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In The Senate Debate Last Friday On

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Day
25
Month
April
Year
1889
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Public Domain
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the motion to visit the University in a body, there was much opposition, and Senator Gorman is reported as having made a witty speech in its support. He mentioned the recent visit to the state pri6on at the request of Warden Hatch, ■where prisonere gave their views on how to run the legislature, and promised that no lecture would be heard at Ann Arbor on that subject or even how to run the University. Referring slyly to Warden Hatch's "prison banquet," he said that two years ago at Ann Arbor he himself had nothing to eat and eaw neither eatables nor drinkables, but on this occasion he would promiee a cominon meal and nothing ■ajore. __ Tus temper of the Iegislature as shown by the debate on the Damon Uquor bilí bodes no easy times for Baloon-keepers. The house of reprenentatives passed the bill last Friday. It fixes the tax Rt $600 for all retailers. The provisión in regard to screens was made more 6tringent ; there must now be no obstruction whatever to a complete view of the bar from the sidewalk. If thispassesthepenate.itwill be amnsing to watch the city governmeut under the new charter. If the liquor law is not enforced this year, the bhune wtll íest entirely with Mayor Baakes. That should be clearly nnderstood. If he appoints a city marshal who, like the preEent marshal, is in league with the saloons, it will be seen that he :ares more for whisky votes than he does for doing his duty. If he does his duty, we shall favor his re-election. If the bill requiringan inspection of cattle on the hoof in Michigan becomes a law, we think the fruit-raisers ought (o have a similar law. Fruit-raising is a more hazardous and less profitable business in Michigan than cattle-raising. Canned fruit brought in from other states injures the sales of our fruitgrowers. It has been suspected that some canned fruit is detrimental to public health ; at least there is more evidenee that canned fruit has caused sickness Ihan there is that Chicago dreesed beef has caused sickness. Therefore, let's have a law that all canned fruit sold in Michigan must be made from fruit inspected in this State. Thus Michigan consumers could get no canned fruit not made from fruit grown in Michigan, and our own fruit-growers would get better prices. That's just as fair as the proposal of the beef men. Now, isn'tit?

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