Some Proposed Legislation

liep. l'oote 'Wa.ttts military inslruo i.ion encoairaged ín our public schools. Rpp. Foote wantfl a $3,500 phyBlclan's home built at the Kalamazoo asylum. Sema-toi' Ma-líland proposes to abolish Vho three days oí graoe a man has on a note nmv. Kep. AtklnsoB wlM also int roiluoe a iiili j)i'(wWing tlie repeal of the present imortgage tax law. Rep. Van Camp lias kitroduced a Mil to establish a state Xormai School in Boulhvet Michigan. Uep. Bricker h a bi'U to prevenx prescribing or the flllirug of prescriptiions by any one "rlio ia intoxicated. Rep. ■McGill lias a bilí to prolübit probate judges and registers irom practttclng in any oí the courts of t.beii' co'umty. Senator Holmes proposes to let the saloons open on legal holidays, and on. electiom ckays after the polls are closed. Rep. Fuller proposes to have all eomyhStutiiaiiial am nJinmt ballots separate from the camliidate ballot at Oleotti'Oms Kep .Gustin wants the state to pay Alpenia coumty $12,000 which he claims was unlawfully oollected from üer to 1891. Bep. Baltes has introduced a bil] pnoMbiting th euse of indecent langüage ir country districts- whatever tluat may mean. The Eep. wbo te to offer the general wo man suf f ra ge bilí lias iiot y et shown up. But it is said he is in tlie House, all right. Kep. Euiison wants people who'cut ice an ponds or lakes or rívers, compelled to budld feaces around the holes made by such cuttiing. Rep. Goodjrear proposes to prevent supervdsors fruiu drawing pay for work whea the board is iiot in session - üaturday's for instance. Senator Jibb lias an act pro vide tor the punishmeat oí any one who unlawiully use thO bade of the G. A li. ör Loyal Leigion. Rep. Heiig lias a biü prepared in tlie interest Of building and loan aseocdatians, requiring inore strict acoouints and business niethods. Rep. Baboock lias a bilí compelling telegrapli ooinpanies to deliver all messages ttoey accept no matter how email tlie place to which they go-. Rep. Adams lias a bilí tío prevent preíerences to credi'tars being given by insolvent firms and corporations ; and also to amend tlue aesignment law. Senator Wescott proposes to compel every Ins. Oo. diodiig business In t'Jie state to luave a member oï the board of directors residing in the state. Seiiatoi Wager proposes a permanent forestry commission, to protect our iast disappearing forests. It's estímate oost wlíl be about $1,300 per year. Eep. Peck has iirbraduced a bilí allowinig liquor dealere to get bondsmen anywhere in the county instead oi being confined to the city or village where they do business. Bep. Adams wants ttoe Hquor law chianiged so tihat the saloon keeper in tlie country may have a right to keep nis saloon open as late at nigtot as the city saloon keepers. Semator Barnard wiU introduce hil'3 wiping out the commissioner of mineral statistics ; also to repeal the law for the collection oí social stattistics ; and also the statistics velative to the deai, dixmb and blind. Hep. Sawyer has notáced a bilí to to confine etectors who shall vote upon bonding a city or corporation to taxpayers. Also a bilí to authorize fho oi-ganization of societies for thtj pretnentlion oí cruelty to children and animáis. Rep. Weter has a bilí that provides that when any person is killed by a trolly car, contributory negllgence on the part of the unfortunate Is not to count in a suit for damages bnought by those deprived of support ty his Öeath. Kep. Harria of Antrim, regreting that Michigan has now no natlonal fliower, ia a resolution called attentton to the beautles and ïragrance o! the apple blossom, and called for lts aöioption as the floral emblem of the penitnsular stat. It went over undet the rules. Eep. Atkinson has introduced a measure "to prevent overcharges on raitroads," which is meaut to hit the M. ('. Jl. I. wfcase saya that the cmnpnny kIkiU charge jio more tor a vide over oae part of lts road th!a.n over any otlier part. He -vill iil-so introducé a mensure coverlng freip-hl.s. Au important measure is the primai'.v electton law aJiecttng the entHii-e state to be brouglifc ip by Sen. ator Barnard. It provwles that all caucuses in a onunty shall be held on the same day aud at the ame hour. This is to prevent momkeying witli ttie delegats and putting up slick jobs on tlie party. Moone, of Detroit, -,vill iutroduce a bilí establishing a state Homeop. College at Detroit, namIng Helen H. Newberry, Dexter M. Ferry and Thos. W. Palmer as the first board of trustees ; asking for the $25,000 voted ]at sessdoa for the remo'val of the college to that city ; and a yearly allowanoe oí $6,000. Kepresenttative O'Dett thinks eounty and townsh-ip officers have a hablt of hanging to their offices for too long a time for the public good, and hs a bilí prohibiting any county officer or towiiship officer from remataing in office for more than two terms. Tbia would 5Ufc supervisors, wlio, in many cou-nties, lmve ben officera bo long thiat they forget when they were first elctOd. It miglvt also affect Letroit aldermem, if made general, as aïdermeu are supervisors in AVayne oounty. Senator Lawrence has given notlice of an. important measure. lts imtention is to prevent the hiring of aliene ou any public work, eltiter by a public officer or by any individual, firm or Corporation having a public contract. The bilí provides tliat any pei-eon, to obtain public work, must have declared his intention to become a cjtizen of th United States, thouga pi-esent residente of the state are