The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-03

500 10 $1,000. and Senator Miliers
bill, raising the salary or the assis-
tant state librarian from $500 TO 81
200. The question OF passing on third
reading the Mapes bill, fixing the sal
larry OF the insurance commissioner,
was passed for the day on the motion
OF Senator Moriarty. who gave as
his reason the fact that Senator Car
tier was absent. Cartier favored a
$1,000 salary.
ate committee on judiciary, next
Thursday forenoon, on Senator Van
derwerp's bills, changing the judiciary
circuits. Senator Vanderwerp yester-
day obtained from Attorney-General
Kuhn an opinion as TO the constitu-
tionality of a bill TO reduce the num-
Der OF circuits and alter the boun-
daries in view OF the fact that judges
will be elected for the old circuits
at the spring election. before the act
would take effect. The attorney-gen-
eral holds that the constitutional pro
vision prohibiting any law to remove
an officer from an elective Office, re-
fers only to officers whose terms have
commenced, and not those who have
been elected and have not assumed
their duties. so that the law III passed
would be valid. He also holds that IL
would be legal TO elect a Judge in
district composed of "A certain num-
Der OF counties and afterward add
one or more counties TO the district.
So under the proposed act, certain
counties would be deprived OF their
right to vote on circuit judge next
April
Mandamus proceedings will probably
be started against the auditor-gen-
eral today by r. V. Chilson, secretary
of the senate, to compel the payment
of salaries OF employees on the pay
roll, which was sent down and refused
yesterday. The first plan was TO have
mandamus proceedings begun against
Speaker Baker by'o one OF the house
employees to compel signing OF tie
payroll, but as the matter would still
have TO 90 to the auditor-general, II
was thought best TO start there.
Speaker Baker says that he merely
wishes TO have the law tested out,
and that he will sign the payroll
when he is sure OF his ground.
Antics of rural assessors who fix
valuations in their townships at their
own sweet will the same year that the
state tax commission has adjusted
them. will be stopped under a bill In
troduced in the house yesterday by
Rep. George Lord of Detroit, formerly
secretary OF the commission. The bill
provides that when the figures have
been fixed by the state tax commits
sioners, they cannot be changed for
year. The bill also restores the
power of the commission to engage
such employees as Ii needs.
The resolution for a constitutional
amendment to allow pensions TO fire.
men failed of the necessary two
thirds majority. Chief T. X. Harding
OF Bay City; Chief George Wallace
OF Saginaw; Chief ID. J. Donovan of
Charlotte, and Chief Hugo Debts OF
Lansing. were here working for the
measure II was defeated on the
ground that il would open the door
for too many similar expenditures.
Minor bills introduced in the house
were: BY Rep. Reynolds, amending
the law regarding registration OF ply
sicians and surgeons, SO as TO assess
itinerant vendors of medicine $40 a
month; Rep. Straight. amending the
public instruction law; Rep. Graves,
amending the marriage license law,
and Rep. Morgan to repeal the law
the use of oleomargarine
In state institutions.
The house endorsed the action o.
congress in selecting San Francisco
for the exposition celebrating the
opening of the Panama canal Former
Aid. Z. b. Gibbons, OF Detroit, state
deputy of the Fraternal Order OF
Eagles, which is planning to spend a
large sum on entertainment of mem
bers al the exposition, was here
working in the interest OF the resolu-
ton.