The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-01-15

| two principal divisions, the classified
and unclassified service. The first
named is not subject to the commits
sion and the classified service is di-
vided into five different groups as fol-
lows:
The exempt class, no competitive
class, competitive class, Legislative
employees and labor class.
Most of the legislative employees
are placed in the competitive class.
The bill will probably open up a
discussion that will take up consider
able time and no vital action on 1t
may result at the present session
Senator MacKay introduced also a
bill which provides for changes in
the Office of superintendent of public
instruction. 1t provides salary OF
$4,000 a year for the superintendent,
$4,000 for an assistant and $4,000 for
a superintendent of rural schools, the
department to have supervision OF
all educational institutions in the
state. including the University Of
Michigan and state normal schools.
This BILL which some refer to as
"Supt. Wright's bill" wipes ont all
district school boards throughout the
state and creates a single township
board TO control all schools in the
township. Wright points out that
there is one district in the state with
a school board and not a single pnp'l
or child of school age. while several
other districts have two, three or
five children only.
New Rules.
The senate adopted the rules OF
the last session for temporary use,
but wheiS Senator Collins offered a
resolution that a committee of three
be appointed to draft new rules Sen
ator Wetmore thought 1t was loaded
and had the resolution tabled.
The house committee on rules rec
commended an increase OF membership
OF the important committee on city
corporations from five to nine and
several new rules for facilitating husi.
ness were reported. among them re-
curing all bills to be typewriter or
printed and also requiring a forty
eight hour notice to be given the
introducer of a bill when a resolution
TO take the same from a committee
is to be made. Formerly such action
required a two-thirds vote, but under
the new constitution a majority OF
the members-elect is sufficient.
Both houses adjourned till Monday
evening. There was mo effort TO do
business after the message had been
read, ALTHOUGH MacKay, in the senate
and Edwards, in the house, intro
duced resolutions which were adoDted
congratulating Secretary of the Navy
Newberry on his appointment and fe-
licitating the president on the selec-
ton.
Note and Comment.
The first appearance of lobby work
in the present session came from
the railroads who want a law that
will enable them to collect ten cents
additional fare from passengers who
do not purchase tickets. Strange as
this may seem a delegation OF passen-
ger conductors came and appeared 10
be anxious for the measure which
would seem to have for its purpose
a check on the honesty of the conduc-
| tor. Ohio has the law at present and
the supreme court of that state has
just declared ii constitutional.
The new constitution has caused an
innovation in the introduction Of bills
as it permits bills to be introduced
any time during the session instead
OF fixing a limit of time for that
purpose. This does away with the old
time custom of member giving no
tice that at a future date he would
introduce a bill for a certain purpose
which the notice would express.
The hardest thing for members to
realize Is that there is to be no more
local bills passed at Lansing. Here
tofore the up-state member has made
himself solid at home by getting
through some measure especially for
the benefit of his own constituents
but now there will be one complete
enabling act under which all local
legislation will be submitted TO a vote
OF the people. This will, II Is be-
lieved greatly lessen the work or
legislation and while the present ses-
sion may be somewhat protracted by
the labor OF framing the new general
laws nee essary, 1t is believed that In
future no session need last more
than 60 days.
sensation OF statewide scope was
sprung in the cloak rooms of both
houses by the expose of the fact that
nearly all the gigantic water ways
of the state had been quietly eobbled
up by big companies who had prac-
tically succeeded in tieing I'D the big
rivers so that not only the land own
ers along the rivers were at their
mercy from damage bv floods from
the big dams, but that the large manu-
featuring concerns would in case Of
merger which was probable, might
be held up to the point OF ruin. and
future development in the way OF in
dustries would be paralyzed. Repre-
sentative Curtiss at once introduced
resolution in the house calling for
committee to investigate the stu
alton and report at the earliest posi-
BILE date. II is understood that bill
will be prepared to deal with the
matter II II is not too late. The
state Of Illinois. II appears. is now en-
gagged at cost of millions in buying
back the water ways of it's rivers
which were gobbIed up before 1t was
realized what was hanDening.
Probably Speaker Campbell's most
aunoving task outside of selecting the
chairman NJ tho fudfcfarv cornnoiftoa