The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-05
PAY VISIT TO .'
INSTITUTIONS.
Work In Legislature Is al
Stand till This Week.
WILL GET BUSY TUESDAY,

y Over the Anti-Lcbby EiIl Introduce
|, at the Instance Of Governor Warner
Joint Water Power Committee Find,
II Has Big job on Hana--CrusadC
Against the "Great White Plague
Bill to Purify Elections.
Lansing, Mich, Feb. 2.-The legisla
ture is at standstill this week so fan
as work under the statehouse dome i:
concerned. This does not mean thai
time is being wasted, however, for the
members of the committees on vari
Gus state institutions, fish, mining in
ter rs, etc., are making the necessary
visits to the institutions and other in
terests and thus informing themselves
as 10. their conditions and needs.
In ADDITION to the committees named
IA representative of the financial com
mittees of the Two houses is visiting
each ms tuition, and the>> members OF
the special joint committee which is
charged with the very important deVy
of investigating the water power quesN
tion are jOurneying to several sections
of the state In quest Of knowledge.
This feature Of the work Of these COM
mittees, with the exception of the
special water power committee, will
be completed this week, and the reg
ular routine work Of the legislature
will be resumed next Tuesday evening.
Has Big Job on Hand.
The joint water power committee,
by the way. finds that 1t has undertake
en- a Zig job The more the question
is looked into the more it expands.
mittee intends 20 make its investiga-
ton very thorough, so that the legisla-
ture may be enabled to deal with the
question intelligently. In the prosecu-
ton of it's work the special committee
has invoked the aid of the federal gov
eminent, and Chairman Curtiss has re-
ceived letters from President Roose-
welt and Secretary Smith Of the de-
partment of commerce and labor en-
dOrsing the movement and pledging
aid.
The first really exciting debate of
the session was had in the senate last
over the anti-lobby bill intro
duced at the instance of Governor
Warner. Some opposition to the bill
in the form presented was manifested,
and there were some senators who
were evidently not in sympathy with
any bill on this subject. The matter
was discussed for several hours, dur
ing which two or three amendments
were made for the bill. One of these
includes state officials
who appear for or against proposed
legislation affecting their respective
and forbidding the max
ing of appointments conditioned on
the support or opposition of legisla-
tor in connection with such a measure.
The bill was sent back to the judiciary
committee and will be taken up for
further consideration when the legis-
ature reconvenes next week. The in
dications are that the bill will be
passed in some form andgmay finally
be more drastic in some of its pro
visions than when introduced.
Dam In Lake Superior.
Michigan has taken hand in the
now before congress
through the activity of Congressman
Lorimer of Illinois which has for its
object the construction Of a dam in
Lake Superior which will have the eff
-ect of materially impairing the water
power of st. Mary's river for the ben
eft of the Chicago drainage canal
Governor Warner directed the atten-
ion of the legislature to this matter
by special message, in which he urged
hat the interests Of Michigan lie In
he preservation and development of
all the water COVER available within
he borders of the state and suggest
ng that the legislature protest vigor-
ously against any attempt to destroy
or all useful purposes approximately
Dne-half the power available in st.
Marys river at Sault Ste. Marie.
The message was followed by the
of a resolution by Sen
tor Fowle of Sault Ste. Marie making
he formal protest suggested by the
governor. 1t is claimed that there is
10 necessity for the project urged by
Lorimer, inasmuch as
United States engineers have perfect
I'd plans for the construction of two
new locks, the use of which will give
he government all water needed with
,ut interfering with the power of the
liver.
Crusade Against Tuberculosis.
Michigan has joined enthusiastically
n the crusade against tuberculosis. A
designed to educate the peo-
lie with regard to this great menace
o human life and the means of com
batting it is under way in various
,arts of the state and promises to be-
come general. The latest manifesto
ion of the movement is the introduc-
ion by Representative Wood of Jack
ION of a bill which includes tubercu-
osis in the list of contagious diseases
,ver which municipal health boards
md local health officers have general
control.
The bill provides for the microscope
al examination of the sputum of sus.
,ected persons and for the isolation
II sufferers In certain cases. This bill !