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The Yale expositor., 1909-04-16
Various Matters

The house passed the nurses COM
mission bill which has been presented
for several sessions unsuccessfully.
Il is said that the measure will have
trouble in getting through the senate.
The board, as constituted, is to con-
sist OF three nurses, one physician
and the secretary of the state board
of health
The Hoeft bill, repeating the short
haul maximum freight rate of So per
car, and which has been the subject
of a vigorous fight in the courts, pass
ed the house by a vote OF So to %.
The Baker bill for the compulsory
education of children, and the Stew
art bill, providing an appropriation
for the unwilling of the Custer monu-
ment at Monroe, also passed the
house.
ID y. CURTISS.
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Mr.. Osborn and the Kaiser.

Chase s. Osborn is now in Europe.
A story has reached the 500 that
while he and Mrs. Osborn wero driv-
Ing around Potsdam few days ago,
they met the kaiser and his party
The kaiser, recognizing them as Amer
leans, spoke to them and remarked on
the fineness of the existing weather
The kaiser can talk American. has
no trouble in recognizing travellers
from this country, and 1t is said that
he greatly enjoys meeting and talking
with them. Mr. Osborn has made
some observations on the kaiser,
whom he says is more than a mere
sovereign.
"As the generality OF sovereigns are
to be judged" he continued, "some of
the kings and emperors of Europe
wouldn't be worth $25 a week outside
their present jobs. / would put the
kaiser in the $40 category right at the
start. l admire him very much. II
he were not the German kaiser he
ought to be one of our American in
dustrial captains. / am sure he would
make first-class commercial traveller
in the United States"
The Yale expositor., 1909-04-16
THE SPEAKER AND
THE MAJORITY
SPEAKER cAMPsELL's RULING is
CAUSING ALL SORTS OF
TROUBLE.
A RULE AMENDMENT NOW
There Seems To BE Warm Time In
the Fire Just Now With Odds In
Favor of Speakers Forces.

Since Speaker Campbell's ruling
last week which it is claimed is in
violation OF the new constitutions pro-
vision to enable a majority to do
things independent of committee re-
ports, there has arisen lively scrap
which will go to finish with the
speaker holding the whip hand
though Rep. Champion may bring
some compromise by blocking work
On Friday when resolutions were
reached on the order, Rep. Dusen-
bury took advantage of his constitu-
tional privilege and offered a protest
against the ruling of the speaker for
insertion in the journal The same
action was later taken by Rep. Bryant
and both were scorching in their
tone.
Champion brought on the battle
again by offering an amendment to
the rule specifying Cushing's manual
as the authority for the rules, by max
ing the constitution of the state come
ahead OF the manual. He endeavored
to speak on his motion, but was con-
tinually interrupted, raising points Of
order. The resolution was finally sent
to the rules committee by vote of
AZ to 81.
The house was seething throughout
the afternoon. There were continual
fiare-ups and the debate at all times
was intense.
Mr.. Dusenbury on Saturday de-
clared that he believes the plan of
the faction upholding the speaker is
to report out the bill placing tele-
graph and telephone companies under
the ad valorem system at once in or
der to forestall the move of the in
surgents to ask the house to take the
bill away from the committee.
"They think this will be a clever
coup to break our forces and steal
our thunder, but it does not settle
the question of whether those rules
are amenable to the constitution, :"
said Dusenbury. land / am willing to
remain here all summer, salary or no
salary, and fight this proposition out.
Another reason why | predict this
move is that Campbell is afraid that
IL this move is successful, it will be-
come habit with the house and COM
mittees will be obliged to give up
some bills supposed to be safely
Smothered"
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THE LAW MAKERS
GET STRENUOUS
REPORT ON THE WATER POWERS
OF THE STATE A VALUABLE
DOCUMENT.
HEED WARNING SOUNDED
There Were Some Strenuous Moments
Last Week and May Be More Before
the Ruling TaneIe Ends.
Especial Correspondence
lansing Mich Anril ID 10


The final sessions of last week
marked the most strenuous moments
of the present legislature. Appeals
from the ruling of the chair were
taken several times, but not sustained.
The result was a division of the house,
and the creation of two factions now
known as the Speaker" crowd and
the insurgents" the latter in the
minority led by Representative
Champion, of Lapeer, declare their
intention of apeing the bad manners
of the last congress, by filibustering
and delaying matters in every way
possible. Thus the house finds itself
at the opening of the present week
in rather bad shape for business. 1t
has declared it's intention by resolu-
ton to adjourn May 6. but the senate
has not concurred and is holding the
matter in allegiance, obviously for the
purpose of obtaining preference for its
own bills. The present uncertain con-
dition of affairs makes it seem inn
probable that an adjournment will be
made May 6, unless some understand
ing is reached among the warning fac
tions to bury the Ratchet.
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LITTLE CASTRO.
Carried Aboard Ship on Refusal Il
Leave Martinique.

