The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-28
HOUSE GRIAOsQu
seRlsT OF Il BILLS.
Speaker Baker Clubs Local Bills Dis
guised as General Acts-Tax
On Bachelors.

last night TO club the grist OF local
legislation that Is being showed
through under gulse of general acts.
The bill which he lit on was one OF
his sparring partner. Judge Heckert,
OF Van Buren,, 20 raise the salary or
circuit court stenographer. Baker
was the only one TO oppose the bill.
and explained that he did IL because
such acts were really local and should
be passed only with a referendum
clause attached. One such bill, intro
duced by Mcbride. OF Holland, was
passed for the day.
The house passed IL bills, with Rep.
Woodruff. OF Wayne, In the chair.
among them was the Woodwork bill
to put a crimp in the ID. G. II. 4 M.
which is operating under a special
charter.
Two bills by Rep. Copley were pass
ed. One Is to cut OF wildcat banking
corporations, where articles OF incor-
poration are filed and then the stock
is peddled. The idea is to cut on pro-
moters from getting out articles and
then peddling stock. The other
amends the law regulating foreign
corporations by making officers OF
such corporations responsible the
same as officers OF domestic corpora
tons. The necessity for this clause
was recently pointed out by the SUI
preme court.
Rep. Yeo also got two bills through.
One is for taxing cut timber In the
place where II stood instead of where
II is owned as personal property; the
other requires railroad companies 10
get permission from the state rail-
road commissioners before tearing up
their tracks.
The -Symonds bill for two
cent fares In the upper peninsula
passed with only three adverse votes.
The state prison appropriation bill
was passed. II appropriates $l34.OOo
In 1911, and $15S,000 in 1912. for the
two state prisons and asylums for
criminal insane.
Senator SHELLS bill. allowing bridge
and tunnel companies to condemn
property the same as rAilroad COM
panies. and Rep. Stevenson's bill. as
sessing steamboats, on a tonnage bas-
is, were passed. The Smell bill will
prevent a repetition Of the fight be
tween the Backnses of Detroit and
the Detroit River Tunnel Co, in which
pipes were driven and filed with am
monia TO prevent the company cross
ing the Backus property.
Rep. Rankin come through with O
bill taxing bachelors $40 a year when
over 30 years old. Rep. Rankin ex-
planned that he would have liked to
put a graded tax. so that II would
become SO high finally as to drive the
bachelors into matrimony. but that
the constitution forbade,
CAPITAL NOTES.
In round numbers the fight which
legislative employees made on Speak
er Bakers effort TO cut on Sunday
pay, cost, them about $500. According
TO f, ", Gibson, secretary OF the SEN
ate, the average number Of times
employees negotiated notes was three.
Each time they paid so cents for the
loan. As there are 104 employees In
the senate and house, $156 was spent
I'm interest. II 10 said that attorneys
fees and other expenses will bring
the total close to $500.
Senator Weter's bill to abolish the
Office of state salt inspector, an ad-
ministration measure. was laid TO rest
by the senate Monday evening. The
funeral services were stormy. The
bill was reported out by the commit
tee. and Senator Cartier moved to
postpone further consideration Of the
measure. He declared that the in
spection OF salt was necessary TO pre-
serve the public health. and that the
rigir inspection enforced in Michigan
had made Michigan salt the standard
by which the product OF other states
Ia compared.
A bill permitting cities and villages
of at least 5000 population to estab-
lish teachers retirement and disabil-
fly funds was introduced by Senator
Taylor. The bill makes the prest-
dent of the board OF education, the
of schools, two repre-
of the teachers, and fifth
person to be chosen by the other four |
Of board of trustees in