The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-15
SENATE PREPARES
FOR ADJOURNMENT
Will Finish Session On Next Wednes-
day-House Bills Only Work to
Be Disposed Of
From a stan Correspondent

lansing Mich, May l4s-The sen
ate has almost completed its work for
anal adjournment on next Wednesday.
The only thing left is 10 dispose OF
" hat tho house sends over. The sen.
ate yesterday put through these bills
ON third reading:
Appropriating Sl50,965 for the indus
trial school for girls: $4,000 70: the
labor bureau $4,000 FOR the sLNne
board OF fish commissioners Sl23'NeO
for the school for the blind $l6i.0U0
for the state normal school. The sen
ate also agreed To the omnibus bill
which provides for s3.35O,O00.
The senate passed the bill by Rep.
NeWkirk. OF Washtenaw, which author
ICES the dairy and food commissioners
10 appoint special board whose duty
I IL shall be 10 prevent the adulteration
OF drugs. The appropriation was cut
down from $4,000 10 $4,000 annually.
Neither house can pass any more
original bills Those left in committee
are dead
The conference committees on pri-
mary election have agreed To cut out
I the +e-per- cent proposition entirely.
/ The dill il was stated. would he re-
ported out today A concession Was
made to the Wayne delegation per.
! hitting candidates in county or
/ go 900 or more TO pay fees instead OF
securing the names OF voters 10 petit
lions
Tire dill as agreed To makes the pri-
mary system compulsory IN all OF the
90 counties which have adopted IL and
provides for submitting the question
To the electors in the other counties
and districts in the spring OF 1910.
Most or the suggestions by Rep. Col
/ by OF Detroit. were accepted as val
liable In formulating the measure. The
clause regarding the primary FOR the
nomination OF governor and lieutenant
4 governor is not changed.
The bill requires the voters To de-
eide on the direct nomination OF Unit
Cd States senators each fall before
the election 10 the upper branch or
congress is 10 be held
All the bills reported out by the
regular committees were practically
disposed of yesterday. These were
passed in the committee OF the
whole. BY Woodruff or Wyandotte.
requiring bonds from corporations
operating homes for old people. by
Rice, OF Berrien, repeating the act
creating a-boaEdLot-t jury commission.
/ ers in his county; Mckay. OF Tuscola,
authorizing cemetery companies 10
receive real estate as gifts.
The bill introduced by Senator Fox,
OF Mayville providing for revision and
consolidation of all highway laws. was
considered tor four hours by the house
yesterday. The work on the measure
was only half finished as II consists
OF ls5 printed pages. The subject was
taken up again today.
The amended bill for the regulation
OF St. Clair Flats requires the board
OF control TO meet on the first Wednes-
/ day In October. 1909. and each five
years thereafter TO hX the rental val
ues for the ensuing Ave years OF such
lands that are owned by the state or
held by the state In trust. Any per
son who shall claim any OF these lands
TO have been in his possession and i'm.
proved by him or his assignors prior
to or on Jan. l. 1909. may have a deed
| issued His rights thereafter shall be
subject 10 the paramount right OF nav
t igatiou and fishing by the public.