The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-02-03
Tha frst. ioint resolution reported


to provide an 100000 state Office
building to house the numeJ GUS state
department Offices now in privately
rented buildings around Lansing. The
house has had reported out favorably
the bill to permit the public domain
commission to sell for one dollar a
block of primary school land in Lans-
ing to the board of state auditors, on
which 1t is proposed to erect the Office
building. In this connection. Senator
Lyman ]. Holmes, of Macomb county,
has bill ready to appropriate $4,000
for governors residence in Lansing.
A memorial to the Michigan regi-
ments which fought in the battle of
Shiloh in the Civil war is proposed
in a bill introduced by Representa-
tive Robinson for a commission to be
named by the governor to select de-
sign. The bill carries an appropria-
ton of $4,000.
Representative Charles Flowers, Of
Detroit, has introduced a bill to raise
the salaries of justices of the supreme
court from $1,000 year to $4,000 a
year. Representative Thomas Read
has introduced another to provide five
additional employees in the state treas
urer's office at salaries ranging from
$1,000 to $500. A Constitutional
amendment Is in prospect to raise the
salaries of those state officers whose
salaries are stipulated in the constitu-
ton. Other salary raise bills also ars
being talked of, advocates of them
charging that Michigan pays its en-
ployes poorly in comparison with
other states and that the increased
living costs make increases more than
ever needed now Many members are
not in favor of salary raises. however
and it looks as though any one who
gets them allowed will have to prove
very conclusively the need of them be-
fore the house will adopt the neces-
sary bills.
Two bills to give Detroit and Wayne
county more circuit judges have been
introduced in the house. One asks
for twelve judges and the other for
judges, others being borrowed" from
outside circuits to help keep the court
, calendars cleared up. Both bills leave
the appointment of the extra judges to
fill the places created by them, to the
governor.
Unlawful discrimination In the pur-
chase of wheat, oats, corn, rye, clover
seed, beans, hay or potatoes by those
who resell or use in manufacture will
be costly II bill presented by Rep
resentative Quintet. of Bay, is passed
The bill is aimed at those who at,
tempt to obtain a monopoly or to In
jure a competitor by paying higher
prices in one section of the state than
in another and provides $500 fine or
six month sentences for those found
guilty of such actions.
| While much insurance legislation Is
being proposed in reports of what is
apt to come before the legislature ia
the line of big matters, bills to cover
the proposed objects are coming in
very slowly. In fact the first three
weeks of the session saw only one
minor bill affecting insurance. That
would exempt from taxation the realty
of any sick or accident benefit society
that pays So week benefits.
NJ one seems disposed to be In O
rush to put in prohibition bills, the
Anti-Saloon measure prepared by the
leagues attorneys being given first
chance by common consent to outline
what laws are needed. The league
leaders have taken the position that
so-called "bone dry" laws are not safe
to enact, but that the laws should
be so stringent that individuals could
not legally possess more than pint
of whiskey a month; a gallon of wine
or three gallons OF beer.
Monthly publication of the balances
of county treasures will be required II
Ia bill presented by Representative
Ezra s. Hall, of Missaukee county, Is
adopted. Representative Clarence ].
Reed, of Jackson county, wants mem.
bers of township boards OF review
paid like other township officers on the
basis of actual days work done by
them.
Representative Eaton, OF Saginaw,
former prosecutor of his county, has
put in a bill to create the office OF
public defender" He would have the
defender a county official, elected as
the prosecuting attorney is, who will
give his services to the INDECENT, to
minors and to incompetents. He also
would advise persons arrested who
have no attorneys and who ordinarily
would see none until the courts named
them to act. Representative Eaton al.
SO introduced bill to provide compen.
sation as high as $4,000 for persons
enormously convicted Of crimes and
sentenced to prison.
Representative Weissert wants the
state to establish two more fish hatch.
cries, one at Hastings and the other
somewhere in the upper peninsula, al
cost not to exceed $4,000 each.