The Yale expositor., 1907-07-05


county are about three times as much
as the raises voted in all the rest OF
the state And the Detroit aldermen
and the Wayne county coroners came
in on the last days clamoring also for
salary raise. Some of the Wayne
delegation tried hard to get it for
them.
The new offices created by the legis-
lature were:
Assistant prosecutig attorneys for
Oakland, Lenawee, Houghton and Cal
houn counties; boards of county au-
ditors for st. Clair, Bay and Cheboy-
gan counties; superintendent of drains
for Muskegon; Lenawee county into a
judicial circuit; probate registers for
Chippewa, Keweenaw and Shiawassee
counties; a state bacteriologist; drain
assessors for Van Buren, county town
ships; township drain commissioners
for Flushing, Genesee, Clayton and
Gaines townships, Genesee county;
two aldermen-at-large for Wyandotte.
The only office abolished was re-
ceiver of taxes, Detroit.
Nine counties had bills passed so
that they may pay their county Off
are: st. Clair, Ingham, Calhoun, Wash
tenaw, Van Buren,, Kalamazoo, Clin-
ton, st. Joe and Bay.
Six townships, Frederic, Crawford
county; Forest, Cheboygan county;
ST. Charles, Saginaw county; Bedford,
Calhoun county; Boone, Wexford coun-
ty. and Newton, Mackinaw county, had
bills passed giving them two voting
precincts instead of one; Raisinville,
Monroe county, asked and had one Of
her two polling places abolished.
Crosse Pointe, Hamtramck, Spring
wells, Royal Oak and Bay City, will
by bills that passed be permitted to
keep the polls open election days to
s p. m.
The only primary bills that went
through were to require the democrats
ia st. Clair, Bay and Midland counties
to nominate at primaries. Also amend
ing Kent county's primary law.
There were many bills applicable
to places and things that went TO swell
the number passed Examples of
these are: Senator Bert Cady, for en-
towering the authorities of Port HUI
ron township to stop the pasturing
of cows, goats and geese on the high
ways. Senator Archie Peek, for
strengthening the Sunday observance
law. Senator futile, for improving
the tornado insurance corporation law,
and for requiring protectors on corn
huskers that nip off fingers Senator
Keyes' bill, making II a misdemeanor
to raid another mans huckleberry
patch; Senator Cropsey, to give more
g. An1 UTaf
more's, to permit the squires OF Han
over, Wexford, Springville and An
tioch townships, all in a bunch, to in
wade Sherman town and hold court.
Rep. Henry's, to give the Calhoun
county clerk another set of supreme
court reports; Rep. Charles Ward to
permit the Shiawassee supervisors to
vote money to the Dorcas home for
destitute children. Rep. Towner, in
creasing the penalty on sheep-killing
dogs. Rep. Willetts, to rei9corporate
a female seminary at Albion; Rep.
Nank, to put out of business doctors
cappers at Mt. Clemens; Rep. Wood
ruff, for a longer season for spring
duck shooting Rep. Scidmore. to COM
pei roadside hedges to be trimmed ar
tlstically; Senator Martindale rein
cooperating the Detroit Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and
Rep. Simpson, to prohibit the shooting
of squirrels in Paw Paw park.
The bills of state wide imortance
passed during the session are:
The two-cent rate bill and the bill
creating a railroad commission.
Repeating the Baltic law which re-
h. Of In.
jury damages that could be collected
to actual pecuniary loss. Repeating
the change of venue law.
Recognizing the National Guard
raising the per capita tax from five
to six cents, and providing that $4,000
be spent annually to build armories.
For country schools of agriculture on
the Wisconsin plan. Menominee is the
| first county to move for such schools.
Making the scalping of theater, con.
cert. circus. lecture, athletic games
or other public entertainment tickets q
misdemeanor.
Making the free distribution Of med
icine samples a misdemeanor.
Making it a misdemeanor to take an
automobile without the owners per-
IllSSlOu.
Increasing the penalty and broaden.
ing the law for wife desertion, and
providing that the prison earnings of
wife deserters shall go to the family.
Authorizing boards of supervisors to
buy voting machines out of a general
fund.
Amending the game and nsh laws so
that the state warden shall also be the
fire warden. Game and fish super
vision made more of state and less
of county function.
A gun tax of $40 to be collected
from non-residents. The trout fishing
season to open 10 days earlier. Pro
hibiting the killing of deer for five
years in Arenac, Emmett, Bay, Che
boygan. Benzie and Leelanau counties.
For binder Irvine plant in Jackson
prison; appropriation for 1t, $4,000.
Requiring that gasoline must be sold
only in red cans or cans with red la
bells.
Juvenile court law, which made the
probate court the court for the trial
of juvenile disorderlies.
University of Michigan to get q
mill tax instead of "a mill.
Good roads legislation Cash road