The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-27
AN T|-LObBY BILL
DOES NOT AFFECT
OFFENDERS
SENATOR FUTILE. OF lNGHAm'
PICKS FLAWS IN MEASURE
PERSONS SEEING PERSONAL
PRIVILEGES TO BE BARRED.
from a stan Correspondent

LANSING. Jan. 27.-The first ex-
element was sprung in the senate To-
day over the lobby bill which came
up IN committee Of the whole. Some
talk followed over amendments oner-
ed futile. OF Inslam, took the noor
and echoes OF the Old boxer contest
floated beneath the capitol dome. tie
charged that this bill did not reach
the real lobbyists. Those persons the
legislators should guard against,
namely. those who were seeking spe-
cial legislation To further their own
ambitions, are not affected. IuttIe
wanted lobby bill that meant some
thing. This should keep out those
persons who by thei. Official positions.
claim the right To the senate hoor
and mingle with the members TO FUR
their own ends These are the LOB
byists We should bar, be said. mot
personalities OF corporations whom
the members can easily ignore.
While talking his face showed firm
decision and every one knew ne was
hitting al the governor and his CO
workers who lobbied Tie Legislature
two years ago over the primary cleo
ton bill and other measures. The
governor was present during Tuttle's
hery talk.
Fox, OF Mayville. introduced bin
that would tax all foreign money loan
ed IN the state.
The bill by MacKay. OF Detroit, for
the publicity Of campaign expenses,
he claims, will purify everything.
Dickinson's cigarette bill. patterned
after the Indiana law is the one he
has resolved 10 push, as the attorney
general has given il his o. k. mark.
Taylor. OF kalamazoo. introduced a
bill changing the present law so that
males or females under 10 years or
age can be employed in factories
where three or more are engaged
now the law reads 10 or more.
Senators publicly congratulated r. NJ.
Sprague, who has reached his seven
ty-sixth birthday. He is the appoin'
tee of the house this year; this office
being granted by the senate one SEES
sion and the house the next, alternat.
ing.
Senator Smith. OF Hubbell, resign
ed as chairman OF the finance and ap-
preparation committee.
The bill in the house by G. A. Mil
Ter. OF Detroit for the incorporation Of
retail lumber dealers mutual insur-
ance associations, went through after
the clause repeating all conflicting
acts were struck out.
Morrice's bill TO temporarily with
draw tax homestead lands from sale
struck a snag. Van Raalte. OF Otta-
wa, objected 10 this hasty action aud
wanted the matter deferred. Morrice
explained that 1t was TO stop the spec
ulators and conserve the water powe-
and another bill would be introduced
To preserve demonstration lands. Flow
ers. OF Detroit, said II another bill
was coming. and as this measure could
not take effect till 90 days after the
close OF the session. immediate
action was useless. Guy Miller added
TO the objections and the bill was re-
ferred back to the committee by the
vote OF 90 TO "a.
The bill TO punish persons for using
dynamite or powder in fishing Is UP
10 third reading. II was introduced
by Agens, OF Ludington. Warner. OF
Frankfort. made Intellectual attempts
to reduce the penalty, saying Ii
would be harsh to send young men 10
Jail for his offense which they might
commit thoughtlessly. but when Stew
art. of Grand Rapids, said this was
only to punish men who wilfully de
stroy fish by dynamite, 1t was i'm
agreed 10.
Mortgage taxation got another
'ftouch-up" in a bill by Dusenbury, OF
Isabella, which would apply specific
~ ~ S0 canta nor aarh zion On cred.
it's founded upon or evidenced by
or liens upon real prop
erty. II also repeats all other laws
covering these subjects.
No more quail can be killed for the