exexempted. Violations of the provisions of the proposed law are to be punisliable by a fine of from $100 to $500, ajad public officials hiring aliiens may be fLaed and then removed i'pom office. Rep. Peck has O'ffered an amendment to the electían law which, if passed by the legisla-ture, will do away with the throwing out of tickets on account of technicalities. He proposes to amend section 36 of act 190 of the public acts oí 1891. The ameradme t strikes out the worde: ''Any ballot ivhicli is not endorsed wiith the iiiltialis of the inspector, as piwided in this act, and any ballot wihieh sha-11 bear any distinguishing mark, or mutilation, shall be voiil and shall not be coTiuted." In place of this he proposes to insert the followinjï, which te tiaken from the Ohio law : "No ballot shall be rejected for any techuical error -vhich does mot make it imposaibl to determine tihe voter's desire." If Willard Stearns could sell the Adrián Press and the jirinting office connected therewith at fair figure, he might publish a silver paper at Klkhart or Lansing. At least he is reported as being so disposed. No oue could blame hiin for making such a move, as his work is searcely accorded decent appreciation by the democrats of Lenawee county, wlio get the benefit of his earnest efforts for the party, and then fail to give him the support he merits. - Hudson Gazette. When the country 'vas in a prosperoua condition, wecould read the dispatches about the "grand and beautiful beyond all deseriptiou" Bradley-Martin hall without giying nffense to the stomach. This ball is said to have been the most "exquisitely magnificent and sumptuously beautiful and costly ever witnessed in America!" Never in the history ei the country have there been so niany piteously poor in New York as at the present time. The ricb. are growing richer and the poor poorer. - Daily Times. Our good brother of the Times usually reasons well, yet in this lie reasous not at all. To wliorn did the money go, that was spent for theball ? Why, to the merchants, the rlorists, tliecouiectioners the dress makers, the tailors, the railliners, the tonsorial artista, etc. all trades people, who eniploy those who are poorer than they. If the wealthy desire to spend their money in tliat way, why uot let them spend it. It is a good method of getting it in circulation among tlie people. The more balls, the better, aud the inore extravagant and costly the better, too. How would our friend of the Times have the wealthy do? He is pretty well off liimself, and perliaps eau give some new idea of a better way to keep the moriey of the wealthy in circulation ? Would he have them go out into the street as did the foolish yoang man once known as "Coal Oil Johnuie," and sliug coins into the crowd l)y the handsful, just to see the rabble scuffle and flght for it? Would he have the rich turn their property into cash and divide it up with those less fortúnate? And so stop all the wheels of the faetones and all industries of every class and kind, that give the poor employment? For with no wealth aecumulated there could be no factories or no industries of any kind to give employment to the poor. It would be pleasing to know just what course wealthy people should take in order to please their critics. In Kansas the legislature recently passed a bilí appropriating $80.000 to the state university. One of the provisions of the bill was that students be required to pay an annual fee of $10. Up to the present Kansas has required neither matriculation nor annual fee of the students in lier state institution of leai-ning. The attitude cf the Kansas state press is very different from that of many Michigan papers. Almost without exception the papers there protest vigorously against requiring any fee whatever. And their idea is right. If au institution is supported by the taxes of citizens they should be allowed to enjoy its privileges free. This policy is of course possible only when the legislature pursues a liberal policy. Otherwise, as in the case of our own University, fees must be charged in order that the institution mayexist.- U. of M. Daily. The proposed law requirüng townshdp boards to render an ite-mized acooimt every yeaT, fe a proposlition that ought to become a law. There Sis do reason in the -world why a townshdp baard eho-uld be allowed to spend the peopte's momey and not give an accauml oi it, tluan. auy oth.er body. Besides rendefing suoh an account the board sbouW have it priuted for dlstiiibution at ttue annual town meeting, so thiat Oaoli tax-payer can have a oopy of ib. Tlue cost wouM be sMght, whüe the result oould no't be other-mtso than eatiefactory. Taxpayers have a rüght to know where ev-ery oent of the mooiey expended by tlim gioes to, and if such stiatement ia made tliey wül very seldiom find faujt, unless some useless or extravagant expendïture has been inidullged 5ln. It iB eaiid that the railroads have Ieai-oieid a trlck ki controlling a legislature. They aon't expend any ol time or cash in seLecting or helpIng to otect representattves- too miany of them. The semate is enough for tbem, aind. ca.n do tlxedr business Just as effectually. The pension department lias taken an important etep in abolishing onehali of the pensiiooi agencies in the United States, amteMig the number beiag that oí Detroit. After Sept. lst nêxt, the pensiioners from here wlll be payed at Indiianapolis, whioli Is out oí the way, aad inconvenient. Kitlier Chicago or Columbas would have been. better.