Cipriano Castro, ex-president OF
Venezuela, was ANONYMOUSLY ex.
PEELED Friday night from the island
OF Martinique by the French govern.
ment. He protested to the last against
his expulsion, but his protests were
in vain. He was placed on board the
French line steamship Versailles,
bound for st. Nazaire.
Official notice was served on Cas-
tro in the morning of the decision
Of the French government that he
must leave the island within nine
hours from the receipt of such no.
tice and that the commissary OF po-
lice at Fort de France had been
charged with the execution of the or
der. The ex-president was furious
with Indignation and strove through
out the day to find some excuse that
would be satisfactory to the colonial
government. whereby he would not be
compelled to obey the order and to
this end late in the day he summoned
lawyer and physician to certify that
he was unable to leave the country.
The governor of Martinique and the
public prosecutor, however, refused
an extension of time and about
o'clock the commissary of police, &C
companied by a large force of gen.
darmes, proceeded to the hotel where
Castro was stopping, to remove him,
forcibly If necessary, to the steamer.
AT half past 8 o'clock a force of
gendarmes went to Castro's room and
he was placed on a mattress, he re-
fusing to put on his clothes. and car
ried on stretcher TO the steamer, a
distance of more than mile. A
thousand or more of the population
had assembled by this time and a
great deal of sympathy was expressed
for Castro. He complained of great
suffering and every movement of the
stretcher seemed to give him further
pain.
The Versailles sailed at 9 o'clock
and measures have been taken TO
keep a careful watch on Castro during
the voyage. The colonial government
intends to put down any sympathetic
demonstration that may be made on
shore.
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Nav Be Two Extra Sessions.

The ad valorem tax bill of Senator
Anhut is hung up because the senate
does not approve of the Baker bill
to regulate telephone companies. 1t
was supposed that ad valorem tax
would be adopted this session with
scarcely a dissenting vote but it now
appears that ii may never pass at all.
The tieing up of so many important
measures is not only displeasing to
the speaker but very irksome to the
rural members who want to get back
to the pillow and the meadow lark and
IL is freely predicted that some fine
day lot of important legislation will
go into the waste basket and adjourn
ment and sine die will be all that is
left to be done. This may mean a
couple of extra sessions but they can
come after the harvest is past and
the farmers are longing for a vaca-
ton.
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LITTLE JOKERS.
Those Said To Be In The Payne Tariff
Bill Pointed Out.

