Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-07-18
MICHIGAN NEWS
THE LEGISLATURE DID SOME
WORK THAT is FATALLY
DEFECTIVE.
MR.. BIRDS EXAMINATION
NJ. Pleasant Normal Must Close
Binder Irvine Plant Doubtful-Othei
Acts Full Of Flaws.
Lsws That Are Not Laws.

Attorney General Bird is scrutinz
.ag the acts of the late legislature and
some OF the results follow
He has declared the members of the
state legislature are ineligible to cleo
ton as delegates TO the constitutional
convention.
Declared the act appropriating 1854,
coo for the support of the Mt Pleas.
ant Normal school invalid.
Discovered flaws in the act appro
priating $4,000 for a binder Irvine
plant at the Jackson prison.
Declared circuit judges ineligible
70 election as delegates to the consti
tutional convention.
Outlined the defense OF the secre
tary of state in the mandamus pro.
ceedings TO be commenced by Lieut..
Gov Kelley 70 test the constitutional
ity OF the concurrent resolution sub
hitting the primary election amend.
ments to vote OF the people.
Ii Is stated at the attorney generals
Office that so far as examined the
Work of the legislature has been found
TO be full of flaws. Not more than eight
or ten of the more important measures
have been submitted TO the department
for scrutiny, but In nearly every case
the enactments have been found de.
fective. The attorney generals knock.
out drops were first applied to the
military bill, which was so defective
that the governor refused to sign It.
Discovered that the act appropriat.
ing $15400o for the support of the
-
ant as signed by the governor had not
been passed by either house of the leg.
islature In the form in which IL was
signed. and that as result of its
nullity the institution will not be per.
mitted to draw any portion of the APP.
preparation for the next two years, and
1t will have to be closed until a spe.
cial session of the legislature shall be
called to pass an emergency appropri.
alton.
glazing error which may affect the
establishment of a binder Irvine plant
at the jackson prison has also been
discovered by the attorney general.
The bill makes an appropriation of
$175,000 for establishing the plant and
providing foy the expense of operation.
In the first section, after naming the
amount of the appropriation, the bill
reads:
That Of the amount of one hun
dred and seventy-five dollars so APP
propriated, the sum of fifty thousand
dollars shall be expended for estab-
fishing the plant" etc.
Few mathematicians will be able to
subtract $4,000 from s175 and have
a remainder. or course. it is plain to
be seen that the word thousand was
carelessly left out of the BILL but the
courts may hold that the error is cler
ical and the law be held valid. The at
torney general is closely scrutinizing
the act with view to the discovery
of other errors If they exist.
Another glaring piece of botch worl
is announced. Many requests have
come in for a copy of the juvenile
court law and for instructions. The de
partment has not received a copy o.
the law. Rep. Simpson, the author o.
the bill, was very much surprised t.
find that ii had been given immediate
effect. He had no intention Of asking
that, and does not know why it was
done
Judges of probate over the state arc
sending children to the industrial
homes without proper forms and with
out copies of the law. The law as
passed late in the session, and nc
printing has been done for the juve
nile courts