The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-04-26

illness Of his mother, this important
subject was not considered by the
house last week as was the program.
1t will be taken up this week, having
been made a special order. A vigor'
GUS effort will be made to put into the
bill certain important provisions not
approved by the elections committee,
by which il was considered. The ma
ture of these provisions is clearly in
Dictated by the various sections Of .
bill introduced in the senate by Senn
tor Allen last Thursday. 1t being gen
orally understood that the senator rep
resents the views OF Governor Warner
In this connection. This bill does
away with the requirement that tbs
successful candidate must receive 40
per cent. Of the votes cast at thu
primaries, thus giving the nomination
to the candidate who polls the great
est number of votes, and provides for
nominating candidates for United
States senator by direct vote. These
two provisions will, if Governor War
ner Is able 20 control the situation, be
inserted in the house bill.
Hard Fight in Prospect.
Possibly the hardest fight Of the ses-
sion will be waged against the adop.
ton Of these proposed amendments.
Both are very distasteful but the OPP
ponents of both would, if they must &C
cept either, prefer the Inclusion Of the
United States senator idea. They will
make the fight Of their lives against
both propositions. the understanding
being that they will sacrifice the sena-
tOrship to retain the percentage clause.
1t will he readily seen that Here is
always q Glance with the percentage
clause To defeat the nomination Of any
candidate at the primaries and thus
throw the contest into delegate con,
vention All that is necessary is to
judiciously plant a sufficient number
Of candidates in various sections Of
the state so as to make it impossible
for any one candidate to poll 10 per
cent. of the total vote cast. An i'm
D0rtant feature of this bill is the So
called corrupt practices" section. Till
makes it an offense to purchase drinks
cigars. or Other commodities, hire car
riageS for the purpose Of conveying
voters to tie polls. or spend money
for anything Of like nature in corncc.
ton With dies campaign for election
The penalty for violation Is forfeiture
ne I f~t.n M. nlpatinl rho ont.
come Of the contest over these pro
posed amendments cannot yet he ac'
curately fOretOld.
Appropriations Will BE Cut.
When asked for appropriations for
the ensuing two years aggregatiny
S11, 1G2. coo as compared with total ap-
preparations of 5000 900 for 1906 ami
1907. The legislators generally see the
necessity for much judiciouS pruning
On the other hand. Of course. each
solon wants the bill in which he is in
terested LETT as l. is. being willing 10
have the necessary deductions made
from the bills of the other fellows.
1t is very evident that many approprl-
atiOns will he cut. while others will he
denied In toto. 1t is recognized that
the growth of the state, etc. makes
il necessary to somewhat increase the
budget hut il is nevertheless proposed
TO keep the total very close to what il
was two years ago. There is much
anxiety on the part of various inte"-
ests as to the final outcome and tho
finance committees of the two houses
are being hesicged from all sides.
\ movement is on foot in the
Judiciary committee Of the house t.
make provision for Juvenile courts
throughout the state, the desirability
OF having this class Of offenders taken
care of outside Of the regular courts
being conceded. The plan is to estab'
lish such courts in every county in the
state and in all cities having a popu-
lation in excess of 10000, and the
judges of probate of the respective
counties shall preside over the juvenile
courts. In counties in which are To-
Gated cities having a population of 90
600 or over, the judge of probate is
given Jurisdiction Of juvenile cases
outside of these cities, for which Spe-
cial provision will be made. It is
hoped to improve the situation greatly
by not treating these offenders as
hardened criminals.
Prison in Upper Peninsula.
State Highway Commissioner Earle.
who was an active and persistent op
ponent Of the binder Irvine plant bill,
got wise to the situation some days
ago and withdrew his opposition, con,
Guiding to concentrate his efforts on
bill establishing new prison in the
trap rock district of the upper PENN.
sula. In accordance with the energetic
commissioners ideas Representative
Stannard has introduced a bill making
an appropriation of $2J0,000 for the es
Establishment of such a prison, the in