Bill Pointed Out.
The intricacies of the Payne tariff
bill and the complications which may
result from its enactment into law,
are illustrated by the hide and leather
schedules. In connection with the
maximum and minimum provisions of
the new bill a peculiar situation is
presented. The bill places hides on
the free list, with a retaliatory pro-
vision for a duty of 20 per cent ad
valorem on hides coming from coun-
tries which do not give the United
States the benefit of the most favored
nation clause The duty on sole
leather, as now in the bill. is per
cent ad valorem. The maximum duty
provided for sole leather is 20 per
cent of the duty in addition, which
makes it 6 per cent ad valorem 1t
is contended that the inequality be-
tween the maximum duties on hides
and sole leather is so great that it
will seriously affect the American tan
ners. IL was pointed out that Vene-
zuela, for instance, would find it to
its advantage to have the maximum
rates of duty in the Payne bill apply
against its products, in order to en-
courage its tanning industry. While
it's hides would not find as large a
market on account of the 20 per cent
duty, factories for tanning the hides
and exporting the sole leather to the
u. s. would have an advantage over
the American manufacturers, whose
hides would cost more on account OF
the maximum duty, without a similar
increase in the amount of protection
on sole leather.
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The report of the special commit
tees appointed by the house and SEN
ate to investigate the water powers
OF the state was presented In both
branches of the legislature Wednes-
day afternoon and followed by a bill
prepared by the joint committee for
regulating the operation and price
TO be charged for water power SER
vice within the state. The report is
signed by Representatives Curtiss,
Yaple and Davis, and by Senators
Ward, Weter and Anhut, and gives
the present development as 221 900
horse power. which Is included in 662
developed powers, resulting in a saw
ing Of over two million tons of coal
annually.
IL places the undeveloped power at
something over 100000 horse power,
and states that when the steam power
now used in the state, and capable
of conversion to water power shall
be so changed the coal-saving will ex-
coed five million tons annually; and
when all the water power of the state
shall be brought into service, ii will
mean a yearly saving of thirteen mil
lion tons of coal. worth approximately
forty million dollars.
The report sounds a warning to
boards of supervisors that. owing to
the new method of transmitting cleo
tricity to commercial centers 200
miles away. remote counties where
powers are located cannot expect ma
terial local industrial development.
but must by conditions to be imposed
when permits to dam are granted,
protect the county either by royalty
and a provision which will permit only
surplus power to be sent to distant
markets, or make some definite ar
rangement whereby permanent bene-
fit will accrue to the county. Hereto
fore these permits have been freely
granted and no attempt to secure rev.
enue made. and those counties that
have relied on incidental benefits only,
have, according to the opinion of the
attorney-general, no redress and no
appeal from the acts of the super
visors, no matter how frivolous and
neglected they may have been.
The report. however, calls attention
to the recent amendment to the tax
laws which gives any taxpayer in the
state the right to petition the state
board of tax commissioners to review
assessments, and advises that this
will be of great value in counties
where powers are not properly valued
for taxation purposes. In the opinion
of the committee. this will be the sole
dependence of several counties whose
chief benefit from the development
of its water powers is now big
dam to look at and a nominal revenue
from the taxation of flowage lands at
state land valuations.
! The report discusses the various i'm
pediments to rapid development, espe-
cially the speculation in and holding
up of fiowage rights, which must be
acquired by a single interest before
power can be put in operation. In
the absence of the right of eminent
domain, riparian owners hold each
other up and prevent development
until the terms they dictate are ac-
coded to. In Houghton county, de-
velopment which would be of almost
inestimable value to the county, has
been he'd up by holders of less than
One-tenth of the hOWaPe rights
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ages and should be eradlcated fortn-
with. He has secured a showing of
sworn testimony that makes his posi-
tion very strong, and the indications
are that there will be violent shak-
ing up before he has finished. He was
also the instigator of the investigation
OF the school book graft and 1t is un-
derstood that the committee having
that matter in charge will soon be
ready report material progress. Mr..
Ogg was member OF the house TWEEN
ty-two years ago and was then as he
is now interested chiefly in measures
in which the causes of humanity and
the common people Dredominate.
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A constltutIonaI Hamper.

The legislature is being somewhat
hampered by the provision of the new
constitution which provides that the
subject matter OF a bill shall not be
changed on its passage through the
two houses. A case in point is pre-
scented in the attempt to combine the
laws with reference to pawnbrokers
and chattel mortgage sharks. A bill
was passed In the senate to make Ger
tain amendments to the chattel mort.
gage law, and later II was found neces-
sary to make changes which will re-
quire the introduction of a new bill,
and complete reconsideration OF the
matter.
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Suspect Foul PLAY.

The body of John Smith, a well
known Buchanan painter, was found
one mile north of the village by sec
ton men on the branch of the Pere
Marquette railroad 1t was found ly-
ing across the track. The neck was
broken and the head lay over one of
the rails, the feet touching the other
one. From a wound on the face ii
would appear that Smith had received
a blow which caused his body to fall
across the track, breaking the neck.
When last seen Smith was with his
brother, George Smith, and Charles
Chartwood, a local stone mason. They
had been drinking heavily all day and
Smith was placed in charge of Chart
wood while he returned to town. Foul
play is suspected.
The Yale expositor., 1909-04-16
Poisoned by Wild TurnIps.

Homer Skinner, IL. is dead, and his
sister, Bertha, 10. will die, from being
poisoned by eating of wild turnips,
mistaking the deadly root for horse
radish. They are the only children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Skinner, who
resides in Urbandale, a southern sub
urb of Battle Creek, and had gone to
the lowlands between that street and
the Grand Trunk tracks to hunt for
horseradish.
They had their baskets partly full
of the wild turnip and had eaten
largely of it, when both felt i'll, and
returned home There they were
seized with commissions. and were hur-
ried to Nichols hospital. The boy died
within a half hour after reaching the
hospital. and physicians say the girl
cannot recover.
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Opposes Specific Taxes.

