The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-04-17
MEASURE TO AID
CONNECTS FAMILY
SENATOR STRAIGHT WOULD GIVE
THEM PART OF EARNINGS
or PRISONERS.
PEAsY's BILL is FAVORED
Senate Considers Ten Bills on Third
Reading, Nine Of Which Passed
Three viii Be Sent TO
Governor.

Lansing.-Senator Straight intro
duced bill providing for the payment
OF a part OF the earnings TO the fam
lily OF any prisoner In a penal institu-
ton who has family dependent upon
him for support.
The measure would compel the pay
ment to the superintendent OF the poor
in the district in which such depend
ents may reside of $3.50 week for
the wife and rs cents for each child
under fifteen years of age. II there
be no wife, but children under fifteen,
$3.50 for each of such children is the
stipulation.
The money must be expended by
the superintendents of the poor for
the dependents.
The senate considered ten bills on
third reading, nine of which passed
OF these three will 60 to the governor
Among them was Representative Pen
ny's rat bounty bill, which passed by
a vote of 20 to z.
Appropriation bills for the board Of
geological survey, the state psyche
pathic hospital and the erection of a
monument to Michigan Civil war vet
Grams at Shiloh were passed and given
immediate effect. The psychopathic
hospital bill was a>house measure.
Petitions bearing more than $4,000
signatures In favor of the Straight
statewide prohibition bill were re-
ceived and filed. One contained the
names of more than 10000 young men
and women between the ages Of
twelve and twenty years from 1870 cit
les. towns and villages.
A petition OF Detroit women against
the proposed substitute for the wom-
ans reformatory was presented by
Senator Ogg. The plan Of the substi-
tute is to take one building of the
hospital for the insane at Ionia and
turn 1t into temporary reformatory.
Inasmuch as something will have to
be done toward increasing the space
at the girls industrial school at Adri-
an, the senate financial committee de-
cided that this was the best way out.
Michigan's widening arid territory
was further extended by the action OF
the house OF representatives In pass
ing Senator Damon's bill to prohibit
the selling. giving away or delivering
Of any Intoxicating liquors In lumber
camps, yards. mills or along logging
railroads.
Representative Charles Culver of
Detroit, one of the wet leaders In the
house, had the bill amended to bring
within the scope of its penalties any
person found with the liquor in his
possession In the restricted territory.
Several appropriation bills for state
institutions were disposed of in rapid
order These bills provided appropri-
atoms for: The Traverse City State
hospital; the state board of fish COM
missioners, for extra help for the at
torney generals office, the Newberry
State hospital, the Michigan State
Normal college. and to provide for
Michigan exhibit at the "half-cen.
fury OF negro freedom celebration"
An amendment to the act creating the
Michigan Historical commission, en-
tered by Representative Charles A.
Flowers. was passed Forty-seven
votes were not enough to pass Repre-
sentative Noble Ashley's joint resolu-
tion proposing an amendment relative
TO abolishing boards OF supervisors
and establishing boards OF county CON-
missioners instead.
,. w. Mauck Named Head Of Teachers.
At the close OF the fiftieth session of
the Michigan Schoolmasters' club at
Ann Arbor President ]. w. Mauck of
Hillsdale college was elected presi-
dent and Mary A. s., Gold OF Flint
vice-president, while for the thirteenth
time Prof. L. p. Jacelyn OF this city
was elected secretary-treasurer
The following have been elected by
the various conferences: Physics and
chemistry. G. r. Gordon. Ypsilanti,
chairman; Theodore Wagner. Detroit,
vice-chairman, and s.. C. Irwin, Detroit,
secretary; biology. James Locke. De-
troit; chairman; H. B. King, Saginaw,
secretary; mathematics, Prof. l.. G.
Carpinski, Ann Arbor. chairman; man
ual training, Paul Stetdon. Grand Rap
ids. chairman; classical. Prof. r. M.
Kelsey. u. of M. chairman; Miss Mar
ION Jennings, Grand Rapids. vice-chair-
man: Miss Clara Allison. Owosso. Sec
Rotary. and Prof. F. o. Bates. Detroit.
member of executive committee; mod
ern languages. DR.. J. r. Efiinger. U. Of
NJ. chairman; Miss F1interman. De-
troit, secretary.
Interpretations. +.
East Side Creamery, Detroit, capt.
tal stock increased from $4,000 to
$4,000