The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-02-02
SENATOR VANDERWERP's BILL
WOULD CUT OFF 6 JUDICIAL
CIRCUITS AND 8 JUDGES.
IN THIS BILL INGHAM AND SAG
INAW COUNTIES ARE DEPRIVED
OF THEIR SECOND JUDGES.
Employees of the State, Especially of
the Legislature, VIII Not Receive
Pay for Seven Days a Week.
(By Toby Candor.)

| bill provides in the way of changes
in the circuits:
Add Mackinac county to the eleventh
circuit, which will then be composed
of Chippewa, Schoolcraft, Luce, Alger
and Mackinac, with a population Of
| 54,0S1.
Consolidate the twenty-third and the
twenty-sixth circuits, making a new
| twenty-seventh circuit, composed of
Altoona, Alpena, Iosco, Montmorency,
Oscoda and Pressure Isle, with a pop
ulation of 52,452.
Consolidate the twenty-second and
thirty-eighth, making the new six
teenth, composed of Monroe and
! Washtenaw, with a population OF a.
631.
Consolidate the sixteenth and thirty
first, making the new fifteenth, COM
posed of st. Clair and Mocamb, with
population of S4,947.
Consolidate the first and fifteenth
making the new twenty-third, COM
posed of Branch, Hilltsdale and ST.
Joseph, with a population of S0,941.
Add Newaygo to the fourteenth, con-
sisting of Muskegon, giving a pop
ulation of 7S,17G.
sisting of Manistee Mason, Lake and
Osceola, and giving a population of
9O,614.
Dividing the thirteenth. twenty
eighth and thirty-third circuits into
two, one of which shall be Grand
Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie, Missaukee
and Wexford, with population of
76,405, and the other consisting of
Charlevoix, Emmet, Cheboygan, An
trim and Kalkaska, with population
of 1879.
In this bill, too, Ingham is deprived
of its second judge and Saginaw is
treated similarly, while Kent is dc.
MED the third judge asked for.
Employees of the state, especially
those of the legislature, will no longer
receive pay for seven days q week
work At the request of Speaker
Baker. Attorney-General Franz Kuhn
has rendered an opinion to the eff
feet that employees of the legislature
are entitled to their per diem only
upon such days as they render actual
service, and he quotes the old blue
law, prohibiting Sunday work of any
sort, to back him in his contention
that no service can be rendered on
that day, and consequently no pay
can be received. This means a big
cutting down in the expenses of the
legislature. The clerk of the house
and the secretary of the senate re-
ceive SO per day, while other EN-.
ployes receive from So a day up.
Hereafter the employees will be one
days pay short of the customary
bundle.
AS a result of the opinion of the
Encouragement to the effect that en-
ployes OF the legislature may not re-
ceive pay for Sundays, a serious
breach has occurred between Speaker
Baker and Clerk Paul Fl. King in the
house. King, by the decision, loses
$40 a week from his pay envelop and
he made a few remarks to Baker
about the situation. Baker in the
house informed the members that up
until this day / have had the assist
ance of the clerk in matters of parlia-
mentary practice. | say advisedly up
until this day"
This forced the hands of all and
the house is now busy taking sides in
the fight and preparing to show who
Is stronger, the clerk or the speaker
Because big bunch of "the Danites"
and other political opponents and op-
ponents of his reform measures were
guests Gov. Osborn refused to sit at
the banquet table at a dinner given
by DR.. J. B. Kennedy, of Detroit The
invitation had been extended him and
he put on his tuxedo for the purpose
of attending. A look into the dining
room. however, caused him to put on
his hat and coat again and leave.
II cannot sit at the table in the
attitude of making peace with those
who have fought my measures and
the measures of the people," he said
in explanation. 81 will make no
peace with these gentlemen until they
have made peace with the people
whom they misrepresent."
The institutional committees of the
house are refusing to recommend APP
preparations for their institutions,
since, they declare, the cutting out of
the junket or investigations by the
committees has made it impossible
to judge intelligently of the needs of
the institutions. The various requests
are coming in daily and all are be-
ing referred to the committees, which
look them over, refuse to act, and
will throw the matter upon the floor
OF the house for general discussion.
Thomas w. Nadal, of Olivet, has
been named by Gov. Osborn member
of the state board of education to
succeed w. o. Cotton, resigned. The
senate has confirmed the nominations
of John o. Maxey for the Newberry
asylum board and K. T. Boden for the
state board of pharmacy
The Michigan state fair is to be I'm
vestigated. The resolution of Senator
Frank ID. Scott, of Alpena, has been
adopted and a committee of three
from the house and two from the
senate will investigate the whole ar
ron Oarnanf