The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-05-22
GOVERNOR SIGNS !.
MANY MEASURES
FERRIS APPROVES OF THIRTY.
EIGHT AND vEToEs TWO
IN DAYS WORK.
DAIGNEAU's BILL is KILLED
Measure Provided ExemptIno Small
Fruit and Vegetables From Pres
ent Law Compelling Mark
Ing Weight on Boxes.

Lansing-With record OF 38 ap-
prevails and two vetoes. Governor Fer.
ris closed his desk. apparently well sat.
isfied with the days work.
In addition to the boxing commits
sion bill, the governor vetoed bill in
troduced by Representative Daigneau
of Benton Harbor exempting small
fruit and vegetables from the present
law compelling the marking OF the
weight on boxes of fruit. The bill. 1t
Is said, was intended to absolve grape
growers on the west coast from mark
ing their boxes. Dairy and Food Com
missioner James w. Helme opposed 1t.
or the 3S bills signed, IA were SEN
ate bills and "a were house bills. The
majority were appropriation bills, and
those of remedial character.
Chief among the bills signed were
the Hilsendegen game bill and the
teachers retirement fund bill. The
Hilsendegen measure revises the game
laws, the most of the changes being In
regard to water fowl, making the
Michigan laws conform to the federal
laws on migratory birds.
Hereafter but one deer will be al
lowed each hunter and use Of the au-
tomobile is banned to the criminal sec
ton of the act, in addition to dogs and
lights. Hereafter no hunting from an
automobile will be legal. no matter
whether the game sought Is deer.
other animals or fowl. Duck can only
be slaughtered at the rate Of 80 a
week. while the season on wood duck
is absolutely closed until 1918.
Closed seasons are also ordered I'M
til 1920 on fox, black and gray. squir-
rels. Monaghan and English pheasants,
quail, black fowl, capercailzie, hazel
grouse, spruce hen, Canada grouse,
prairie chicken and wild turkey.
Another bill relating to game, which
was in the list of those signed. was
one preventing the hunting Of rabbits
with ferrets or guinea pigs, except
that farmers may use ferrets and
guinea pigs to kill rabbits and any
other rodents destroying the crops.
Among other bills signed were the
Jerome health bill, making 1t a misde.
meanor for physicians to fail to report
cases of communicable disease; Rep
resentative Symonds' bill, including
those having diplomas from a domes-
tic science course, manual training
or physical training course. as being
eligible for kindergarten teachers;
Hulse's bill, prohibiting the use Of the
pictures of former presidents in liquor
advertisements; appropriations for the
Mackinaw island park, the Michigan
School for the Deaf, the University of
Michigan, the Traverse City hospital,
the Michigan Home and Training
school at Lapeer, the Northern State
Normal school and the State Tubercu-
losis sanatorium at Howell.
Senator Walters bill on the state
fire marshal's Office, a. departmental
bill. was also signed. It makes some
few changes in the existing laws. the
most important of which Is the giving
Of his day in court to the owner Of q
building which has been condemned.
A peculiar mixup occurred on the
Ogg fraternal insurance bill. It went
to the governor and he got ready to
do something with It only to find that
the wrong bill had been enrolled. Ac-
ccrding to the house and senate jour-
nails. the Ashley amendment. which
really nullified the bill by exempting
societies which are now organized.
failed in the senate and the house
later copcurred In the bill as It passed
the senate. The enrolled act the gov
ernor got had the Ashley amendment
in It.