The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-02
Senate Passes Measure
Changing Date of
Primary
PERSON BILL
PASSES HOUSE
Alters Procedure In
Personal Damage
Suits
BY W. L. CALRON.


house has passed the Person bill
providing hat in cases OF damage
suits for personal injuries the de
PENDANTS may have the right 10 ale
cross declarations and the cases OF
both sides may be heard together.
Four other minor measures also
were passed By the house Thursday
all affecting fishing in inland wa
The senate passed the codifed
laws concerning the registration OF
voters. the compilation that was pre-
pared by Secretary Award. OF the
senate. and Clerk Pierce. OF the
house. The accompanying compila-
tion OF the election laws was con
sidered BY the senate In committee
OF the whole and sent on 20 third
reading. for passage today The
Condor bin changing the primary
election date from the last Tuesday
In August to The nrst Tuesday in
September. and setting the closing
hour for the polls In Detroit az 3 ..
m. Detroit time, on election nlghts.
was passed
Senator Roberts bill TO provide a
training school for women who need
reformation was sent back 20 com
mittee. II being understood that Pc
lice Commissioner Couzens. OF De.
troit. wants 10 ofer some amend.
ments so that women may Yoiuntar-
nv enter the home A provision
that the superintendent OF the home
must be a woman. stricken out OF
the bill once. was put back In by the
senate.
The senate bin providing for the
sale OF the site OF the Industrial
School for Boys. In Lansing was
amended so as to appropriate $3.50,
900 for a new home away from the
city on a farm. the money 20 be 70.
paid out OF the funds derived from
the sale OF valuable Lansing city
property now occupied by the school
Breach Of promise suits will be
come rsri,ies n a bin introduced by
Rep. Clark. in the house, gets thru
the legislative mill. This would al.
low no breach OF promise suit to be
started unless the person bringing
suit could produce a written agree
ment 70 wed whose terms had been
broken.
Rep Culver introduced a bill TO
require iron Are escapes on all no
tells that are more than two stories
in height. Another bill from Rep
Culver would define when and how
cities may condemn property need
ed for grade separation purposes.
A pure booze" bili also vas n.tro-
duced by Rep Culver AZ the request
OF the state food department II is
much the same az the pure booze"
bill that failed Of passage two years
ago. but is confined 20 the amount
OF liquors that may come into the
state after prohibition takes effect.
that 20 be used for medicinal. sac
ramental. mechanical. scientific and
chemical purposes. All such liquor
would have to measure up 20 pure
standards or be thrown out OF the
state. The bilrs provisions, n en-.
acted into Law. would not take effect
Until Oct. 1, 191s-s~~a months after
prohibition IL scheduled 10 60 into
effect.
Rep. Wood introduced bill 10
abolish the Job OF the state oil in
spector. Rep. Wells introduced one
70 establish a state department OF
markets 10 encourage cooperative
selling Of foodstuns.
Senator WILCOX introduced In the
senate a bill 20 provide $4,000 a
year for protection against forest
fires and for nghting those that get
under way. Senator Covert wants
permits for carrying reviewers limit
ed 20 two years. Senator morford, In
another bin, would raise the stand.
ard OF embalmers, requiring four.
year course for them before they are
allowed 10 register. Senator ". ".
Smith wants the land for the Mid
land sanatoriunf~ sold and the pro.
ceeds, together with a $4,000 cash
fund on hand, transferred 10 the
Howell sanatorium. The Midland
sanatorium has never been built be
cause water could not be had on the
place.
An echo Of the congressional bat.
tie In the Second district last fall
\ between Mark Bacon, Of Wyandotte
and Samuel W. Beakes. 81 Ann Ar.
Dor, came In the shape OF a bill in
troduced BY Senator Dei.and. OF
Jackson. The bill provides that bal
Plots IA congressional elections must
be preserved where contests are 10
be brought before the house In
washington. In the Bacon Beakes
contest some OF the Jackson ballots
we're destroyed and are not avsila
bic In consequence for recounting
The railroad rate bill. introduced
BIZ senator X v Smith. which seeks
20 increase passenger rates from two
10 two and one-half cents a mile In
the lover peninsula and TO thre,
cents a mile in the upper peninsula
vas referred 10 the senate commit
tee on railroads. OF which Senator
liz. v. smith is chairman