candidate to receive n majority in
stead of plurality only of the votes
fast at the primary. failure to do so
sending the nomination TO n party con-
Tention.
! This. il is argued, would destroy the
entire object of the bill, inasmuch as
Experience has conclusively demon
strated that the instances of candidates
receiving a majority vote would be ex-
ceedingly rare 1t is not believed that
The house would ratify any such
ffnhendment IF made by the senate and
the result would he deadlock be-
tween the two houses at the close OF
The session.
Bill Is Re-Referred.
The report of the senate commFtee
was allowed to stand but a day when
a fight was precipitated on the floor
by a motion to re-refer the bill to the
EoznTnittee with instructions to report
out a measure today for consideration
as special order tomorrow. This mo-
ton was adopted by n vote of IS 10
IL The new bill will be reported this
afternoon and the real fight over the
entire question will come tomorrow.
Dtfst what the provisions Of the bill to
he reported by the committee will be
has not yet been divulged.
Various bills affecting the retail
Nduor business have been advanced in
the house during the past few days.
what body has agreed in committee OF
the whole to the Mckay bill, which in
creases the retailers annual license
from $500 10 $1,000. and also the Hud-
Son bill prohibiting the sale of liquors
dt retail in stores where groceries and
other commodities are dispensed TO the
public for n price. Should this meas
nre become law IL would put out OF
business scores if not hundreds of the
outlying groceries in the larger cities
OF the state as well as the roadhouses
and country stores on roads leading
out from the larger cities. There is n
well grounded suspicion that both OF
these bills will fall outside the breast
works i'm the senate.
Townships and Wards the Unit.
After n delay Of several weeks, the
house committee on liquor traffic has
finally reported by majority vote the
Hudson bill amending the local option
t5ruhrb1tion lew so as to make town
ships and wards the unit. instead OF
the county az ut present This amend
f1ent was fercely opposed by the
saloonmen and hotelkeepers OF the
larger cities, some of whom fear that
they will be put out Of business If the
bill becomes law. These persons pre-
Ter 20 have che present law left I'M
disturbed. but IL any amendment is
made I'm the direction indicated, they
want the unit TO stop with the city.
This same committee has made q IA
vorab report on the Kelly bill making
II misdemeanor for person TO treat
nuother to intoxicating beverages. The
fate Of these two measures is prob
lemat1cal.
While the virtuous mood was on the
house also passed the Gordon bill
which absolutely prohibits the manu-