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Our Lansing Budget

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Day
20
Month
May
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Tlie resolution to piy the lawyers who defended cx-Representtitive Dakin on his trial in the house, $150 for their services, was brought up in the house tho other atternoon.andafter a very spirited debate was adopte! by a vote of :(7 to 36, Ü7 members being absent or uot voting. Gov. Luce was pleased to be facetious when be welcomed the menibers of the frtate Homeopathie Society to tiausing a few d.iys ago. and said: Jn tbe halls of tbe capítol yon wlll find men worked down almost to skin and bone, grinciing out laws. !f yon can adininKter to them do e- that wiil enable them to c!o e up the session bffore .ovem! er, you will confer a lasting benelit on the .state.' ' The governor has íignifled his approval of the billa to organize assori itions to sell brood animáis, to allow the Traverse City nsylum to buy land of Perrj-, Uannah & Co., making an nppropriation for the soldiers' home and relatlve to taxes on mining and i-melting companies. The bill raising the ago of conseut was tl. e sub.ect of m;injT pjtitions and much debate in the house two ninutlis ngo. It passed the senate the other mormng by a nnanimona vote and without debate. The age flxed is 14 years. The house bill for taxinj; and regulating the lituor tratlic has been received by the senate. ordered reprinted and referred to the committee on the liquor tratlïc. The sume committee has in charge the bill for the appointment of a state marshal, but has as yet had no meeting to consider the bill. Both the senate and house have ordered that for the rest of the s-ession the appropriation bilis shall Le ke, t at the head of the calendar. The tenate committee on the agricultural college have reported the bili makine appropriations for that institution iu the same shi.pe as it passed the e. A score of leading proiiibitionists met in this city the other night and organized tbe "VNqlverine club," with Charles S. May of Kalamaoq, us pre ideut. and A. C. Fisher of Detroit, treasurer. The elec tion of secrotary was le(t with a board of '0 directora, of whi h liev. E. H. B. Jaiuibon is chairman. 'I he expressed object of the cluli is t xli tribut' Information regarding the liqaor tralie and to ascertain and adopt ihe best metlio 1 of exterminating it from the state an.l nution; and to encourage dissBiuination of knowledge regarding civil mul i o itic:v matten. The board of trustee wi 1 decido upqn lieadiiiaiters. and local assembiies wi;l le organieil after the manner of the Micaigan club, The lollowing were Olected vice-pre-idents from the consecutive conxression;il districis: S. A FrJsbie, Plyraouth ; Nonh '. Cheever, Ann Albor: D. V. i.ogers, Union ( ity: J. W. Free, Pw Paw; W. C. Edsell, Otse o;-'. K. l.iiiii ;. l-lnt: ."ohii lïussell, Milton; ii. a. Johnson, iloBride'; . Y. Barcus. Muskogon; James Miller, Bay City; W. K. lüKülow, I p er Peninsula. Alanon Sheley and Levi L. Barbqur of Detroit bave resigned from the Wayne count jury o .mmission. The hou-e has roferred the prohibition chuges of fraud in the recent elertion to the ju iciary comruittees of both liouses, wlio will report on the advisability qr a special inyestigatiou of tbe oharges. Thi was substituto i for Mr. Hosford's resolution fur un immediate in(.'estigation. Senator Crosby's bill to permit all villages throughout the state to send all oifenders to the Detroit house of conection has beeu deleated. Thí senators took the position th it the Detroit prison was eitending itsu f too mucb. The third reading of the liquor tax bill was reached In tlie house the other after noon. Numerous ainendinents were qffcred, lut all nttempts to am nd the bill were voted down. Attoi" an unimated debate the question o making a uniform rate ot $600 for ïetailers. was put to vote and cnrried, tbe vota standing: yeas, 52; 'nays, 35; absent or not voting, 11. Aside from tho hi;h tax section, the bill makes the tax a lien on the stock and tures of the suloon, fixes the amount of bonds at not !ess than ::.000 and not more than '$G,(JO , and re luires the sureties to be taken from the t wn, village or city in which the business is jropoed to be carried on. The bill to reduce passenger fares on railroad. to two oenta h mile was hrought up in the hou e a few d iyg iince. Various amenrimunts were ollered nud as a final result it wïis rèject '!. and t.ie 1-ill of Mr. Wi A. Ha ero He ri ü, "9 mod;iled by Mr. Weüman of st. Clair, wai substituted. 'Xüo subjtituted biil fixes tne legal rate of fare on all ra'lro 'ds nbove twenty milos ut two and ahi.lf cents a mie in thel-ouer Teninsnla and tnrea cents a niüü in th Cpper Península, and tbat ail radro d C'inip nies shall issue 5C0-mile tickets ata rato uot exce-.ding $ 0. roo 1 for travelin; in the stato on aríy oC the regut r traína with baggage at 150 poiuuig. Tunnel coni] anies are exempte 1 from the cperations of the liill. Tbe ameniment ubor.t f00 mie ticke's was r'coninieiided to the Jegislnture by a oommitteu of the Detroit Meichnnts' 1 xchinge. It was adopted - yens. 3ü; nnys). 