The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-14
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COMPLETE WORK
Thirty-Four Bills Passed IN Thur
days session-McNitt Bill Gets
Whack From the Ak.

day was the last day that house bills
could be passed and receive suitable
consideration from the senate. The
five-day limit begins today, and bills
passed by the house today, II they 60
to the senate, will need to be acted
upon without reference TO committees
To get the immense amount Of
work out Of the way, the house com
meneed work at o'clock In the morn
ing, and placed on order OF third read
ing all bills on general order which
were eligible to consideration. Thirty
four were passed, six were killed, and
several were tabled. 1t was q big days
work, and the members attended to
business In q way that would have
been creditable earlier In the session
Chief among the victims Of the Az
was the McNitt bill suspending the
operation of the 54-hour woman's labor
law for the benefit of laundries during
the summer months. The weak ex-
cuse for the bill was that canning fac
tories were exempted In the law. The
members could not see II.
Speaker Baker contributed another
to the pile OF dead bills when he sue
ceeded after several days of hardest
work among the members, In defeat
ing Rep. Morford's attempt to cut
new county out of Morford's county Of
Puesque Isle and the speakers counr
ty Of Cheboygan. and call It Osborn.
When 1t came to q showdown, the
speaker had the votes, but he made
a vigorous speech on the subject just
the same. He succeeded In getting
amendments, first attaching q referen-
dunn to be applied In each county sep
arately, and then another excluding
the townships which II was proposed
to take OF from Cheboygan county.
The bill would have made Onaway q
county seat, but II would take $3.50, 900
off the rolls of Cheboygan county, and
the speaker could not agree to 1t.
The bill providing that saloonkeep-
ers who have lived up to the law be
given preference in applications for a
renewal OF license was killed, which
probably marks the end OF liquor leg
islation for the year, 1t being gener-
ally understood that the senate will
not take up any Of the measures sent
over to 1t. The unit bill is dead, at
any rate.
Thesea ppropriation bills were
passed. Fish commission, 1886; in
dustrial home for girls, 100000;
school for the deaf, $99,250; northern
asylum for the insane, $70.750; Sag
inaw armory, special purposes. 81.
962.
The Mckay bill. to abolish the board
Of horse-shoing examiners. was killed,
as was also a bill by Rep. Rauda-
maugh, allowing sessions OF circuit
court to be held at other places than
county seats. Rep. Austin's bill for
licensing private detectives, went into
the discard.
A senate bill for compulsory hu.
name instruction and the abolishment
of vivisection in high schools, was
mercifully killed, after a scalpel had
been showed under its fifth rib by the
usually tenderhearted Rep. Straight.
Wayne county members figures in
bill by Rep. Flowers to prevent
fraud at elections, one by Rep. CopIey,
strengthening II a misdemeanor to
confine a child In a Jail, and one by
Rep. Burnham directing school boards
to select repositories for school funds
and relieving the treasurer OF respon-
sibility II he made the deposit In those
banks.
Rep. Copley's bill forbidding cor
rupt practices at elections came up in
regular order, but Mr.. Oopley explain
ed that he was after an end and not
the glory that there was In II, and
that as theg round was largely COW
cred by a bill introduced by Senator
James. he would recommend referring
his bill to committee to be adopted
to the James bill. Rep. Copley was
roundly applauded He has intro
duced some 20 bills this session, all
OF which have been recognized for
merit
All senate bills on the calender
were cleaned up in an over time ses-
sion, Thursday afternoon. Rep. Yeo's
bill, taxing forest products met with
opposition from the members from the
numbering districts, who likened II to
the tonnage and succeeded In killing
it. Owing TO the unsettled condition
OF the senate. substitute for the
Rosnegrans bill. providing for the
state inspection OF sugar beet tests
failed 10 pass. The substitute wa
measure agreed upon by the farmers
as we'll as owners OF the refineries.
Senator Leidlein tried to have the bill,
and although votes were taken three
different times, only is could be mus
tered
The Mapes teachers retirement
fund bill, Senator Whites bill for the
establishment OF state law library,
Senator Walters bill prohibiting the
use OF any but the original state coat
of-arms, Senator Taylor's bill. enabl-
ing railroads operated by power other
than steam TO charge a minimum OF
FIVE cents a mile, so long as they do
not interfere with street railway
rights: the Watkins bill requiring out
state fishermen TO pay a license fee
OF FIVE dollars II they wish to take
game fish In the waters OF this state
were also passed on third reading
In substitution Of Senator Putney's
free text book bill. another measure
was offered and passed. providing for
the appointment OF commission OF
FIVE 70 investigate the problem.
The senate committee on elections
reported out the house amendments
TO the constitutions providing for the
submission Of the initiative. referen-
DUN. and recall The committee made
no recommendation, and the resolu-
tions we're placed on the general or
DER. The Flowers bin, generally
amending the primary law, was re
ported out by the same committee
with the recommendation that Il pass.
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