The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-20
18TH SESSION OF
LEGISLATURE ENDS
Closing Hours Are Quiet and Marked
by No Unusual Incident-Relief
Given Pressure Isle People.

4 LANSING. Mich. May 2O.-Condi-
tions are normal in Lansing again.
The closing hours OF the forty-hfth
session OF the legislature were mark
cd by no unusual incident. The scene
was In striking contrast TO the last
hours OF the legislature in 1899 when
Hazen 8. Pfngree was governor. Nine
teen senator's had organized TO defeat
Pingree's railroad taxation bill and
there were stirring incidents. Gov.
Pingree, when the senate committee
called on him TO convey any mes
n gages he might have, did not convey
q message but he conveyed the request
that the senate go TO a warmer eli
mate.
The senate and house yesterday, In
the last hours OF the session, passed
!. the bill TO give trained nurses board
examination and registration. Tho
bill appropriating $4,000 for the fire
sufferers i'm the Pressure Isle district
was also agreed to- The legislature
amended the county home rule bill
SO IL provides that a board of super
visors cannot enact any law which
shall take effect In less than 90 days
after passing it, Twenty per cent
OF those affected In the township or
in the entire county can within 90 days
after the law is passed get up a petit
ton and have referendum on the
supervisors act
The solons killed the bill to enabls
the members OF the state pardon
board TO draw 81 day for 200 days.
At present the three members get 81
day. Last year one member got lst
days. another 129 and the third 81
days. Another bill requiring all two
cent fare roads to sell 500 mile books
I. Tor $40 was killed. The senate In
uisred on attaching a 10-cent penalty
amendment for all passengers who
board trains without tickets and this
was the reason for the bilfs defeat.
The principal bills passed by the
legislature during the session that
has lust closed are: Three home rule
Z hills. giving cities, villages and coun-
lies the powers OF local legislation as
provided by the new constitution; tax
1ng telegraph and telephone COM
a anies on the ad valorem plan. will In
crease states receipts over sl00,Ooo;
fe-enacting railroad commission Dill.
7broadening commissions powers ana
Removing doubt OF the laws constitu-
tionality; allowing townships TO form
unit school district, means township
high schools II used; readjusting high
way laws and making II easier Tor
highway commissioner to learn MS
duties, $150.000 yearly appropriated;
prescribing rigid rules for reporting
tuberculosis cases; making stricter
laws for conduct of saloons as provid-
cd by Warner-Cramton and Dickinson
bills.
The legislature passed the Hatch
Engel bill providing for election o.
drain commissioners and the Havliand
bill. providing for the construction OF
dams in drains; the bill codifying mil
( itary laws and making promotions by
seniority, militiamen to DE carried for
one cent a mile to and from rifle
ranges: keepers OF public resorts 70
be punished for barring soldiers In
Uniform; abolishing contract labor
and forbidding .tricing np;" railway
commission to supervise bond issues
or public utilities; women shall not
work more than "a hours per week
end not more than 10 hours day;
protecting black bass between Feb.
and June Is, limiting size to not less
than 10 inches and allowing not more
than 16 to be caught In one day, TO-
Registration Of optometrists; In
creasing salaries Of circuit judges
from $500 to $4,000; labor commits
nioner from $4,000 to $4,000; superin-
(nndent OF public instructions to $4,-
+ 900; chief of corporation division in
aecretary of states office from sl,1Oo
"a 81, 900; to allow use OF voting ma
hes at primary elections; making
H1r's birthday, Feb. II, and Column
legal holidays; public domain
osion to handle state tax lands
nforestration matters; prohibit
Z 1nH ~ OF open street cars with run
MIN board alongside; requiring physi-
I1ns' prescription to secure morphine
cocnfne at drug stores.
The state tax budget VIII be sl0,'
+ $4,000 for the two years. as against
/ Sc. 100, 900 appropriated by forty-fourth
legislature, state tax rate in 19O9
will be 1895 per $1,000. as against
1921 In 1907. In 1910 II will be $3.50.
as against s241 In 1908.