13. Tbe governor bus approved the bilis relative to tbe p .ij-ment of speciflc taxoa i to countics of the upper península; makin ; an appropriatiou tor the a ylum for insane crimiuais; for the ineorporation of hospitals and asylums in 0OIS8 where valuable grnnts or emolumenta have been made to trustees for BUch purposes; to araend the publicacts of ISSö, entitled "An act to provide for the appolntment of a live stock sanltary commission nd a stato veterin irian, and to cribo their po wrs and dutics, and to prevent and suppre-s contagious and infectious diseases among the live stock of the state. Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Barnes gavo a delightful reception the other evening to the Rovernor oud ofticers of the state govem ment, memliers oL tlie legielature, mem bers of the btato Medical Society and other friends. The lieautif ui rooms in tlie house were embowered In tlowers. A line supper was proviiled. Music was in attend-ince and everything was as it sbould be- an affair whicli reflectad tbe highest credit upon the genial hot and Ir stes-, and spoke well for their gonerous bosjitulity. Candidates for the position of stato marshal are as numerous a ono's poor relations. Among the number are several members of tbe le,;islature who seera to forget tbnt tho constituí ion expressiy says that no member i i eligible to an office created by tho le;iis!ature oí wbich he is a member. The proposed change in the garnishmont laws, by whicb hou=eboldeis were to have an exemption of $1 ]ier day for 2ö conseeutivedays, wasdefeited in tlie house. The present law was regarded as more liberal to poor dehtors, for it guve them, when householders, a í2j exemptiem, wbile tbe proposed change gave only il per day exemption. For examp!e, it' a man worked for 11.60 per day he could be garni-heed for all above tl. Many petitious from labor organintions carne in agninst the bilí, and tbii helped to settle it. Tbe last section provides that the act shall have effect and be enforced by every court, notwitbstandiiig any contract and agieement to evade or avoid liability, of its provisions. After an oxciting debate tbe house has passed the ngricultural college appropriation bilt. The bill appropriates $.")ü,ÜOU. The senate conflrmed the following Rcntlemeu named by the governor or tbo oflice of iury commi-isioners fcr Wayne county: James Ij. Edson of l'etroit, Levi Barbour, Detroit; David Frey, Detroit: Theodore C. Bherwood. Plymouth; Lyman A. itrant, Detroit, lor the term of two yenrs, from tbe iirst day of April, 1'87, ánd AValtpr H. Coots, Detroit, and Franii Bleser, Detroit, fcr four years. The governor bas approved the bill allowing judgos of tbe supreme court $5,000 a year. The house has paseed a bill making a liberal appropriation or the new state prison at Aiarquette. Eepresentatives of tho stato prohibition party waited upon the sonate judiclary committeo Uic other night, und presented aihdavita of browbeating, misbi-havior and intimiilation at the eleclion in Detroit, with three instancos where "no" ballots were alleged to have been substituted by the inspector!) for "yes" ballots. The prohibitionist do not ask arecount, but wi-h their collectiou of chorees, s-peeifications and allldavits printeil in the Legislativo Journal is a protest against the way in which the elee tion was conducted. Senator Fox's plan to have the state publish fre [iient bulletins of the progress of fisb cultivation rnititsf .te in tho house. The senate had voted tl.O.i'.i for the next two yeurs, to provide for fi.h literature, but tbe plan met no favor in the house. The prohibition protest again6t aüeged frauds at tha last electiou bas been ordered spread uion the legisiature journal. Tha committ.e on ways and menns of the house have reported the university appropriations at $lsV,0O0, a reduction of $ÏO,0O0 from the umount passed by the senate. Thero is considerable talk of adjourning about June lst, and many members seem anxious to fix the date even earlier than that. The bill to chnnge the apportionment of money re.'eived from specific taxes in the upper península has passed the tioue. It provides that four-flftbs of these taxes shall go to tbe state treasury, and onefiftb, instead of one-half as now to the countius in which tbey are puid. The house railroad committee has reported favoralilv a bill to make a uniform rate oí two und i half cents for first-class passenger fare on raiiroads. The committee of the whole has agreed upon a bill nppropriating $U8,í5:j for the use of tbe reform school at Lunsing. The house s truck out all after the enacting ciause of tbe bill to reduce tbe test for oil inspectlon. The bill allowing the ouners of Pteamboats to be sued and valid notk-e served upon them iu any county where tbe bouts touch, bas passed the house.

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