The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-18

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| passed the house, but there is Turk.
Ing suspicion that many OF the mem
bers voted for them TO square them
selves with their constituents under
the belief that the senate would XIII
the measures. II they should get
through the higher house today IL
would be joke on certain solons.
The resolution for a constitutional
amendment for woman suffrage lacked
| ~ votes OF adoption in the lower
house. II is believed that that many
were dubbed by interests, afraid OF
an enlarged suffrage.
Rep, ID. G.. +. Warner led the fight
against the suffrage amendment.
! Detroit has Jared well in some re-
spects, being granted permission TO
increase it's water bonds TO SS,5O0.0OO.
and its bonding limit for general pur-
poses TO per cent. On the other
! hand, the city has been betrayed by
some of its own representatives in the
senate in making the initiative on
municipal ownership amendments prac-
tically impossible. Senators Guy A.
Miller and George G.. Scott were the
chief executioners. Rep. Miller also
corraled the spotlight when IL was
found that he had tried 10 slip through
bill without the knowledge OF the
city officials which would have cost
the city millions OF dollars in grade
separation awards.
or the Detroit members, George
Lord has introduced more successful
statewide measures than any other.
They include enlarged powers for the
state tax commission, TO make posi-
BILE an adequate assessment of mining
property, which hitherto has escaped
for lack OF experts in the commissions
service; state board OF equalization,
and an increased salary for the com
missioner OF insurance with the cut
ting OF of the unsatisfactory fee sys-
tenn Mr.. Lords state accounting bill
is now before the senate.
Rep. Ogg has presented the bills per-
hitting an increased bond limit, much
needed. He also introduced bill pro-
tecting owners of outside showcases
by making ii criminal offense TO
break and enter them. All these have
passed He has others on the way.
Rep. Copley has introduced some 20
bills all asked for as public benefits.
The most notable among them Is a
bill which passed the senate Saturday
giving general power TO municipal cor
porations OF every kind to condemn
every class or private property for
public use. The bill was found neces-
sary when the water board sought to
condemn extra property for the water
works, and other municipal corpora
tons have found themselves hampered
For instance, there is now no power by
which a city can condemn land beyond
It's own boundaries. and In many cases
II has no power within its own limits
to condemn for anything except the
opening or widening OF streets.
Mr.. Copley had a corrupt practices
bill similar In general intent to that
introduced by Senator James, prevent
ing many OF the practices used now
in elections, including the prodigal ex.
penditure OF money which mades n
scandal OF many campaigns. He had
the bill side-tracked TO allow the James
bill to pass IL possible with the limited
time available. II neither measure is
adopted this year. and he returns, 1t
will be one of his earliest measure.
His bill limiting the amount Of in
terest which can be charged by loan
sharks and placing loan agents and
pawn-brokers under the same inspec-
| ton, passed the senate Saturday
Three OF his bills, one requiring STOCK
holders TO make up impaired bank
capital rather than have the bank
placed In a receivers hands, another
revising the garnishee law and an
other permitting Justice court clerks
to make out certain papers which
have hitherto required Justices sig
nature, have been passed and will De-
come laws. A bill making more
definite the law against combining
juvenile delinquents with grown Grim
inals, has passed the house.
Rep. Flowers has fought Throughout,
! for primary reform. His bill to unit
the primary elections was held over
by the senate judiciary committee I'M
til after the spring primaries at the
instance OF the Martindale faction,
because 1t provided for immediate ef
feet and would have permitted women
to vote at the primaries, a thing the
Martindale people did not wish. After
election, a senate substitute restoring
the right to women passed both
/ houses, and the general primary
amendment bill is before the senate,
Tuesday. Mr.. Flowers also led the
fight against the Detroit and Grand
Rapids laundrymen, who sought to
have the 54-hour law for women's
work suspended for their benefit dur.
ing the hot months. He introduced a
bill giving married women a right to
their earnings, which passed the
senate as he worded 1t, after attempt
by the judiciary committee to destroy
| its effect.
Rep. Ashley has given his best
work to a bill putting fraternal in
surance companies on a safe basis.
The bill was mutilated in passage in
the house, but was restored by the
senate committee, and is up on gen;
eral order this week. Mr.. Ashley, az
chairman OF the committee on labor,
has been instrumental in efforts 10
solve the workingmen's compensation
puzzle. II was also Ashley that made
the last stand in the house againsr
the destructive 25-per-cent initiative
provision in the home-rule amend
ment bill.
Rep. Austin had a bill for convict
labor on the roads which received
favorable comment, but got sidetrack-
ed because OF the controversy be-
tween the Miller and Leidlein road
bills. He has secured the passage OF
one bill, requiring boards OF healti.
to give the history of tuberculosis
cases, for use in lighting the white
j plague.
! Rem Jerome's most earnest wor1,