A special committee representing
the board of supervisors and the city
council of Sault Ste. Marie has de-
cided to oppose the specific tax law,
the country members outvoting the
city members, who favored retaining
the present law. Representative n.
l.. Field and Senator Fowle will be
urged to work for the repeal of the
law.
The law provides for specific tax
of one per cent on the capital stock
of power companies instead of the
usual taxes on property. The Michi-
gan-Lake Superior Power Co. pays
only $4,000 a year on its plant, which
cost about $7,000,000.
The company is in process of re-
organization, and the city members
believe the law should stand until the
concern gets on its feet. 1t is claim
ed the repeal of the law will hinder
financing the company
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The RUNNING of Prisons.

Rep. Ogg and Warden Fuller of the
1onia prison are fighting each other
without regard to the prescribed
rules of any known warfare. Mr.. Ogg
is determined that the prisons shall
be run according to law and not by
a code to be established by the war
dens and the house seems to think
the idea is a good one. On the other
hand wardens that have been SUI
preme monarchs of the fate of the
prisoners in their charge want the
dark ages" methods that have pre-
vailed so long to continue. Mr.. Ogg
has shown that Michigan has punish
ments that have been abolished by
every state in the union except Mary
land and that in at least one case a
warden has raised a prisoners SEN
tence from five to fifteen years on
his own authority.
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Believed Boy Was Murdered.

II am convinced that my son was
murdered and then thrown into the
river" declared George o. Saben, of
Dimondale. the badly decomposed
body of whose son, Clyde, was found
floating in the river below the north
end dam.
Mr.. Saben said that he was positive
after seeing the wound in the fore
head of his dead son and from other
circumstances that Clyde had met
with foul play, and mentioned the
names of two girls and a man.
Saben added that his son had had
an unfortunate relation with a Di-
mondale girl who. the father says,
wanted to marry his son. The young
woman had sister in Lansing and
Clyde had also been friendly with
her.
Young Saben disappeared February
20.
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Mr.. haIlY,s Bill.

At last the long-looked for Hally
home rule bill has been introduced
and a start on one of the biggest
jobs of the session has been made.
The bill is looked upon much more
favorably than was anticipated but
Chairman Monroe will not commit
himself on it's virtues until he has
tried to fit it's provisions to various
municipalities. The bill is not a very
long one and started out by defining
everything covered by the bill and
then tells what city may do and
also what it may not do. 1t is evil
dent from the reading of the bill that
Mr.. Hally lives in Detroit.
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GUS cndTdCItTISIICS anu lively IHItIt5I
in public affairs to remain passive
and make no effort to assist in bring
ing about the best results for the
state. On that account he has met
with some criticism from that element
which believes that the speaker should
act in an automatic or mechanical ca
pacity, but the strength of his posi-
ton is evident from the loyal support
that he is receiving and the almost
general expression of the members
that they intend to stand by the speak
er. Old members are not slow in
saying that Mr.. Campbell has made
one of the best, If not the very best.
speaker the house has had in many
years and he is looked upon as a COM
ing man with a career not confined to
his present position.
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IIOUDItsUINe pfODIem.
This bill provides for the per capita
distribution on the basis now used.
1t does not take any funds from
any city, village or township where
the same can be used, as now,
1t does create a new fund, to be
known as a Primary Interest Emer-
gency Fund" to be derived from such
money as cannot be used under the
present plan of distribution, said Pri-
mary Emergency Fund to be used to
assist weak or poor districts.
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According to Dean V. c. Vaughn. Of
the II. of NJ, who says that overstudy
never hurt anyone, and because OF the
necessity for extra study the medical
students will be required to give 80
hours per week TO their work. This
is twice as much as is given in some
of the other departments.
George EIdridge. aged IL. whose
home is In Detroit, but who has trav-
eled alone all over the United States,
and made living by singing. was
released by the Port Huron police
When informed by telephone that the
boys mother and stepfather did not
care to have him returned to the
home.
George e. Taylor, blind soldler-ora-
tor and brother Of Walter Taylor, OF
Kalamazoo, a member of the re-
cent constitutional convention, was
stricken with paralysis and died In a
few hours He was to have spoken at
Memorial day celebration in Grand
Haven
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been highly graft
flying to his friends
and supporters. AS
a presiding officer
he IL clear and
fair IA his rulings
and manages the
business of the
house in a prompt
and decisive man.
ner. 1t would. how
ever, be impossible
for a man of Mr..
Campbell's vigor-
- 1s.1I. 4-tAnAgt
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Mayor Charles Miller and four other
citizens of Lakevicw, o.. we're arrest
ed charged with operating a blind
pig" The town is dry and tho mayor
was elected or dry" platform.
Judge John f. Phillips, in u. s. dis
trict court in Springfield. Mo-. SEN
fenced Cleveland Carroll, Pulaski
county boy employed as a mail carrier,
70 six months in the Missouri refor-
matorv for cmbezzling postal funds
amounting 10 two cents. Carroll is
said to have appropriated two cents
given him 10 buy stamp. lie de-
stroved the letter he was to mail
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teristic nerve and
energy to bring to
a successful issue.
AS a member of
the committee on
the Marquette pris-
on he became cog
infant of certain
methods and prac-
tees in vogue at
that institution
and at Ionia
(which he declares
belong to the dark
The Yale expositor., 1909-04-16

