The Detroit times., 1912-03-28
Expnnglng Resolution Is
Tabled In Lo7ce, House
From a staff Correspondent

From a Staff Correspondent
/ LANSING, March 2s.-The feature
OF the yesterday part OF the second
extra session was the discussion OF
the Senator Miller concurrent expung-
ing resolution and the house vote OF
81 10 81 to lay on the table the prop
osiiion to strike from the legislative
journals that part OF the governors
recent sizzling message which refer
red 20 h. ID. Stair, OF Detroit.
The debate was considerable aud
somewhat animated. n
Rep. Knight mentioned that he had
been a close friend OF the governor for
more than 80 years and ne hoped thai
nothing would ever happen TO inter
fere with that friendship. He object
ed 10 the expunging program and
thought the message should remain
an intact record SO that in the event
that at future time u was wanted
for reference purposes IL would be
accessible. He didn't think IL was
up TO the house 10 decide as TO the
proper drasticity oil the governor
message
Rep. Ogg. of Detroit, hoped that the
resolution would be adopted. lie in
sisted that il the governor had any
differences with Mr.. Stair or any
other man he should settle them IA
some other way. He defended Stair
as a man OF good character and re
spected citizen. He suggested the sim
ilarity i'm the history and rise or
Messrs. Osborn and Stair. He said
both were boys In small towns. Both
were newsboys. Both were printers.
Both subsequently owned country
newspapers. One tackled mines and
the other went into the theater bust
ness. Both became rich. He went on
TO tell that Mr. Stair had elevated the
theaters in which he had invested.
Rep. Dusenbury wanted 10 know
what business IL was Of the house and
what the members had TO do with the
matter.
Rep. Bierd thought IL the duty OF the
house TO have improper matter en-
plunged from the journal.
Rep. Young gave II as his opinion
that the house did not have the right
TO mutilate and eliminate part OF the
governors message. He thought that
IL part OF il was expunged. all OF IL
should be.
Rep. Ashley. of Detroit, favored the
resolution and characterized the part
OF the message in question as TRADE
against good citizen CT his district.
Rep. Whelan, who has dubbed him.
self the man from Missouri arose
and asked IL the house had a right TO
commit the proposed expungement
and answered his own question by de-
claring in a manner that might have
made a fellow recall the name OF
Patrick Henry or Abraham Lincoln,
Whatever this body decides is right.
is constitutional" He argued TO the
effect that the dignity of the house
hinged on the matter of expunging the
allegedly expungable parts OF the
message.
Rep Rankin announced that he had
been threatened that ii he didn't quic
his job as floor walker for the gov
ernor, he would hear something drop.
The gingery old soldier gave it out
with vimness that no one had any
strings on him and that he was liable
to run his own perforcance. lie was
opposed to expungement.
Rep Verdier handed down the opin-
ion that when the message was read
| il became part of the records and that
the legislators didn't have the power
TO wipe II out
Rep. Field moved to lay the Miller
iexpunging resolution on the table and
! 1t was done by the following vote:
Yeas-Reps. ANDERSON, AveriIl, Bald
win. Ball Bricker Chamberlain,
Chambers, Chandler, Clark. Cummins,
Currie, Dunn. Dusenbury, Farmer,
Field. Fisk. Flowers. Fralck. Gard,
Giles, Glasner, Graves, Hale, Havi-
! land, Hinkley, Holcomb, Holland, Jer-
sen, knight, Lucas, McEachern. VI ;.
Kay. McNaughton, McNitt. Millikin,
Morford, Morrison, Myers, Arthur
Odell. Samuel Odell, Oppenborn, Pear
son, Perry. Rankin, Reynolds, Russell.
Sharp. Straight, Symonds, Taylor,
Tufts. VerGier, Walker, Ward. Warner,
Wheeler, Wolcott. Wood, Woodwork,
Young and speaker.-61.
Says-Reps. Ashley, Austin. Bierd,
Brown. Burnham. Catlin, Copley, Ed
wards, Ewing, FitZgibbon, Gansser,
Jerome. Happier. Kemmerling, Kerns.
Leonard. Mcbride, Martz, Morgan,
Murphy, ogg. Raudabaugh, Smith,
Stevenson. Unsoeld. Waters, Whelan.