The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-04-17
Speaker Currie Helpful in Guild
ing legislators Through
Speedy Session
APPROPRIATION BILLS
ARE GIVEN ATTENTION
No Opposition to Fake Adver-
Using Bill in the
House
From a Sta1 Correspondent.

y akillfully handling the parliamentary
\ reins and directing the course OF ae'
Nberations through every possiple
abort cut 10 save time, the house pass
Il cd AZ bills Wednesday and In an even
\ ing session agreed TO another long
(. lat OF them in committee OF the
!, whole.
n On a half dozen appropriation meas
Y mras the roll was attached thus dis
uensing with the calling OF the W
& names on il by the clerk six times
From now on the same procedure is
B manned on all kinds OF bills.
Several of the important matters
\ approyed are for the benefit or agrl-
\ cultural interests. Rep. Downing 5
q hin 70 provide for the appointment oy
I fhe governor of n commission 10 CO.
\ nnerate with similar bodies from other
4 fates in the investigation OF systems
Of agricultural, credits was one Vi
them.
Another was concurrent resoiu
ton introduced by Rep. Stevens, Oh
NIssaukee. TO submit an amendment
4 n the constitution TO permit the extern
aion of the states credit in the deve''
B Cpment of farm lands
The idea of the proposal as explain
ed by the author is not 10 have the
n state raise money by taxation ana
lend II to settlers, but merely 10 leno
Its credit 10 guarantee perhaps the
honds of associations or development
& companies In such way that private
4 rapital will flow into the building up
o. lands now untitled. Rep. stevens
intention is that the plan be WORKED
& ont along lines now followed by some
\ Of the European governments.
bill passed in the interest OF the
stock-raising farmer and shippers Oh
stock Is that OF Rep. Follet, or iosco,
\ To require the movement OF loaoeu
stock cars by the railroads at rate
of ten miles per hour. railroad men
argued strongly against TINS regu,a-
ton and succeeded In having the
speed reduced from l6 miles 10 ten
\ and In giving the railroad COMMISSION
mower to grant a still further reuuc-
ton in any particular instance where
/ evidence should be presented TO sho"
4 the law too stringent.
The J. N. Mcbride bill authorizing
an Investigation into social vice con-
ditions of Michigan by the state iapor
department passed without dissent
\ ing VOTE II was argued Tor this piaii
Of conducting the investigation that
the department now has much OF the
material on hand which a new com.
mission would have to spend severai
weeks In collecting.
The bill of Senator McNaughton
passed by the senate with view 10
special investigation has been
!. smothered by house committee, ou.
etill more comprehensive proposal In
N 40 - sv.I,, oOa g
sion Is expected to be reported by the
senate labor committee in day or
two. Several bills of that nature are
now before It and Senator Murtha.
Of Detroit. introduced another We'd
nesday which probably will be SUD
stituted for them.
II would give commission OF three.
selected by the governor wide lati-
tude including probe OF the white
slave traffic and its connection with
low wages. A report to the next leg
lslature would be required as 10 the
advisability Of enacting general
minimum wage law.
A bill to prohibit the shipping OF
! veal calves alive under aged four
months was killed twice. The first
time ii received so votes. one short OF
enough, and Rep. Lee. of Kent. who
introduced 1t thought the clerk made
q mistake In counting the votes. He
succeeded in having ii resuscitated.
I, but the next time only 3S favored II.
The house wasted an hour on the
same bill Tuesday.
The Montieth bill to prohibit fake
advertising passed so 10 ..
A concurrent resolution TO submit
q constitutional amendment 10 give
the legislature power 10 do away with
4 county government by boards OF sup
ervisors and substitute a commission
form was taken from the table and
passed, by ARE two-thirds majority
Of 81.
Appropriation bills passed by the
house included those for the Indus.
trial Home for Girls in Adrian calling
for $173,600: for the State Tubercu.
l0sis Santorium, $56,4S5. s20,4s5 OF
which is for buildings: for current ex-
& penses OF the state public school IN
Coldwater. 100000 for girl dormi-
tory, minor buildings and running ex.
penses of the Home for the Feeble
Minded in Lapeer. $l95.S0l. for a
heating plant and expenses OF the
X Michigan College OF Mines in Hough-
ton. $139, 300; for the Northern State
Normal school, S2s2.s6O. 100000 OF
y which Is TO erect a new main build.
ing; for the establishment OF re-
formatory near Bay City. 100000 /:
and for participation In the Panama
Pacific Exposition, $4,000 Efforts
to reduce the last named abount TO
100000 and TO $4,000 We're unsuc.
cessful
Eergeant-at.arms of the house. A. A.
Rush, Of Detroit barely missed being
the central figure in an investigation
by house committee Wednesday
when he failed TO report after having
been dispatched for the absentees
without leave.
Rep. Follet. OF Tosco, introduced d
resolution calling for an investigation
Of failure 10 perform his duty and
stating that he had at previous times
been absent from his post The reso
luton was tabled and expunged from
the record
The sergeant was called up for a
statement and he talked back "a
( the speaker In q way which Rep. Fol-
let said justified the reintroduction
y, Of the resolution.
The speaker asserted that the incl
dent would be overlooked 80 far as he
\ personally was concerned but that he
hoped nothing OF the sort would hap
4 ppp again. The resolution was again
<nnood and expunsed. SCOTT.