Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-10-09
READY FOR BUSINESS,
Governors Special Session Of
: Legislature Begins.
READS HIS MESSAGE TO EN-.
Both Houses Also Receive Bills Cow
ering Points Which Chief Executive
Desires Framed Into Laws-Op-
ponents Conspicuous.

Lansing, Mich. Oct. S.-The two
houses OF the legislature convened in
special session at noon Monday and
arranged the preliminaries for the
work for which Gov. Warner has
brought them here. At 3 O'Clock in
the afternoon both bodies assembled
in Representative hall, when the gov
ernor read his special message to-
them Then they separated and in the
senate the primary bill was intro
duced by Senator Fyfe and the bill to
regulate lobbyists by Senator Edln-
borough.
Rep. Dickinson introduced the pri-
mary bill in the house and the anti :
lobbyists bill was there introduced by
Rep. Ivory. The bills were referred to
committees on elections and state af-
fairs, respectively, and the work OF
the first day Of the session was over.
Both houses have agreed to hold only
afternoon sessions.
Considering Primary Bill.
Today the senate committee IS con-
sidering the primary bflI. This is done
simply TO comply with the rule OF that
body that no bill shall be brought to-
a vote until after IL has been consid-
cred by committee. Four Of the five
members OF the committee-Senators
Fyfe, Seeley, Bland and Ely-a~e with
the administration. The fifth member,
Senator Kane. Is opposed to it. This
insures the bill being reported out for
the afternoon session, when the fight
ing between the boxer and administra-
ton senators will begin.
The 16 boxers are Senators Cady OF
Port Huron: Carton of Tawas: Crop
sey OF Kalamazoo: jerks OF Sanilac;
Kaee OF Mt Pleasant; K&yes of Eaton;
Kinnane OF Dowaeiac; Linsley OF
Three Rivers; John MacKay and
Traver of Wayne: William Mckay OF
Tuscola; Peek OF Jackson Smith OF
Houghton: futile of Ingham; Whitney
OF Saginaw and Moriarity OF Iron
county. At least these 16 were boxers
at the regular session. At that time.
by tie vote. they successfully blocked
the administration bill to eliminate the
30 per cent requirement for the NOM
ination OF governor and lieutenant
governor.
The boxers confidently assert that
they will show the old unbroken line
OF is when the first roll call Is taken
on the proposition to eliminate the 40
per cent clause.
Governor Is Liberal.
Gov Warner personally assured the
two houses at the conclusion OF his
message that he did not want to be
understood as insisting that the bill
in the form in which II has been in
troduced should be passed. All hs
asks is that some bill should be passed
that will insure the making OF all nom
nations at primaries. and he did not
care whether II were christened an ad-
ministration bill or somebody else's
bill
The boxers will when the bill comes
before them. persist in their assertions
that they favor a broad primary law.
but they will not stand for an uncon-
ditional primary for governor and
lieutenant Governor. They will offer
amendments TO the administration bill.
II there should be a compromise it
certainly looks now as II the boxers
would have TO make practically all the
concessions.
The anti-lobbyisg bill will probably
pass both houses without much oppo-
stion. The governor expects TO sub
nit a supplementary message in few
day recommending that the national
guard reorganization bill, which was
passed at the last session but found
to be invalid, be re-enacted now in
legal shape.