The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-14
SENATE PREPARES
FOR ADJOURNMENT
Will Finish Session On Next Wednes-
day-House Bills Only Work 10
Be Disposed of.
From a Stan Correspondent

LANSING, Mich. May IA The sen
ATE has almost completed its work for
nnal adjournment on next "Wednesday.
The only thing left is 10 dispose OF
what the house sends over. The SEN
ate yesterday put through these bills
on third reading;
Appropriating sl50.s6 for the indus
trial school. for girls. $4,000 for the
labor bureau: $4,000 FOR the state
board OF fish commissioners; sl2S,OV0
for the school for the blind: Sl6i.0O0
TOR the state normal school. The SEN
ate also agreed to the omnibus Dill
which provides for s3.350.000
The senate passed the bill by Rep.
Newkirk, OF Washtenaw. which author
ICES the dairy and food commissioner
To appoint special board whose duty
II shall be 10 prevent the aduIteration
Of drugs. The appropriation was cut
down from $4,000 TO $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 10 cut OUT
the 40 per cent proposition entirely.
The bill 1t was stated. would be re-
ported out today. A concession was
made 10 the Wayne delegation per-
hitting candidates in u county OF
$50 900 or more TO pay fees instead OF
securing the names OF voters 10 petit
tons.
The bill as agreed TO makes the pri'
mary system compulsory In all or the
4 SO counties which have adopted II anu
provides for submitting the question
( 10 the electors in the other counties
! and districts In the spring OF 1910.
Most OF the suggestions by Rep. Col
/ by. OF Detroit, were accepted as val
liable in formulating the measure. ms
clause regarding the primary FOR the
nomination Of governor and lieutenant
governor is not changed.
The bill requires the voters TO de-
eide on the direct nomination OF Unit
ed States senators each fall before
the election 10 the upper branch OF
congress is 10 be held.
All the bills reported out by the
regular committees were PRACTICAL,
disposed Of yesterday These were
passed in the committee OF the
whole BY Woodruff, Of Wyandotte
I
operating homes for old people b!
Rice. OF Berrien, repeating the ac'
creating a board Of jury commission
ers in his county Mckay, OF Faseefa
authorizing cemetery companies &c
receive real estate as gifts.
The bill introduced by Senator Fox
of Mayville. providing for revision anc
consolidation OF all highway laws. was
considered for four hours by the house
YESTERDAY The work on the measure
was only half finished as II consists
OF 1875 printed pages. The subject was
taken up again today.
The amended bill for the regulation
OF St. Clair Flats requires the boarC
OF control 10 meet on the first Wednes
day in October, 1909. and each nvt
wears thereafter 10 Ak the rental val
! ues for the. ensuing Ave years or such
I lands that are owned by the state OF
held by the state In trust. Any per
son who shall claim any OF these lands
ITO 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 TO the paramount right OF nav
igation and fishing by the public.