The Detroit times., 1909-01-14
WOULD PAY $50 TO
SOLONS EVERY
10 DAYS
|EP. HuNTLEV OFFERS A BILL
FIXING PAY AT Sc PER DAY
CHANGES PROPOSED IN RAIL
ROAD LAW.

LANSING. Mich. Jan. l4.-Rep'
untley has introduced a bib TO nix
30 pay OF members ~ So per day. 10
paid In instalments OF 500 every
days until the regular $500 salary
AZ been paid. II the legislature adj
urns before the allotted time the al
vance would be paid to the mem
FRS. This measure differs from the
&nate bill which has been reported
vorably at IS per day.
Rep. Hoeft introduced a bill 10
mend the railroad. bridge and tunnel
Smpany acts under section 6234 or the
implied laws OF 1896 The word
bridge" Is added in the clauses
here railroad" and railroad tunnel
I.curs: clause No 7, which relates To
q transportation OF persons ana
eight. Is left out, making thecharge
the car sS for distance not less
ian ten miles nor over so miles, ana
rovided graded rates for various dis
noes. In the ninth clause the Il
nts per mile section for transporting
kssengers is omitted. but the rate or
Tree and four cents per mile stu
Ids in the upper peninsula. Rail
hd and bridge companies in the low
peninsula with gross earnings eual
or exceeding $4,000 a mile can
|hrge only two cents Il mile for fare.
hle all roads showing gross earn
is under this sum can charge three
lts a mile.
Miller Offers Suggestion.
when Morrice offered the resolution
spending the sale of state lands boz
ring Oh waterways, Guy Miller said
believed that was not in the legisla'
rels power; that ii would come UNI
If statutary provisions, but he
cukht that possibly concurrent
solution on which both houses must
might accomplish the desired ef.
et.
Morrice res bonded that he did nos
low whether either kind OF resolution
build hold, bit thought its passage
build be wise.
The state tax commission will file
e annual assessments OF railroad
1es Thursday afternoon. AS far as
n be learned there is no radical
ange from the figures of last year.
There Is much talk among legisla-
rs OF making the members OF the
xcomp,ission elective officers, which
likely to be provided in a bill TO be
Produced.
In the senate bill was introduced
Mackay to compel the state insti-
lions To buy all meats, butter and
eadstuffs for use In the same, un-
|r contract from dealers In the state
|ly,
Bates put in a bill authorizing the
Michigan Dairmymen's association 10
I'D yearly meetings and auxiliary
eetings IL they wish, and making an
|prDpriation of $500 each year to
try II out.
Mackay Offers Additional Bill.
Mackay put In another bill to fur
er regulate the money shops which
nd cash on personal property. with
lent to check excessive profits and
We the borrower a better chance.
Bank Commissioner Zimmerman has
sued an exhaustive report on the
ndition of the banks In the state.
|It shows 352 banks in good working
der. an increase OF 33 in the past
lar, with a net increase OF capital OF
PSI 900.
During the past 20 years deposits
We increased $175.063. 1906, and
ans increased $l65, 493 .645.06. There
Is a decrease in loans Of S2,432,.
k.61, but an Increase in deposits OF
O25. 422.16.
IThe report closes with recon-
endation that the force of bank ex-
liners be put on graded salaries, VIZ
st year. III, 500; second year, $1,700;
ird year, $4,000. and $4,000 there
ter. which he believes would benefit
service