A tornado caused the deaths OF five
persons and wrecked many buildings
In Aberdeen, Miss.
Truman II. Newberry, of Detroit,
has acvce?ted the vice-presdency OF
the navy league OF the United States.
Forest fires, Systematically started
by incendiaries, destroyed 10000 acres
of growing timber on the estate of
George Vanderbilt near Asheville. n.
c.
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Primary School Funds

Rep. j. L. San
born, of Alpena,
has introduced a
bill relating to
public instruction
and the handling
of the primary
school fund and
the interest on the
same, which meets
the approval of
, n e m b S gener-
lilly and will great
ly simplify this
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A Veterans Work.

Representative Robert Y. Ogg, OF
Detroit, is just now in the thick of a
battle which will require his charac-
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Mrs. Dean Shoulders, OF Owosso. Is
seriously III OF blood poisoning, as a
result OF being bitten by a cat which
she was taking from a tree
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A WORKING Speaker.

The administration of Speaker Colin
p. Campbell of Kent county, as speak
er of the house of representatives. has
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Mrs. James Colwell, of Ionia, was
sD thered by coal gas. She was 70
" RS of age.
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Robbers who blew up the safe In
the Unionville postoffice secured about
700 pennies for their trouble.
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Grain. Etc.

Detrolt.--wheai-Ca No 2 rcd.
s1.35: Nav opened at $133 and ruled
steady: July opened at $1.13. advanced
to S114 and declined to s1.13: Septem-
Der opened at s1.05H and advanced to
S1O6h; No. 3 red. s1.32; No. white.
$1.35
low. cars at 69c; No white. car
at 5sc
Rye--Cash No. 2 S5c.
Beans--Cash s2.36; May. s242 bid.
Cloverseed--Prime spot. so bags at
$3.50: October. 100 bags at $3.50: sam
ple. 30 bags at s5.25. Is at $50. 25 at
IS. 10 at SAB; sample alsike, bags at
81 ut Sc.
Timothy seed-Prime spot. 60 bags
at S165.
Feed-In 100-lb sacks jobbing lots:
Bran. $2S; coarse middlings. s29: fine
middlings $50; cracked corn and coarse
cornmeal. 500; corn and oat chop. s2I
per ton.
Flour-Best Michigan patent ss:5;
ordinary patent, Sc: straight $3.50:
clear. 1915 per bbl in wood. Jobbing
lots
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East Observation-Disclosures dull
and 25@ soc lower; best export steers.
s6@650: best 1000 to 1,S00-lb ship
10 Shipping steers. $500 ). so; best fat
cows. $4.50@5: fair to good. SS.75@4;
trimmers. $2.5O@2.75 best fat heifers,
s5m5.50: light heifers. SO. as "a; best
bulls, s45O@4,75; bologna bulls. 1915
a. The market was fair on the best
cows but slow on the common kinds;
best cows. $40@50: medium, $50 m 40:
common, $256D30.
Hogs-Market steady: heavy. $500
7.4O; workers.. $7.15@730; pigs, $500
go: closed steady.
Sheep--Market steady; best lambs,
sS.40mS50; fair to good sS@S.25; culls.
s767.75: yearlings, S7@740; wethers,
$656m6T5. ewes. s5T56625; closed
weak: prospects lower.
Calves-Steady: best $3.50: medium
to good, s7@9; heavy. $4.50G5.