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Their Little Bills

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
March
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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THEIR LITTLE BILLS.

Introduced by the Washtenaw Members in Lansing.

The Legislative Journal sometimes gets around a little late. From that of last Tuesday which reached our office Saturday evening a few facts of interest concerning our legislators from Washtenaw may be gleaned.

Mr. Stumpenhusen was the only man in the house to vote against two bills which passed that body Tuesday, each by a vote of 67 to 1. They were bills permitting the village of Elkton and the township of Oliver in Huron county to borrow money to promote the building of a beet sugar factory. Mr. Stumpenhusen evidently voted from the conviction that such a bill was illegal.

Mr. Wheeler introduced five bills. One bill provides for the employment of convict labor to make restitution to persons injured by crime. Another requires railroad companies to weigh grains and give shippers certificates of weight. The third bill provides for a system of interchangeable railroad mileage books. The fourth extends jurisdiction of probate courts over testamentary trusts, and the fifth bill regulates the width of tires of wagons designed to carry heavy loads on the highways of Washtenaw county.

Senator Ward introduced a joint resolution to provide for placing a statue of Lewis Cass on the capital grounds. He introduced a bill, ameding act 310 of laws of 1887 in reference to religious societies and a bill to amend the charter of Ann Arbor. This latter is a blank bill for possible future use.

Mr. Hart introduced a bill in the house amending the act in reference to fish ladders in the Huron, Raisin and Shiawasse rivers.

Mr. Chamberlain introduced the following university bills: Making appropriations for two years and for the erecting and equipping of a building in science; making appropriations for two years and for summer school of six weeks duration; extending continuous aid to the university and to repeal certain acts; a bill to make an appropriation to enable the university to maintain a summer school; a bill to enable the university to increase its hospital facilities and equip a building for instruction in science.

Among other interesting bills introduced was one exempting from taxation homesteads of veterans of the civil war.