The Michigan Lawmakers

The Michigan Lawmakers.

LANSING, Mich., June 11.--The senate has passed the house game bill, amending it so that deer can be shot in the upper peninsula only from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1. The bill appropriating $55,000 for the fish commission this year and next passed the house. The senate, in committee of the whole, passed a bill placing special charter railroads on the same footing as other roads in the matter of taxation instead. Officers have been sent to Ironwood for evidence in the Doyle-Muntle bribery case. Reporter Graves, who made the charges, has been expelled from the floor as a notoriety-seeker.

LANSING, Mich., June 12.--The bill appropriating $30,000 for the national G.A.R. encampment in Detroit was taken up under a call of the house yesterday for the purpose of attempting to pass it over the governor's veto. The attempt failed, the bill receiving but 30 ayes to 60 nays.

LANSING, Mich., June 13.--The house has passed the senate bill repealing all specific taxes on mines and providing that hereafter they shall be taxed locally the same as other property. The bill also repeals the law which exempted from state taxes 640 acres for each mining company.

LANSING, Mich., June, 17.--The bill fixing a maximum rate of 20 cents for a ten-word telegraphic message to any point in Michigan was defeated in the house yesterday. The senate passed the general game bill after amending it so that deer may be shot in the upper peninsula only between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. In the house a concurrent resolution was introduced providing that no business shall be transacted after Friday, June 26, and that final adjournment shall take place on Monday, June 29.