The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-03-12
HOUSE WORKS
TO 6 O'CLOCK
State SOlOnS Are LabOring
with Much Vig0r.
PRIMARY ELL IN SENATE

on Third Reading-This Action Con
sidered To BE the Most important
of Past Week-Ormsbee Liquor sill
Is Acted Upon by the House Com
mittee.
Lansing, Mich, March Both
houses of the legislature addressed
themselves to the work i'm hand with
unusual yigor and enthusiasm last
week, holding prolonged sessions ana
accomplishing excellent results so far
as the dispatch OF business is con
cerned. The house devoted a great
deal of time to the consideration of
bills In committee of the whole, work
ing right Hp to 6 o'clock.
The SEM e look up the Dickinson
primary bill and kept right at it
through an afternoon and evening and
the succeeding forenoon, standing right
by the job until the bill was finally
disposed Of on third reading. Having
got the habit it is predicted that the
sOlons viii not weary with we'll doing
and that business will continue to be
dispatched with all promptness con-
sistent with the proper consideration
of the important matters that come up
for consideration and action.
Action Was Important.
The action of the senate in passing
the Dickinson primary election bill was
possibly the most important action Of
the week, his bill being, of course,
of widespread public interest and con
Germ. The main provisions of his bill.
which was passed with bur Eve neg
alive votes. are that there shall be
but one enrolment day, which shall
obtain throughout the state. and be
the first Monday in April, election day
Two gene al primary days are fixed
one the third Tuesday preceding the
April election and the other the frs
Tuesday i'm September
The effort made to have the bill
provide for two additional primary
days for the ely of Detroit was mo-,
successful but q concession was made
whereby the primary polls may be l,eD
open until 10 o'clock p. m. i'm Detroit
The bin ma Ees the primary syst en-
mandatory on all counties which have
thus far adopted it, on all cities hav-
ms a popula ion in excess of 10000
and on an cities i'm which one partv
has adopted IT, Further than this. n
is required that the question Of ad9p-
ton be submitted to the voters of all
other counties at the general election
in April, 1910.
Nominations Made Mandatory.
The nomination of governor, lieuten-
ant governor, candidates for congress
and candidates for the Legislature is
made mandatory. and II is provided
that candidates for circuit judge shall
be nominated at primaries when such
direct vote is petitioned for. The bill
further makes it mandatory that an
advisory primary vote TO be taken for
candidates for United States senatur.
An unsuccessful attempt was made tC
couple with this feature of the bill
provision which, in effect, required all
candidates for the legislature to agree
in writing that they would, if elected,
vote for the candidate Of their party
who received the highest number of
votes In the primary. For this was
substituted a provision that the candi-
dates receiving the highest number of
votes should be certified to the legis-
lature as the candidate of their re-
spective parties
The proposal TO make the bill state
wide in its application and to include
all nominations from governor to cor
oner was defeated by a vote of II to
9, and substantially the same vote de-
feated the further proposal that all
state officers be nominated at prima-
ries. There are some who think the
provision relative to certifying the can
didates receiving the highest number
of votes at the primary to the legis-
lature as the candidates Of the respect
i've parties for United States senator is
unconstitutional, their argument being
that such a provision precludes the
possibility Of any other person than
those certified becoming candidates be-
fore the legislature for this Office.
The house will take this bill up for
consideration at an early day.
Ormsbee Liquor Bill.
The so-called Ormsbee liquor bill
which has created quite a furore
throughout the state, the result being
the filing Ca cry numerous protests
against it's passage. has been acted
upon by the house committee on liquor
traffic and reported out for printing.
As reported. the bill is in a vastly DIFF
ferent form than as introduced, the
committee having devoted several ses-
sions to it's consideration and having
made numerous amendments thereto
All this refers to the Ormsbee bill
amending the general liquor law. The
other Ormsbee bill, which had for its
object the doing away with the couI ty
local option law, still lies concealed IN
the committees pigeon hole and is
likely to remain there.
The main bill as amended by the
committee provides that if q saloon
keeper holding a license disposes of
his business. the license may be trans
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