The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-09
Speaker Rice Warns
House Members Must
Get Busy At Once
SESSION MAY
LAST INTO APRIL
Legislators Must Sit
Saturdays and
Mondays
BY w. L. CALH0N.


Speaker Wayne r. Rtoe warned TIC
house memSers q; tbs opening Of
Thursday afternoons sesston that II
they sspect 70 nnish their labOrs
March al, an they have voted 10 do.
they win have TO figure on working
Mondays. Fridays and Saturdays
for the NEXT three weeks. The mem
bers applandsd him At the close
OF the session thsy voted TO adjourn
from this mornings session until
Monday evening. as usual.
Hearings are scheduled for every
day next week before the joIn' sen
ate and house insurance committees
ON various portions Of the Insurance.
code There has been much WAN
Cling In the hearings already hid.
including one yesterday morning ON
fire insurance rates. and II would
seem that the insurance code rs
going To keep both houses busy for
a time The game laws committee
also has furnished \ subject for hot
debate by reporting out the "one
buck law a subject that always
Stirs up a hot legislative battle
With hearings listed as late as
March 20 en- the corporation laws
and the prohibition bills still 20
come up. some members already are
becoming uncertain about the abil-
ity OF the Legislators 70 get :Eru
with their work In any satisfactory
way by March 81 and are talking
OF extending the time limit :or a
couple OF weeks, 50 as 20 adiourn
about April Is.
With $50 bills and 80 Joint rego-
lutions already in. senate and house
members swelled the total by intro
ducing thirty more bills THURSDAY.
when the house had only one bill
ready for consideration on third
reading and two in committee OF the
whole. The list Of those to como
Ep after Eve days has grown rapid
~. however
The one bill passed IS The house
sets The pay OF jurors and special
commissioner IN drain hearings al
81 day instead Of 50. One 5ill
bassed Ia COMMITTEES OF the whole
sets az s25 instead of $50 the
emount Of tuition per pupil a town.
ship without a high school may pay
&c outside high schools
The house passed a resolution OF
coincidence 10 be sent 20 the family
OF George W Barbour OF Fenfon
document room keeper OF the HOUSE
for many years. tbo died recently
The senate passed ten minor bills
on third reading and got into =
mix'up over a Jackson prison bill
that resulted in a vote OF passaze
being recopsidered and the bill pui
over.
The bill provides that the prison
Authorities may borrow money on
Manufactured stock on hand, az
private concerns borrow on ware
house receipts. for The purchase oi
new raw material This would co
tshlish q so-caIled revolving funn
for tho prison AuditorGenernl
Fuller wants the bin amended se
that the prison authorities viii bor.
row from the st2ts. thereby savfns
banking interest The bill was pass
cd on tho understanding that the
auditor general was satisfied WITH
Il and when II was found later he
wss not the vots was rcconslds red
The prison authorities are anxious
10 have the revolving fund rs th~y
sre Handicapped a. times by HAVING
all their money tied up IN goods al
ready Manufactured. while thsfr
supplies are exhausted
Among new bills introduced
Thursday afternoon were these:
BY Rep. Flowers, 70 have mayors
OF cities Issue licenses 20 pawnbrok
ere, the city council setting the fse
anywhere from $50 70 $500, Shs
psvnorokers 70 mars weekly 70
Ports TO the chief Of police. TO 70,
no more than 3 per cent a month IN
terest. and 10 auction only goods &C.
tnally pawned with them and no,
redeemed.
BY Rep. Flowers, 10 make n I'm.
lawful for any one 20 have mar
eoucs In his possession.
By Rep. Fnrrier. 10 have the state
pay cents an acre tar TO courties
on homestead and swamp lands held
b. the state. ne money to 90 into
road funds; the estimate being that
10000 a year win be paid.
By Rep. Weissert. 10 appropriate
5000 for a statue 10 Gen wna. r
shaf,er at bis birthplace IN Galer.
burg.
By Rep. Hulse, % punish By SIC
70 VS. fine or 10 20 90 DAYS IN jafl
any one VINO exhibits for pocuniary
gain any deformsd. MANNED. idiotic
or abnormal person or human mon.
ftrosity
BY Rep. Nelson. &c restore party
enrolment
BY Senator Wilcox 10 stop police
from "musging prisoners.
BY Senator Covert 10 allow
courts 10 have court Officers AZ 81.
zoo year instead of deputy cher.
ms acfinF a. cOsIrf ofFrera