The Legislature

IjAnsino March 15.- The house passed the senate bilí providing a taxof one-sixth oí a mili o créate a permanent and adequate íund for he maintotianee of the Michigan university. Jnder de present valuation of the State this will give the institution 1188,000 each year. The bilí has aleady passed ;he senate. A resolution was ajpted calling íor an investigation as to whether any two of the educational institutions of the state were teaching branches so nearly akin as to ma;e the consolidation of the institutions advisable. Mr. Sumner otfered a concurrent resolution providing for ünal adjournment on May 20, which was laid over one dav under the rules. The Campion bill providing for uniformity of text books in the public schools faüed of passage in the A favorable report was made on the bill repealing fiïe present illuminating oü law and fixing the legal test at 120 (logrees flash. The committee on appropriations andfinance reponed bilis appropriating 1108,000 for the school íor the dea f and f56,66 for the expenses of the state flsh commission tor the years 1893 and 1894. Lansino, March 16.- The Newkirl; bill providing municipal and school suffrage for women in all the cities and villages of the state came up in the house, and after a lengthy discussion failed to pass by a vote of 39 nays to 38 yeas. Another attempt will bc made to secure its passage, but it is hardly probable that it will prove successful. A favorable report was received in the senate on the bill reestablishing the state weather service, abolished by the legislature of two years ago. The sena te took up the bill passed by the house authorizing the cily of Detroit to expend KJ00.000 in the purchase of an electrio Hghting plant nd adopted an amendment prohibiting the city from furnishing commercial lighting and providing that the question of buying the plant be submitled to a vote of the peopie. The house joint resoHition for the employment of convicts upon the public highways was reported without recommendation. Lansing, Mrch 17. -The house passed a joint resolution tixing the date of final adjournment at May 22. The bül consolidating the city of Port Huron and the village of Fort Gratiot nassed both houses of the legislature and ceived the governor s signature. In the senate the house resoluüon providing ior the submission to the people oí a constitutional amendment authorizing the employmeni of convicts upon the roads of the state was defeated. Lansing, March 18.- The house judiciary committee has made a, favorable report on the till abolishing days of grace on commercial paper after January 1 next, and the committee on the Marquette prison reported in favor of cnntinuinir the institution as a prison.