Michigan Legislature

Senate- A resolut on was adopted on the 9th leveled at tho binding tw.ne trust. It cali for a comm ttee of three trom each House to investígate at once the feasibility of establishIng twine manufacturing plant in one or more of the pnsons or tho Siate. Mr. Holbrook believes that the plañís can be in operation witlnn s xty days and thus supply farmers witb cheap twine for the coming harvest. House - Nearly the entire session waa passed in committee of the whole over Representat.ve Jasnowskis blU to establish a Siate Court of Mediatiou and Arbitration to settle grievance9 between employers and their workmen. Tne bill specifles tuat the board shall consiBt of three members, and provides that whenever a strike or iock-out thall occur or is seriously threatened m any part of the State and shall come to the knowledge of the court it shall be lts duty to proceeel to the localityof sucn strike or lock-out ind put itself in communication with the DftTtlet to the controvorsy, and endeavor by meiiiation to effect an amicable settlement of such controversy; and if in it9 judgment it is deemed best to inquire into the cause or causes of the controversy, to subrcena witnesses, corapel their attendance, and send for persons and papers in like manner and with the same powers as in a court of record. Senate- House biils were passed on the lOth to change the boundaries of School district No. 1, Echo township. Antrim 'Jounty; author zing the townshlps of Oronoko and Berrien Springs, Berrien County, to borrow money for publio improvements. Afier spendlng some t me 1d committee of the whole the Senate went into execu'ive session on appointments from the Governor House- Bills were passed to amend the law with reference to the payment ot tuition by Don-residents in school district where they own property; maklng It a misdemeanor puntsnable by fine and imprisonmetit to manufacture or sell, give or deiiver, cigarettes of any kind of tobaci'oor c garette paper in books or blocks for wrapptng clgarettes. Tbe bill to pay $100 bounty toevery Michigan sold er was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Tliere was no probability of favorable aotion, as it calis for about 7,000,UOO. The bill authoriz ng tho Mi'.ler's Mutual Fire Insurance Oompany to insure nearly all classes of property has become a law without the signature of the Governor after a lapse of ten days alter passage. Senate- Huls were passed on the llth organizlng the township of Huron. Chippewa County; for the relief of Cornelius Dyer, preventirg the property of his deceased wife from escheatmsr; providing for trust, deposit and securities eompanios; addin? several restrictives to the law prohibiting the sale of impure and adulterated milk: establishing a State road in Bav County; providing tor and fliing the compensation of an official stenographer in the E ghth Judicial circuit; providing for reeopying the records in the Adjutant-General's office and making a new roster of tho soldiere of the war from Michigan. House - Bills were passed prohiuiting the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in Michigan and prohibiting the sale of rice paper for eigarette wrappers by a vote of 74 to 3; setting apart Bois Jlanc Island, on Lake Huron, as a public deer park for a period of tenyears; making an appropriation of 139,795 for new buildings and repairs nt the Agr cultural College for the years 1889-90; to provide for the construction of bridties belween two townships when one is disinclined to act; appropriallng 112,600 for the erection of a chapel and amusement room in uonnection with the Michigan Insane Asylum; making an approprlatiot ol J8, 500 for malntaming the State weather service; appropriatin? $85,700 for current expenses of State Normal School, and (6,000 tor the current expenses of the Stuto Library for the years 1889-!. Senate- The Commiuee on Finance and Appropriations on the lüth struek out the appropriation to pay the trnnspor'ation of Michigan State troops to New York to take part in the centennial parade. Oiüy a sum suffiolent to pay the expenses of the Govcrnor and oommissioners will be alloweil. House- The bill submitting to the people the queston of choosin a i'onventlon to revise the constilution was agri'ed to.